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Become a Host One of the best ways to promote global understanding across the barriers that separate people is to host an ambassador in your home. Show them your community, city, country and culture, and learn about theirs over meals, laughter, and shared experiences. Travel the world Be welcomed into someone’s home. Immerse yourself in their local culture. Invite travelers from other places into your own home and proudly share your culture with them. Since 1977, the travel exchange movement pioneered by Friendship Force International has given people the unique opportunity to connect in ways that transcend boundaries to promote goodwill, respect, and understanding. This kind of intimate, life changing experience may not be for everyone, but for thousands of Friendship Force members worldwide, the personal relationships we’ve established are a powerful and authentic way to impact positive change and empathy around the world. MAKE FRIENDS ACROSS THE WORLD Become an ambassador of the |
Explore: We explore new countries and regions. We explore new cultures and new ways to connect across the barriers that separate us. Understand: By sharing a home, meals, conversation and everyday experiences, people become friends, seeing beyond governments and borders into the heart of a country and its people. By combining home hospitality with cultural exploration, we reach a new level of understanding. Serve: Exploration leads to understanding. Understanding leads to an acceptance of our common humanity and the desire to serve our global village – with words and actions.
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LAKE BAIKAL: RUSSIA’S ENDANGERED WORLD HERITAGE SITE Join us to hear how climate change is affecting Lake Baikal in Siberia, which is the largest lake (by volume) on our planet. The lake contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserves. Baikal has more water than the five Great Lakes combined, and it is the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of more than a mile. Lake Baikal is also the oldest freshwater lake in the world, dating back more than 25 million years. In 1996, UNESCO designated Lake Baikal as a World Heritage Site stating: “The lake contains an outstanding variety of endemic flora and fauna, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science. It is also surrounded by a system of protected areas that have high scenic and other natural values.” Protecting Lake Baikal will be an incredibly challenging initiative in the current political/geopolitical environment. UNESCO may add Lake Baikal to its List of World Heritage Sites in Danger, as many environmental laws governing the area expired in the last year. But will that be enough? |
| IN PERSON MEETING TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2022 Social Hour: 6:30 PM Business Meeting: 6:45 PM Speaker: 7:00 PM Luca Palasti Department of Geography University of Colorado at Boulder will speak on: LAKE BAIKAL: RUSSIA’S ENDANGERED WORLD HERITAGE SITE Friendship Force Denver meets monthly on the second Tuesday at: Calvary Baptist Church 6500 East Girard Avenue Denver, CO 80224 Northeast corner of Hampden and Monaco. Entrance and parking on the north side of the building on Girard Avenue. Luca Anna Palasti is a doctoral student in the Geography Department at CU Boulder. Luca came to the US from Hungary in 2016 and studied geography and international economics at Southern Illinois University. Luca moved to Boulder in 2019 and completed a master’s degree in geography, studying how weather and climate impact ranching operations. Her doctoral research will assess decision-making processes in the face of global climate change. |
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