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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1989)
.Community— Program provides travel, study opportunities By Kim Mitchell Emerald Contributor The Institute fur International Cooperation and Development, an independent educational or ganization, is now recruiting for its travel study and solidar ity programs to begin in Au gust, September and January of the 1989-90 academic year The IICD, founded in 1986. offers courses in and has sent delegations to Mozambique, Nicaragua. Central America and the Caribbean. South America. Europe, and the Sovi et Union. It is now developing a solidarity program in Angola. "The purpose of the pro grams is to find new ways to educate, learn, and work to gether,” IICD Programs Direc tor Eric Newman said. He add ed that students make contacts with all sectors of society, in cluding teachers, government officials, farm workers and priests. Both the travel study and solidarity programs consist of three parts The first two months are spent in prepara tion at the institute in Goshen, Mass During this time, stu dents participate in intensive language study, courses in his tory and culture and. in the case of the solidarity programs, technical training for spec ific work projects The preparation period is fol lowed hv five months of travel or work in the designated coun try or countries. I.ast year .1 group of seven participants helped to plant 200.000 seed lings for an agro-forestry pro ject in the Maputo province of Mozambique. This year the IlCD will work with Architects and Planners in Solidarity with Nicaragua in a hospital wing construction project in Mati guas. in the department of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The final two-month segment of the program is dedicated to sharing documented materials with diverse audiences such as public: schools, prisons, c ivic groups, churches, and trade unions throughout New Kng land and the mid-Atlantic states. Tuition ranges from $4,000 8,000 and covers all expenses including room and board, travel expenses, vaccinations and health insurance for the travel or work period abroad J t.raphii h* Mike Icmplrlon Independent fund raising is an integral part of the program No spot ifii expedient e or .11 a demit requirements are 1 ailed for. hut applicants must lie 1M and over Although the IK'D is .1 non at credited organization. credit mil fiii<ilit i.il aid have hern made available in the past through partii ipants' respei live institutions For more information, write or i all the Institute lor Interna tional (aioperation anil I level opmenl, I’ () lto\ lou t. Am hurst, M A 111111)4, telephone (•) 1 t) Jt.U <I22!I Photo bt ( hriHluphrr Hldir •Wheat for Peace,' a mural depicting Nicaragua in more peaceful times, is on display in the EMU Art Gallery through July 29. 'Wheat for Peace' aids Nicaragua By Frank Byers Emerald ( nntrilnilor To show how Nicaragua looked in i aimer times is the intent of ( hilean art ist Pant ho hotelier, who designed the "Wheat lor Peace” moral now on tlis play in the KMl! Art (iallerv The murid was painted In Faigene res idents in l‘IH7 during Nit aragtia Friend ship Qltv. .in annual event to raise funds for humanitarian aid to the Central American nation, Ruth Wilks of the Council lor Human Rights in Latin Amerit a said hotelier’s parents are human rights at: livist Isabel hotelier anil former Chilean ambassador to the I'nited States Orlan do hotelier, w ho was assassinated In the (ihilean set ret polu e in l*)7ti Wheat for Peat e is .1 project in which hastern Oregon wheat growers donate a portion ol their t rop to help feed \u ara mums who have suffered loud losses he < .iiisii ol llorrii .me loan, raids hv i on Iras and Amerii an esport restrictions. V\ dks said Hesides harmiux ret enl crops, "the hurrii ane has destroyed a itnml pari ol lire land on the east coast" ol \icara gun. Wilks said I'lie donated wheat is delivered to pri vale mills in Nil nragua. wIni h will ills Irihute Hour In supermarkets and link enes. Wilks said I’ror eeds from lire sale ol the donated wheat will help Imam e i (immunity vegetable xardens The l‘tH!t Nicaragua friendship l)a\ will lie held Thursday. 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