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SYRIA: Syria is protesting against their government. President Assad says that his government is building Syria’s future. Assad says that they should move on molding a new constitution. Government forces took to the street to protester that they want the president to stay for another year. LIBYA: NATO says that they are preventing civilian casualties. NATO also says that they has lost an unmanned chopper, NATO said that the lost contact with the chopper. 20 fighters have been rushed to the hospital. The prime minister for the Libyan transactional counsel is in china to talk to the Chinese president. The Libyan government says that NATO airstrikes has hit civilian areas. NATO denied the accusation that were made b the Libyan government.

SYRIA: Syria is protesting against their government. President Assad says that his government is building Syria’s future. Assad says that they should move on molding a new constitution. Government forces took to the street to protester that they want the president to stay for another year. LIBYA: NATO says that they are preventing civilian casualties. NATO also says that they has lost an unmanned chopper, NATO said that the lost contact with the chopper. 20 fighters have been rushed to the hospital. The prime minister for the Libyan transactional counsel is in china to talk to the Chinese president. The Libyan government says that NATO airstrikes has hit civilian areas. NATO denied the accusation that were made b the Libyan government.

After several flight delays, our group of Summer volunteers finally landed safe and sound in Accra, Ghana this morning. We are so excited to have such a great group of volunteer to help lead our programs over the next few months! They all have a lot to contribute to Teach on the Beach and a lot to offer our students. Thanks to Amanda, Dori, Katie, Peter, and their trip leader and veteran Teach on the Beach volunteer, Jacob, we expect to have a great summer of fun and learning!

Teach on the Beach sends a special thanks to Bonner after a wonderful week at their Summit Albany, New York! The event was great and we met many amazing, motivated, and fun people! Check out the speech Ali gave after a special shout-out from Kelly in the general session Thursday morning. After the session ended, we were flooded by students who wanted to help us! The work our own Bonner alum, Noah Hebert has done with Teach on the Beach and how great Bonner has been to us this week, we know that our partnership with them and the people we met here will help us expand our programs to more students in Ghana and around the world!!!

*ALJAZEERA NEWS HOUR 20TH MAY 2011* *ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER IN USA:* Obama talks about the unique bond that is between Israel and the United States. Obama assured Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu that USA is putting pressure on Syria government. Netanyahu says that Israel shares the Obama’s hope and vision of peace for the Middle East. Netanyahu: Israel will not negotiate peace with the Palestinians if the Palestinians leader is Hamas. Netanyahu: we need to work to get a genuine and unique peace between the Israeli’s and the Palestinians.

*ALJAZEERA NEWS HOUR 18TH MAY 2011* SYRIA: protesters in Syria are demanding for they freedom. US is going to put sanctions on the president of Syria for human right abuse. The Syrians that are fleeing the fighting are migrating to Lebanon. Syrians are pleading for the fighting to stop. THE TALIBAN: Taliban has warned Pakistan and the US that they will take revenge for the death of their leader Osama Bin Laden. Taliban thinks that Osama Bin Laden has thought a lot of things so they will in the footsteps of their leader and continue his mission. It took the United States eleven years to find and kill Osama Bin Laden. The United Stated builds the structure of Osama’s house and used it for training so that it will be easy to take down Osama Bin Laden. Taliban also says that they will choose a new leader to lead their organization.

ALJAZEERA NEWS HOUR 13TH MARCH 2011 *LIBYA:* ordinary people are helpless on the streets of Libya due to the fighting between the Rebels and the pro Gaddafi forces. When the fighting started no one took any action toward Gaddafi but now the rebels are fighting Gaddafi. The Rebels are poorly trained and they just end up dead on the battle field. National council has asked Gaddafi to leave Libya in 72 hours and if he doesn’t his demands will be met. Gaddafi’s son Saif Al Islam Gaddafi says that the Rebels are using excessive force against the government forces. Both the government and the Rebels are saying that they in control of Ras Lanuf. EU leaders are calling for Gaddafi to step down and let the Libyan people start a new government. Gaddafi’s troops are pushing the Rebels a back. The Arab League says any no fly zone should end after the Libya crisis is over. The Arab League says that no fly zone will make it difficult for the civilians to be targeted. Six of the Arab countries have opposed no fly zone on Libya. Arab League calls for UN to put no fly zone on Libya. UN appoints Jordanian former Prime minister to be UN special envoy to Libya. The Gaddafi forces has force the Rebels to retreat for the last 2 days. The general hospital is full of injured Rebel fighters. Aljazeera cameraman was killed in an ambush after firming a pro Gaddafi fight. Pro Gaddafi forces attack and make their way to the Eastern part of the country. *YEMEN:* over 2,000 protesters are on the streets protesting against their government. About 2 thousand prisoners are rioting on the streets amid the protest against the government. Prisoners are calling for their president Hamid to step down. The protesters say that start their own country without their president so he should step down. Protesters are asking more to join in their protest and in no time there will be a protest that will be like the size of Egypt’s. *JAPAN:* 8.9 magnetuim of quake hit Japan and right after the quake a massive tsunami hit and cause a thousand more damage than quake. The tsunami takes everything that’s in its path and people that escaped to rooftops were trapped while the tsunami surrounds them. One of the nuclear facilities in Japan cooling system failed and caused an explosion. People are afraid that the radioactive chemicals that have been released into the atmosphere will cause a major destruction to the people if they are exposed to the chemicals. Evacuations have been started by the government. 703 people have been declared dead after the tsunami and thousands are still missing. Helicopters take trapped people on rooftops to safety.

Aaron Adler, our president, took off today with Mark Buckley, an investor and member of our board, and Kip Scott, a logistics student looking to work with the UN after graduation.

Aaron will be spending two weeks overseeing an expansion of our programs in Busua. Kip and Mark will be immersing themselves in the community and our programs as well as enjoying the beach. They have also volunteered to document our work in HD video which we will use to help spread the word.

We hope to post reactions from Kip and Mark as soon as they all get back from this very exciting and important trip.