Winter Break Outreach Experience

Winter Break Outreach Experience
A Leadership Approach towards Community Engagement
January 10th through 17th, 2010
Sewanee, Tennessee

For the past several years the Outreach Office has sponsored an Outreach Trip to an overseas location during Winter Break. This year the office is offering a special local program that encompasses a service project combined with a unique problem solving challenge to the group.

Housing Sewanee Inc. is the local housing non-profit that has existed since 1993. It has built fourteen houses in the Sewanee Community and is in the final stages of finishing number fifteen. During the course of the week the group will be working on this home.

The group will also be involved in assisting HSI with a community assessment plan looking at how the organization will focus its work in the future. The following topics will be covered:

-Brief overview of the challenges of low-income families in the greater Sewanee
area.
-A brief history and tour of HSI and its former projects.
-How a non-profit housing organization works?
-Interviews with former clients.
-Session with a local banker about mortgage lending credit and who qualifies.
-What are the housing needs for the future in the area?
-What designs does HSI consider/ a tour of some alternative housing designs.
-Land selection on and off the domain.

To participate in this Outreach Experience-
Sign-Up outside the Outreach Office before December 9th, Or reply to this e-mail.

You will be able to stay in your dormitory room.
You will be expected to pay for meals, most will be with the group.
Participants are expected to engage in all activities.

S. Dixon Myers
Coordinator of Outreach

Fundraider for my Trip to Kigali & Bukavu

I am visiting several hospitals, particularly the Panzi Hospital in
Bukavu that treats women who have been harmed by soldiers in the ongoing
civil unrest.

I am offering Kawa Java Coffee. I have been enjoying this coffee since
finding it earlier this year.

Kawa Java is a company based right here in the United States in Atlanta,
Georgia. It is owned by Annette Nanziri- Clark, a native of Uganda.
Additionally, Kawa Java coffee is roasted at a local coffee shop by the
name of Atlanta Coffee Roasters hence the freshness of the coffee. Uganda
is the 2nd largest coffee producer in Africa. Most of the 500,000 coffee
farms are small, family farms.
The brand Kawa Java imports only Fair Trade Organic coffee.

Kawa Java can provide you with either Arabica medium dark roast AA or AB.
The difference between the two is that AA is high in caffeine and AB is
mild in caffeine.

This coffee will make an excellent hostess gift for the holidays! I have
been known to stuff my husband's stocking with great coffee, so think
about those holiday gifts as well. We have purchased this coffee several
times from Mrs. Clark and it is excellent.

Each is $15 per pound. Email your preference of AA or AB and the quantity
you want to order by November 25th. Please SPO payment after emailing
your order to me.
I will deliver and have a pick up on December 5th.

And let me say I am so thankful for all the support this community has
given me.
Please do not hesitate to email me with any questions about the coffee or
my trip.

Thank you, Tina Campomizzi
tcampomi@sewanee.edu

Hello New World

Welcome to the new blog dedicated for the Sewanee Community!

It started out as an idea on how to get everyone in Sewanee connected and knowledgeable about what is going on around the area. So we came up with the idea of a blog. Ideally, this will house everything that is going on around campus and in the community, from guest speakers to fundraisers, and everything in between.

You can sign up to receive emails when new posts are made, that way you are always aware of what is going on. We will try and keep this page as up-to-date as possible, but we definitely need YOUR HELP!

Please email us at Sewanee Community and tell us whats going on. Send pictures, event information, or video links. Tell about past events or future events. Send thoughts on what you would like to see or how you want to better bring the community together. Its all up to you! And it is that simple!