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DREFF Joins Forces with Samaná’s Second Annual Humpback Whale Festival
As a way of promoting the Samaná Peninsula’s impressive natural and cultural heritage, as well as commemorating the start of the 2013 annual whale watching season, the Second Annual Humpback Whale Festival was officially launched today in the coastal city of Santa Barbara de Samaná.
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GFDD Initiates 2013’s School and Community Garden Program
On Saturday January 12, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development’s initiative, Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) will launch its 2013 School and Community Garden Program with a workshop and creation of a vegetable garden at the Rene Descartes School in Bani. Subsequent garden workshops will be conducted on January 14th, 18th and 19th at the Fray Ramon Panes School, Barreras Primary and Middle
School, La Nueva Esperanza Women’s Association, and Canada School, respectively.
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Thirteenth Edition of “The GFDD Global Roundtable” To Discuss Demography Issues with Chief of UNFPA Population and Development Branch
The thirteenth edition of Global Foundation’s online broadcast program, “Global Roundtable,” and the first to take place in 2013, will feature a discussion with José Miguel Guzmán, Chief of the Population and Development Branch of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
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InteRDom to Third Edition of University of Rhode Island Short Programs
The InteRDom program is pleased to announce that it will continue to strengthen its partnership with the prestigious institution of higher education, the University of Rhode Island, this January, hosting two groups of students who will perform service learning activities and explore cultural, political and social elements of Dominican society.
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Former President of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, and Current President of GFDD and FUNGLODE opens the Arab-Latin American Forum: Proposals to increase relations between Latin America and the Middle East are Unveiled
The former President of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Leonel Fernández, and current President of GFDD and FUNGLODE delivered the key note address on Sunday during the opening of the International Arab-Latin American Forum, which is taking place in Abu Dhabi with the participation of representatives of several Middle Eastern and Latin American countries.
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United Nations Ambassador from Angola Discusses Post-War Efforts for Sustainable Development
In the most recent installment of its highly regarded Global Roundtable series, GFDD and FUNGLODE had the pleasure of hosting the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Angola to the United Nations of His Excellency Ismael Abraao Gasper Martins, who is also Vice Chair of the sixty-seventh session of the United Nation’s General Assembly.
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La Vega Featured in the Final Dominican Get-together of 2012
The School of Visual Arts in New York City came alive with color, dancing and the lively sounds of the Dominican Carnival in La Vega on Friday night, December 7th during Global Foundation for Democracy and Development’s final Dominican Get-together in the Big Apple of 2012.
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The Dominican Film Showcase opens its program in collaboration with the Cinema Studies Program at City College, New York
The Dominican Film Show Case program launched on Thursday, December 6 in New York with the documentary Ball Player: Pelotero, a film by Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin and Jon Paley. The screening is the first of a series of film events to take place in collaboration with the Cinema Studies Program, City College of New York.
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UNADR Opens the 2013 MODOSI and NYDRMUN
On Friday, November 30th, the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNADR), in association with Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) and its sister organization in the United States, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), officially launched the third annual Dominican Model of the Inter-American System (MODOSI 2013) and the ninth annual edition of the Dominican Model of the United Nations in New York (NYDRMUN 2013).
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Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) Launches Online Shopping Site
In this Season of Giving, GFDD is thrilled to offer unique gift ideas for everyone on your list through its new online shop. If you are looking for something special and meaningful, look no further than the charitable gifts offered by GFDD.
