Money Madness this month and other great things for GRADS!!!

Money Madness Week!

Presented by GW Housing Programs

Loan Repayment Session
Learn about strategies to repay those piles of loans. Experts from GW will be on hand to help you get ready for the reality of repayment.
Date: Monday, 29 March
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Ivory Lounge
Budgeting and Credit Session
What's a credit rating? How do you plan your future income to make ends meet?
Date: Wednesday, 7 April
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: South Hall Lounge
Stock Market 101 Session
Learn what you can do now to begin investing now. Learn to grow your money!
Date: Thursday, 8 April
Times: 10:30 AM OR 2:00 PM
Location: Duques 155. Capital Market Trading Room.


To RSVP for any of these sessions, please click here.


"The Five Essentials to Surviving and Thriving After College"

Featuring Author and GW Alum Marcos Salazar
Tuesday, April 6th - Funger Hall Auditorium, Room 103
Reception at 5:00 p.m. (refreshments will be served), Main Event at 6:00 p.m.


RSVP here for FREE tickets: http://five-essentials.eventbrite.com


George Washington Housing Programs is hosting author, researcher and entrepreneur, Marcos Salazar on campus April 6th. Salazar authored "The Turbulent Twenties Survival Guide: Figuring Out Who You Are, What You Want, & and Where You're Going After College." In his speaking engagement at GW he will share with students tips and dynamic advice about transitioning from college to the professional realm, how to best prepare and maximize junior and senior year, and how to become an indispensable member of the workforce. Incorporated into his topic will be a discussion on networking, personal branding, and life transitions. Salazar will help GW students gain the knowledge and skills they need to move from being successful on campus to being successful in the workforce. This is a special networking and speaking event that all students should not miss!

Pigs for Peace!



It's not too late to give! With a simple gift, you can empower a woman across the world by helping to get her a livelihood. And it all starts with a pig. Celebrate Women's History Month by donating today! For just $50, you can sponsor a pig, and for just $10, you can sponsor a share of a pig. For more information and to donate, visit: http://www.glrbtp.org/index.html.

Pigs for Peace and International Women's Day

Today marks International Women’s Day, a day “when women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development (UN).” While we celebrate the freedoms that allow approximately half of the GW student body to pursue an education and a future, we also remember the millions of women around the world who lack the means to do the same. Today, we can make a concrete impact on these issues for the women of a war-torn nation by giving them tools for their economic empowerment: Pigs For Peace.

In what has been referred to as the “forgotten conflict,” an estimated 5.4 million people have been brutally killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998, making it the second deadliest conflict since World War II (Oxfam). Oxfam International reports that since “January 2009, more than 1,000 civilians have been killed, 7,000 women and girls have been raped, and over 6,000 homes have been burned down in the eastern provinces of North and South Kivu.” While there may be little a group of university students can do to stop this complicated conflict and the atrocities that have accompanied it, there is something we can do to assist survivors. In honor of International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women’s History Month, throughout March, GW Housing Programs will be partnering with the students of Johns Hopkins University to bring hope to the women of DRC.

Pigs for Peace, run by the nonprofit organization Great Lakes Restoration, is a microenterprise project that allows women, many of whom are victims of rape, to become economically empowered. After women in the program are taught husbandry skills, they are given a pig to nurture and care for. After approximately eight months, the pig will have its first litter. Participants are required to give two piglets, one from each of the first litters, back to the organization, so that they may be given to someone else in need. Participants can then sell the remaining piglets in the market; they keep one to continue breeding. With the income generated from the sale of the pigs, the women invest in their families, impacting quality of life by influencing health status and the education level of their children. There is currently a waiting list for over 700 pigs. Let’s change that.

With a donation of $50, you can fund a pig. With a donation of as little as $10, you can fund a share of a pig. In other words, you and your roommates have the ability to impact the life of a woman living across the world.

To make an easy contribution through PayPal, follow the link below to the Great Lakes Restoration homepage, and click on the “Donate” button you find there (please make sure you use this button to make your contribution, so that GW Housing Programs can track its progress):

http://www.glrbtp.org/index.html

For more information about the Pigs for Peace project, visit the website here:

http://www.glrbtp.org/projects_p4p.html

Keep your eyes open throughout March for Pigs for Peace progress reports, discussion groups, and other Women’s History Month initiatives. If you have ideas, give them to us here:

http://tinyurl.com/IntlWomensDayIdeas

Have a great week!

~Maura and Melissa