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Donating to Our Projects
Because membership in FOG is free, all our activities are 100% donation-funded.
Donations go towards supporting projects in-country, such as the popular Gender Conferences, and other FOG sponsored projects, from library books to health centers. Having the resources to contribute to such PCV-projects lets us help our volunteers and their counterparts on the ground as quickly as possible! Funds are also used to help support the operations of FOG, such as website and listservs.
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Pending projects & fundraisers
FOG provided some classroom technology to a private school for refugees in Conakry. This school was started by the Amazonian Initiative, and is a parochial school that instructs in both English and French. The students are a mix of Guinean, Sierra Leonian, and Liberian. FOG provided a new projector and 2 gently used laptops to help computer instruction.
FOG also helped fund 2 projects volunteers are currently working on in Guinea. One of these is a project that will repair a school roof in a village. The second is a project aims at the development of an eco-tourism site in the Fouta. FOG felt that both of these important projects will have a positive and sustainable impact on the lives of Guineans, and hopes to hear about the progress of these projects in the near future.
Finally, FOG gave the volunteers in Guinea 14 new DVDs to update the collection in the Conakry house, per request of the PCVs. Part of FOG's role is to provide volunteer support, and with little access to electricity or entertainment in the villages, volunteers really cherish a good flick with friends when in the city for meetings.
See 2013 calendars - See Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin website to learn if they still have any available directly from their site.
Past Projects
Gender Conferences
Friends of Guinea has consistently helped raise money for Gender Conferences.
These are 2-day seminars arranged each year for Guinean girls and boys from citites and villages all over the country. PCVs plan and coordinate all aspects of the conferences, including transportation, programming, and activities.
Topics include careers, health, and education, and volunteers consistently rank gender conferences as their favorite projects in country.
See more about our Gender Conferences
Aïcha Magazine
Aïcha magazine was a supplemental classroom material published twice a year between 1999 and 2004 to get students thinking and discussing women's issues. It was published specifically for Guinean girls and distributed primarily by PCVs. And it helped encourage girls to seek education and take control of their bodies and their lives in meaningful ways. It provided girls with an avenue to express their concerns and desires while building their organizational and leadership skills.
Friends of Guinea is proud to have donated to and to have helped raise funds for Aïcha magazine, a very worthy project.
To learn more or for reprints, see the
Aïcha Magazine
Radio for Sarammoussaya
Sarammoussaya lacked a high frequency radio, which posed a major problem for the community, since the doctor of the health center and local officials are often drawn away from the village in order to communicate on work-related matters. People from surrounding communities often travel long distances to get to the health center, only to find that there is nobody capable of treating them while the doctor is away.
In order to solve this problem, the community purchased a high frequency radio and a solar panel for the health center. The radio allows the doctor to make arrangements to receive medications and vaccinations without having to leave the village, decreasing the amount of time he would normally have to spend traveling, and therefore improving the overall healthcare in the area.
World Map Project
PCV Wayne Kleck requested $71 to paint some world maps on two elementary schools in the Dubreka area. Abdourahmane (Mane) Bangoura, a Lycee student, worked with Wayne to complete one of the maps in seven days. They worked from early morning until early afternoon each day. Mane said that the project was a good lesson in paying attention to detail. He was very proud of the completed map and plans to use the leftover paint to paint a map of africa at his neighborhood video club.
The Guinea map, painted on an exterior wall of the Yurokoguia elementary school, took 6 days, and Wayne painted it with the help of 5 students.
One of the students was the coordinator of all the helpers on the Guinea map. Wayne writes: "I spent most of my time on this map overseeing the work of the students that were helping me. It was a great team effort!"
Koundian Library, Mandiana
PCV Meghan Greeley sponsored this project to create a library in Mandiana. FOG donated $500 of the $1957 for this project.
Health Center Organization Development Workshop
PCV Kelly Hamblin sponosred this project to help the staff of the Selouma Health Center organize their work. FOG donated $90 to this project on 12/10/04
Partage Quebec Guinea (PQG)
FOG donated $810 to this project (including $110 from the Guinean diaspora in Cincinnati) in 2003 and 2004.
Partage Quebec-Guinee (PQG) is a Quebec-based organization which collects books and sends them to Guinea. This is a great organization, but it desperately needs help. It's based in Quebec,the president is a 65 year old man, and unfortunately they've been getting more books that they can handle.
Timbi Touni Physics books
In 2004 Magdalena Vilderama, a PCV who teaches 9th grade Physics in Timbi Tounni, near Pita, asked FOG to help her aquire some French Physics books for her students. FOG acted as a liaison between Magdalena and PQG, and PQG shipped a few Physics books along with an English-French dictionary to Conakry, where Magdalena was able to pick them up and bring them to her school.
Guineenews Donations
FOG has donated a total of $400 (in 3/2004 and 2/2003) to Guineenews (formerly boubah.com), which provides an excellent set of news and information on Guinea to those living outside its borders. Part of our donation will go to offset expenses incurred by Guineenews correspondent in Conakry.
The Landouma Translation Public Health Project
FOG donated $100 to this project in October 2003. Carrie Mitchell (at right) is the PCV sponsoring this project. She requested a $100.00 donation from FOG for a bicycle ($75.00) and some cassette tapes ($25.00). The project involves translating public health information into the locoal language of Landouma and playing the tapes for local villagers. Carrie works currently in Boke.
The Koliagbe Basic Hospital Materials Project
FOG donated $120 to this project in December 2003. Ann Clayton (at left) is the PCV in charge of this project. She requested a donation from FOG to purchase a few basic hospital materials for a village hospital in Koliagbe, Kindia. The materials can be purchased in Conakry UNICEF and they include a stethoscope, tension-meter, baby scale, baby bath tub, linens, and scissors.
The 110 French Books Project
RPCV Sally Decco offered us 110 free books in French. Jody Sites, our financial officer, drove the books from Vermont to Quebec at the end of 2003. PQG agreed to ship the books from Quebec to the PC office in Conakry where they were stored and eventually shipped to the Diountou library.
Hawa Barry Donations
Served as a clearinghouse for over $700 in donations to Hawa Barry's family, a Guinean woman living in Boston who was shot in the abdomen while pregnant in 2003.
On behalf of Hawa Barry and her husband Mamadou, I would like to convey a heartfelt thank you for the generosity of those of you who sent checks. Friends of Guinea collected more than $800 in Hawa's name, including a personal donation and note of encouragement from Dane Smith, president of the National Peace Corps Association.
- RPCV Josh Johnson
World Wise Schools Program
FOG worked with Riley Graeber, a Program Analyst with the Peace Corps' Coverdell World Wise Schools and a returned Peace Corps Volunteer (China '02-'03, Romania '03-'05). World Wise Schools is a program that fosters cross-cultural understanding through educational materials for K-12 students in the United States and promoted a number of technology initiatives:
- Podcasts - A series of audio stories by Peace Corps Volunteers including "The Meaning of Time" by Kimberly Ross (RPCV Guinea): http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/podcasts/
- Slide Shows - Photo narratives by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/slideshows/
- New Website - A completely redesigned website with stories and lesson plans on Guinea as well as many other Peace Corps countries: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/