FOG News

News from Guinea and Friends of Guinea

1. [FOG news] FOG welcomes new officers!
   Friends of Guinea is excited to welcome a new slate of officers to its board of directors.
   
   
   
   SECRETARY: Pat Barron
   
   MEMBERSHIP: Teresa Pope
   
   GUINEA PARENT SUPPORT: Betty Walker
   
   COMMUNICATIONS AND WEB ADMIN: Amy Hylinski Daffé
   
   FINANCES: JanRose Ottaway Martin
   
   PROJECTS: Anne Sites
   
   
   Mackenzie Dabo (newsletter) and Urska Manners (listserv) are remaining in their positions.
   
   Outgoing communications director Brian Farenell will still maintain this blog as well as the FOG Twitter feed.
   
   
   
   A big thank you to the outgoing officers for all your service to FOG!
   
   Stephanie Chasteen (secretary)
   
   Brian Clappier (membership)
   
   Karen Starr (web)
   
   Shad Engkilterra (finances)
   
   Donald Parker (projects)
   
   
2. [FOG news] Support FOG via Amazon
   Did you know that you can support Friends of Guinea with each purchase on Amazon.com? We get up to 5% of your purchase price in commission, even though it doesn't affect the cost of the item(s) you buy. We are hoping to continue our humanitarian effort in Guinea and this is an easy (and free!) way to help us get the funds to do so. But you have to do so either by clicking here or via the Amazon link on our home page.
3. [FOG news] Friends of Guinea is now on Twitter
   You can now follow Friends of Guinea via Twitter. Just go to twitter.com/friendsofguinea or if you're already on Twitter, just follow @friendsofguinea
   
   In addition to linking to FOG blog entries on FOG, Peace Corps and Guinean news, I will also repost ("retweet" or RT) links to related stories from other news outlets. It's a good way to keep up to date, especially now as events seem to be unfolding quickly.
4. [FOG news] New website!
   Friends of Guinea has a spiffy new website. Check it out! www.friendsofguinea.org