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Greetings from Friends and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Guyana!

Thank you for taking a moment to learn more about Friends and Returned Peace
Corps Volunteers of Guyana (FROG). Founded in 2007, FROG is a non-profit,
service based organization dedicated to supporting education, health, social,
economic, and environmental programs in Guyana through a network of RPCVs,
Guyanese nationals, Guyanese-Americans, and all others concerned and interested
in the Guyanese Community.

In this packet you will find information about FROG that will help explain what we
do, who we are and how we work. This includes board member biographies, recent
press releases and newsletters and our business card. This information and more
can be found on our website, http://www.guyfrog.org.

Thank you for learning about FROG and supporting our mission.

Sincerely,

Kati Ringer
Vice President, FROG

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 Friends & RPCVs of Guyana (FROG) was founded with the intention of helping
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers from Guyana keep in touch with each other as
well as the communities they we served in the Peace Corps. And to compliment the
networking aspect of the organization, we also want to continue serving the country
we lived in and grew to love.

In the spirit of the Peace Corps, FROG decided to continue our past work by funding
current volunteer projects throughout Guyana. FROG strives to enrich current
volunteer experiences by helping these young men and women connect with the
people and the communities we nurtured as volunteers.

Since the launch of FROG in 2007, our organization has grown to include hundreds
of people–with Guyanese, returned volunteers and friends of both communities
amongst our ranks.

We have had the opportunity to fund a handful of projects, have held two fundraisers
in Richmond Hill, New York and continue to develop our presence in the Guyanese
community. As our organization grows and our numbers swell, we hope to have an
even greater impact on the development of Guyana and the lives of the people the
country enriches.

If you are interested in finding out more about our organization or would like to
join, you can contact us at support@guyfrog.org. You can also find us online at the
addresses below:
http://guyfrog.org
http://www.change.org/nonprofits/view/74921
http://www.facebook.com/people/Guyana_RPCVs/573529771

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 CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS

Mike Geurink–President
Mr. Geurink is originally from Western Wisconsin and his biggest aspiration is to
continue working in developing countries overseas. He graduated from University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse in Recreation Management, and completed his internship at
Wilderness Inquiry where he guided canoe trips for people with all abilities in the state
of Maine. After leading trips in Maine he applied to the Peace Corps and accepted an
invitation to serve in Guyana. There Mr. Geurink was a Physical Education instructor
for children with developmental disabilities and the hearing impaired. His secondary
projects included youth leadership camps for kids, an HIV/AIDS workshop focusing
on persons with disabilities, a resource center for people with disabilities, and editor
of the Peace Corps Guyana quarterly magazine.

Mr. Geurink is a Project Associate on the MEASURE Evaluation Project with John
Snow, Inc. JSI’s goal is to improve the health of individuals and communities
throughout the world. JSI applies practical and innovative solutions in management,
research, education, information and training. The MEASURE Project specifically
applies to Monitoring and Evaluation in developing countries.

Mr. Geurink currently resides in Washington, DC and dedicates his spare time to
FROG. He continues to travel with JSI but spends most of his time within the District
of Columbia.

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 CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS

Kati Ringer–Vice President

After graduating from the University of Vermont with a degree in History and Studio
Art, Ms. Ringer served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guyana from 2004-2006. It
was there, working as an Educator, that she discovered a love for working with young
children. She currently lives and works in Burlington, Vermont.

Louise Stenberg–Secretary
Ms. Stenberg graduated from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn. with
a BA in Humanities. From 2004 to 2006, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Guyana, where she worked with Hope For All, a local NGO that focuses on HIV/
AIDS education and services. After finishing her Peace Corps service, she went
back to school and in May 2008 earned her Master of Public Health degree from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Soon after graduation, she returned to
Guyana and has since been working with the USAID/Guyana HIV/AIDS Reduction
and Prevention Project.

Eric Terpstra–Treasurer
Mr. Terpstra graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in MIS and Finance.
After graduation, Mr. Terpstra joined the Peace Corps, teaching computer classes,
opened a small internet cafe at the Georgetown YWCA and assisted other volunteers
with small IT projects. Following the Peace Corps and a short stint in Chicago, Mr.
Terpstra participated in a one-year “Residency in Social Enterprise” in Boston,
MA, where he assisted the Young Entrepreneurs Alliance with various capacity
building projects. After his residency in Boston, he to Memphis, TN and manages
projects for Mind Over Data.

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 CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS

Scott Stadum
Scott Stadum graduated from Bowling Green State University in 2001 with a B.S. in
Visual Communications Technology. After graduation, Mr. Stadum moved from Ohio
to Minnesota, living briefly outside of Minneapolis for two years. At that time Mr.
Stadum helped job train the mentally impaired for the state of Minnesota. After two
years in Minnesota, he went on to join the Peace Corps and served in Guyana from
2003 to 2005. While in Guyana, Mr. Stadum was an IT volunteer with the World
Wildlife Fund, promoting environmental and other causes through collaborations with
organizations such as UN Volunteers, U.S.AID, The Wishbone Project/Smile Train,
Iwokrama, and the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society. Post-Peace Corps,
Mr. Stadum moved to Washington, DC and worked for two years with the FAA and
the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In January 2008, Mr. Stadum moved to
Buenos Aires, Argentina to join Idealist.org and works as a new media and user
experience analyst for the organization.

Anita Kattakuzhy
Ms. Kattakuzhy graduated from Towson University with a BS in Elementary Education
and continued her work with youth during her Peace Corps service in Guyana from
2004 to 2006. There she worked in three Maternal and Child Health Clinics and
helped to establish a camp for secondary students promoting leadership, healthy
lifestyles, and education. Following her service, Ms. Kattakuzhy attended the School of
Oriental and African Studies, University of London for a Master’s program in Social
Anthropology, Migration and Diaspora Studies. Since her return to the US in 2007,
Ms. Kattakuzhy has been working with Asian American LEAD, a youth development
organization in Columbia Heights, Washington DC and Silver Spring, MD.

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 Contact: Mike Geurink
Tel: 202-465-6688
Email: mgeurink@guyfrog.org

FOR IMMEIDATE RELEASE: June 29, 2007

RETURNED PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS GIVING BACK TO GUYANA

RPCV’S Open Grassroots Development Organization with Fundraiser

QUEENS, NY– The formal launch of Friends & RPCVs of Guyana (http://guyfrog.org) will be held on
Friday, July 13th at 7:00 pm to Midnight. The fundraiser will be hosted at Liberty Express Restaurant
& Bar, 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. A raffle will be held during the event,
which will include prizes with all proceeds going to the organization. The event will be featuring DJ
Sparber.

Earnings from the event will help the organization fund projects in Guyana through groups such as
Peace Corps, volunteer agencies, Guyanese non-profits, and other organizations working towards
development in Guyana. At this time FROG depends entirely on funding from events such as this
one, and other grassroots sources.

“As a majority of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers will tell you, the desire to continue working
towards the development of those in need remains strong long after their service is complete,” says
FROG Chairman Timothy Delaney, RPCV Guyana 2003-2006. This desire can especially be seen
in the many men and women who had the opportunity to live and work in Guyana through Peace
Corps.

FROG was created to support community driven projects in Guyana that will bring lasting solutions
to the needs of those communities. The organization is a grassroots development organization and
will be working with groups in Guyana in such areas as health, education, IT, business, agriculture
and the environment to further development.

“FROG aims to give additional assistance to communities in Guyana which demonstrate that they
have taken an initiative to address their greatest needs,” adds Delaney.

FROG strives to meet the needs of the Guyanese community through small project assistance.
The organization is a non-profit that fosters the revitalization of the Guyanese community through
financial and programmatic assistance.

Liberty Express is located at 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. $10 donation
at the door. If you’d like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Mike
Geurink, please call 202-465-6688 or e-mail at mgeurink@guyfrog.org.

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 Contact: Mike Geurink
Tel: 202-465-6688
Email: mgeurink@guyfrog.org

FOR IMMEIDATE RELEASE: June 23, 2008

RETURNED PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS GIVING BACK TO GUYANA

RPCVs celebrate Guyana with Fundraiser

QUEENS, NY– The 2nd Annual Friends & RPCVs of Guyana Fundraiser, (http://guyfrog.org) will be
held on Friday, July 18th at 8:00 pm to Midnight. The fundraiser will be hosted at Liberty Express
Restaurant & Bar, 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. A raffle will be held during
the event, which will include prizes with all proceeds going to the organization. The event will be
featuring reggae, soca and chutney music from DJ Sparber.

Friends and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Guyana (FROG) was created in 2007 as a non-
profit organization that connected former RPCVs with each other, with the greater development
community and with new opportunities. To date, over 470 Volunteers have assisted in the areas of
health, education, community development and information technology in the small South American
country. Today, FROG strives to build on the work done while Volunteers and continue helping
Guyana.

“As a majority of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers will tell you, the desire to continue working
towards the development of those in need remains strong long after their service is complete,” says
FROG Chairman Timothy Delaney, RPCV Guyana 2003-2006. This desire can especially be seen
in the many men and women who had the opportunity to live and work in Guyana through Peace
Corps.

Earnings from the event will help the organization fund projects in Guyana through groups such as
Peace Corps, volunteer agencies, Guyanese non-profits, and other organizations working towards
development in Guyana. At this time FROG depends entirely on funding from events such as this
one, and other grassroots sources.

Liberty Express is located at 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. $10 cover at
the door. $20 for cover and discounted membership to FROG. If you’d like more information about
this topic, or to schedule an interview with Mike Geurink, please call 202-465-6688 or e-mail at
mgeurink@guyfrog.org.

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 Collaborative Mapping in Developing Countries
http://community.peacecorpsconnect.org/profiles/blogs/collaborative-mapping-in
Posted by Guest Blogger Scott Stadum, Connected Peace Corps on June 22, 2009 at 9:38am

For past two years I’ve been a board member of the RPCV group Friends & RPCVs of Guyana (FROG) and as
nonprofits go, it takes time to build up membership, fund raise, continue outreach and develop our programs but I’m
confident that we’re progressing at a solid pace.

There’s plenty of room for FROG to grow and I’ve begun to spend more time thinking long-term about the future of
our organization.

How can we make our work more sustainable?

How can we better integrate into the nonprofit community in Guyana?

How can this community effectively work together and share it’s collective resources?

Guyana is a small country but with a large number of NGOs, nonprofits, community groups, volunteers and activists
operating within the country. At any one time, there are thousands of people on the ground planning, organizing,
volunteering and working toward the collective goal of bettering people’s lives. Thinking of our work within this context
keeps bringing me to the conclusion that we’re operating without the most basic tool, collaborative mapping.

Obviously it’s the responsibility of each organization to archive their activities and projects, successes and failures,
resources on the ground, for the sake of organizational memory and building upon their work. But it’s the collective
responsibility of the NGO community to share with each other what will ultimately benefit the people they’re serving.

One mapping tool that strikes me as incredibly powerful is the Google Earth Enterprise system. This system allows
mapping and sharing large amounts and varying types of data sets for making better organizational decisions
collaboratively.

How does this work?

“Google Earth Enterprise helps organizations with imagery and other geospatial data make that information accessible
and useful to all employees who need access via an intuitive, visual, and fast application. Visualize, explore and
understand information on a fully interactive 3D globe or 2D browser based maps. Enable your workers to collaborate,
improve decision-making, and take faster, more informed action based on geospatial information.”

Using this system, organizations in Guyana will quickly learn where overlapping projects exists, where resources are
lacking and where they are redundant, which villages volunteers should be sent and what they need to focus on while
there. Organization can compare a wide range of data sets to draw conclusions that may have otherwise been missed.
Combined with tools like FrontlineSMS, InSTEDD and Ushahidi, crisis management will be more effective. Local data
sets combined with UN data, information from the World Bank and other sources will help both the NGO community
and the Guyanese government with “big picture” planning and outreach.

As this system, and those like it, mature, there will continue to be success stories and wider implementation of
mapping technologies. Long-term, I realize this idea may be bigger than FROGs capacity, but it’s a direction we’ll
push for regardless.

Scott Stadum RPCV Guyana ‘03-’05

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 THANK YOU

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