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THE WORLDMUN SPIRITINSIDE THIS ISSUERecap: January Celebrations

Spotlight: he Founderso WorldMUN

Recap: wenty Yearso WorldMUN

Close Up: Singapore 2011

he Resolution Project Update

Have you changed contactinormation recently? I so, e-mailus at alumni@worldmun.orgwith your new inormation!

I you know someone who shouldbe receiving Te WorldmunSpirit, but isnt, orward ustheir contact inormation atalumni@worldmun.orgComments, concerns andsuggestions are always welcome!

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HARVARD WORLD MODEL UNITED NATIONS

SPRING 2011, ISSUE 1

Dear WorldMUN Community,

Hello! With less than a week let until our 20th conerence in Singapore, it ispleasure to share our excitement with you. Our team is in the process o pacour bags, inishing last-minute tasks, and reviewing our study guides. Whilmay not be looking orward to the 24-hour light, we are eagerly awaiting our week-long adventure in Southeast Asia. he conerence will be held rom M14-18 and our team plans to attend a post-conerence trip aterwards inIndonesia with a large group o other delegates. he 90 degree beaches will be shit rom the 20 degree icy streets o Cambridge. Fun times ahead!

It is also our pleasure to announce that our 20th anniversary celebration at the Down Association in New Yorkthis past January was a huge success. It was attenby our current team members, the original organizing team (many o whom wseeing each other or the irst time since graduating), and representatives

every class in between. his even marks a new point in our organizations aluoutreach eorts. In uture years we expect more and more o these reunions even larger attendances.

We are planning or a summer reunion to be held in New York and will be in towith more inormation. Please let us know i you would like to help in organithe event and share with us suggesstions or how we can best connect withengage our incredible pool o alumni. hank you or your continuing supthrough the years!

Best Wishes,he WorldMUN 2011 eam

A LETTER FROM THE TEAM

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op: Te original 1992WorldMUN Secretariat,led by Secretary-GeneralGeraldine Acua

Le: Te ounding WorldMUNteam at their hotel in Polandduring the rst conerence inour organizations history.

I you have any more pictureso past conerences, please sendthem to strategy@worldmun.org. We would love to havethem or our archives!

THE WORLDMUN SPIRIT

SPOTLIGHT: THE FOUNDERS OF WORLDMUN

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SPRING 2011, ISSUE 1

RECAP: TWENTY YEARS OF WORLDMUN

Despite the reezing cold temperatures o New York, thisJanuary, the largest reunion o past and present World-

MUN members gathered at the Down own Associationto celebrate our organizations upcoming twentieth coner-ence.

Te evening began at 4 PM with cocktails and appetizers.Many o our team members had arrived directly rom theirwinter breaks and were extremely happy to see each otherand catch up on what happened with their individual J-terms and traveling adventures.

As the evening continued, alums began arriving at ourevent. It was amazing to see recent graduates and al-ums rom the original class o 1992 meet and discusstheir WorldMUN years as well as their lives and experi-ences since graduating. A ew members o the oundingteam (pictured above) hadnt seen each other since theirCommencement and were eager to catch up. We wereextremely pleased with the act that every single coner-ence was represented at our event and a good number oSecretary-Generals were able to rally members o theirclass to attend.

Te highlight o the night was dinner and (as per World-MUN tradition) various team members would volunteerstories and aneocdotes rom their individual conerences.Many o these tales were unny, heartwarming, and in thecase o the original conerence in Miedzyzdroje, Poland,extremely impressive and bewildering. Many o our cur-rent team members were awestruck by how past coner-ences were able to pull o their incredible eats and itserved as urther inspiration or us to do the very best jobwe could with our upcoming conerence in Singapore.

At the end o the night, it was great to see people ex-changing business cards, e-mails, and phone numbers.Te WorldMUN alumni database beneted heavily romattendees volunteering inormation on other riends andupdating their own contact inormation. As an organiza-tion, it is our sincere hope that we can continue to haveevents such as this and expand the incredible alumninetwork that we are so lucky to have.

op: Members rom our original WorldMUN team.Center Right: Current team members share stories romtheir winter breaks.Bottom Right: Te past and present o WorldMUN pose or aphoto afer dinner.

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the worldmun spiritis a publication o Harvard World Model United Nations at HarvardCollege. All rights reser ved. Photos courtesy o the Singapore ourism Board.

Resolution continues to make excellent progress, and the end o 2010 and beginning o 2011 have beenincredibly exciting or us. First, on November 10th, we hosted Resolve 2010, Resolutions inaugural undraiserand launch party. With over 150 people in attendance, we enjoyed a wonderul evening with a great auction anda presentation by one o our Resolution Fellows working in Kenya. Te event was a huge success, raising nearly$70,000, which will cover all the ventures or this coming year, as well as the development o the next-generation

Resolution Network.Our Resolution Fellows rom 2009 and 2010 continue their great work around the world. Carlos and hi

Green Garbage venture team in Venezuela have successully launched their recycling pilot project in Caracas andhave received siting authority or Venezuelas rst garbage separation plant! Jessica and Mauro o our UNIDASteam are working with shelters or battered and trafcked women, pairing them with micronance and job-training opportunities in Ecuador. Alex and Nick o our I Empowerment in Rwanda team are working withsubsistence armers and their amilies in a school in Rwanda to introduce them to basic computer skills. Betsy andDan o our Micro-Irrigation in Kenya project have sited 13 pilot plots which are generating great data rom therst ull growing season with the new drip-kits. Dheer and his team or the Indian Monsoons venture are workingwith their university to develop engineering plans or their water capture and groundwater revitalization projectAnd nally, Shaan and his Health2Home team spent time in Uganda earlier this year gathering data and building

relationships with the Ministry o Health and our local villages to help launch their text-based healthcare projectLastly, we are working with some talented developers to meet a late 2011 launch or the next generation

Resolution Network. Tis promises to be a robust platorm o web-based tools that will allow our Fellows, theirpeers (including WorldMUN alumni and ormer delegates), mentors, and the Resolution team to interact andcrowdsource opportunities, best-practices, advice, etc. As always, you can check out www.resolutionproject.organd/or reach George and Oliver at george@resolutionproject.org and olibby@resolutionproject.org to learn moreabout what Resolution is doing and how you can help. We anticipate a very exciting 2011 and much more news tocome.

UPDATE ON THE RESOLUTION PROJECT

he Changing Scape o MUN:

As the Secretariat packs up and heads o toSingapore, we would like to share some detailsabout the 20th session o World Model UnitedNations. For the very irst time ever, WorldMUNwill have more delegates coming rom Asia thanrom any other continent. his represents a larg-er change in the global MUN circuit and as anorganization, we welcome the increasing diver-sity around the world that MUN conerences ap-peal to.

In order to urther diversiy the conerence, and to allow delegates rom all backgrounds to attendWorldMUN, we established a positive inancial aid program this year, and successully distributed$30,000 in inancial aid and ee waivers to delegations, helping deray the cost o attending World-MUN. his amount marks double the amount o inancial aid distributed in recent conerences. Aconsequence o this program is the huge leap in the number o developing nations represented thisyear, with over 200 delegates rom Indonesia, and a urther 150 rom South Asia, and countries as arapart as Jamaica and Aghanistan. We hope that this initiative will grow in uture years as we seek touphold the t itle o being the worlds most diverse MUN conerence, bringing the WorldMUN Spirit toyouth across the globe.