Monday, November 28, 2011

Sunday, November 27, 2011

What we did in China -- YASC Trip to China 2011

From July 9 - 16, 184 Yale alumni and family and friends of alumni traveled to the city of Xiuning in Anhui Province in China  with the Yale Alumni Service Corps. During one week we accomplished a lot! Here is a list of the trip highlights:

* 1300 students ranging in age from 8 to 16 taught for 5 days. Subjects included:
-          English through songs
-          Book club
-          Art of all kinds
-          Spanish
-          Chorus
-          tin whistle and harmonica
-          business development
-          bridge building
-          and much more…
*3 quilts made as gifts for the three schools
* 3 murals painted at the schools
* soccer, Frisbee, basketball and baseball coaching
* Produced America Coast-to-Coast for the final celebration
* High School English language library renovated and re-stocked
*5 days of medical consultation with local doctors
* visited and advised local businesses
And then the group headed to Beijing to see the iconic sights of China such as the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.

Join us on a trip in 2012. For trip updates, visit www.yaleservicetours.org.

Yale plus ONE: Alumni join forces to promote global service and advocacy

Check this out . . .:
The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) and ONE, a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease particularly in Africa, are launching a strategic partnership to promote global service and advocacy by linking the Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) with ONE’s education and advocacy programs. The Yale-ONE partnership will begin in 2012, with the YASC Africa Project in Cape Coast and Yamoransa, Ghana, July 27–Aug. 7, 2012.
YaleNews | Yale plus ONE: Alumni join forces to promote global service and advocacy

YASC Trip to Ghana

The Yale Alumni Service Corp has two great trips scheduled for 2012 – one is to Nicaragua and the other is to Ghana.

Here is the scoop on Ghana.

From July 28 through August 6 (then back to Accra) you, our volunteers, will be stationed in the town of Cape Coast where the University of Cape Coast has been working to help the local communities including Yamoransa to address the critical issues of poverty, health and education.

Yamoransa is a community of approximately 4,700 people situated on the main road that runs between Accra and Cape Coast. There are three schools and many children in the community. The main business of the community is the production of fante kenke, a typically Ghanaian food made of corn, primarily prepared by the women. For a variety of reasons and particularly because the women are the producers of fante kenke, there is a high drop-out rate of girls from the schools. In the early grades school there are slightly more girls than boys yet the drop-out rate for girls is so high that by 10th grade, 70% of the students are boys. There are no medical facilities in the community.


The Chief of Yamoransa in cooperation with the University has identified a number of projects that would provide meaningful assistance to the community. We are prepared to help them in many ways from medical services to education to micro-business consulting to needs assessment.

Click below for all of the details

Ghana 2012 - Main Page

YASC Trip to Nicaragua

Come join us this March 10th-17th, 2012 as we fly into the capital city of Managua then travel inland to the vibrant town of Matagalpa in the coffee growing district. From this base we will travel up gravel roads past fields of corn, beans and coffee into the rain forest to impoverished communities on the mountain side. El Castillo is the second village up the mountain road and while it is the site of this year's March program by YASC, we will also invite the people of the adjacent communities to join us. These small remote villages lack clean water, medical care and educational opportunities - we need to help change this! 
Act quickly, because space is running out.  For more information, click on the link below.
Nicaragua 2012 - Main Page

YASC Trip to Nicaragua

Come join us this March 10th-17th, 2012 as we fly into the capital city of Managua then travel inland to the vibrant town of Matagalpa in the coffee growing district. From this base we will travel up gravel roads past fields of corn, beans and coffee into the rain forest to impoverished communities on the mountain side. El Castillo is the second village up the mountain road and while it is the site of this year's March program by YASC, we will also invite the people of the adjacent communities to join us. These small remote villages lack clean water, medical care and educational opportunities - we need to help change this! 
Act quickly, because space is running out.  For more information, click on the link below.
Nicaragua 2012 - Main Page