means that I concentrate
more on Pre-Schools and
Youth Clubs. Said in a sim-
ple way, my job is to coop-
erate together with he
members of Youth Clubs,
Child Care Committees and
with the Pre-School teach-
ers to solve the problems
that they face, to improve
the ways of doing things, if
necessary, and to encour-
age and motivate them. I
should also monitor plant-
ing of trees, construction of
firewood saving stoves and
check if what Area Leaders
report, reflects the reality-
this is always funny. From
January, I will start work-
shops with the Pre-School
teachers so they will be
able to give more knowl-
edge to the kids- this is my
new personal project,
adapted to the new situa-
tion.
Let the adventure begin!
May team 2010 has left for
their projects in November.
Here are the latest news
from one of our DIs that is
currently working in Zam-
bia. Enjoy! :)
Zambia, wow! Nice place,
nice people, nice Nshima,
nice nature, nice weather,
nice everything! I can easily
imagine myself here for
more than 6 months. Afri-
can shock? Not really! The
school prepared us exactly
for what is here so take
studies and experiences
serious guys! Really! :) In
this area, the project is al-
ready running for 6 years,
in different forms, so there
is not so much innovation
that I can bring. My per-
sonal project is obsolete,
since more than 90% of the
houses have tippi taps, dish
racks and pit latrines. Al-
most all of the schools have
these facilities also. They
did a good job and every-
body has the knowledge
about health, hygiene and
anything else that they
should know about (a TCE
Project in this area would
be better in this moment). I
am impressed of what I
found here, I adapted to
what is happening here and
my work is based on Lines
3 and 4 of Child Aid, which
The world
of the volunteer N r . 1 , 2 0 1 1 J a n u a r y 2 0 1 1
Iulian (RO), participant in
May team 2010, currently
in a Child Aid project in
Choma, Zambia.
Zambia, India, Mozam-
bique, all three coun-
tries presented
through the eyes of
our DIs. May team
2010 members
seemed to have found
their places in the pro-
jects. Our youngest
team, November team
2010 is “growing” as
well, getting every day
better prepared to face
the challenges that
wait for them on two
continents.
Do you think this is
interesting?
Join us!
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Phone:
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P a g e 2
“The aim of the
project is to
change the
attitude and the
behavior in the
communities,
reduce stigma
and
discrimination in
order to fight the
spread of HIV/
AIDS”
World Aids Day in
Zambia
They call her Sybe or Sybeso because they cannot pronounce her name
and office work means she has to run along with the kids to catch the
chicken behind the office, let us go through Jitka’s first month in Africa.
“This cannot be described, must be seen” -Dimitar, May team 2010
Amazing Mozambique
Dimitar started his African experience in November, working in the Teacher
Training College in Maputo. Since then he has been through important events on a
local scale, for instance the graduation of 190 primary school teachers:
―I was lucky to be a witness of the graduation of the current students and this was
something really special. For this people this event was something really special.
For all of them. Why? The students sang only one sentence in English: <We are
all happy to be together> and my feeling is that was 100% true. I was also invited
to go in holiday with some other DIs from the Children's Town, which was a good
opportunity to do something usefull in this long holiday. We went with the children
to one of the nicest beaches in the neigbouring district and organized games for
them‖
stock or garden manage-
ment and after the
courses, they receive ei-
ther animals (chicken,
goats) or seeds (corn,
soya, moringa). One of
my tasks is to go with the
community mobilizers for
livestock monitoring, but
there is always a prob-
lem: people eat the ani-
mals instead of breeding
them and then they say
that the chicken was sto-
len or it died.
We work with 3700 peo-
ple and the aim is to
equip the community with
skills so they can start
their own income gener-
ating activity and become
self-sufficient. We are
organizing different
workshops for the people
in the community, live-
Graduation in EPF Maputo
T h e w o r l d
Giving HOPE in Zambia
Jitka (CZ), May team 2010—HOPE Mongu
My main task is to give
lessons about positive
living and basic facts
about HIV/AIDS.
“Equality matters, when it is more than just slogans” Edgars (LV) - May team 2010, TCGD Haldwani, India
P a g e 3 J a n u a r y 2 0 1 1
Between some classes or a
visit to the slums, Edgars
found some time to give us
news about his
activities in India.
At end of first
week I started to
carry out infor-
matics classes and
also to assist per-
manent teacher
Ganesh on daily
classes. On next week I also
started to give English les-
sons. My students are mostly
older than me, as all of them
are/were teachers with two higher
educations. It is always joy to give
them new knowledge, as they are very
eager to learn. Also in my area are
design things, such as invitations,
newsletters, videos, presentations,
newspapers, booklets, etc. In this time
we had also investigations in slums
and villages. In slums you can see
why locals think that white people are
rich. While we can throw out bags of
bread, here kids have no food to eat.
Edgars
My first task here was to make 2 la-
trines for the pre-school which we al-
ready finished in 4 days. We had to dig
2 holes 2 meter deep, after arrange the
bricks inside and make the cover from
cement. The only thing which we have
to make is to buy some bamboo and put
around the latrines. We plant moringa
tree, passion fruit tree and pineapple.
Our next task is to build some enter-
tainment toys for pre-school from
wood. I can say that I am working in all
the projects which Bilibiza has.
Simply India Martins, May team 2010, CDP Orissa
“One thing you have it for sure in Africa, and that is time.”
Oli, May team 2010, Farmers Club, Bilibiza, Mozambique
We were so happy to reach TCGD Orissa, that it seemed like
Long way to India, trains, plane, other trains, this time Indian style,
rickshaws and there they are, Dace and Martins, May team 2010.
One of my tasks is to give presentations about various topics.
Recently we had a tree planting action where we have received
1200 seedlings to plant all over the district. My work is to visit
local villages and talk with the villagers about their problems and ex-
plain about Humana’s activities. Its quite an interesting job, the only
problem is that I don’t know local language, so I need to use body lan-
guage to communicate. But I am slowly learning local language –
Oriya and they are very happy to hear me speaking in their language.
In our operational area we have 22 villages. We organize villagers in
Self Help Groups.—Martins
November team 2010—skying, skating and gaining trust in each other
B u i l d I n g a t e a m
Putting some people together in a classroom does not automatically mean we have a team. Teams here go through many
experiences, difficult ones, funny ones, educational ones… all with the aim to make them trust each other and become
able to work together fruitfully. Here are the latest moments that November team 2010’s member had been through to-
gether. Here are the thoughts one of the November team members, Norbi (RO) decided to share with us.
Cross-country?
So, I even checked what the dictionary has got to say about cross country and it means running on mountain road. Eve-
rything began when a group of happy people decided that they want to spend their afternoon doing something interest-
ing. I was asked if I want to go skiing. You can’t imagine how happy I was to find out that I am not the only obsessed
person in Hornsjoe concerning skiing. We agreed to meet after lunch in the room where the equipment was. I am using
the word "equipment" because what followed was only serving to my
disappointment and confusion. I had to wear a pair of shoes which were
not attached to my skis and besides, those skis were something more
different then the ones I remember skiing last time with, my skis. After-
wards I found out that actually we are going to practice cross-country
which to me was an unknown sport and meaningless. I didn't expect to
have fun but I went because I just wanted to try it. Why not? It was not
that hard to adapt to the procedure and actually it was not that boring
as I was expecting. The only concern is that I didn't find yet that person
who is in fond of skiing, in Hornjoe. The ski track in Oyer is not that
nice, it is more to learn skiing and I would really like to ski downhill
jumping through bushes and avoiding trees. I will continue my pursue
of a partner, in case o get hurt and lose my phone.
Blindfolded happy people
This
was one
weird
experi-
ence.
We
walked
blind-
folded
for like
an hour
and we had to wear our scarves even while we
were smoking or just stopping for a short break.
Imagine that we were supposed to pass over rocks
and bushes or even small rivers because the leader
chose a pretty hard route. The purpose of this
game was to check if we can trust our colleagues
and if not to start trusting them. It was really im-
portant to trust the one who's hand you were hold-
ing because he was the one who was leading you
and sometimes the road didn’t allow us to side-
track.. All in all it was a nice experience and I am
sure that I can trust Nicky, one of my colleagues.
Skating on the lake
Can you believe that it was the first time I skated?
Here, in Hornsjoe. I never considered skating though it
is practiced a lot in my beautiful country, Romania. We
were many, more then 20 people and when we got
there we split in groups, beginners and advanced. I
didn’t join any of these groups because the only thing I
wanted was to get to the other side of the forest, situ-
ated near the most far place of the lake. My only con-
cern was reaching that point by skating. Practically I
was wondering if I could reach it, but I knew that if I
would, one nice picture will be made. I made it, of
course and what amazed me was that it was really
easy, only because it is very similar to skiing. I really
enjoyed it and I
like a lot skating
in the same di-
rection with the
wind because you
acquire high
speed and you
can control the
skates easily.