SacC MUN 2020 Bulletin #5: NGO and IPC Week

Parents - please share this email with your Ambassador if they don't have an email address of their own yet, and if they do have an address, remind them to check their inbox! Please encourage them to complete the two "homework" tasks they have for this week's meeting - selecting a news article and reading about two NGOs. 

At the next meeting: We'll learn about the IPC and NGO programs and choose our Sustainability Goal for this year.  And we should learn which countries we'll be representing this year!

What's due:  Ambassadors should bring a newspaper article with them - more info below!; Training Conference Transportation Survey
What's overdue: Spring Break Survey - help us finalize our meeting schedule by completing this survey today! 

1.) International Press Corps. This week, we'll be learning about the IPC. To help us, every Ambassador needs to bring in a news article (not opinion piece!) about one of the following topics: 

• Climate Change
• Air Pollution
• Public Health
• Endangered Species
• Water Resources
• Food or Hunger 

2.) Non-Governmental Organizations. This week, we'll also be learning about Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Get a jump start on the meeting by reading about Habitat for Humanity and Doctors Without Borders. We'll ask for volunteers to explain what each organization does and where they do their work. 

3.) Choosing our Sustainability Development Goal. We've learned about all but 1 of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. This week, we'll decide which we want to champion this year and which of the goal designs will be feature on our sweatshirt! Take a moment to review the goals here.  

Reminders: 

Resolutions Review: At previous meetings, we learned about "Resolutions" - which are the documents that members of the UN create to share their proposals for how to make the world a better place. Resolutions have two parts: Preambulatory Clauses and Operative Phrases. If you want to review Resolutions, check out the presentation here. To review the script for how we share resolutions in MUN, check out this link. These are the core of what Ambassadors work on who are in the General Assembly and Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) organs. 

Parent Corner

- Payment #2 is due by Feb. 20: the second program payment is due February 20. We don't have a meeting on February 18, so we encourage you to bring your payment (or pay online) this week. Checks are payable to YMCA of Superior California and should have your Ambassador's name in the memo line. We will be sending updated payment schedules to Y-Assist applicants in a separate email. Prompt payments help us tremendously! Thanks!

- Conference Transportation Plans. Thanks for your patience as we finalize our transportation plans for this program year. Here is where we stand:

• March Training Conference: We are looking for parent carpool volunteers for our March 14-15 training conference. Thanks to those of you who expressed a willingness to drive on your registration form. Now it's time to gather particulars so please fill out this quick survey form. Everyone can fill it out so we know you've seen this part of the bulletin! 
• April Summit: We should have our plans inked early next week however it looks certain at this point that we will be bus-pooling with a Bay Area delegation to and from Los Angeles. The bus will pick us up from the YMCA in Sacramento at about 6:30am on Thursday, April 23 and return us on Sunday evening, April 26. Final times and details will be in a future bulletin. 

- FINAL CHANCE to weigh in! Spring Break Survey: Last year, the conference fell during spring break for many Ambassadors - not so this year! To help us plan our April meeting schedule - which is full of important conference prep - please complete this short spring break survey to help us finalize the meeting schedule. 

Thank you!

-Amanda Levy and Christiana Dominguez

Co-Lead Advisors, Sacramento Central MUN Delegation

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Snack Schedule

Mark your calendars:

February 18: No meeting
February 20: Payment #2 Due

March 14-15: MUN Training Conference, Camp Jones Gulch

April 23-26: 19th MUN Summit, Los Angeles

We are committed to equal program access for all and are dedicated to ensuring the benefits of Y&G MLC and MUN are available to every student in our community without regard to financial need. No delegate should ever drop out or refrain from joining because of financial concerns. If you want to do this program, we want you to do this program. Please talk to us if your financial circumstances change during the program year. We're here to help.