Monthly Archives: March 2016
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Discussing the Environmental Dimension of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
GFDD participated in the United Nations Environment Programme”s (UNEP”s) round table discussion and consultation ahead of the UN Environment Assembly on "Delivering the Environmental Dimension of the UN”s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda." The event took place on 17 March 2016 at the United Nations Foundation in Washington, D.C.
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Leonel Fernández Presents the 2015 Funglode/GFDD Awards
Fernández led the ninth awards presentation alongside Marco Herrera, executive director of Funglode; José Rafael Lantigua, director of Funglode’s Center for Cultural Studies; and Catherine Florentino, director of the Funglode/GFDD Awards.
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Children Learn to Create Art from Trash at the Riverfront Library in Yonkers
The Riverfront Library of Yonkers, New York, hosted Yesterday a group of 32 children who learned about creating art with discarded materials that would normally end up in the trash bin. As part of a series of workshops, organized by GFDD’s ReCrearte program, children will learn to turn trash into new objects and create recycled art at the hand of project coordinator Bertha Santana. The children, with great enthusiasm, were making bookmarks from old library flyers and
buttons. The program will run throughout March in different locations in New York.
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“Donald Trump: The Return of Paranoid Politics”, an article by Dr. Leonel Fernández
His personality shows a certain air of delusions of grandeur, of arrogance, of egocentrism and megalomania. Everything has his name on it: the Trump jet, Trump Tower, Trump University, Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump Casino …
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Join Us to Celebrate Recycled Art!
ReCrearte, an initiative of GFDD/Funglode, focuses on the three R’s of sustainability- reduce, reuse, and recycle. Workshops concentrate on repurposing discarded materials into new objects that can be sold for income and waste that can be turned into art. Bertha Santana, the program’s coordinator will be visiting New York City for a series of workshops throughout the city.
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Colombian Ambassador Urges Global Cooperation to Help Tackle Public Health Issues like the Zika Virus Outbreak
For this February edition of the GFDD Global Roundtables, GFDD Executive Director, Natasha Despotovic welcomed H.E. Andrés González Díaz, Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the Organization of American States.
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Old T-shirts Become Tote Bags at CTC Boca Chica
A group of 22 participants, mostly women, from young students to adults, gathered at a creative recycling workshop organized by ReCrearte to learn about environmental responsibility. The workshop took place at the CTC Boca Chica in Santo Domingo on February 29 and was coordinated by Bertha Santana.
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GFDD’s Dominican Film Showcase Brings Laughter in its Embassy Edition
GFDD’s Dominican Film Showcase will be screening a wonderful selection of Dominican films in collaboration with the Dominican Republic Embassy in the United States. The quarterly program of the Dominican Film Showcase Embassy Edition, started with the first screening on March 1, 2016 in Washington, DC, with the film ‘No hay más remedio’ screened to a wonderful audience that attended the invitation and enjoyed the movie.
