Jordantiers ..... it is (for now atleast)

I haven't forgot about it, but life & especially work has caught up to me lately.
I managed to create a group and a blog, plus an email account
all under the "Jordantiers", I think this is good enough name for now. We can change it or just go by a more arabic/street name later on .......
please send me an email to jordantiers at gmail dot com so I would send everyone the usernames and passwords to all of the accounts.
Also am trying to get in touch with zikar the organization that does monthly collection and distribution of charitable items, games, books ....etc and see if they need any help or if there is something that we can do.


I guess one of the goals to have in mind is to create a one point reference for any organization or group in need of volunteers and use the blog/email/ or the facebook group to advertise that


ENJOY
ps. will post some more tonight hopefully ... and again sorry for the vanishing act.

listening to :Susheela Raman - women

We volunteer ,,,,,,,,, aggregation

Hey thanks for all the people that replied to my suggestion a few days ago to for a volunteer group in Jordan .
Here is what we got so far;
people that showed interest were palforce, Tala, Kinzi, & MQabbani.

Plus 7aki wasn't even phased by having the Atlantic between us and her and offered to help too

We agreed to form a face book group and a blog/website to help organize and provide info. we still need a name, the names suggested so far are:

• "We volunteer"
• "na7no natatawa3"
• We Volunteer
• Bright Jordan
• Jordan Volunteers
• bring it together!
• Bricks of JO
  
• Voluntary Group/Works
• JO Volunteers
  
• JO Helpers
• in the middle of the Middle East
• HANDS
  

please help us pick a name if you read this.

We plan on meeting an hour before the next bloggers meeting, so all are welcome to join and brainstorm.

Projects suggested:

• art projects, reading, English, math and computer classes for young children - by summer
• painting schools in villages/painting artistic murals in East Amman*warhol style* (both will involve kids, grown ups, anyone really) - 7aki/Kinzi
  
• Volunteer in health clinics in some rural villages (if we can get some volunteer doctors and donated medicine it would be great) - by 7aki
• Visit "jar7ah alintifadah" that go and stay in Jordanian hospitals (donating calling cards, or just spending time with them) - by 7aki
• Setup computer's in school, and provide training to workers there - by Kinzi
• talent show bil balad for undeserved community kids - by Tala
  
• planting trees, cleaning reservations & parks, animal care and adoption - by Tala
  
• micro loans (that is if enough money could be raised)
  

Money raising events:

• ala save life style bracelets
  
• Bake sale (not exactly xmas i know !)
• concert (that would be tough)

so as soon as we settle on the name, the group and blog will be created and hopefully things will become clearer over the course of next week.

Mental note : Check UNICEF & UNURWA for any helpful info, plus check some of the NGO's and their plans


THANK YOU FOR READING, ENJOY