The NORVA Annual Meeting took place on Wednesday, March 11 at Bottlehouse Brewery in Cleveland Heights.  Prior to the meeting, NORVA hosted a nomination party and members mingled with Peace Corps invitees and nominees while enjoying food and drinks.  At the annual meeting, outgoing co-president Miranda Lange presented the 2014-2015 Annual Report, which includes highlights from NORVA's…

NORVA members voted at the annual meeting to use $1,000.00 of our funds budgeted for overseas projects to fund a GLOW Camp in Madagascar.

The project was nominated for funding by Madagascar RPCV and NORVA member Paul Cook. 

From the PCPP grant description:

"This PCPP grant will provide funding for a Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) camp to be held in Madagascar. The girls participating in the camp will be Middle School and High School students…

When was the last time you tasted something completely new?  I LOVE food. I eat a lot. I search for things my mother wouldn’t recognize as food. But I have to say that it’s been a long time since I ate something and my brain couldn’t find anything to connect it to. At the Nipa Hut, the only sit-down Filipino restaurant in northeast Ohio, each mouthful was totally new. Fried…