Greetings to all of those reading this! Thank you for coming to this website!I have been blessed with the amazing opportunity to work with One World Foundation this summer. The One World Foundation is a non-profit organization based out of New York City that is committed to linking young people from minority or indigenous backgrounds in the United States to a global activist community dedicated to working in the human rights, social justice, and development arenas. The organization annually organizes a series of domestic and international service projects for young leaders, to work in solidarity with non-profit organization partners in developing countries. Each program (lasting eight weeks) consists of a one-week in-country leadership training component and a seven-week service project. If you are interested in learning more about the organization and the work that it does, please visit its website here.
As a participant of the 2008 One World Foundation Cambodia program, I will be working with one of the following non-profit partner organizations: the Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Cambodian Living Arts (CLA), and Tiny Toones, on a human rights or development project within the country. I am very excited about participating in this 8-week program where I will work and learn with activists in a developing community overseas and also have an opportunity to grow both personally and professionally.
To those who are reading this, I am personally asking for financial support for the unpaid summer internship program. Until April 27th, I will be working on collecting the necessary program fees, which include: airfare, accommodations, in-country travel fees, food, insurance, and training fees.
All and any donations would be very much appreciated. Of if you have any fund-raising ideas or suggestions of organizations and/or companies that I should approach, please let me know. That too, would also be very much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this far! Your support means so much to me.
FOR THOSE INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING:
All donations, no matter how small or large, are appreciated and will be honored on this website. However, donors can remain anonymous, if they so choose. Please visit this website in order to make a donation.
For those donating:
$20.00 and below: You will be included on my travel update e-mail listserv to learn about what's going on in Cambodia as it happens. Also, you will receive all my eternal love and undying gratitude.
$50.00+ The above and you will receive a hand-crafted thank you note and a small "trinket" from Cambodia.
$100.00+ All of the above and an invitation to an intimate donor dinner (for donors in the New York City area). There donors will have an opportunity to view a powerpoint presentation based on my experiences in Cambodia. If donors are unable to attend the dinner, they will still have the opportunity to see the presentation, if they so choose.
$250.00+ All of the above and donors will have their original, handcrafted piñata, personally designed and created by me.
$500.00+ All of the above, plus something really fantastic that cannot be conveyed into words at this moment!
If interested, you may donate via pay-pal at http://oneworldcambodiainternshipmagv.chipin.com. Please contact marissaag@gmail.com, if you have any questions or would like to donate by check or a form other than pay-pal. All names of donors and the amount donated, will be recorded on this website, unless otherwise indicated otherwise.
