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One of our dear friends and a longtime Dragons instructor, Gina Collignon, has started a campaign to help bring our friend Sandy Pinto, one of our Bolivia instructors and a well-known Afro-Bolivian activist and organizer, to Honduras as part of a delegation supporting human rights, feminist initiatives, and awareness-raising surrounding violence against women under the Honduran dictatorship and in the wider region: Building Bridges of Solidarity.

This effort is part of an initiative to help make these delegations availability to a wider demographic, specifically supporting women of color from the Global South to be part of these kinds of delegations.  As Gina writes:





I am part of an amazing community of people who understand the power of travel. What can happen when we use that power not just for our own personal growth, but to also grow connections between amazing organizers who might not otherwise have the chance to meet? I would love to find out.

Please consider contributing to this cause, even a small sum can go a long way!





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This week, at Boulder HQ, we're passing around this poem written by our Summer 2018 Guatemala Instructor, Raquel Wigginton.  And we are collectively, sighing...


We have journeyed
into a history
as dark as
the depths of Lake
Atitlán—el más profundo
de las Américas
The depths have
felt overwhelming but
necessary as the reminder
of the pain that lives
in each of our bloodlines
the bones that hold us
up like a ladder
are dense with the
memories of time
and are buried
in the soil we
occupy with strong
and reaching raíces.

Roots we need to
continue to explore
in all directions.

We have ventured
into the verdant lands
of Guatemala—land of trees
and like the Lorax
we must be careful
of the greed and power
that run like currents
of flames in our
nation’s veins
We must tell the story
of deforestation, of
pollution, of dwindling
natural resources before
it’s too late
We must plant the seed
that will revive the
forests and inspire
the birds of the
trees to keep on singing
We must care
and maintain the
precious seedlings
of our siembra and
never give up.

You are the seeds
of the trees that
will grow into
grandes problemáticas
or soluciones transformativas.
We want to sew
the fruits of our
labor of love
During our adventure
the garden of love
has been planted
let’s see what it’s
beauty holds and who
will hold it up to
the light that
illumines dialogue
and understanding,
patience and tolerance,
caring and challenge.
Raíces profundas y duraderas.




Be sure to head over to Raquel's blog for more.

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Since Earth Day deserves more than one day a year, we’re going to give it a few days of alumni student love. Starting with Dragons Student Ambassador Benjamin Swift: 

[caption id="attachment_152916" align="aligncenter" width="567"] Photos by Benjamin Swift, South America Semester Alumni Student.[/caption]

Captioned: "For Earth Day, I'm sharing pictures from my South America semester of fellow student, Trisha, picking up trash on a trek we did while doing our service trip in the Altiplano. Trisha and I also visited the Tiquipaya landfill (pictured, top), which inspired an article that I wrote for my campus newspaper (goo.gl/S16dEQ). This interest in the environment and trash helped lead me to Haiti, where I visited my Dragons Instructor, Ellie Happel, and learned about her work and research fighting proposed metal mining. While there, we visited SOIL (oursoil.org), a composting toilet company that provides dignified access to sanitation for people who would otherwise not have access to it, creating rich organic compost in the process. At SOIL, I wrote an article (goo.gl/RiYSFd) for them after helping the workers empty poop buckets all day. Through these photos, which include images from a landfill in both Colorado and Bolivia, I hope to highlight that the waste we create is an issue, whether it is obviously visible or not. In Bolivia and Haiti, trash is conspicuous in cities and in the environment, though, per-capita, people create much less of it than in the United States. Americans generate much more waste, but simply do a better job of concealing it, thus creating an illusion that it does not exist." 

🙏🏼 you Benjamin. #earthday #wheretherebedragons #wheretherebe🐉

Want to see more? Visit Dragons Instagram Feed.

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An alumnus reflection on Myanmar's Rakhine State after working with Rohingya refugees on Dragons Myanmar semester program.

We piled into the back of the truck, dressed in our finest button-downs and longyis, the smell of car exhaust mixing with the eclectic aromas of street food as the vehicle started to crawl through the trafficked streets of Yangon. We were heading to meet a group of Rohingya youth in another part of the city. We met in a small apartment in the Muslim sector of the city. Seconds after stepping through the doorway, I was already sweating from the heat. What questions do you ask when you sit in front of people who have come through so many terrors? How do you acknowledge the bravery it takes for them to tell their story? I didn’t know how to feel but I knew that it was a tremendous honor to be able to enter that room. It wasn’t easy but it felt profoundly important to hear what they had to say.

In school, I’d read about systems of governance, human rights, and the “feedback loop” of history. I’d learned in the abstract about violence, activism, and resilience, but I never felt the weight of these influences so strongly until I went to Myanmar.

In school, I’d read about systems of governance, human rights, and the “feedback loop” of history. I’d learned in the abstract about violence, activism, and resilience, but I never felt the weight of these influences so strongly until I went to Myanmar. When my group sat in on a meeting of parliament, one-quarter of the room was filled with government-appointed officials. Yet the other three quarters were appointed by the people, for the first time in the country’s history. When we taught English in local schools, it quickly became clear that the students were used to repeating after their teachers. Yet we also met students who were learning to actively question their own beliefs and assumptions. These students will undoubtedly go on to make a huge impact on their country and the world.

Now, when I think of Myanmar, I think of tremendous complexity. After returning to the US, I have been working hard to be an active and educated participant in our democracy. I have a new perspective on U.S. politics thanks to my experience abroad. After traveling to the other side of the globe, I returned with a new understanding of who I am. And I feel the weight of my responsibility to be a global citizen.

Reflection by Thalia Lhatso-Suppan. Thalia was a student on Dragons Myanmar gap year semester course last fall. She is now interning at Dragons administrative office during the second half of her gap year.
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    [post_content] => Teachers, alumni, students: Did you know you can bring a Dragons Instructor right into your classroom for engaging conversations on critical global issues? This might be one of the best things we do. We call it our Global Speaker Series. (And ps. it's free.)

Class Topics with our Guest Teachers Include:

    
 	
  • The Forces Behind Migration from Central America
    • 
 	
  • Introduction to Islam
    • 
 	
  • Good Intentions with Complicated Outcomes
    • 
 	
  • Urbanization in China
    • 
 	
  • Structural Violence
    • 
 	
  • Seeds of Culture
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  • The Flow of River and Wealth
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  • Woven Stories
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At Dragons we see exceptional beauty in diversity. And we believe that the experience of connecting with unfamiliar cultures has something to teach everyone. We are dedicated to cross-cultural learning because we know that future leaders will be required to think beyond borders. Part of our educational mission is to bring what we’ve learned from remote corners of the world back home to share. With this mission in mind, each year we send our best teachers to schools across the United States to share their experiences, perspectives, and insights from years living abroad with students ready to engage with critical and compelling global questions.

We invite you to look at some of the conversations our staff are facilitating in classrooms around the country. Whether you are a teacher of Language Studies, Geography, Science, History, Social Studies, Religion, or Art, we hope to have a topic of interest to you. If one of the following class titles piques your curiosity, please get in touch. We’d be happy to coordinate a visit from one of our teachers to speak to your class on the subject. And if there’s a topic you would like to address that’s not on this list, let us know. It’s exactly this type of question-based collaboration with students, schools, and educators that inspires us.

The Global Speaker Series is sponsored by the Dragons Global Education Fund, in partnership with The Futurity Foundation 501(c)-3.

PLEASE SHARE THIS BOOKLET with your teacher or school or call us to have one sent to you. Or just get directly in touch to learn more about our Global Speaker Series: 1800.982.9203




 



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Dragons Global Speaker Series (GSS)

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10/18/17

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Dragons Community Grant Fund

In an effort to give back to our incredible community partners, Where There Be Dragons manages Community Grant Fund. This fund awards grants to community organizations based on a comprehensive application process. Ultimately, the goal of the fund is to provide community organizations with financial support for local projects and to provide a mechanism for Dragons administration, instructors, and students to give back to the places that so generously welcome Dragons participants. All applications are reviewed by a Community Grant Fund Committee and awarded on an annual basis.

The Dragons Community Grant Fund is supported by under-budget funds from student programming. At the end of each term, 100% of seasonal total under budget funds will be designated to support the Dragons Community Grant Fund.





Grant Proposal Guidelines


Giving Philosophy

Through community grants Where There Be Dragons hopes to help address needs and opportunities in the communities in which we work, and thereby better fulfill our organization’s mission statement and core values. Emphasis is placed on supporting projects that will have many beneficiaries, are community-oriented, and will have a continuing benefit to the community.

Funding

Grants range from $500-$5,000 per applicant. Dragons reserves the right to adjust the amount awarded to grantees at their discretion.

Eligibility Criteria:

Grants are available to any community member or community organization that meets all of the following criteria:

    
 	
  • Applications may be submitted either directly by a community member/organization, or by a Dragons instructor, alumni instructor, or former student on behalf of a community member/organization. 
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  • The individual/organization must demonstrate a recent (within the last 2 years) or ongoing relationship with Dragons as an organization.
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  • If an applicant is a current member of Dragons administrative staff or a member of the staff’s immediate family, then the administrative staff may not serve on the the Community Grant Committee for the funding cycle when that application will be considered.  
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  • The objectives of the project and projected cost must be shared in the application process. 
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  • Applications must be submitted online using the stated format, unless otherwise requested in writing. 
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  • An individual/organization must submit a completed grant proposal by the stated deadline. 
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Review Criteria:

Applications will be assessed based on the following criteria:

    
 	
  • the potential impact on a local community - including the number beneficiaries and the potential for continuing benefit to the community;
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  • clarity of the project plan, including the viability of the objectives and the proposed timeline, and the clarity of the cost structure;
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  • the amount of community involvement in design, implementation, and leadership of the project;
strength of applicant’s relationship with Dragons; and
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  • thoroughness of the application.
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How To Apply:

All applications must be completed using this form (unless otherwise requested in writing):

Dragons Community Grant Fund Application

Additional supporting documents can be submitted via email to hr@wheretherebedragons.com with the subject “Community Grant Fund Additional Documents - XXX Project.”

Please note that Dragons will primarily communicate with the applicant via email so the email address provided in the application should be checked regularly.

Application Deadlines:

Applications are due by March 1 of each year. Applications are reviewed in March and award announcements are made in April-May. Applications may be submitted at any time during the funding cycle. A maximum of 2 applications per individual/organization is permitted per year. Submitting a proposal does not guarantee funding. Any requests for information should be emailed to hr@wheretherebedragons.com.

Restrictions:

The Dragons Community Grant Fund does *not provide funding for:

    
 	
  • Academic research
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  • Individual scholarships
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  • Fundraising events, sponsorships, or advertising
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  • International travel for applicant
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  • Endowment or memorial campaigns
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  • Government agencies
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* Note: If a need is identified within the above categories, please reach out directly to the Program Director of that region to begin a conversation of how Dragons might be able to support.

Award Process:

Designated Community Grant Fund Committee members will review grant proposals to select which, if any, projects to fund. Applicants will be notified via e-mail about the decision related to their proposal after application review is complete. Awards will typically be made in *May of each year.

*Note: At the Committee’s discretion, time-sensitive proposals may be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Note that all applicants agree that if a grant is awarded the individual and/or organization will be asked to acknowledge Dragons as a sponsor of their project and are also asked for permission to publish or reproduce any materials provided during the application and/or reporting processes.
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