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Pending
projects & fundraisers |
2006 PCPP and Friends of Guinea helped
raise enough money to purchase a radio for
Saramoussaya. Thanks for your help!
1/2006. The 2006 Boys Conference was funded
from direct donations and with support from
PCPP.
12/2005. Mandiana has all the necessary
books and furniture for a library, but there
is currently no place to put them. PCVs
are seeking funds to construct a library.
Click
here for more details.
12/2005. The 2006
Gender Conferences were fully funded
from direct donations, and we raised over
$500 through sales of the RPCV calendar.
12/2005. FOG sent a check
for $7300 to the organizers and fully funded
the 2006 Girls' Conferences. Friends posting
flyers helped make this fundraising successful:
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!"
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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 has donated $810 to this
project (including $110 from the Guinean diaspora
in Cincinnati) in 2003 and 2004..
Partage Quebec
Guinea (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.
More information.
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 Pro ject
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
previous 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.
More
information
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 |
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Gender Conferences
Friends of Guinea has consistently
helped raise money for Gender Conferences.
Volunteers gather Guinean girls and boys each
year from citites and villages in regional
centres for a 2-day conference on careers,
health, and education.
About
the Conferences
Gender
Conferences 2005-2006
Photos and reports:
Conference |
Amount raised
|
Photos and Reports |
2006 |
$7300 |
|
2005 |
$8786 |
|
2004 |
Not available |
Not available |
2003 |
over $10 000 |
|
2002 |
over $7 000 |
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