UNT Dallas FUTURE WITHOUT POVERTY Student Association Hi to All: First of all I want to thank and congratulate everyone for their hard work, and effort put into FWOP activities in these couple of weeks, we have achieved many things as an organization, and I want to let you know that without your help this couldn’t be possible, and I want to encourage us to keep up the good work. We did a great job planting in our exhibition garden, things are looking pretty good last time I checked, thank you to all of you watering, and giving maintenance [ Read More ]
Archive for March, 2011
Board Members- Stanley Ingman and Iftekhar Amin- meet with village leaders in Turkey to establish partnership with FWOP and their village. They will attend a global aging conference in Istanbul, Turkey. One focus will be poverty in old age and how to improve life for the poor elders of low income societies. For more information on the conference: yaslilar_sempozyumu_kitap (PDF).
We are proud to start our online shopping experience with the launch of our new store. Help us to build an online store to support jobs to create a future without poverty for families around the world. This is a test page that is under construction and we need your comments on how to improve the store. We also need you to purchase some items to help us test the system. Every item is hand made and 90% of your purchase price is used to buy more items for the store. Please visit the store at: https://www.futurewithoutpoverty.org/catalog To share your [ Read More ]
Rotary District 5790 Selects Outstanding Young Professionals to Participate in Group Study Exchange Program to New Zealand FORT WORTH, Texas (March 11, 2011) – Rotary District 5790, representing 65 Rotary Districts throughout North Central Texas, has selected four young professionals to experience the way of life, customs and vocational practices of New Zealand through Rotary International’s prominent Group Study Exchange Program (GSE). “The purpose of the exchange is to promote international understanding and foster goodwill,” explains Paul Geisel, Chair of the GSE Committee for District 5790. “While abroad, team members will share information about their home country through vocational experiences [ Read More ]
February saw some significant progress in small and larger projects. Locally in Denton, Texas FWOP started a small afterschool program in the Fall of 2010. Neriman Esendemir from Istanbul got the program started. She passed the program on to five graduate students under the supervision of Dr. Traci Cihon from Behavior Analysis Department. The program is at the Renaissance Apartments operated by Denton Housing Authority for low income families. Spoke to some representatives from a local Afro-American neighborhood groups last week to create some micro enterprises to support low income seniors in Denton. Recently a colleague at UNT called to [ Read More ]
