Recent activities of the DC Chapter

The DC Chapter has been an active participant in POA Conferences.

A few photos from our Ambassadors of Hope Program....

Educational and Cultural Grant Awarded for James Armstrong, Elizabethtown College

Oi meus amigos e amigas! Lots of good stuff going on for the summer. James Armstrong, adjunct percussion instructor at Elizabethtown College, will travel to Bahia/Salvador this summer on a POA Educational and Cultural Grant. Among many other spectacular events, James will participate in the Festival de Percussao on July 2nd. You can find out more about the festival at the hyperlink posted above (it's the title of this post). And stay tuned to this blog as James' adventures continue.

Para bens, James!

You can view James' adventure at either of his blogs, located at:

http://jdapercussion.blogspot.com/ and http://www.jdapercussion.com/BRAZIL2010.html.

Visit to West Virginia

There will be an important visit to Sissonville, WV, next August. Five low income brazilian teenagers will be hosted by Sissonville families for two weeks, with the support of the POA local chapter.
The students were selected because they are good students in public schools, good internships at Mittal´s steel mill plant in Espirito Santo and the english language students. It will be like a dream to them.
I will be escorting them along with a social assistant of Mittal´s.

This is the first "youth corporate ambassador" programm, an idea I have discussed some time ago with Dennis Shaw.

best regards to all POA,

Antonio Marcus