UNICEF Minutes

September 17, 2007

Started 8:30 pm.

I. Raffi’s interested in coming for Children’s Week!!! Good job Roshan and Rosh!

II. HeadStart – Alice talked to Anita Atkins

a. M-F 8:30-11:30, 1 hr presentation + 10 minute walk each way

III. Twister Record = 88.9 ft x 27.6 ft in 2005

a. Only need 3 days to approve

b. Material ideas: Bolt fabric (sew long strips together), tarp, rug

IV. Enthusiastic freshmen idea- Yule Ball (from Harry Potter)!

a. Raise funds

b. HP Great Hall dinner? Complete with magicians, letters from owls?

c. Location: Commons, Harkness tower?

d. contact: shari.desilva at yale.edu

V. SummerBuds School Contact Info-Thanks Jess!

VI. T-shirt color ideas

VII. Student wants to sell jewelry and crafts handmade in Bolivia – Casandra

a. Help fund orphans once they turn 18 and have to leave orphanage

VIII. No Place Like Home – home for abandoned, terminally ill, disabled children

a. volunteer to read to kids, help director/mother

b. contact: ann.shue at yale.edu, Nicole.oakman at yale.edu

IX. Children’s Week –Tentatively Dec. 6-12

a. Dr. Nora Groce (UNICEF at Yale adviser) can support us, i.e. letter of recs for speakers

b. Berkeley College orchestra

c. Find out if Raffi free first week of December, Dec. 7?

d. Community service – New Haven kids do a lot already

e. Bring younger kids to demystify Yale

a. Perhaps something more UNICEF-related?

f. Carnival – Nikki and Shejuti

g. Panels – Betsy

a. Education – Teacher Prep Program, preschools

b. Health – Professor Cynthia Connolly of Children’s Health in the U.S., pediatricians?, Professor Howard Forman on SCHIP?

c. International- trafficking

d. Domestic – poverty

e. Professors– Professor Henry Sussman of Childhood and Memory in the literature dept., Professor Michele Stepto of Literature for Young People in the English dept.

f. Sesame Street, a panel with the sesame street character, Muppets!

g. Warner Bros – Amy will talk to friend

h. Pixar, DreamWorks, Disney, etc.

i. From last week minutes: J.K. Rowling, R.L Stine, Partners in Health director– Ophelia Dahl, daughter of Roald Dahl, Laura Bush, Nora Groce, Stephen Spielburg?, someone interesting from unicef ny

j. Roosevelt Insitution- Public Education reform

k. Ideas from Dr. Groce: NG: Pria Britto - used to work with UNICEF- child study center, nearby organizations, Save the Children-Mulu (World Fellow), Westport conneticut (US), First. Charlie, CEO, invite people from unicef, panel of key organizations: CT Voices for Children, Dixwell Community Center, HeadStart, Ministerial alliance- churches (advocate to community), Jim Rolands – VP of hospitals, Fair Haven Health Center with Katrina Clark (good ties to Hispanic community), School teachers in town – special teachers lecture

h. Saybrook Orchestra Children’s show- Shejuti

a. Find out details- age group of kids, how kids come, when, etc.

i. Fundraisers

a. Dance – Pam

b. Mile for Change – Kristjiana and Casandra

j. Letter-writing

k. Yale Children’s Theater- for younger kids, under 3^rd grade

l. Workshops

a. balloon making

b. International groups, cultural, dance, etc. – Amy see if want to do workshops or perform

m. Art Show

a. Give art teachers medium, materials

b. Sudler Fund – Betsy

c. Exhibit at Yale, public library

IX. Work in schools – link school to school in Africa, Amman Imman starting to build schools since can make bricks with water

X. Trick-or-Treat

a. Presentations to schools- script on UNICEF website

b. Parents check out boxes at schools for kids

c. Contact schools - Jess