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UCAB WANTS HARVARD WORLDMUN 2016

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The WorldMUN UCAB Delegation is the team that represents Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and Venezuela in the most prestigious, challenging and dynamic Model UN competition: the Harvard World Model United Nations. It’s the most cultural diverse, involving more than 2,000 students from over 250 universities of the five continents, and possesses an outstanding academic quality and high levels of competitiveness.

WorldMUN UCAB’s performance in past editions of WorldMUN has always been outstanding and successful, so our main goal is to continue to maintain our legacy. In the past model held in March 2015 in Seoul, South Korea, the WorldMUN UCAB Delegation won the "Outstanding Large Delegation Award" (Outstanding Delegation), same award we obtained in 2007 in Geneva. We also obtained in 2012 the award for "Best Large Delegation" (Best Large Delegation), which is the highest award in the competition.

The WorldMUN UCAB team that will participate in this event is composed by 16 students (15 delegates and one Faculty Advisor) with high academic performance from different careers. Since May 2015 to early March 2016, the university team will be under an intense academic preparation process to ensure an outstanding performance in the model as well as the best possible representation of our values ​​as Venezuelans and as members of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

However, we will not be able to do this without your help.

Coming from Venezuela does represent a challenge to our delegation. We must fight our way through constant obstacles that the political and financial panorama represents in order to ensure our participation in the conference, including plane tickets and hotel.  A deep economic crisis has marked Venezuela these past years. Unfortunately, this has compromised Venezuelan universities participation on Model UN.

This year is not an exception, in fact it is even worse. Facing more than 200% annual inflation with a currency exchange control makes it impossible to buy USD. This forces you to buy at the Black Market rate, where only ONE USD costs you more than 10% of the minimum wage.

Any donation will strengthen the role played by the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello: capacitating young integral Venezuelan leaders who will be the representation of our national values in international platforms such as Model United Nations. These young people represent the future of Venezuelan; these are students who, at a young age, have decided to prepare themselves in order to become tomorrow the ones that will shape our existing national and global reality and improve it.

Please help us get to Rome and represent Venezuela and the UCAB at the 25th session of WorldMUN! Any help would be immensely appreciated.  

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Organizer and beneficiary

Daniela Sanchez-Bueno
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Swampscott, MA
Jose Sanchez
Beneficiary

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