Action Corps New Mexico: January 2015

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Happy New Year Smile be a Goat

By Kathy Chavez

February 19th begins the year of the goat, sheep or ram, these terms are used interchangeably in the Chinese Zodiac. According to the Chinese horoscope predicts that this year will be one of prosperity and well being. The Green Wooden Ram (also sheep or goat), the Yui Wei represents a period of a passing summer the time of happiness through reaping the benefits of diligence and hard work.
What better way to celebrate the year of the goat than to be a goat. Or just give a goat. The gift of a goat improves the life of an entire community by providing a source of income. If you just can't be a goat Oxfam offers other adorable and valuable gift ideas. Go to www.oxfamgifts.com If not a goat perhaps a chicken? Help create happiness and prosperity in the world around you.

Giving a goat will bring a smile to a multitude of people.

This year can also be the year to change your life by a simple smile. Researchers found that holding a smile may help your heart and reduce stress whether you are truly happy or not. Smiling reduces our stress response, by lowering heart rate. They also found that the act of smiling increases endorphins which lifts your mood. Smiling can also increase longevity, make you look younger, kills pain, increases attention, you will simply feel and look better overall.

Smiles are contagious so spread happiness and well being.

Oxfam Action Corps sending you miles of Smiles.

www.oxfamamerica.org
https://secure2.oxfamamerica.org/page/s/application-oxfam-action-corps-organizer

Join us spread the joy. Take Action.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Reminder: It's time to apply to be an Action Corps City Organizer!

Hello Everyone!

Let's talk about Action Corps: it is awesome. Period. No two ways about it. And luckily, it is once again that great time to join this amazing group of individuals as an Organizer!

Check out our page for more information about our locations in 16 different cities, the job description, and the application! And look below at what other Organizers have said about their experiences...

"This is leadership in practice. You can't just read a book on leadership. You have to put it into practice." --Jill Mizell, Researcher, New York

"Oxfam Action Corps has given me a ton of confidence... Gaining knowledge and being able to speak to people about the issues." --Amy L., Business Operations Analyst, Des Moines

"This has become one of the best parts of my life... I can't express enough how satisfying it is to be organizing with people who are just as committed and dependable and passionate. It is so great to have the support from the Oxfam America staff, and I've been really impressed by their accessibility, competency and friendliness." --Isaac E., Educator, New York City

Ready to join them? Apply to be an organizer or if you aren't ready yet, consider volunteering with any Action Corps in efforts to help Oxfam fight hunger and social injustices! Remember, Oxfam is here to Right the Wrong so come join us!

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Have a Happy Year. Join the Oxfam Action Corps.

Jasmine jumping for change.

     Do you believe poverty is wrong and needs to change? Then join us at

www.oxfamamerica.org/takeaction/volunteers

to Right the Wrong of Poverty.

     In the fall of 2012, at the local farmers market, I overheard Jasmine talking about a dinner. Without hesitation, my new found friend and I cooked up wonderful recipes for change.  We worked to save lives by changing laws and policies all over the world.
   Oxfam believes poverty is solvable. Poverty's roots are injustice, discrimination, and unequal gender power relations. Eliminate injustice and poverty ends.
    Oxfam petitions law makers and giant food companies (Mars, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kellogg, General Mills...) to change for greener and fairer policies. We deliver petitions letting them know what constituents and consumers feel is important.
     Fisherman, farmers and others know their trades, they need our help to be heard.  When we join voices we speak louder. We could use your voice at Oxfam Action Corps!

Apply now, the deadline is February 1st !!!

www.oxfamamerica.org/page/s/application-oxfam-action-corps-organizer

We have Action Corps teams in 16 cities:

Albuquerque, NM

Austin, TX

Boston, MA

Burlington, VT

Chicago, IL

Columbus, OH

De Moines, IA

Indianapolis, IN

Kansas City, MO

Madison, WI

Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

New York, NY

Philadelphia, PA

San Francisco/Bay Area, CA

Seattle, WA

Washington D.C.

Oxfam will provide free training in Washington D.C. April 24th through April 28th. Flight and accommodations are included. We learn and have a wonderful time during the training and throughout the year. We also learn how simple changes in our daily lives can make a big difference in ending world hunger. Be part of something big and have fun.

World Food Day 2013. Sara and Jasmine. #StopLandgrabs

At Earth Day with fellow volunteer Amanda.

Jasmine and Kalen my original team and recruiters delivering petitions to Senator Bingaman.
A few months later it would be me in D.C. Exciting!!

My second trip to D.C. with fellow New Mexico Action Corps volunteers Amanda and Jasmine.

World Food Day dinner.

Jasmine at the first annual New Mexico Oxfam Action Corps Dinner.

Albuquerque adding a bit of Breaking Bad to the General Mills and Kellogg's Climate Change media blitz. We called it Burque flavor

Photo of the table at a Hunger Banquet for fifth graders. Where will you sit? Sit with us and take a stand.
Right the Wrong of Poverty.

Eating less meat ends world hunger.

Amanda during the push to get Kellogg's and General Mills to get on board to end climate change. Oxfam action Corps posted photos during a social media blitz asking these major food companies to stop their climate changing ways. Oxfam spoke up and they listened.