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New letters from the scholarship recipients.
New letter from Uriel.
Photo Show fundraiser held in Toronto from Oct 30 to Dec 1.
New letters from scholarship recipients in Nicaragua.
AGM is held in Vancouver. The minutes are available.
Gretchen Ferguson resigns from the Board. We thank her for 3 years of hard work. AGM coming up in July or August.
New fundraising ideas page. Check it out!
Nine students receive scholarships. Letters from students received. Due to lack of funds and other administrative problems with Reparto Schick, we were unable to continue to support them this year.
Latest trip report is available here.
New version of the FOG brochure is available on the Action page.
Last installment of money sent to Nicaraguan partners for scholarship program. This year's needs have been met, starting to look towards 2002 scholarships as demand grows.
Rob visits El Recreo, Reparto Schick and El Bosque during a visit from the 13-17th. He collects several reports from the partners and signs an agency agreement with our El Bosque counterpart, MEC Posoltega, for the second phase of the library project.
FOG Board meets in person for the first time in a year (all meetings are conducted via telephone conference call) in Managua.
Gretchen Ferguson, Carroll Airey and Gail Nicholson travel to Nicaragua for two weeks to visit the projects. Their report is available here.
Berj Bannayan returns to Toronto, Canada.
Rob Bell, visits Nicaragua for a week again.
Held the second annual general meeting in Vancouver. Click here for some highlights.
Rob Bell, visits Nicaragua for a week, and submits a trip report that you can read by clicking here.
Berj Bannayan returns to Nicaragua for five more months.
We expand our scholarship program to include five students in El Recreo. Click here for more information about our scholarship program.
Dom, who began volunteering in the Generando Vida projects in December, leaves El Recreo to go to help the Earthquake victims in El Salvador. To read his report about his time in El Recreo, click here.
Anneli visits the library project in El Bosque and writes a letter to Gretchen about it. Click here to view the letter.
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This page last modified on 25 Jan, 2004
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