OLPC Foundation<br>Suite 0234<br>222 Third Street<br>Cambridge, MA 02142-1158 <br><br>18 October 2011<br><br>Dear Sir or Madam:<br><br>I
hope this message finds you and your organization well. As leaders of
organizations dedicated to promoting peace and understanding, I would
like to further our common goals in a part of the world that is critical
to our national interest.<br><br>In March 2011, Creative Learning
launched the America’s Unofficial Ambassadors (AUA) initiative, a
program dedicated to expanding and supporting private American citizens’
service in the Muslim World. To encourage Americans to volunteer in the
Muslim World, and to enable access to credible service opportunities,
Creative Learning published the AUA Directory of Recommended
Organizations: a free, online, searchable database of organizations for
potential volunteers interested in engaging in high-impact service in a
Muslim-majority country. <br>
<br>The AUA Directory is the premier resource for researching volunteer
opportunities in the Muslim World. In creating this resource, Creative
Learning researched more than 1000 organizations and conducted extensive
interviews with program staff and volunteer alumni. Currently, the AUA
Directory features descriptive and analytical profiles of 59 leading
organizations that send or host American volunteers for short-term
service in a Muslim-majority country. Over the past seven months, nearly
800 potential volunteers have registered to view the profiles of
organizations listed on the AUA Directory. By increasing access to safe
and credible volunteer-sending organizations, Creative Learning aims to
encourage over 1000 Americans to commit to short term service in the
Muslim World by the end of 2012. <br>
<br>As we continue to update the AUA Directory with new opportunities,
we are eager to form additional partnerships with organizations capable
of accepting and sending a greater number of volunteers into
Muslim-majority countries in order to build positive people-to-people
connections between the Muslim World and America. We believe that due
to its amazing work across the world, and specifically it's recent inclusion of Mali in its internship program, One Laptop Per Child may be eligible for inclusion on AUA’s Directory of
Recommended Organizations. I want to let you know that one of our
Program Officers will be contacting your office in the following weeks
in hopes of arranging an updated informational interview about your
foundation.<br>
<br>As a partner with Creative Learning’s America’s Unofficial
Ambassadors Initiative, we believe that your organization will be able
to attract additional high-quality volunteers to your programs. Please
be assured that Creative Learning is not charging any fees for this
service. Feel free to learn more about our organization at <a href="http://www.creativelearning.org/" target="_blank">www.creativelearning.org</a>
and <a href="http://www.unofficialambassadors.org/" target="_blank">www.unofficialambassadors.org</a>. Of course, if you have any questions, please call me directly at <a href="tel:%28540%29%20295-0003" value="+15402950003" target="_blank">(540)
295-0003</a>.<br><div id=":xo">
<br>As we witness the aftershocks of the Arab Spring and a wave of
change sweeping across the Muslim World, it is important that we strive
to build stronger personal relationships and with members of those
countries to help them meet their pressing human development challenges.
In doing so, volunteers serve as unofficial American ambassadors and
build positive perceptions of America with members of those countries
where we are so often negatively perceived. It is our sincere hope that
with every volunteer our organizations send overseas, we are working to
strengthen the capacities of Muslim World citizens, as well as the
positive ties that link them to America.<br>
<br>Peace,<br> <br>Bill Kruvant<br>President, Creative Learning</div>