Gulf of Maine Institute/TREPA a 12 year connection

Back in 2000, John Terry from Maine and Mil Nickerson worked with Ann Jones, then Superintendent to Schools, and the Millennium  Fund to organize the first GOMI youth conference in Yarmouth. GOMI is a program serving youth around the Gulf of Maine with a focus on local issues related to the bigger picture of our common bioregion. Teams, five in the Maritimes work, work on their home projects and meet at yearly Summer Workshop, with teams from New England. At the workshop, the students intermingle  on teams and address common issues while getting to know each other. Hundreds of students have moved through the program and those early ones are now involved in productive jobs and raising families. They are not all working on environmental issues but you may be sure they are environmentally sensitive and responsible.

There are three points of access to GOMI news:

www.gulfofmaineinstitute.com is the site for current news and a record of activities including student reports of their experience.

www.gulfofmaineinstitute.org is the site that provides the institutional information about the organization such as charitable status, by-laws, board members and how to support the effort. This site was designed for GOMI by Harold Crosby, a Yarmouth web designer.

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/2232714824/ has a GOMI Group where youth and mentors keep in touch with one another.

We invite you to visit these sites and understanding the mission and the connection to TREPA, making a donation, if you wish, through the gulfofmaineinstitute.org site.

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