Our Mission HoTPCA aims to promote world peace and friendship
by:
Engaging, uniting, and supporting the Peace Corps community in Central Texas. Organizing and supporting activities that cultivate
cultural understanding. Supporting sustainable community-building projects both locally and overseas.
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Check out the Grants page for a posting of two new grants being considered for funding by HoTPCA.
Sunday, November 18, 2012, 11:30 AM
Girl Scout Cabin at Zilker Park
Don’t miss a great time to catch up with old friends and meet new ones! Aside from the GREAT food, we will have a fantastic raffle, offer 2013 calendars, update your record and take dues, as well as elect a new Board and share plans for 2013.
More information will follow, but for now save the date and MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
 In 2011, HoTPCA donated $1000 to Max Greenblum’s Stoves Saving Lives project in El Salvador.
The photo at the right shows a girl cooking pancakes on one of these low-cost, fuel-efficient stoves.
Read the full report.
 YESSARA trainees start a bamboo products business In 2011, HoTPCA donated $850 to Young Ethiopian Self Sufficiency Enhancing Re–education Association (YESSERA) to support one student.
The photo shows previous graduates of the program.
Read the full report.
In 2010 HoTPCA made a $335 grant to Amigos de las Escuelas project in Rio Bravo – known as Casa de Katie.
Casa de Katie has benefited in the past by many donations. The donations were either distributed to needy families, sold for money to pay expenditures or used at Casa de Katie in the kitchen, education room, internet room, etc. We again are asking for donations and some suggested items are:
*** children’s clothing from baby to teens, kitchen items of every type, toys especially Legos & blocks & K-neks & games, musical instruments like guitars, tools especially a jigsaw and table saw, electrical items, TVs, furniture, fans and building material ***
Donations will be gathered up in Austin for delivery to Rio Bravo. If you can make donations, please contact Jim Maxwell at fjmax@peoplepc.com. Read the full Spring-Summer 2011 Casa de Katie Report.
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Texas RPCVs visited Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s office during Peace Corps Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill on Sept. 22, 2011 for the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. |
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In 2010, HoTPCA granted $500 to the We Improve Tomorrow (WIT) project which funds merit-based educational support to motivated, underprivileged and indigenous Guatemalan children who may otherwise not have access to an education. Joanne Crompton Clark, RPCV Guatemala, reports:
In 2010, with the support of HOTPCA, we assisted 85 students at three scholastic levels – 45 at elementary, 27 at secondary, and 13 at the vocational level. More students are pursuing knowledge at the secondary and vocational levels than previously (25 secondary and 6 vocational students in 2009).
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| Xenajtajuyup School in Guatemala |
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Check out a slide show of pictures from last month’s World Refugee Day (June 18th).
Thank you Katrina for making these available.
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In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps, HOTPCA RPCVs attended a City Council Meeting on March 3, 2011 to hear Mayor Leffingwell proclaim “Peace Corps in Austin Day”. Following the Mayor’s Proclamation, HoTPCA President Chandi Wagner briefly spoke on HoTPCA’s presence and activities in the Austin area. |
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