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Home / Community / Newsletters / Plain-Text Dispatch / 5.5 - Old Friends and New Beginnings 
TakingITGlobal Proudly Presents:
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The TakingITGlobal Dispatch!
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For the month of May 2005 (Volume 5.5):
In this Issue:
1 -> Welcome to the Dispatch
2 -> Monthly Theme: Millennium Development Goals - New Features
3 -> TIG Insight: What Are Old Staff Doing Now?
4 -> Interactive Flash Map Returns
5 -> CLC Russia: Participation and Partnerships
6 -> TIG Translator Update
7 -> Panorama Online Publication: MDG Writing Contest, Next Issue
8 -> Global Gallery Contest Preview
9 -> Wrap-up
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++ 1. Dispatch 5.5: Old Friends and New Beginnings ++
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"Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget."
-Anonymous
We all move on, change our scenery, grow our personalities, and often we
lose contact with our friends. Still some friends refuse to be forgotten; they
are the reliable people who cared for you and got you through a difficult time;
they are the reason you got that job, that award, that reason to work for the
best. And they probably taught you a few things along the way. Do you ever wonder
what an old friend is doing now?
In this issue, learn about who has come and gone at TakingITGlobal and which
'old friends' are back in a different form. This May, remember those who have made
a difference in your life. Good friends can be found again when you remember the
ones from long ago.
In Friendship,
The TakingITGlobal Team
dispatch@takingitglobal.org
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++ 2. Monthly Theme: Millennium Development Goals - Live Chats ++
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As part of our monthly theme, TakingITGlobal with support from IConferenceU,
is inviting you to participate in a series of live chats with youth experts on
the Millennium Development Goals! Learn more about the MDGs and discuss with us
the question: What role can young people play in achieving the Millennium
Development Goals?
Each live chat will have room for 50 participants - if you want to be one of
them, send us an e-mail to mdg@takingitglobal.org indicating which live chat you
want to participate in as well as your age and country of residence!
Here are the key dates to mark in your calendar:
1. Live Chat (English): Tuesday, May 24, 9am EST 2. Live Chat (French): Thursday,
May 26, 12pm EST 3. Live Chat (Spanish): Friday, May 27, 4pm EST
Learn more about the live chats at: http://mdg.takingitglobal.org
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MDG Campaign Kit Now Online!
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Has our monthly theme page on the Millennium Development Goals got you
thinking? Would you like to raise your voice in the global fight against
poverty by starting your own campaign? Our MDG Campaign Kit, including an
action guide, brochures, stickers, bookmarks and postcard, is now completely
available for downloading! Go to: http://mdg.takingitglobal.org/campaign_kit.html,
get yourself a copy of the Kit and start planning your own awareness or
mobilization campaign!
If you are not happy with your copy and would like us to send you a complete
Campaign Kit, you can still apply for it by filling out our short survey at
http://surveys.takingitglobal.org/survey.html?SurveyID=19.
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++ 3. TIG Insight: What Are They Doing Now?  ++
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Watch for a special edition of TIG Insight (our corporate newsletter),
available online in mid May. Besides the latest TIG info, you can read what
TIG alumni are doing now. Diogo Andre, Ruth Caceres, Vittoria La Neve, Karis
Malszecki Ricky Quintal, Jessica Rose, and Benjamin Wan tell us what they're
up to.
Can't wait until May to read about our happenings? Find past editions of
TIG Insight and "Accomplishments 2004: TakingITGlobal's Year in Review" here:
http://about.takingitglobal.org/d/publications
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++ 4. TakingITGlobal's Flash Map Returns ++
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At the beginning of May, TakingITGlobal sees an old feature re-launched
in a refreshing new design: TIG's interactive Flash Map! If you want to find
specific information about your country or region - or any other country or
region in the world - then the Flash Map is your tool. Right now, you can use
the map to track how your country is progressing towards achieving the Millennium
Development Goals! http://www.takingitglobal.org/flashmap
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++ 5. CLC Russia: Connect with Russian-speaking Youth ++
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Our pilot project in Russia (which will celebrate its one year anniversary
this summer!), is reaching hundreds of young people across the country.  With
over 1000 members from Russia and rapidly growing Russian content on the website,
TIG has a lot to offer to all Russian-speaking members and visitors of the website.
Do you know someone who speaks Russian and would be interested in connecting
with other Russian-speaking youth? Be sure to tell them about www.takingitglobal.ru!
Help us bring TIG to Russian-speaking youth across the world!
Submit your creative writing, articles, interviews, and poetry to Panorama
Online Magazine: http://ru.takingitglobal.org/panorama/content.html
Join our discussion board in Russian and share your views on topics of interest
to youth: http://discuss.takingitglobal.org/russian
Visit the Russian country site to add events and opportunities in Russian,
and to read recent blogs and new submissions to Panorama in Russian!
http://russia.takingitglobal.org
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New Partnership: Linguistic Gymnasium # 23, city of Vladimir
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TakingITGlobal has formed a new partnership in Russia, this time with the
Linguistic Gymnasium # 23 in the city of Vladimir. With the support of their
English teacher Natalia Manilova, a group of grade 10 students who study English
and wish to hone their translation skills, took up a challenge of joining our
team of Russian e-translators.
Do you think your school would be interested in working with us on
translation project? If yes, email Svitlana with questions and ideas:
svitlana@takingitglobal.org
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++ 6. TIG Translators Best on the Web  ++
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Congratulations and special thanks to the French translation team for the
fastest turn around time on the monthly theme! The team consists of: Ottmani
Hind, Martial Motcho, Boris Bouquerel, Mariem Ellouze, Fatma Harbaoui, Sidi
Yattara, and Jean-Pierre Nziya. Great job everyone!
CLC Russia team would like to thank the most active translators - Dasha
Sharapova, Misha Kolosov, Dasha Kolpakova, Masha Stepanova and Lena Obara - for
their hard work and dedication in translating the MDG theme into Russian.  We
also thank Elena Sivacheva from Saint Petersburg for help her with translation.
TakingITGlobal language coordinators would also like to recognize the Arabic
and Spanish translators who consistently translate the site into their language
with determination. We are very grateful for your commitment!
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++ 7. Panorama MDG-themed Writing Contest! ++
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Enter our contest "What I Can Do to Help Achieve the Millennium Development
Goals." In your essay, tell us how you or youth in your country, can work
towards realizing the Goals. Think about creative and effective ways to
lobby your government and campaign for policy change. Entries can be in
the form of essays, poems, and short stories - all eligible for a prize
pack with lots of neat stuff!
Criteria:
- To enter, you must be between the ages of 13-31
- Please type "MDG contest" before the title of your article
- Word length for short stories, essays, and poems must not exceed 2500 words. Essays
and short stories must be a minimum length of 500 words.
- Creative ideas!
The contest closes May 31, 2005. If you have any questions please contact:
editorial@takingitglobal.org
Send us your contest submission at:
http://www.takingitglobal.org/panorama/content.html
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Panorama Next Issue: Food
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Grow, Harvest, Cultivate, Produce, Prepare, Consume - Food!
Food is the lifeblood of human existence. Without it we become weak, inert,
demoralized. Hunger and malnutrition permeate the planet. While some go without,
others sustain their livelihoods by its production. And even others rarely think
about where there food comes from; it is always just readily available.
Despite these extremes, food acts as a unifer. People learn about one another
through the sharing of food. Appreciation for difference is cultivated too.
What do you eat? How do you make it? Where do you buy your food? Are you a
farmer, a cook, a vegetarian? Do you want to be? What is your favorite meal? What
are you yearning to try? What are the essential foods?
Hunger, eating disorders, agriculture, droughts, hormones and pesticides,
nutrition, fair trade, food allergies, and food contamination - it's up to you to
choose the issue that is relevant to you. You have an empty plate and a fully
stocked kitchen. Create a food masterpiece and submit it to Panorama!
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++ 8. Global Gallery Contest Preview "Vision 2015: Your Future" ++
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In association with this month's theme on MDGs, the Global Gallery is running
a contest that invites you to express your vision for the world in 2015. Thus
far we have received some very interesting submissions, each unique and different
in its creativity and vision for tomorrow's world. Among the submissions we have
received are these three pieces:
Eva Miller's Empty Eternity: http://gallery.takingitglobal.org/evamoon/11867
Emeka's Bright Future: http://gallery.takingitglobal.org/tushort/12201
"Ra": http://gallery.takingitglobal.org/gregmil/12218
Keep submitting your work until the end of May! Here's the contest description.
"Vision 2015: Your Future": What is your vision for the world in 2015? What will
your country be like if the MDGs are realized? It's your future, your vision to question
and answer in an image that can be about the world or about yourself - your hopes, your
fears, anxieties, challenges, goals, and of course, your dreams. The contest closes May
31 - so enter today! Go to: http://gallery.takingitglobal.org/contest
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++ 9. Wrap Up ++
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Your interest, support and involvement with TakingITGlobal helps our community
to grow and encourage more young people to become inspired, informed and involved
everyday! In being a member of TakingITGlobal, you are part of a community that
is more than 75,000 strong coming from over 200 countries and territories. Thank
you for having a vision of positive change. Your work makes a difference!
In friendship,
The TakingITGlobal Team
dispatch@takingitglobal.org
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The TakingITGlobal Dispatch is the official newsletter of TakingITGlobal,
electronically published via email, and compiled from various events and news
from within the TakingITGlobal network. Contributions should be sent to
dispatch@takingitglobal.org. Please include your full name, age, and your
member name.
Past issues of the Dispatch can be read in the dispatch archive, found at
http://www.takingitglobal.org/community/newsletters/dispatch