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 Student Ambassadors’

 Welcome Home Picnic
 

A welcome home picnic was held on August 17 at Lums Pond State Park for the 130 Delaware students and their 16 delegate leaders who traveled abroad this summer on the annual Student Ambassador Program. About 27 students attended; 6 leaders also attended. The total turnout was over 100 persons when families of the students and Delaware Chapter members are included. Pictures of the picnic can be viewed here.

Many students were ecstatic when they met their fellow traveling companions at the picnic. Two fathers told me that their sons are different now - their travels changed their maturity and attitudes.

Travels this year were to China, Australia, and four countries in Western Europe. Additional students from the surrounding states of New Jersey, Maryland, and Pennsylvania also accompanied our Delaware students and leaders for a total of more than 150 students.

Interviews for the travel season of 2009 will start in September when an introduction to this program is presented at several local venues for high school, middle school, and grade school students. We look for another year of exceptional participation in this program - more than for any other chapter area in the USA.

Upcoming Chapter Events:

FOW: India

Recent Chapter Events:

SA Welcome Home Picnic

Meet the English Teachers:

Jordan, Morocco & Korea

Meet the English Teachers:

Egypt

Local Community Events:

Many Moons Festival

People to People Delaware Chapter offers various hosting opportunities for its members during the year.  On this very occasion People to People International members from Denmark will be visiting the Delaware Valley, from 7 - 9 September.  If you as a Delaware Chapter member are interested, please send your request for Danish visitors to:

lprzywara@verizon.net

or leave a message at (302) 479-5735.

For more information about the Danes, read attached letter from Gunild Bogdahn, Vice President People to People Denmark and PR Officer European Executive Committee, below:

» GUNILD'S LETTER

 Families of the World: India

 

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008      10:30 AM
    DELAWARE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE

    STANTON CAMPUS
    400 Stanton-Christiana Road
    Newark, Delaware 19713

 

The Delaware Chapter of People to People International in collaboration with The Diversity Club of Delaware Technical and Community College invite you to experience another families of the world. This time our trip will lead us to India.

Reservations are necessary due to limited space! Please reply by OCTOBER 29, 2008.

See attached flyer for more information.

PTP International NEWS

    ▪    Dr. John Levinson: People Helping People Award

» More Information

    ▪    Edward Tucker receives PTPI’s Outstanding Leadership Award

» More Information

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Co-Presidents' Message - September 2008

 

COME TO OUR PTPDE EVENTS IN 2008!

 

Welcome to our website!  We hope you’ll visit often to check on up-coming events, catch up on news you may have missed, and see if you can spot yourself in photos and videos of past events.

You can find photos of the dinners that we hosted for English Language teachers from Jordon and Morocco and government officials from Korea who are studying at the University of Delaware.

This summer we hosted visitors from Italy and Germany and welcomed back our Student Ambassadors from their travels with a picnic and fund-raising walk at Lums’s Pond. Proceeds from the walk will go to our Student Ambassador Scholarship Fund.  This month members will host PTPI members from Denmark.  If you wish to host in the future please contact us; our telephone numbers are below.

Please consider participating in other events throughout the year such as Circles of Understanding, Books for Overseas Youth, and Families of the World.

We’re proud of our talented and highly committed board of directors, who work to organize programs like these and who enrich the Chapter’s efforts with their unique backgrounds and points of view…..Iranian, Palestinian, Chinese, Nigerian, Jewish, Argentine, and European.

We’re also proud of our dedicated membership; almost a third of you contribute more than your membership dues, enabling the Chapter to offer free programs and activities to a variety of community audiences.  Many members tell us they support our efforts, but can no longer come to events.  Many people come to our programs even though they aren’t members.  We appreciate all of you….anyone who wants to help, to reach out, or to learn is welcome.

As you know, People to People was started by Dwight D. Eisenhower when he was President.  The following is one of his most powerful pleas for peace:    

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children...This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."

From the Chance for Peace address delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953.

We hope you’ll continue to help further ‘Peace through Understanding’ formally through organizations like ours, and informally through your own interactions with people you meet every day.

If you’re not already a member, People to People Delaware welcomes you to join us! Help us develop exciting programs, increase attendance at our events and reach out to people with our hosting opportunities. Just click on the Membership Campaign Letter above for more information, or call Jean at 302-652-7716 or Georgi at 302-482-3263.

Jean Raleigh and Eleanor "Georgi" Marquisee

Chapter Co-Presidents

 

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