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Hello to all members!  Happy spring! I hope you are seeing and feeling the warmth of the sun and seeing the snow melt!
 
I am so excited to send you the news about our summer student programs based upon peace and human rights studies. 
“Adventures in Global Citizenship” which has grown and developed through the years as a pilot is now HR-2600 a new course called 'Human Rights UniverCity'
This human rights inspired collaboration that Rotary World Peace Partners launched with Prof. Marilou McPhedran of The University of Winnipeg Global College and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights five years ago has expanded to become the 'Human Rights UniverCity', an intensive 8 days of classes using the city as its campus.
 
The academic rigour of ‘Human Rights UniverCity’ has now been accorded 6 full credits by the University of Winnipeg. Coded as HR 2600, the course is a personalized skill-building opportunity for students entering first year university as a 'jump start' opportunity beginning in August 2015. It will continue to embrace a diverse range of students already in university who have a particular interest in human rights and global citizenship.

The success of this intensive human rights course is due in part to generous Rotary support from clubs and members to provide bursaries that have ensured rich diversity among students many of whom have been of Aboriginal or newcomer origin - contributing to the open international learning environment.
 
This unique 6-credit course will be supported again by Rotary World Peace Partners to run from August 4 to 14th in 2015, with an estimated course fee of $800 per Canadian student (with some additional usage fees and an additional charge for international students). Classes will be held at the recently opened Canadian Museum for Human Rights and other sites in Winnipeg, including Folklorama, Ka Ni Kanichihk and Winnipeg Harvest.
 
Stay tuned to the WPP website for application details. www.worldpeacepartners.org
 
We encourage you to continue supporting this excellent program. Dave and I along with other Rotarians have gone to the Folklarama tours with the students from the course.  It has been an excellent ice breaker for the group and for us it was fun to meet the people who had enrolled in the course.
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District 5550 World Peace Partners is pleased to announce the next building block towards peace, compassion and “service above self” amongst our youth, the ‘Rotary Adventures in Human Rights’ program. 
The new Rotary Adventures in Human Rights program which is a collaborative effort with the Rotary World Peace Partners and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, will be piloted this summer starting on August 16th until the 23rd.
 
The target group will be a maximum of 24 high school students entering grades 10 and 11 in the fall of 2015.
 
The mandate and goal of the program is to provide students with an opportunity to explore human rights issues within the Canadian Museum for Human Rights by focusing on the following three themes: Women’s Rights, Indigenous’ Rights and Democratic Rights.
 
Although the majority of the program will be held at the Museum there will be visits to various non-governmental organizations and Winnipeg locations in order to see positive action in progress in the area of human rights.
 
At the end of the program, students will have an opportunity to design an action plan that they could implement within their schools. With their new found insights and knowledge in human rights and peace, students will see the value in continuing their peace journey by registering for the University of Winnipeg Global College course in future years.
 
We are encouraging all District 5550 Rotary Clubs to sponsor and assist a student from their area to apply to be part of this new initiative. The course fee is estimated to be $800.00.
 
Please contact Irwin Kumka Irwin_Kumka@AJG.com or Rob Tisdale tisdale@mymts.net
 
 
To download an application form click HERE.
 
Support ‘Rotary Adventures in Human Rights’ by:
“It takes a noble person to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people we may never meet.”
David Trueblood, educator, author, theologian, Quaker 1900-1994.
That’s us folks ! 
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Russell Hampton
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