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 ]
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 ]
Some 50 individuals with links around the world met at the ATC-DISD facility, i.e., Turkey, Togo, Gabon, Nigeria, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Ghana, Peru, Ohio, Virginia, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Puerto Rico. Some high points for me. The establishment of the web store FWOP in 2011 will assist micro-producers in USA or abroad. Initially items from Oaxaca and Ajijic, Mexico and from Lima, Peru will be offered . Representatives from EPA lead to a potential partnership to allow FWOP to coordinate the recycling solar panels for use in low income communities. In addition, we continued to learn more about [ Read More ]
Group has ‘future without poverty’ By Danielle Bice / Contributing Writer –www.ntdaily.com From small field trips to Mexico to fighting poverty in countries like Haiti and Peru, Future Without Poverty helps build sustainable communities by bettering the lives of those in need. While the group makes plans to expand their projects to countries like India, there are still projects in Denton. The organization builds partnerships with community programs, like the Denton Rotary Club, to organize service opportunities like delivering food to the hungry. “We believe very strongly that you help individuals by doing one thing and one thing only –– [ Read More ]
Los Martincitos Senior Citizen Center Located in a sprawling shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, the Los Martincitos Senior Citizen Center goes quietly about the business of fulfilling the most basic of daily needs for approximately 145 indigent elderly. Participants often live alone in harsh conditions, with little or no family support. Elderly abuse and neglect are common. Many suffer from debilitating medical conditions and very often have a hard time getting to the center which necessitates home visits from staff whenever possible. The center offers a hot and healthy breakfast and lunch; access to limited medical care by [ Read More ]
FWOP Team, Warm ‘thank yous’ to the team and everyone from UNT Dallas: Assistant Provost Dr. Ross for his words and support, their faculty advisor Dr. Mason who did a great job leading and developing the garden, and Frances Rizzo, Carolyn Kimball and the entire FWOP team for putting this together. This is an exhibition garden, paving the way for the next big community garden which will make it possible for local produce to help the community and raise valuable horticulture awareness. Please forward to everyone not on the email list whom could benefit from the pictures. Thank you again [ Read More ]
We have received approval from Dr. Ross for the Community Garden Plot Project. It will start as an Exhibition Garden for the fall and to allow for fundraising then have a Spring garden. The school is giving us an initial $500.00 I feel strongly that the guidelines for existing service learning programs at other universities such as the University of Indiana (Dr. Ross came from there) www.indstate.edu/publicservice/gardenproject.htm primarily for sustainability funding and UNT Dallas just spent $45 million on a LEEDS building. The Dallas County Master Gardeners Association is ready to help us with the project along with Don Lambert, Gardening [ Read More ]
