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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Dear fellow advocates for a sustainable world:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> On the cusp of the White House preparing for a major water summit in March and as world leaders increasingly target water as the leading area of concern in the next decade (</span><a href="http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2016/world/global-risk-report-2016/"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2016/world/global-risk-report-2016/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">),
we are writing to share word of an innovative new program--the Energy, Water and Health Service Learning program in Costa Rica.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> It’s being developing with multiple University of Arizona departments including the College of Medicine, Office of Global Initiatives, and School of Natural Resources, among
others, in partnership with grassroots groups in Tucson and in southern Costa Rica. These groups, like so many others across the planet, are sounding out ways to effectively engage citizens in creating just water policies as a leverage for wider social and
environmental change.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Above all, the service learning program aims to form compassionate system leaders capable of working across disciplines, sounding out hidden linkages in seemingly unrelated
fields, translating complex ideas for the general public--all in a spirit of generosity, integrity and devotion:
<i>movement-building</i>. The UA College of Medicine Office of Diversity and Inclusion will award 6 upper-division credit units (RNR 495/595) to undergraduate and graduate students completing this four-week intense summer program. For more information, please
</span><a href="https://global.arizona.edu/study-abroad/program/energy-water-and-health" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">visit our website</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> We are currently recruiting students. Please share word with friends and colleagues for whom the program might resonate. It is designed for students interested in health,
sustainability, environmental sciences, basin management, art—we’re looking for a broad mix.
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Preferably, interested students will speak Spanish at some level, but there’s wiggle room for those willing to try. (What matters most is humility, and heart.)
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> For more information, please contact Oscar Beita or Madeline Kiser; details below.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://global.arizona.edu/study-abroad/program/energy-water-and-health" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">http://global.arizona.edu/study-abroad/program/energy-water-and-health</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"> Warm regards, and thank you for your interest—Oscar and Madeline</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Oscar Beita, Director, Office of Diversity and Inclusion</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">College of Medicine</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">The University of Arizona</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="tel:%28520%29%20626-4149" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">(520) 626-4149</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><a href="tel:%28520%29%20626-2895" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">(520) 626-2895</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://diversity.medicine.arizona.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">http://diversity.medicine.arizona.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Madeline Kiser</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Director</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Inside/Out Poetry and Sustainability Program<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">(520) 881-1531</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:mkiser@dakotacom.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">mkiser@dakotacom.net</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">
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