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drive will go to provide micro-credit loans to the
poorest of the poor in developing countries to aid
them in creating small business, Adler said.
The money for the micro-credit loans, which is
between $25 and $5,000, is donated by various
financial sponsors such as Calvert Funds, Novica
and the Greenstar Foundation.
Students can participate in the drive by logging
on to www.povertyfighters.com, logging in under
Texas A&M and clicking the appropriate link.
Sponsors will give 25 cents for every click made
on the Web site.
Currently more than 150 colleges are partici
pating in the click drive. Last year, the drive raised
$35,000, Adler said.
Adler said 95 percent of these micro-credit
loans go to women in poor countries.
“For example, a poor woman in Bangladesh
who lives in a heavy traffic area can get a micro
credit loan and start a small food stand, creating a
source of revenue for her family," Adler said.
Diane O'Brien, president of the organization
and coordinator of the click drive at A&M, said
she registered A&M in the Collegiate Click Drive
after hearing a representative speak about it and
said she hopes it is a success.
“It would be cool if people could put the link
on their Instant Messenger profile." O'Brien said.
The Collegiate Click Drive is run by students at
Brandeis University in Waltham. Mass., and was
founded in 2002 by Brandeis student Ben
Brandzel, who came up with the idea of organiz
ing a competition of colleges dedicated to lighting
poverty, Adler said.
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cultural differences and working
in unity to provide a comfort
able atmosphere to international
students.
“For A&M to continue to
gain international prominence,
we must attract more interna
tional students,” Hickman said.
Students from Montessori
School House in Bryan enter
tained the audience with a
song and counted to 10 in
Spanish.
“They have been working
on this for almost a month ”
said Leo Gonzalez, Class of
1993 of Bryan.
Gonzalez’s 5-year-old
daughter Lauren is a student at
the Montessori School House.
The Montessori School
House has students from 17 dif
ferent countries. At the conclu
sion of its performance, the
teacher asked the class to name
the countries where each inter
national stu
dent was from.
“It is a priv
ilege to be a
part of an
organization
that promotes a better world
through unity,” said Julio Jana,
president of the International
Student Association and a sen
ior agriculture economics
major from Brazil. “I want the
spirit of this year’s
International Week to carry
throughout the year.”
College Station Mayor Ron
Silva and Mayor Pro-Tern Paul
Madison of Bryan cut a red rib
bon to officially begin the week-
long festivities, while audience
members looked at booths that
displayed cultural and national
istic items.
The booths
will also be on
display today
from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. in
the hallway.
Events scheduled this week
include an international buffet-
style lunch that will be on the
second floor of the MSC
Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. and a Talent Show Friday
from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at
Rudder Auditorium. Tickets
are $10 for the buffet lunch and
can be purchased at the MSC
Box Office or online at
www.tickets.com.
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faction with Gates’ effortsi
incorporate diversity am
University.
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making a concerted effort]
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world it is imperative ttam
have diversity in this iustiti
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education that it offers bejon
the borders.”
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has been around for 25 yeas
and all corresponding events®
put on by several Americana
international student volunteers
said Shreyas Kumar, directon
the Consuls General Lunched
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each event successful, andinth
process, we develop an ids
standing and a respect foread
other and each other’s cultures,’
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be reciprocal.
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International Week.
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good way of introducing lie
local population to otheuil-
hires, and we enjoy showing
the cultures,” Sinvhalsaid
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