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Hello! My name is Miguel Perez and I am an English teacher in San Felipe, Venezuela. I have also been volunteering for VenTESOL since 2011 in different positions from State Representative to Communications Coordinator and now 2nd Vice-President. Teaching and helping teachers are my passion, and I will keep on doing so despite the difficulties.
Every year since 1982, Venezuela TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) celebrates its annual National Convention, VenTESOL’s greatest ELT event of the year. This event, which has gathered up to 825 participants nationwide, seeks for ways to enhance, upgrade and take Venezuelan education beyond regular conceptions according to our mission: to develop expertise into the English teaching and learning in Venezuela. Every year, VenTESOL annual convention is of paramount importance for teachers nationwide. That is why we would like to keep offering educators who usually have limited access to professional development events the chance to have the academic event they all deserve. Therefore, we always try to provide teachers with an outstanding experience so as to promote excellence in ELT as well as networking and camaraderie among them. We strongly believe Education is the answer to the development of our country.
Venezuela TESOL (VenTESOL) would really appreciate your contributions to help English teachers attend its National Convention 2020. Due to continuous blackouts and lack of water in the country, the convention has to be held in a place that guarantees basic services like electricity and water. For this reason, we need to pay the facilities of a hotel. The expenses associated to the organization of our upcoming National Convention assuming the attendance of around 400 people is the equivalent to thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty-six dollars (US$ 13,756) which includes venue rental, transportation and lodging for our speakers and organizers apart from essential stationary materials and rental of video projector, laptops and sound system. It is for this reason that VenTESOL is seeking for your support to sponsor part of our expenses meaning five thousand dollars (US$ 5,000) that will contribute to the execution of the most important ELT event in Venezuela, VenTESOL 38th National Convention, that will take place in Barquisimeto on July 17th and July 18th, 2020.
Despite the well-known political, economic and social difficulties we are going through, the Venezuelan association of English teachers (VenTESOL) is resilient and keeps finding ways to improve professional development. Prices go up every single day, our economy is dollarized and some products are even sold in this currency which most people do not have legal access to. Not only that, but the wage for a teacher in Venezuela is almost equivalent to the minimum wage in Venezuela, which is less than ten dollars (US$ 10) per month. Most teachers in Venezuela cannot afford attending this rewarding event, and even when they can manage to save to pay for the registration fee, it does not allow VenTESOL to collect enough money to pay for all the expenses which involve hosting this unique event. With your donations, we expect English teachers and students, still in the country, to update and share their knowledge despite the difficulties.
Therefore, we would really appreciate all your contributions to help VenTESOL organize its National Convention 2020. If we get to collect and/or exceed the proposed amount, we will sponsor as many Venezuelan public-school teachers as we can with a fee waiver to the convention as well as keep on organizing local events. I promise to thank all donors publicly while in the convention during one of the plenary sessions. Videos thanking our supporters will be recorded and shared on social media as well.
On behalf of the Board of Director 2019-2020, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read and spread the word about our cause.
Prof. Miguel Perez
VenTESOL 2nd Vice-President 2019-2021
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