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US BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Liz Fanning, Interim Chair
Kate McLetchie, Vice Chair
Darleen Lum, Treasurer
Karli Hagedorn, Secretary
Younes Abouyoub
Harris Bostic II
Marc Douglas
Alia Kate
Deborah A. Lee
James Miller
David Sanford
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Akwasi Aidoo
Thom Anderson
Amb. William M. Bellamy
Amb. Edward M. Gabriel
Amb. Marc Ginsberg
Amb. Karl Hofmann
Elizabeth Lusskin, Esq.
Kevin F. F. Quigley, PhD
Karen Rignall
Juliet S. Sorensen
Aaron S. Williams
Amb. Joseph Wilson
Senator Harris L. Wofford
CORPSAFRICA/MAROC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Omar Laafoura, President Boubker Mazoz, Vice President Debra Benavidez, Treasurer Aicha Lemtouni James Miller Brian Seilstad HOLBROOKE CAMPAIGN Co-Chairs: His Excellency André Azoulay Kati Marton Amb. Frank Wisner
Tribute Committee: Thomas Birch The Coca-Cola Company Amb. John C. Danforth Amb. Edward M. Gabriel Amb. Marc Ginsberg Ace and Kathy Greenberg HBO David Holbrooke Amb. Cameron Hume Amb. John Negroponte Senator Sam Nunn Anne Reiniger Governor Bill Richardson BJ Roemer John J. Salinger David and Dianne Stern Kirk Talbott Amb. Frederick Vreeland John C. Whitehead
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Special thanks to our generous sponsors:
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Are you a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer? We are trying to start a movement to "pay the Peace Corps forward" by donating to CorpsAfrica - to pass the baton and create a national service movement within Africa. Click here to find out more - and join us. |
Become an "Honorary Volunteer" by signing up to make a monthly gift to CorpsAfrica. Click here to find out more - and join us. |
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Dear Friends, 
These past few months have been exceptional and I am proud to tell you that the first class of CorpsAfrica Morocco Volunteers - eight remarkable young Moroccans! - are becoming a part of their new communities and helping to identify and create projects around their priority development needs. I am in awe of them.
Click here to read about the Volunteers, their projects, and their blogs - or click on their pictures below to go directly to their blog.
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Naima
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Hiba
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Bouchra
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Malika
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Salma
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Soukaina
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Wafaa
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Abdessamad
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Some highlights from the last few months include:
- The Volunteers participated in two "in-service trainings" where they learned about specific issues at relevant for their sites from experts at such groups as Peace Corps Morocoo, Zakoura Educational Foundation, High Atlas Foundation, the Office of Cooperative Development, SimSim-Citizen Participation, UNDP, Aquaya, Anou, Jazz 3/4, and much more.
- We hosted an open house reception at our office in Casablanca on January 15th (pictures) - with Board members, sponsors, US Consul General Brian Shukan and his family, and, of course, the Volunteers. It was the first time they returned from their sites - so exciting!
- Each of the Volunteers gave a 10-minute presentation at the USAID office in Rabat on February 26th for 70 guests, including our generous sponsors, Development Partners, and friends (pictures).
- Five Capstone team members from NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service were in Morocco for two weeks in January. They visited the Volunteers at their sites and participated in the first week-long IST. They're working with us this whole year to develop tools to help the Volunteers measure and evaluate the impact of the projects they create at their sites.
- In early February, I visited Volunteers at their sites with our Capstone Supervisor, Tricia Tibbetts, and photographer Joel Dowling. You can see Joel's pictures of Malika's site here and Abdessamad's site here.
- On February 27th, Jamila Boulima invited me and the Volunteers to present CorpsAfrica to the English department at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Rabat. They were a terrific group and we had a great time (pictures). You can see videos of the entire presentation, piece by piece, here. (If you only have time for one - my favorite is this 5 minute 43 second one - here. A young woman asked the Volunteers why they joined CorpsAfrica. It was a dream come true for me to hear them respond in their own words.)
- Earlier this month, CorpsAfrica/Maroc welcomed two new Board members, Debra Benavidez and Aicha Lemtouni, and promoted Omar Laafoura to the position of President and Boubker Mazoz to the position of Vice President. We are extremely fortunate to be working with such a talented, prestigious and committed group of people in Morocco to make all of this happen. You can read more about them here.
CorpsAfrica gives bright, ambitious African men and women the opportunity to serve in their own countries (and eventually other countries) as "Volunteers" along the lines of the Peace Corps model. We are currently seeking sponsors and supporters for the next group of CorpsAfrica Volunteers in Morocco - and we're getting ready to expand to Sub-Saharan Africa! Please join us by making a donation today.
If it's convenient for you, we invite you to join our newly launched "Honorary Volunteers" program, which allows you to divide your donation into monthly recurring gifts and provides CorpsAfrica with a steady, reliable source of funds.
As much as we need your financial support, we'd also like your feedback. (Actually, ideally we'd like both.) This is sent through a bulk email service but it's a real email from me - lfanning@corpsafrica.org is my real email address. And I would love to hear your thoughts, comments, questions, ideas - or just a quick hello.
We have come so far so fast because of all of you who believed in the dream of CorpsAfrica and I am grateful from the bottom of my heart.
Liz Fanning
Founder and Executive Director
CorpsAfrica
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This may be my favorite picture ever! It's me with our amazing Volunteers - taken 2/28/14 after a long week of in-service training, we went out for dinner before they left to go back to their sites the next day.
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