Recrear New Orleans day 4

Being a part of the planning committee for Recrear New Orleans for the past week has been an amazing experience. Right now, I am really excited to see what direction we take our chapter in, and…

New Orleans – You’re a Firework

Building a local chapter – a new initiative for Recrear but although the large task ahead of us there is certainly excitement in the air. After four days of having met and strategized with a group…

How lucky we are…

I have to say, it’s been almost a year since I first started working with Recrear and my heart continues to race  during every moment I spend in this organization.  Right now I have two of…

Recrear Participate, Planning Committee: Our Schedule

Recrear Participate- Planning committee- New Orleans June 28th– July 9th, 2011 Goals: Familiarizing with Recrear’s work, history and culture; Drafting the 2011 – 2012 strategies for the UNO Recrear chapter; Preparing the proposal between Recrear international…

Welcome!

Welcome to the blog of Recrear Participación! This blog will keep you updated on our progress with the organizing and delivering the workshop this summer. Recrear Participación is a two week simulation workshop launched by Recrear…

Welcome to Recrear Magnify

The deadline to apply to RecrearMagnify has been extended to July 20th for Canadian applicants! Fee is $650 for applicants from Ottawa and $850 for applicants from outside Ottawa.  Apply now! Welcome to the main site…

RecrearApply! Workshop Summary

Hello Everyone, Attached to this post is the recently completed RecrearApply! Workshop Summary! We are very excited to release this file and we can’t believe it’s been a month since we left Palestine after having such…

Recrear-Apply! Feedback form

We would really appreciate if all the students who attended the Recrear-Apply! Workshop last week could take a few minutes to complete our feedback form. Please click here to access the form. Thanks for helping Recrear…

Global Village V.I.P.

Our last day at al-Najah was beautifully unexpected. After the ‘Arabic speech’ (I must admit I have never been so nervous speaking in public), I was really touched by the Prezi presentations a group of students…

A mental picture: Click

So our time here has come to an end and the closing ceremony last night was a powerful one. Between delivering our attempted speech in Arabic, then English, attending the global village, playing volleyball with the…

Decompress

Did the past two weeks actually happen?  Two weeks literally felt like two minutes. I am so proud of my RecrearApply! team for their passion and commitment to our workshops and our project.  Gioel, Kevin, Kirsten…

Mia bel Mia

As I write, I am in a state of pure euphoria. The last session of Recrear-Apply! was today and I am SOO proud of all the work  that all of us did together. It is 1.00…

Ideas in practice

The emotions that I experienced in the last two weeks have added another piece of heart to my mind. After a semester of intense studying and reading on “development”, getting on the ground and putting my…

Extra-Curricular Activities

We have been emphasizing the importance of extra-curricular activities, especially for gaining practical experience in the field… here is a compilation of our extra-curricular activities this week at RecrearApply! total immersion with the help of some…

Loving the energy

I had the honor of delivering a session on building your professional network for the students today. I can’t speak for the participants but I certainly saw myself feeding off the energy in the room. Much…

Wowza!

What a whirlwind few days! I am sitting in a session on project development right now and my mind is being blown. Yesterday, we challenged the students to create project proposals in  groups of 8-10 and…

Press Release for UNO Video Conference

For the second time in a week, students at the An-Najah National University were able to see into the lives of other students studying similar programs across the globe via a video conference with students from…

Scholarships at Cambridge University

Dear all, I hope you enjoyed today’s session and you are feeling prepared for tomorrow’s presentation. If you are interested in attending a program at the University of Cambridge (UK), here are some interesting scholarships you…

Video Conference to Carleton University

Yesterday, An-Najah students participated in a videoconference with students from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Recrear, an international non-governmental organization focused on helping youth around the world, implemented the session with 100+ students at the university.…