Make a Difference on GYSD: April 20-22
On April 20-22, join E-ERA in making a difference through volunteering and joining a project to serve your community. Projects should be based on your community’s needs. If you need to brainstorm on project ideas, please do not hesitate to contact us or join us on our different projects taking place during April 20-22. For more information about GYSD, please visit: www.gysd.org
Humanity Project blog for E-ERA: April 2012
In a South Florida neighborhood near the Humanity Project headquarters, there is a bumper sticker on an old car. It reads, “Some Things DO Change.” To our organization, this seems a refreshing reminder during a time when it is so easy to feel discouraged. That bumper sticker surely has the right idea. Some things do change — many things. These shifts are visible all around us if we look carefully. Here in the United States, we have seen African Americans, Latinos and women gain a level of social equality that once seemed a distant hope. Now lesbians and gays, bisexuals and transgender people are slowly acquiring the same rights. Internationally, more countries enjoy greater democracy. There even are fewer wars in today’s world. Some things do change, truly. At the Humanity Project, we believe optimism about the future is a sensible attitude warranted by the facts. Like E-ERA, our nonprofit group is working hard every day to assist this positive social change. That work includes a powerful program that helps young children to learn about the importance of ending school violence. We also are creating an innovative approach to teen driver safety called “I Care!” – A new program we will describe more fully in a future blog. In our country, more teenagers die from car accidents than any other cause. The new Humanity Project program uses close friendships and positive peer pressure to encourage safe driving by these young people rather than the usual ineffective scare tactics. These are only some of the things the Humanity Project is doing to help move society in a more constructive direction. At the same time, E-ERA and other fine organizations around the world are creating their own programs, also with encouraging results. In the end we are all in this together, every human being interconnected with every other human being. And many good things are happening if we will only see beyond our personal disappointments and pain. There is a long way to go to improve life for many more people in the United States and around this planet, yes. To the Humanity Project, that simply means there is a great deal of work left to be accomplished. But as we do our portion of this work, the Humanity Project believes none of us should ever lose hope that we are making a real difference. To our organization, that bumper sticker seems very accurate: “Some things do change.”
Call for Judges and Volunteers
E-ERA needs volunteers for the YSEP Fairs http://www.ysep-eg.org/
Alexandria March 9
Assuit March 30
Cairo April 6
During the full interactive day, students will be presenting their projects’ ideas, watching different documentaries, doing lots of scientific experiments, and meeting a number of prominent Egyptian professionals in the areas of science and technology.
Judges: Professionals with a background in science, technology, and education. Judges will be expected to judge students’ pesentations over the duration of 2-3 hours. For the judges, we need the following information for each participating judge:
Volunteers:
a) With science or technology background: they will help in planning and conductig some of the hands on workshops during the day. Voluteers need to be at least college students or older.
b) Without science and technology background: they will assit in different logistical process and procedures before and during the fair. They need to have some previous expeinces in event planning, ushering, etc. They need to have GOOD problem solving skills and communication skills as well.
If you are interested or know of others who might like to give a hand, we will need the information (Title, Name, Position, Organi
Young Arab Voices
Young Arab Voices program serves youth, educational organizations, and 
communities to promote human development, technology and cultural exchange.
This program is based on the development of the art of debate among youth and how to manage the dialogue between the parties in the framework of fair and respect of each other’s opinion.This project will be initiated in three governorates (North Sinai – Aswan – Cairo) 30students age of (14-18 years) will be trained over two days.
Close Up Camps
In collaboration with the US Embassy in Egypt, E-ERA implemented a one-day camp in three different governorates. E-ERA succeeded in delivering the ideas and objectives of the session through lectures, games and activities in which it helped the students to interact while understanding the importance of team working and conflict resolution.
