Youth
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Pumped Up for Peace
A project for young people to raise funds and awareness for freshwater-related projects in indigenous low-income communities developing countries. The project with a focus on support for low-cost, low-maintenance water pumps and water filtration systems for use in rural and agricultural communities and for education in sustainability and peace. The project was initiated in the NGO Committee on Education, and has been adopted by the United Nations CyberSchoolBus project.
information-habitat.net/projects/pufp.htm
children,
education,
peace,
sustainable agriculture,
sustainable development,
united nations,
water,
youth
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New York, NY
2003.05-
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Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence - New York Task Force
Active participant in Task Force, established and managed electronic mailing list for the Task Force. Created daily calendar web pages of daily messages that were also sent daily to an electronic mailing list during the Season for Nonviolence - from January 30 to April 4 and honoring the anniversaries of the deaths of Mahatma Gandhi and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
information-habitat.net/projects/gks-nytf.htm
access to information,
children,
database-generated web sites,
digital bridges,
electronic publishing,
health,
information ecology,
interfaith dialogue,
new york city,
ngo networks, committees & caucuses,
nonviolence,
one light in all,
peace,
peace cubes,
september 11, 2001,
united nations,
virtual light & colour cubes,
web sites,
youth
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New York, NY
2001.11-
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Baltimore City Jail Library
Established the first library at Baltimore City Jail; developed and implemented methodologies that became a model for prison law libraries in the State of Maryland; initiated education programs; designed and developed a simple cataloging system that was able to be managed directly by the inmate staff; trained and supervised staff of 10-12 inmate volunteers in a range of library procedures, including basic law library research in State and Federal criminal law; wrote successful proposal funding 7 full time and 5 part time positions under the Public Service Employment Program of the U.S. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA); developed and managed budgets for the library; designed and implemented audiovisual productions; supervised inmate newsletter and inmate self-help programs.
information-habitat.net/projects/bcj-libr.htm
access to information,
art,
baltimore,
corrections,
document storage,
education,
information ecology,
law and the courts,
social development,
youth
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Baltimore, MD
1974.02-1981.09
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Baltimore City Jail Corrections
Received basic training and experience in security procedures, key control and report writing. Principal duties were staffing key posts - and on occasion having responsibility for a cell block.
information-habitat.net/projects/bcj-co.htm
baltimore,
corrections,
law and the courts,
social development,
youth
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Baltimore, MD
1973.12-1974.02
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Baltimore Experimental High School
Taught classes in the game of Go - the classic Chinese game of strategy that has been a continual source of inspiration and guidance for subsequent strategy - and a workshop that used video as a vehicle for observing and understanding one's presentation of self.
information-habitat.net/projects/behs.htm
baltimore,
education,
strategy,
youth
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Baltimore, MD
1970.09-1971.12
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