Issue
number one hundred and twenty (December 2010) in a series of Signposts
from WorldU3A International, sent once a month to U3A members anywhere
in the world.
Please send snippets of possible interest to the editor, Tom
Holloway.
Feel free to
copy any or all of this information in your newsletters.
The
editor sends a special birthday thanks to Sharen McDonald of the McGill
Institute for Learning in Retirement for her support. Sharen sponsors
one of the children in the community school supported by U3A Hyderabad
and the WorldU3A Service -- see http://msfoundationschool.org/sponsors.html
-- and found it so rewarding that she gave sponsorship of three of our
kept-from-school girls to her three grand-children as a present. They
have reacted warmly to the idea and and an exchange of photographs is
now underway.
Are YOU wondering what to give this Christmas? Click on the link above to give a gift to someone you know, and at the same time help to lift a slum child in India out of poverty and into school.
University
of Third Age from University of Zilina, Slovakia is looking for international
partners to cooperate in one European Union’s Grundtvig programme.
The main topic of the project is „Traditional handcrafts“.
The cooperating partners have to be from EU and fulfil the Grundtvig terms. Realisation of the project starts in August 2011. This project will lasts for 2 years and the partners have to realise 7 mobilities during this time.
If you are interested to work with us, contact u3a@uniza.sk.
The
Khan Academy is a not-for-profit
organisation with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone,
anywhere.
Salman Khan's ever-growing library provides user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World. Lessons in Algebra, Banking, Basic arithmetic, Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Geometry, History, Physics, Puzzles, Statistics, Trigonometry, and Venture Capital - clickon http://www.khanacademy.com
Sci/Tech
Groups: The Institution of Engineering and Technology announce their
December programme
of talks. All IET Network events are open to members and non-members alike
and they have very active specialised communities on their website where
you can participate in activities with your subject peers both online and
physical events. Please Visit http://kn.theiet.org/communities/
Neighbourhood:
streetbank is a "giant
attic, garden shed, toolkit, fancy dress chest and library for people living
within a 1000 yrd radius of your home". "Why buy when you can
rent?" asked The Economist magazine in October. StreetBank are hoping
that in 2011 The Economist will be asking "Why rent when you can borrow!?"
and talking with the same excitement about consumer philanthropy. For an
explanation of how it works just
click here. 
The
U3A Asia Pacific Alliance announces that the Singapore
International U3A Conference now has a poster - A4 size for convenience
- to send out to your members or to put up on your noticeboard.
It is available from this website if you click here and download the pdf version.
If it does not download correctly please get in touch by email with me, the editor, tom@worldu3a.org
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