Gretchen's PEACE CORPS PROJECT

Tomorrow, 2 years ago I OBAMA was inaugurated at President...and I RECEIVED my Peace Corps Invitation to serve in PANAMA! What an awesome day that was!!!

The Peace Corps was an amazing experience for many reasons... one being that I realized the TRUE value of TIME and FRIENDSHIP. My friends here in the US and those in Panama helped me get through the not so easy days and shared the joys of the adventurous ones.

One special lady is Gretchen. We became friends during training and have since been having a Distance relationship. When she found out I was leaving the PC she came to visit me at MY SITE...11 hours on BUS from her site. Then in Miami we met up on Memorial Weekend, where she met Nico for the first time. And about 3 weeks ago, she was here in LA with her boyfriend Myles, also a PC volunteer, and they came to dinner at OUR NEW APARTMENT. It's been great keeping up with my friends in PAMANA through their blogs (gretchen's blog) and emails. I am really proud of the difference they have made with their time there.

This is us during a Chorrera Visit:

From Panama

From Mas de Panama

This was in LA.

From 1012 Last day of 2010

When she was here, she told me about a project that she has been working on with some other volunteers. I want to help her raise money for this project and so I asked her to send me a description with the steps on HOW TO DONATE.

Description:

A group of six of us are currently working on a Teacher Training Seminar for Panamanian Elementary School teachers who are now forced to teach English without any English background. We are trying to raise enough money to bring all of our counterparts out to a local city for a week long training with accompanying support materials they will be able to use in their classrooms. This project has taken quite a long time to put together/coordinate and we are all very excited. If you are interested in donating any amount of money at all it will be greatly appreciated.

How to DONATE:

1.Go to www.peacecorps.gov

2. On the left-hand-side page guide click on Donate to Volunteer Projects

3. Enter the name Seliga under the space for name or project number. (It is the last name of the volunteer in our group who posted the grant online so our friends and family can donate to our project!) Underneath you will see our short description and more information on how to make a donation.

Feel free to spread the word to friends you think may be interested in making a donation! Thank you all for your support.

Please help my friend Gretchen and the other volunteers that are working hard to make a difference in the lives of the STUDENTS that these teachers who will attend the seminar will impact!