| Subject: Re: Let's Help Africa - Volunteers Needed |
Author:
Mary Nell Smith
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Date Posted: 18:15:43 01/16/04 Fri
In reply to:
Maciek
's message, "Let's Help Africa - Volunteers Needed" on 07:06:31 10/16/01 Tue
>Volunteers needed in Africa (Malawi & Angola &
>Tanzania)
>I'm a 49 year-old licensed masters social worker and a Christian. How can I help? What do I need to do? My 2 children are grown and living on their own. I'm alone--relationship wise in this world. If you need me, "call me."
Thanks,
Nell Smith LMSW
>Social Work with Street children
>
>Build Schools and Clinics
>
>Teach agriculture, carpentry and literacy
>
>Environmental Projects
>
>Prevent Spreading of HIV/AIDS
>
>6 months training in Denmark, required
>
>6-12 months work in the project in Africa
>
>2 months information and evaluation work
>
>Boarding exp. Start 1.2 & 1.5 & 1.8 & 1.11
>
>Travelling Folk High School
>Phone: 0045 64813215
>www.drhbogense.dk
>e-mail: drh@post3.tele.dk
>
>The International HUMANA People to People movement is
>currently running
>over 150 projects in Africa, Central America and Asia,
>involving more
>than 500.000 people.
>
>Since the very foundation of Humana People to People,
>the Development
>Instructor Program has played an important role in the
>development of
>the movement. More than 4,000 Development Instructors
>have implemented
>the work over the last 23 years.
>
>The Development Instructor is a person who believes in
>the fact that
>individuals can make a difference - if they join hands
>in their endeavour
>to fulfil their dreams.
>
>As the world develops and mankind is able to go into
>the far corners of
>space to search for extraterrestrial life, our dreams
>of making the
>Earth a prosperous and a better place for all of its
>creatures could very
>well be a goal within reach. However there is still a
>long way to go.
>
>Looking at the world today, we find the gap between
>rich and poor
>widening, hundreds of millions of people are still
>living under unworthy and
>inhuman conditions, human rights are being roughly
>neglected in some
>places of the world.
>
>In order to contribute to the improvement of the
>conditions in the
>developing countries – it is important to unite the
>efforts - to take
>action.
>
>An organized and united effort is needed, because by
>acting alone, you
>might only be seen as a drop in the ocean, whereas
>acting united and
>with a common goal, can have an effect and a
>substantial influence.
>
>Every achievement counts, because it sets the example
>for others to do
>the same.
>
>The Development Instructor is typically a young and
>grown up person
>living in a country belonging to the developed part of
>the world, who
>wants to participate in the efforts to improve the
>living conditions for
>people in the poor part of the world.
>
>His most important qualification is his will to place
>himself shoulder
>by shoulder with the people in need, concentrating all
>efforts to carry
>out actions to improve the situation where it is most
>needed. He
>embodies through his own person the significance of
>"People to People".
>
>
>
>The Development Instructors are trained at one of 12
>schools in
>Denmark, England, Norway, South Africa or USA before
>working on a development
>project.
>
>
>
>A typical program looks like this:
>
>6 months intensive training at The Travelling Folk
>High School in
>Bogense - Denmark
>
>6-12 months of volunteer work at a HUMANA project in
>Angola, Malawi.
>
>2 months Follow Up Period – where information is
>spread in the Europe
>about the current situation in Developing countries.
>
>The Development Instructors will work within one of
>the following
>areas:
>
>
>
>Social work with Street Children / AIDS Orphans
>
>- Teaching street children reading, writing,
>carpentry and
>masonry.
>
>- Find foster care families to AIDS orphans.
>
>- Start up sport, scout and culture clubs.
>
>- Build street children schools.
>
>
>
>Teach in Teacher Training Colleges
>- Teach business, health and management
>skills.
>
>- Give computer courses.
>
>- Organize College Students to build primary
>schools in rural
>areas.
>
>- Encourage coming teachers to start up local
>productions at
>primary schools to raise money for educational
>materials.
>
>
>
>Fight the spread of HIV / AIDS in a HOPE or TCE
>Project
>- Teach in village schools and train peer
>educators.
>
>- Teach in villages and working places.
>
>- Encourage people to take a HIV test.
>
>- Make condoms available “everywhere”.
>
>- Start up productions of fruits and
>vegetables to improve
>nutrition and the immunity system.
>
>- Start Anti AIDS Clubs – Teachers Against
>AIDS, Mine workers
>against AIDS.
>
>
>
>Helping poor families get out of poverty
>- Build latrines, wells and water cleaning
>systems.
>
>- Teach how to prevent malaria, diarrhoea,
>cholera and the
>importance of vaccinations.
>
>- Start local productions of tomatoes,
>baskets, chicken, eggs
>or bricks.
>
>- Teach women how to read and write and start
>small businesses.
>
>- Selling Second Hand Clothes to raise money
>for construction
>of local clinics and schools.
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