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July 3-6 , 1999:
Breastfeeding: Wisdom from the Past — Gold Standard for the Future: La Leche League International Conference
La Leche League International's 1st Virtual Conference: chats, pictures, and reports
4 March 1999: Building Bridges KIDLINK project - Delmar students meet their Japanese friends on the WWWBoard
31 December 1998: Global Citizens Network sends small teams of volunteers to rural communities around the world to immerse themselves in the daily life of the local culture for several weeks.
The teams work on community projects initiated by the local people, such as planting trees, digging irrigation trenches, setting up a schoolroom or teaching commercial skills.
There are currently trips planned to Belize, Kenya, Bolivia, Guatemala, Navajo Nation (New Mexico), and St. Vincent.
What you can do...
Community service
- Advice on volunteering: Impact Online
Visions
Imagine the children of the world growing up in constant communication with each other: 2b1 Foundation
Other languages: In case you want to visit sites in other languages, you can get sentences and even whole Web pages translated online automatically at the
Alta Vista Translation Page.
I want to learn to make myself useful to people who are improving the Internet and putting it to good use. As part of this, I'm wondering how to make the best of my association with GeoCities.
Some examples of what I call putting the Internet to good use:
Some examples of how I might be useful:
One of my projects is to find one classroom on the Web in every country of the world, starting with one in every continent.
To begin with, here is the Panorama School in Greece.
You can write to me at [email protected].
Links:
- La Leche League International, an international, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed.
- Global Children's Art Gallery
- The Global Classroom
- Information Technology and Global Development Issues
- The Association of Voluntary Service Organisations (AVSO) is an international non-governmental organisation, forming a European platform of national and international non-profit organisations active in the field of longer-term Voluntary Service.
- Web66: International School Web Site Registry
- UNICEF Voices of Youth
- The Floaters Page
- 2b1 Foundation
- International Education and Resource Network
- Yahoo! Community Service and Volunteerism page
- Society for Species Management and Survival
- Center for Partnership Studies
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Last modified 21 April 1999
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