| Subject: Let's Help Africa - Volunteers Needed |
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Maciek
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Date Posted: 07:06:31 10/16/01 Tue
Volunteers needed in Africa (Malawi & Angola & Tanzania)
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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