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"Nothing is more important than leading
a meaningful life
and the way there is service"
He faced Libyan revolutionaries, Viet Cong guerillas, Khmer
Rouge fanatics, Soviet missile targeters and tough opponents
in battles over land and water use in the US. more... |
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Nadia Chaney has works in arts based empowerment,
focusing on issues of identity, diversity and non-violence.
She has a BA in English Lit, and has completed the Pacific
Northwest Facilitator's Training. She is an accomplished
events host, performer and artist. Her workshops have
reached many communities, from Portland OR to Cortez Island,
BC to Johannesburg, South Africa. She has worked with
youth in detention, rehab, on probation, in foster care, in
US "failing schools," in local community centres,
at camps, and at conferences. She has mostly worked
with teenagers, and she has also done numerous trainings with
service providers and teachers. (eternal.flux@gmail.com,
www.beatboard.org)
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Carol is a three-time Silver Award winner
from the World Council of Credit Unions for her work in developing
countries. She represented CU's at international forums in
Latin America, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and
China. The NW Cooperative Federation honored her with the
DiMarcello Cooperative Spirit Award in 1998. In 2003, she
received the Anna Read Award from the CU Women's Association
of Oregon and the Ambassador Award from the Washington Credit
Union League. Carol attended the International School in Geneva,
Switzerland.
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(http://www.berkana.org),
a Utah based-nonprofit institute which works with pioneering
leaders and communities in all types of organizations throughout
the world. At Berkana his main work is co-entrepreneuring
the Berkana Exchange – an innovative global learning
network which supports leadership learning centres in places
like Zimbabwe, South Africa, Senegal, Croatia, India, Brazil,
Mexico, Holland and England. He plays a key role in developing
and using Berkana’s NewWorkSpaces: a social architecture
and set of collaborative processes which uses the internet
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"Carol Schillios opened the Hèrè jè
Center in March 2005 in response to her reaction to the poverty
and living conditions in Mali, Africa. Mali is one of the poorest
countries in the world with 70% of rural population below the poverty
line. The Hèrè jè Center is a skills training,
education and marketing cooperative.  Here,
begging girls ages 12-25 are helped off the streets and immediately
receive a stipend of $20 a week to stabilize their food needs. This
stipend ensures they don't have to beg during training as they learn
skills to help them generate income and become micro-entrepreneurs.
Our goal is to reach the girls before they are forced into prostitution
because of extreme need (hunger). The first 10 girls graduated in
July 2006 funded almost entirely by Carol Schillios. Twenty new
girls have been recruited and we have begun the "Circle of
Friends Giving Thanks" to give you and others a way to participate
in changing the economic prospects for one woman in Africa."
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