From riggmail-guinea at yahoo.com Sat Apr 4 19:27:59 2009 From: riggmail-guinea at yahoo.com (riggmail-guinea at yahoo.com) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 16:27:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Guinea-list] Several FOG positions are open, please contribute to our community! Message-ID: <692566.11930.qm@web30806.mail.mud.yahoo.com> First, while we?ve got you here, check out the new FOG site on Peace Corps Connect ? the new ?Facebook? site for RPCVs. We?re there at http://community.peacecorpsconnect.org/group/friendsofguinea. Join our group, and connect with old friends too. ------- And yes, it?s that time of year again, and we need your help. Yes, your help. No matter how small, any assistance is greatly appreciated. We have a big turnover in our officer pool this year, as several dedicated officers are stepping down. We thank them deeply for their time, energy and humor over the years! All jobs take about 3-5 hours per month, though the time commitment can vary depending on your preferences and seasonal projects. Deadline for nominations is April 22 (Earth Day!).? Send your interest or questions to me!? For complete descriptions of all open officer positions go to http://www.friendsofguinea.org/aboutfog/officerduties.shtml Open positions 1. Projects Mastermind. The projects director keeps on top of new projects coming on board at PCPP, such as the Gender Conferences, advertises those projects in the community, and helps scrape together some of the precious moola to help make them happen. This job can have long periods of inactivity with concentrated fundraising efforts. 2. Communications Commander. The communications director keeps the FOG blog updated, with the help of the other officers, as well as any other communications needs. This job requires small amounts of time once a week or so, and is ideal for someone who keeps on top of the Guinean news already. 3. Finance Guru. The finance director is our cherished bean-counter ? he/she deposits checks, holds the purse strings, and keeps records of our finances. This job requires short amounts of time on a periodic basis, including monthly communication with membership, depending on cash flow. 4. Web Meister. The web administrator is in charge of keeping our online face looking pretty. Very little html knowledge required, and the motivated individual could work with a contractor to get us on a content management system requiring no html knowledge for the job. This job requires an hour or more once a month, plus availability for special updates a few times a year. 5. Guinea Parent Support (GPS). The GPS groups were set up with love by a parent of a PCV many years ago, and have proven invaluable for many parents and friends of volunteers since. The GPS administrator communicates with PC Washington to get the email addresses of each group of parents, sets up new email lists for those groups, and helps find a mentor to guide each new group through the ins-and-outs of 6. Secretarial Superhero. The secretary?s job is to keep FOG running smoothly by scheduling quarterly teleconferences and keeping track of records. There is a little bit of cat-herding in this job, and the satisfaction of keeping all the ducks in a row. This job tends to require about an hour every few weeks. Non-essential positions 1. Fundraising help: Assist the project director in finding the chunks of change to make change happen 2. Administer Connected Peace Corps site: Help us figure out the best way to use this group, be the social butterfly on the online social networking site! 3. Advocacy: Keep on top of Guinean news and provide a quarterly briefing for the newsletter, and anything else you see fit to do!. 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The areas we're looking for help in are as follows: projects communications finances web meister parents' support (GPS) listserv administrator secretary fundraising help Peace Corps Connect site administrator advocacy general listserv administrator More information on these positions can be found here: http://friendsofguinea.blogspot.com/2009/04/help-us-help-guinea.html If you are interested in any of these positions or in helping out in some other way or if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you, Brian Farenell FOG Communications Director - Brian Farenell Communications Director -- Directeur des Communications Friends of Guinea Click here to visit FOG's website Cliquer ici pour visiter notre site en fran?ais Click here to support FOG via your online purchases -- Cliquer ici pour appuyer FOG par vos achats sur Internet: Click to visit FOG's blog -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fogcommunications at yahoo.com Mon Apr 20 14:11:15 2009 From: fogcommunications at yahoo.com (Communications FOG) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:11:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Guinea-list] A final plea for the future of FOG Message-ID: <551917.80269.qm@web111313.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Dear Friends of Guinea, I know I've posted before about the upcoming officer elections asking for your help so I'm hesitant to do so again. But the circumstances are unusual. We haven't had any new volunteers offer their services so several of the positions risk going unfilled. The main thing this would mean is that the organization would continue to operate, but in a bare bones capacity. ? Not having a projects director would mean that PCV projects would have to be analyzed collectively by the board, slowing the process down and meaning that fewer volunteer projects would be looked at and funded. ? Not having a web admin or communications director would mean that the blog and our award winning website would be updated sporadically at best. ? Not having a GPS (Guinea Parent Support) administrator would make it much more difficult for PCV parents to network and otherwise communicate with each other. ? Not having a secretary to coordinate board activities would put even more of a burden on the few remaining other officers and make them less effective.. If all these positions remained unfilled, what would remain is the basic infrastructure needed for the organization to survive but without any of the interesting stuff that make it worth being a part of in the first place. ? Although these positions are typically filled by a single person, we'd be open to considering a well-defined collaboration between two or more people for some of these positions. ? If you'd be willing to help us out in any way, big or small, please contact me at communications at friendsofguinea.org ? 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URL: From fogcommunications at yahoo.com Wed Apr 29 21:59:18 2009 From: fogcommunications at yahoo.com (Communications FOG) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Guinea-list] Alarming situation at PC Guinea Message-ID: <51727.98053.qm@web111303.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Dear Friends of Guinea, I received the following email from PCV Ian Geisler (he permitted me to use his name) regarding an administrative situation at PC Guinea which he finds troubling, as do I. He asked me to share this widely. Brian Farenell FOG Communications Director > Dear friends, > > I want everyone to be aware of something going on within Peace Corps Guinea > that is very disturbing.? Sometime in the last few months a decision was > reached by admin in Conakry that PC drivers would no longer be paid > overtime.? I do not mean to say that drivers do no receive overtime pay, but > get paid nothing whatsoever for overtime hours.? Drivers are being > blackmailed with their own jobs and are forced to work for free or face > termination. > > There are only a few definitions?for what working for free means and I'm not > going to list them.? Understandably there are budget constraints these days > and PC has to be creative about ways to cut back, but forcing people to work > for free is not something that PC should be practicing. > > As a current PCV with only 2.5 months left in my service their is little I > can do, but I ask that everyone apply pressure to our admin to correct this > situation.? PC is a very special organization that I think has a higher > ethical responsibility that other NGOs or?businesses in this country. > > Please email the administration and let them know that this kind of action > is not in line whatsoever with the mission of Peace Corps.? Their email > addresses are as follows: > Daniel Evans, Director devans at gn.peacecorps.gov and Prescilla Sampil, > Administrative Officer psampil at gn.peacecorps.gov. > > Thanks everyone for your consideration. > > Regards, > Ian Geisler > G-12 Kankan > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fogcommunications at yahoo.com Thu Apr 30 21:10:53 2009 From: fogcommunications at yahoo.com (Communications FOG) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Guinea-list] Update on administrative situation in PC Guinea Message-ID: <193805.29803.qm@web111311.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Dear Friends of Guinea, Earlier this week, I posted an email from PCV Ian Geisler (also found here: http://friendsofguinea.blogspot.com/2009/04/pc-guinea-news-administrative.html) regarding an administrative situation at PC Guinea. PC Guinea country director Daniel Evans responded that overtime pay has been reinstated for staff. His entire response is below. Brian Farenell FOG Communications Director ----- Forwarded Message ---- Dear Friends of Guinea, I would like to respond to the recent posting by Ian Geisler, a PCV in Guinea, regarding overtime payment for our drivers. Due to a combination of federal budget cuts and extremely high inflation in Guinea, 2009 was a very a very difficult year for us. As a result of our reduced budget we were forced to eliminate paid overtime for all of our staff as of January this year. In lieu of overtime all staff was encouraged to take compensation time off. We explained the situation to all of our staff at the beginning of the year to make them fully understand that this was the best option available to us because we also cut other areas of our budget. Staff agreed that eliminating paid overtime was preferable to eliminating one or more staff positions. To highlight our budget situation, we were already short four staff positions that we were unable to refill due to a lack of funds. Our staff is incredibly dedicated to the volunteers, so it was a hard decision to ask them to work extra hours without compensation. We took the steps we could by limiting travel on weekends. However, the nature of our work and the occurrence of emergencies didn?t allow us to completely eliminate overtime work. We requested additional funds to reinstate overtime as soon as we could in the Peace Corps? budgetary cycle, and I am happy to say that overtime pay has already been reinstated for all staff.. Sincerely, Daniel Evans, Country Director Peace Corps Guinea DEvans at gn.peacecorps.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: