Sharing: Youth 4 Youth International Initiative!

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Helping Underprivileged Youth Across the Globe

Our Mission

Assisting underprivileged youth at risk internationally, with donations in kind and addressing essential needs
regarding basic hygienic products.

This project aims to achieve the betterment of communities around the globe.

Beneficiaries of Current Project

Underprivileged youth at risk, youth between the ages of 4-18, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

The shelter residents are girls from limited-resources settings, victims of domestic or social violence, who have fortunately found a safe place to call home.

Photo Project “52 Bolivian Sundays” [‘Community’]

Inspired by this week’s Wordpress Photo Challenge, and continuing with our personal photo project, 52 Bolivian Sundays [feel free to visit link on the right for previous weeks!], a humble interpretation of ‘Community’: reaching out to the Bolivian community through a common passion – soccer!

Inspired by this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge, and continuing with our personal photo project, 52 Bolivian Sundays [feel free to visit link on the right for previous weeks!], a humble interpretation of ‘Community’: reaching out to the Bolivian community through a common passion – soccer!

PS: I'm proudly married to the team's captain... :o Community Outreach while exercising his passion for soccer! — *PS: I’m proudly married to the team’s captain… 😮 Community Outreach while exercising his passion for soccer!*

♥ Enjoy as you please, and thanks for stopping by! ♥

It’s [Girls Scout] Cookie time! [Sharing information from The Dinoia Family]

Image Credit: http://girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/meet_the_cookies.asp

This community we’re part of [Foreign Service] is all about networking and sharing… sharing information, advice, comments, experiences… In sharing, we all become stronger, and able to keep moving forward! 😮 That said, I’m now sharing some information learned from The Dinoia Family‘s Blog, about this year’s Girls Scout Cookies Initiative, involving a couple of other very active ladies [and their daughters!] from the FS community – definitely, a great one! And I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be sharing their initiative and efforts! 😮

Quoted from The Dinoia Family’s blog:

“Yep…it’s cookie time!

Girl Scout cookies are back and we are on those orders! In fact, this year, we are working together with Jill and Riley to spread the cookie goodness far and wide throughout the Foreign Service. We have made it terribly easy to enjoy those once-a-year treats that you buy en masse because they are so darn yummy (and ship well!).

To make it easy, I have copied the “how to” from Jill’s blog. Follow these simple instructions and you, too, could be enjoying those cookies very soon! And now…Spanish homework is calling again…

Want cookies? Read the excerpt from Jill’s post below and just follow the instructions!

First and foremost, we don’t want to step on anyone’s toes, so our joint efforts are focused on providing Girl Scout Cookies solely to our Foreign Service friends overseas, where we can ship to an APO/FPO/DPO or pouch address. If you are our family members or personal friends and want to buy from us rather than from the little girlies who are SURE to knock on your door sometime in the next few months, that’s great too. But we’ll take care of you outside of this joint venture.

Just like the last few years, the cookies are only $4 / box … with all your favorites returning!

Thin Mints

Samoas

Thank You Berry Munch

Trefoils

Dulce de Leche

Tagalongs

Do-Si-Dos

Savannah Smiles

Here’s how to order:

1) Attempt to narrow down how many boxes you want (versus how many boxes your eyes and stomach want.)

2) Send an email to DSforGS@yahoo.com by Friday, January 18th, with …

* Your Name

* Your Post

* Your Address

* Exactly how many of each kind you’d like

3) When the cookies come in, send us your payment via paypal, and we’ll get them out to you ASAP. We’ll send you an email invoice letting you know your totals.

It’s THAT simple.

We will be shipping the cookies in the USPS Flat Rate boxes. The current APO/FPO rate is $13.45 for a 12″ x 12″ x 5 1/2″ box … and we can fit 8 boxes of cookies in them. And as an incentive … you pay the first $10 / box, and we’ll pick up the rest!

A wee bit of additional information …

** If you are at a post overseas, pass along this information to any of your friends. We would LOVE to outfit your entire Consulate or Embassy.

** Consider combining orders with your friends to help reduce shipping costs.

** Between the two families, our girls sold over 1100 boxes of cookies to 50+ countries during the last two years to FS personnel.

** We set up the DSforGS@yahoo.com email address so that we could make it easy to get more cookies shipped out to more places. If you know either of us personally and want our daughters to send out your cookies – no worries. Just say so in your email. Otherwise, we have divided up the world behind the scenes so that all you need to do is send in your order, and let us take care of the rest!

Now what are you waiting for? Happy ordering!”

Please hop back to Jen Dinoia‘s blog for more information! Thank you!♥

Hogar San Ramon Greening Project, La Paz – Bolivia.

La Paz, Bolivia – October 2012: volunteers went to Hogar San Ramon in La Paz to green an area that the Sisters are turning into a park for their Alzheimer’s patients.

Volunteering

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Planting

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Enjoying quality time with co-workers, family and new friends

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Newly built consciousness among younger generations. Returning to the community all the good we’ve received… Teaching & Learning. Sharing. Growing as human beings…

Bonus Result → Doing good, feels good! ♥

What a great way to spend a Saturday morning! Not even the light showers were able to stop the hard workers! Proud to have been part of the greening project, helping the Senior Center (“Casa de Ancianos”) Hogar San Ramon, in La Paz Bolivia. Is there a better way to teach our children the importance of giving? Giving their time, their skills, their open mind and heart? I hope we’re doing the right thing. I feel we are. And I’m grateful our family was able to volunteer… Wishes for a peaceful (and green!) weekend! 😮