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A development worker shares her daily community work with students of all ages so they see how students live, learn and play in their communities Throughout Latin America Seeing To Change: Changing to see Inspired to travel to the tip of Argentina, Juana Rodriguez treks South (with occasional routes to Europe and Middle East for remunerated work) offering volunteer services to communities and communicating on human interest news, economics, trade and daily events from wherever she works. FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Children will learn interactively what makes a community tick, what language or dialects are spoken, what natural (earthquakes, hurricanes) or man made disasters (wars, barriers, occupation, oppression, apartheid) they survived or are living under. How people work, play and overcome challenges. They will see the school and after school activities of children, the chores, the every day realities they live. Moms and Dads will learn of adventure travel or language camps, exchange families and places to volunteer. Teachers will obtain valuable footage and photo essays on culture and news items. Facilitating their presentation of culture and current events from nooks and crannies of the Latin Continent (with sidetracks to the Middle East and Europe)not yet seen in geography or social studies curricula. JOIN THE WORLD WIDE READ A THON FOR GRASSROOTS PARTNERSHIPS FOR EVERY KILOMETER JR TRAVELS, READ A PAGE, A CHAPTER OR A BOOK earn Community Service and English credits. KILOMETERS TIL NOW 14 MAY 2007 Alexandria Virginia to Lancaster Kentucky: 967 km Lancaster Ky to Nashville TN: 274 Nashville to TN to Dalas TX 1063 Dallas TX to San Antonio TX 435 San Antonio TX to Monterrey Monterrey to Mazatlan 924 Mazatlan to Guadalajara 490 Guadalajara to Morelia and DF 573 Virginia to Mexico DF to 14 may 4726 DF - Cancun - Playa del Carme Playa del Carmen Tulum Tulum Oxkutzcab Oxkutzcabk (Uxmal) Piste (Chichen Itze) Piste Tulum Tulum Playa del Carmen Cancun DF DF Tapachula DF Mexico City DF Paris Paris -Geneva Geneva Paris Paris Mexico City Mexico City Cancun Cancun Tres Reyes Cancun Cancun Mexico City Mexico City Virginia Virginia - Tel Aviv Israel Tel-Aviv- Ramallah Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Virginia Virginia-Bogota Colombia Bogota Colombia-Geneva-Jordan Baghdad Read a Chapter, a page or a news or pop article for a part of the trek you select above. Do it just because it is good to read.... and stay away from the gameboys as much as you can..... they reduce your attention span, your ability to read and most of all to be open to your outside world!!!!! Read About Aztecs and Mayas http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTM http://clio.rediris.es/clionet/fichas/otras_mayas.htm http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM Read About the West Bank Barrier http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3111159.stm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrier http://mail.psychedelic-library.org/pipermail/theharderstuff/20061128/001455.html Read About Colombia Microfinance http://www.accion.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=682&srcid=223 http://www.visionmundial.org.co/ http://www.eclof.org/ Read bout Parque Tayrona http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_Natural_Tayrona http://www.viajeros.com/modules.php?name=Galeria&op=ver_foto&pid=31655 Read about Coffee Country http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eje_Cafetero FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS Communities will obtain a series of fresh innovative minds willing to work with them to increase their productivity, provide physical and mental labor, link them to financing or trade markets. Related Issues Trade Not Aid: Learn about Fair trade, link to institutions educating on the issue, lobbying to bring about change, link to vendors, traders and producers from communities and cooperatives. Environment: Learn about environmentally sound development practices, places to visit like Parque Tayrona in Colombia. Link to activities and institutions that educate and protect the environment. Micro-enterprise and Economic Development: Link to micro enterprise and microfinance institutions and join in economic development activities. This trek is completely self financed. This is why I will have to pop out of it to go work in microfinance in other continents. Like the Middle East. Be patient however, I will return to the route due south. From any part of the world I will inform on facts and issues of interest for children to read and every kilometer traveled still counts towards the Read A Thon. Communicate with me at all times at dreamtrapper123@yahoo.fr Activities.htmlhttp://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/AZTECS.HTMhttp://clio.rediris.es/clionet/fichas/otras_mayas.htmhttp://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTMhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3111159.stmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_West_Bank_barrierhttp://mail.psychedelic-library.org/pipermail/theharderstuff/20061128/001455.htmlhttp://www.accion.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=682&srcid=223http://www.visionmundial.org.cohttp://www.eclof.orghttp://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parque_Nacional_Natural_Tayronahttp://www.viajeros.com/modules.php?name=Galeria&op=ver_foto&pid=31655http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eje_CafeteroUniversity%20.htmlmailto:dreamtrapper123@yahoo.frshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14
A Quest for Change in a World of Need A Trek for Knowledge in the World we See ONE STEP Travel with me by land from Virginia to Argentina volunteering to Change Things Right