Get involved
tribute cards | internship
| monthly meetings | annual
school supplies drive | sell coffee & crafts
| become a partner
Tribute/Gift Cards
Choose a meaningful gift this holiday season from our Alternative Gift Catalog. Your gift will make good things happen in San Ramon, and you can print out a beautiful card to send to the friend or family members in whose name the gift is made.
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Music internship available in Nicaragua
Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua (SCSRN) is looking for a music intern with skills in jazz, small band ensembles and teaching to work with the San Ramón, Nicaragua Municipal Band. The intern must speak Spanish and be willing to stay at least 2 weeks in SanRamón.
The band is a group of 15 enthusiastic teenagers and young adults with varying music skills from very good to beginner. The instruments the band plays are horns - trumpet, tuba and trombone, percussion - drums, maracas and cymbals, winds - tenor sax, flute, clarinet.The band currently has a music school, practices regularly and plays in the region at least once a month. SCSRN helps the all volunteer band by providing instruments and practice space.
SCSRN can provide the intern room and board in San Ramón and will assist in grant applicationsfor additional funding for airfare etc. For further information, contact: Lonna Harkrader at info@san-ramon.org or 919-489-1656.
Submit a letter of application to SCSRN at info@san-ramon.org, which contains the following information:
1. Name, address and contact information
2. Resume, including educational, work, and volunteer experiences
3. Description of activities related to developing countries
4. Your Spanish conversational skill level and your musical and teaching
skills
5. Why you are applying for the internship
6. Dates of availability
Monthly meetings
Please join our monthly meeting the 4th Monday of each month at 7:30pm:, January through October, at the Eno River Unitarian Fellowship, 4907 Garrett Road, Durham (on the left 1/2 mile from Darryls and 15-501), North Carolina. Our annual retreat when we set goals and objectives for the coming year and evaluate the effectiveness of our work during the past year is in November.
Annual
school supplies drive
A letter of appreciation to the Sister Community Committee in North Carolina, USA:
"We hope that when you receive this note you are well and carrying out your work. The reason for writing is to thank you profoundly for your great donation and moreover for your dedication to help our children in the Mils Bosque school, because now they will learn better with use of the school materials. Thank you for your donation and we hope that this is not the last, but that you will remember our children need your help."
Martha Davila, teacher
Christian Amaro, student representative
Elena Sadea, parent association
| Please contact Sally Poland, 919-828-2607, sapoland@earthlink.net, to involve your school or class in raising money for school supplies. |
Sell coffee and crafts
Please invite us to sell crafts and coffee at your place of worship, club meeting, or school. Sale items include handmade leather handbags, tropical wildflower honey, freshly roasted Cafe San Ramón, t-shirts, wooden spoons, primitive paintings and framed mounted butterflies. Profits from the sale of crafts fund projects in San Ramón.
Become a partner
Please fill out the form below if you are interested in becoming a Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua partner. Someone from the group will contact you to give you more information. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation via mail, make your contribution payable to: Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua, 1320 Shepherd Street, Durham, NC 27707. Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua
1320 Shepherd Street, Durham, NC 27707
Tel 919-489-1656, Email: info@san-ramon.org