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Overseas Education Fund of the LWV - Annual Report 1971-72(The following is an excerpt from this report) OEF Institute - Twenty-one women from twelve Latin American countries participated in a four month civic education institute based at Boston University. Focusing on community development and social change, the Spanish language institute offered an opportunity to participants to practice techniques of group work, The group assigned and implemented units on health, education, population, community development, and politics. In addition to the institute group, the participants drew on community and academic resource persons. Integral aspects of the institute were visits to community organizations in the Boston area and a live-in week hosted by Massachusetts League families. During visits to New York and Washington, D.C., the group was introduce, to several international organizations. Participant costs of the institute were subscribed by 11 U.S. Agency for International Development mission scholarships and the Fundacion Creole of Venezuela. Multinational Seminar - The OEF conducts annually a five-week multinational seminar for women leaders of Latin American countries. This travelling seminar is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The 1971 seminar, "Citizen Participation in the Integration of Marginal Populations into Urban Areas," had sixteen participants. Professionals and volunteers, they were from six South American countries, Mexico and the U.S. The latter were League members, fluent in Spanish. The group studied urban development problems and travelled to four cities to observe representative programs focusing on community involvement' In each city the seminar learned about local League activities and was entertained in U.S. homes. The seminar concluded in the Washington area with discussions of how to apple practices h observed to situations in Latin America. A new practice introduced this year was the use of a multinational teaching team composed of volunteers and staff. Both the theme and the team teaching method will be repeated in the 1972 multinational seminar for Central American and Dominican women. Publications - This year OEF published Participacion en la Communidad, a series of teaching materials about leadership and group organizational techniques, and La Liga de Mujeres Votantes, which explains briefly the structure and operations of the League of Women Voters in the United States. A revised Datos was published through the courtesy of the Sears Corporation in Colombia. Intercambio, OEF's bi-monthly Spanish-language newsletter, is designed to promote exchange of techniques among volunteers and professional groups throughout Latin America. Other publications in Spanish are available from OEF and include a condensation of Roberts Rules of Order, leadership techniques for volunteers, a fund-raising manual, a voters' service guide and a community analysis workbook, Four OEF articles were published in the National Voter, a bi-monthly magazine sent to 160,000 League members. Briefings - Foreign visitors interested in the political operations of U.S. government, election procedures, the role of women in the professions and government, the League of Women Voters, and how U.S. volunteers work, can request a briefing from OEF volunteers. During 1971-72 OEF volunteers conducted 32 briefings for over 100 civic leaders from 24 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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