campaigns : Washington
Evergreen School
• group: Evergreen School
• location: Shoreline, Washington USA
• how they are helping: starting a 2010 campaign for a survivor in Vietnam.
Currently they've been web conferencing with the Roshan High School and the Gull Pacha Ulfat High School in Afghanistan.
Vietnam
• group: PeaceTree's Vietnam
• location: Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
• how they will be helped: Along with much needed supplies, they will form a strong partnership and relationship with the USA students
news articles
The Evergreen School in Shoreline, WA is starting a campaign for a survivor in Vietnam. The school has been web conferencing with the Roshan HS and the Gull Pacha Ulfat HS in Afghanistan.
The first ever video-conference with CHAMPS Vietnam took place March 26, at 7:30 pm in Seattle which was 10:30 am in Vietnam.
The Evergreen School, in Shoreline, WA, has joined the CHAMPS International Vietnam Team for the US and participated in the call!!
What was supposed to last 1 hour went for even longer as the children got to know each other: talking about clothes, music, school and other things that kids love to talk about!
"What a wonderful opportunity for these kids, talking to Vietnam!" was what one of the mothers who was waiting for her son replied.
While the call with the CHAMPS Vietnam Team was going on in one room, another call with the CHAMPS Afghanistan Team was going on at the same in yet another room.
"This is really incredible, Vietnam and Afghanistan in one night, isn't technology incredible?? This really is a great school!" another parent remarked.
Thirty one (31) students from the Evergreen School will travel to Vietnam in April to see the country, learn more about its rich history, and will be visiting the PeaceTrees Vietnam HQ there in the Quang Tri Province. They are hoping to meet with the CHAMPS International Vietnam Team while they are there.
PeaceTrees Vietnam Luncheon
November 27, 2009
CHAMPS Director Kimberly McCasland and MLI President Perry Baltimore traveled to Seattle, WA to attend the annual PeaceTrees Vietnam Luncheon on November 10th, 2009. The event was wonderful, the food delicious and the speakers inspiring!!
Later that afternoon the CHAMPS Team met with PeaceTrees Executive Director, Blair Burroughs, and officially agreed to launch a new CHAMPS International – Vietnam program! Kimberly will travel to Vietnam the first week of January 2010 and will conduct the first CHAMPS International – Vietnam video-calls!!
While in Seattle the CHAMPS Team presented to The Evergreen School, in Shoreline, WA, who has enthusiastically joined CHAMPS and will partner with a school in Vietnam to help young landmine survivors there!!!
Thirty-one students from The Evergreen School who are scheduled to travel to Vietnam in April 2010 will now be able to meet with PeaceTrees Vietnam’s CHAMPS Manager and also meet the young landmine survivor they will have sponsored. What a trip they’re going to have!!
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