http://blog.ptpi.org The PTPI Blog aims to provide a place to share our members' stories. They inspire us and they will inspire others. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://blog.ptpi.org/2011/09/15/one-month-left-to-apply-the-2011-joyce-c-hall-scholarship/ http://blog.ptpi.org/2011/09/15/one-month-left-to-apply-the-2011-joyce-c-hall-scholarship/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:26 +0000 admin http://blog.ptpi.org/?p=3044 You’re invited…to apply for PTPI’s Joyce C. Hall College Scholarship! Who: Current members of PTPI, enrolled as a high school senior or full-time college/university student with a 3.0 or higher grade point average on a 4.0 scale. Applicants must have experience with PTPI. What: A scholarship of $2,000 to support your studies at a college [...]

]]> http://blog.ptpi.org/2011/09/15/one-month-left-to-apply-the-2011-joyce-c-hall-scholarship/feed/ 1 http://blog.ptpi.org/2011/03/02/uniting-society-through-football/ http://blog.ptpi.org/2011/03/02/uniting-society-through-football/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:00:06 +0000 admin http://blog.ptpi.org/?p=2044 A report from our Kumasi, Ghana University Chapter on how they used the sport of football (soccer) to bring their community together at an event held in February, 2011: PTPI’s Kumasi, Ghana University Chapter once again demonstrated why it is necessary to live as a big family in our locality. In recent months and years, [...]

]]> http://blog.ptpi.org/2011/03/02/uniting-society-through-football/feed/ 1 http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/11/29/light-bulb-moments/ http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/11/29/light-bulb-moments/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:00:59 +0000 admin http://blog.ptpi.org/?p=1732 The success of PTPI depends on a global team effort.   When writing the 2010 Year End Letter, we wanted to find out about your Light Bulb Moment – the moment when the importance of PTPI’s mission became clear to you and you chose to be involved.  Your support ensures PTPI’s future success.  Please consider [...]

]]> http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/11/29/light-bulb-moments/feed/ 1 http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/28/a-note-from-piya-radia-yg-dinner-series/ http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/28/a-note-from-piya-radia-yg-dinner-series/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:04:24 +0000 admin http://blog.ptpi.org/?p=1162 On June 23, 2010, I had the pleasure of having dinner with Laura Gardner of Bridging Refugee Youth & Children’s Services. It wasn’t an ordinary dinner though- it was a dinner held as part of the Young Generation (YG) Dinner Series.  As such, it brought together college students and young professionals to share dinner and conversations, [...]

]]> http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/07/28/a-note-from-piya-radia-yg-dinner-series/feed/ 2 http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/02/08/a-note-from-ptpis-kumasi-ghana-university-chapter/ http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/02/08/a-note-from-ptpis-kumasi-ghana-university-chapter/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:00:55 +0000 admin http://blog.ptpi.org/?p=688 At a meeting held in December, 2009, chapter members debated on a visit and donation to one of the following institutions: a prison, orphanage, psychiatric hospital or children’s hospital.  After deliberating, the die was cast and it fell on the Kumasi Children’s Home. The Kumasi Children’s Home is an institution that is concerned with providing [...]

]]> http://blog.ptpi.org/2010/02/08/a-note-from-ptpis-kumasi-ghana-university-chapter/feed/ 1 http://blog.ptpi.org/2009/12/04/a-note-from-badu-clement/ http://blog.ptpi.org/2009/12/04/a-note-from-badu-clement/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:18:14 +0000 admin http://blog.ptpi.org/?p=505 We the members of the Kumasi, Ghana University Chapter are once again much delighted  to be part of your wonderful organization.  17th October 2009 was the day set for this exercise and members were reliably informed of the time.  The venue or the area to be cleaned was a road (or better still a pathway) [...]

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