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How to Create a Refugee Task Force in Your Club

The Human Rights Team's new FAWCO Refugee Network (FRN) offers an opportunity for FAWCO/FAUSA Clubs and Members to inspire each other, share resources and collaborate across club borders in support of the new neighbors in our communities who have arrived from distant and often dangerous places to begin new lives. 

We invite all interested FAWCO/FAUSA members and groups to join this new network by...

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M is for Malawi

Map MalawiMalawi is landlocked, sharing borders with Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. Although Malawi has been able to make important economic and structural reforms and sustain its economic growth rates over the last decade, poverty remains widespread, and the economy is undiversified and vulnerable to external shocks (health and weather). The country’s development is guided by a series of five-year growth and development strategies,

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UNESCO - World Teachers’ Day 2018

Since 1994 the world has celebrated World Teachers’ Day on October 5.  That day marks the adoption of the international benchmarks of rights and responsibilities of teachers.  It outlines the standards for the initial preparation as well as further education, recruitment, employment and teaching conditions for teachers everywhere.

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the signing of the UN...

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Equal Access to Quality Education

I grew up in the United States. I attended kindergarten and public schools and then continued my education at university. My graduating class in high school in 1977 was over 500 students, without a single student of color. Through no fault of my own, I grew up in a pre-baked “white bread” American dream education system that eventually led me...

Nine Tips to Increase Nutrition and Flavor in Meals

by Melissa Kaplan, MS, RD (AWC Central Scotland)

Improve your health and lower risk of chronic disease, with these nine tips to increase the nutrition and flavor in recipes and meals:

1. Presentation: Flavor is created in the brain from our senses of taste and smell, but we eat first with our eyes. Think about how food is presented, how colorful it...

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Planning and Organizing a Tree Planting Project

by Valerie Garforth, FAUSA

On October 19, 1987, a violent storm swept through southeast England and Belgium, felling hundreds of venerable trees and leaving Forest devastationa path of destruction in its wake. In the Forêt de Soignes, the urban forest outside Brussels, tall beech trees lay scattered like skittles. It was a shocking demonstration of the force of nature. During the...

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Tree Planting for "Dummies"

TREE PLANTING GUIDE

  1. Choose your site - Bear in mind the mature height that your tree will reach.  Do you want your tree to provide shade, to be part of a windbreak,Annes birch tree in back yardBirch tree in the back yard to mask road noise and pollution, to create privacy, to provide shelter and food for small animals and birds, or do you want...

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