We're hard at work!

This weekend, we had our quaterly meeting at the Peace Corps Office in Kigali, the capitol of Rwanda and most beautiful and cleanest city on the continent of Africa.
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Past Successes:

*Creating the committee and writing the by laws

*The GAD Blog and regular SOMA contributions

*Having GAD represented at all Peace Corps trainings and writing lesson plans for each training 

*Creating the GLOW/BE Committee to support GLOW/BE Camps

*Creating the GLOW/BE VAST Grant Workbook

*Conducting and analyzing the results of the all volunteer GAD survey

*Coordinating the field testing of the translated Life Skills Manual

Current Projects:

*Creating a GAD Manual focused on project ideas for adults

*Forging a partnership between Peace Corps and Ni Nyampinga magazine

*Promoting and updating the GAD blog

*Collecting stories from volunteers to make senior staff aware of the prevalence of sexual harassment

*Working with PSN to support volunteer who experience sexual harassment by designing a yearly retreat

Future Project Ideas:

*Working with PC GAD committees in other countries to create an international PC GAD forum

*Making GAD resources more accessible to volunteers through an online forum

*Creating ways to help volunteers celebrate International Women's Day in their communities

*Creating discussion questions for volunteers to discuss monthly at their regional meetings.  Encouraging inter-regional dialogues once or twice a year to discuss GAD related issues.

mackenzie's eyes are naturally that piercing (L to R: Alma, Lucy, Mackenzie, Chinelo, Gelsey)

resident jokesters (Zach and Chinelo)

awkward candid (L to R: Zach, Joel, Tashiya, Hope, Sarah D, Sarah E.)

all good! 

pamela's happy face, very happy face :)

Gelsey gets down to business

we are serious (L to R: Joel, Pamela, Tashiya)