A French Woman in Ecuador
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Volunteers
Mathilde Dybowsky spent five weeks volunteering at Asociación Vivir in Ecuador during the summer of 2007
A Trip to Kalimantan, Spring 2007
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Evaluations,
Projects
In the spring of 2007, Olvia Resksodipoetro of Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) and several others took a trip to Kalimantan where they visited a number of SD related projects.
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Center for Culture and Development (CCD) Summer Camp 2007, Madurai India
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Projects,
SD Project Reports
This one week program in a village near Madurai, India, was designed so that children had an opportunity to express themselves freely and genuinely. Morning sessions were devoted to their lessons at the schools. The evening programs were meant to bring out their talents in singing, sculpting, painting and craft workshops.
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Painting Portraits of the Homeless
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Articles
Elfrida Shargen of Victoria, British Colombia in Canada paints portraits of homeless people. She tries, in her work to capture “the dignity and humanity” of her subjects. All the proceeds from the sale of her work go to charity.
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Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) — How to become a True Believer
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Articles
Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) is a method for empowering rural or other low tech communities by giving them the tools to analyze their own communities. Such analysis is often much more accurate and insightful than that done by outside professionals from the academic world. The process of analysis also provides local villages and other communities with the basis they need to interact effectively with government and other outside business and institutional organisations.
Puppeteers Without Borders in Mostar
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Articles
Participants from the Balkan countries, dedicated to theatre, and to the social and cultural fabric of Bosnian society, took part in a conference called “Mask, Object, Puppet: A Powerful Means of Theatrical Expression. Erica Sapir, of Puppeteers Without Borders gave a presentation called, “Using puppetry in education with special emphasis on Non Violent Communication.”
School Without Violence: A Safe School for Every Child in Serbia
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Articles
The “School without Violence” is a comprehensive program to educate children, teachers, parents and the broader community in Serbia about the ongoing problem of intolerance, violence and harassment at schools in Serbia. The problem of violence among children is not a new one in Serbia. But for far too long it has been neglected and allowed to exist on the periphery of the national consciousness. The goals of this new UNICEF project are multifold: to bring the problem of bullying and violence in school into the daylight; to raise the consciousness of parents and community members regarding the right of every child to feel secure at school; to make a protective network within all schools; to connect this network with outside services and resources, and to preventively respond before the threat of serious incidents escalates.
Schools Without Violence: Marathon in Belgrade raises funds
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Articles
The Belgrade Marathon has now joined in the partnership for the “School without Violence“. The slogan of this year’s marathon is “19th Belgrade Banca Intesa Marathon – for School without Violence“. …International sports legend Carl Lewis will also join the campaign. He will be a special guest and promoter at the fundraising cocktail party for the corporate sector
The India Civil Society Summit
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Articles
India now claims superpower status as a nuclear weapons state and nearly double-digit economic growth. In contrast to these signs of progress we have the dubious distinction of being on the wrong side of other indicators of human development—maternal mortality, female infanticide and foeticide, and deaths due to preventable diseases, to name several. India’s progress is uneven: while she is developing world-class technology and services; she also has has the world’s largest number of poor and illiterate people. For many, freedom—in its true sense—is yet to dawn. For these people, the struggle continues.