Published November 08, 2008 @ 08:16AM PT

I invite you to take part in our annual Friends & RPCVs of Guyana calendar sales drive.  FROG is in its second year as a non-profit and we're very excited for the challenges and triumphs we will face in the upcoming year. FROG is currently looking to raise funds for development activities in Guyana through the sale of calendars, and we would like to offer one to you!  In 2007, we raised close to $1,000 through our calendar sales.  From the money we raised we were able to provide financial assistance to a "Beach Cleanup" day in Georgetown, Guyana.  A number of Peace Corps Volunteers and Guyanese volunteered spending the day cleaning up a local beach in the capitol city.  The RPCV International Calendar, produced by fellow returned volunteers from Mad... Read More

Published July 07, 2008 @ 09:07AM PT

Not sure what to pack or have better ideas, check out the Peace Corps Wiki - http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/Packing_list_for_Guyana

Published June 17, 2008 @ 03:20PM PT

I received this note, it'll help you figure out how to vote from abroad in a US election -  I came across a website today that made it really easy for me to register to vote by absentee ballot for the US General Elections in November 2008. I thought it might be useful for those of you living abroad who haven't already figured out how to vote and want to as well. They walk you through a short set of questions, create a personalized document for you to print off and mail to the appropriate government office in your state, tell you where to send it and what to expect after that. Short and sweet. http://www.votefromabroad.org/

Published June 15, 2008 @ 04:31PM PT

QUEENS, NY- The 2nd Annual Friends & RPCVs of Guyana Fundraiser, (http://guyfrog.org) will be held on Friday, July 18th at 8:00 pm to Midnight. The fundraiser will be hosted at Liberty Express Restaurant & Bar, 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY.  A raffle will be held during the event, which will include prizes with all proceeds going to the organization. The event will be featuring reggae, soca and chutney music from DJ Sparber.   Friends and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Guyana (FROG) was created in 2007 as a non-profit organization that connected former RPCVs with each other, with the greater development community and with new opportunities. To date, over 470 Volunteers have assisted in the areas of health, education, community developm... Read More

Published June 02, 2008 @ 12:14PM PT

Dear GuyFROG, My name is Ami, and I am the director of Idealist.org. I am writing to ask you a favor. This month we are doing something special at Idealist, and we need your help to spread the word. Here is the story. Posting a job on Idealist usually costs $60 (we are a nonprofit ourselves, and this small fee keeps us afloat) but starting today, and through the end of June, all job postings on Idealist are free for any nonprofit organization. We are doing this so that any organization can try us at no cost, and our ultimate goal is to bring you every nonprofit job that's open around the country (as well as internships and volunteer opportunities, which are always free). And here is where we need your help. If you know anyone who works at a nonprofit organization... Read More

Published May 31, 2008 @ 12:54PM PT

Yahoo Pipes Pipes is a web service that allows users to easily build web-based applications from aggregated web feeds, web pages and other sources of content. The drag-and-drop user interface makes it dead simple to quickly create useful applications from various data sources. Some examples below: Content Keyword RSS This pipe will search news sources from multiple sites such as Digg, Technorati, Yahoo News, PRWeb, and Google News, compare content to remove duplicates and output a unique RSS feed full of content related to your keywords. YouTube tags to RSS Be alerted when videos on Youtube are tagged with specific keywords that you may be interested in watching. Social Media Firehose This is a big, fat, wide-reaching net of social media searches to alert you every time your brand ... Read More

Published May 30, 2008 @ 02:33PM PT

(via caribbeannetnews.com/) Guyana’s ministry of health has called on residents to remain alert as a result of 12 confirmed cases of dengue fever in region nine, Lethem, close to the Guyana-Brazil border. Health minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy said over the past month there have been a number of reported cases of fever in the region nine area. “Over the last four weeks the Ministry has noted the increase of reported fever cases from Region 9, especially Lethem, and investigation revealed that these cases were not due to malaria. A test for dengue fever confirmed that some 12 cases were as a result of recent infection with the dengue virus and were among persons in and around Lethem,” the minister said. The minister added that cases occur sporadically in Georgetown an... Read More

Published May 26, 2008 @ 01:56PM PT

From NPR - At college commencement time, some graduates explore Peace Corps opportunities. For nearly 50 years, the agency has been sending Americans all over the world. Scott Simon talks with Robert Strauss, former country director of the Peace Corps in Cameroon. Strauss says that the Peace Corps has lost its edge for assisting developing countries and the U.S. Link

Published May 26, 2008 @ 01:46PM PT

It is now time for FROG to begin its election process.  Please see the attached document on how you may nominate people for the FROG board.  Thank you. http://www.guyfrog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/frog_election_letter.pdf

Published April 17, 2008 @ 01:42PM PT

(via ap.google.com) Guyana is tackling the soaring price of food in markets by sending citizens to their gardens to grow their own. President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday the government would give seeds - mostly rice - in rural communities, hoping that people will sow them on idle land and in gardens in the small South American nation. "I don't want to say that everyone should become a farmer because not everyone is cut out for that, but when the economics are right you can do anything," said Jagdeo, who did not reveal the cost of the program. Indian communities would get seeds for a special variety of rice suitable for the hilly communities where many life. Isolated protests have broken out over rising food costs in Guyana, where chicken costs 50 percent more than it did last year... Read More