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HOW TO GET INVOLVED
- Attend a free event to check us out
- Email us asking for more information
- Join as a Member, indicating the city (or cities) of your interest.
- Donate to a special project
2012 AT A GLANCE This is continually updated, so please check back!  JANUARY
Get your 2012 SCD Calendar! The photographers were the youth in all our sister cities! Contact your Committee Chair or Margaret Harrison at our "Contacts" page. FEBRUARY
3 – 11 Kostroma Committee Open World Grant with Delegation from Kostroma (Delegation of 5, including Mayor of Kostroma)
4 4–6 pm Welcome Event for delegation TBA Arusha Committee supporting purchase of sewing machines, etc., to develop a tailoring business for local Arushan women to sew the school uniforms for the Arushan orphans MARCH
4 – 8 Visit by 2 representatives of Toyama College of Foreign Languages to Durham Tech Community College's Center for the Global Learner APRIL & MAY
Membership Drive for 2012 – 2013 Membership year JUNE
13-17 International Youth Olympics in Durham, UK 28 7 pm: SCD Recognition Night at Durham Bulls Game (Fundraiser with Bulls vouchers)
JULY
Durham Children’s Choir to Toyama, Japan (and Zhuzhuo, China?) Neighborhood Exchange with Durham, UK OCTOBER
International Festival in Raleigh Durham Symphony Concert with Sister Cities (coordinated by Durham UK Committee) SCD Annual Meeting at Duke Gardens' Doris Duke Center Distribution of 2013 SCD Calendar
NOVEMBER
Medical clinic in Arusha to be taken over by Arusha Municipal Government! TBD (Date To Be Determined) Toyama Landscape Architect to visit Sarah P. Duke Gardens
ONGOING PROJECTS SPONSOR AN ORPHAN! A donation of just $80 will provide a school uniform and school fees for a year to an orphan in Arusha, Tanzania! Anyone can donate at anytime!
TEA GATHERINGS IN DUKE GARDENS: Traditional Japanese Tea Gatherings are held at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens every Spring and Fall. Open to all, with a small fee for some events. Please see Tea Gatherings at Duke Gardens for our 2012 Spring Schedule.
VIDEO CONFERENCING: Between Central Park School in Durham, NC, and Gilesgate Primary School, Durham, UK
JANE GOODALL's ROOT & SHOOTS CLUBS: activities at Riverside High School and other schools, throughout the year!
ASSIST DUKE VISITING SCHOLARS: To volunteer for special time-limited projects assisting Duke visiting scholars, contact our Office Manager.
ADDITIONAL EXCHANGES: Exchange visits between education groups, cultural groups, and Toyama City Hospital and Duke U. Medical Center.
SANITATION ENGINEERING IN ARUSHA, TANZANIA! The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (through Sister Cities International) awarded a two-year, $115,000 grant for a sanitation engineering project in the town! Please see the press release here!
A previous success: Sajdah A. Wakil's "They Call It Obama Rice" (article in the Durham News) describes her founding of the HALO Project to feed Arusha's children! And her blog decribes the teamwork of Mayor Bell, NCCU, and Sister Cities of Durham!
Jane Goodall, who has projects in Tanzania, met with Riverside High School students in March 2011. We are now collaborating with Goodall’s Roots and Shoots clubs: www.rootsandshoots.org
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