MEETING ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 22ND (POSTED FEBRUARY 28TH)

Don't worry if you weren't there because there were only about 5 of us
there and the meeting was very short. Didn't miss much.

The park event will be on April 23 from 1-5.

We are doing a poster campaign while tabling. Email Carlos if you're
interested in forming any sort of poster dealing with UNICEF's monthly
issue.

Also, make sure you go to our facebook group and join if you haven't
already because we'll be voting on a movie to present to SUA to
possibly show in Woodruff Auditorium.

The International Studies group is putting on a dinner called A Night
of 1,000 Dinners to raise awareness about different issues (ie.
minefields) and we will see how we can help them.

I look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Happy Fat Tuesday...

Compiled by Secretary Lara Holley

MEETING ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15TH

UNICEF's theme this month is Children's rights. Check it out on the
UNICEF website.

We spent a lot of time talking about our kid's event at the park

ideas-
arts table
learning stations
water relay
dance workshop
pictures of kids around the world
a passport for the kids to have stamped at each station
"Plinco"
food
craft related to play/ puppet show
distribution of food game (Hunger Banquet)- using education instead
map- pin the country on the map
mancala
scavenger hunt
clothing
have kids help us with tables

We also watched the video that was sent to Carlos from
visiblechildren.com

Compiled by Secretary Lara Holley

MEETING ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8TH

Hey everyone! I hope that you all are having a great week! Last night's
meeting was pretty short. Here's what was covered:

Every month, UNICEF has a theme on which it focuses for the month. The month
of February is a month dedicated to human rights and how they impact the lives
of children worldwide. A valuable source for human rights information is Human
Rights Watch (www.hrw.org).

Jon has been diligently working on ways to get KU UNICEF involved in the
community working with children. There are numerous opportunities locally to
help tutor and mentor kids in need--if interested, let him know! Also, Big
Brothers and Big Sisters will be having a basketball tournament coming up, and
is in need of a lot of help with that. Details are still sketchy, but we
should know more within the next few weeks!

Jomana had an amazing proposal for a KU UNICEF sponsored event for local kids
that could be held in one of the beautiful parks in Lawrence! Brainstorming
for this includes the possibilities of snacks, crafts, games (with
international themes), a play put on by the members, a puppet show, and a
pledge banner to hang in the local library to remind the kids of their
commitment to the world. The hope is to have this event take place on the last
weekend in April!

Also, there will be a thank-you note writing session coming up in the next
couple of weeks so that we can thank all of the really great businesses that
donated to the International Dinner. We are taking up a collection of spare
change from members to help pay for the postage of these cards, so if you have
any spare change, please bring it with you to the next meeting!

And speaking of the next meeting, it will be held on Wednesday, February 15 at
6pm in Alcove D of the Kansas Union! I hope to see you there!

Much love!
Lennea Carty
KU UNICEF Vice President

FIRST SPRING 2006 MEETING ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 1ST

Tonight was the first meeting of the new semester!

Welcome back, I hope that everyone had a restful break.

So far we have raised somewhere around $2000.

The bracelets for the _Invisible Children_ documentary are now
available on visiblechildren.com This is so that you will remember
their struggle throughout your day to day life. If you want more info
on the documentary itself, you can always find that at
invisiblechildren.com

We discussed starting a UNICEF online open forum and because facebook
is all the rage, we thought we'd stick with pop-culture. So if you
have anything to post to the group, you can put up a message in the
"KU UNICEF" group. Make sure you're added to this so that you can
keep up to date without having a flooded email box.

The Constitution adendum will begin next week.

This semester we would like to get involved with local children's
organizations. Apparently CCO needs volunteers in the public schools
for tutoring. This would be great in opening up contacts for Trick or
Treat next year.

Be thinking of movie ideas, as SUA would really like to show another
one because of our success with _Invisible Children_
- so far we have come up with "Promises" "Turtles can Fly" and "Hotel
Rwanda"

The Lawrence Public Library would like UNICEF to write and perform a
puppet show- if you're interested in helping out let me know.

We also signed up for office hours, which I will be emailing to Sara,
so you'll see that soon.

Have a great week. See you next Wednesday at 6!

Compiled by Secretary Lara Holley

Return to Latest Meeting Minutes