GLOBAL PLACE
Newsletter nº1
Introduction
In the future we plan to issue 4 more newsletters and each one of them will be with the special theme:
- Local events - with the results of the activities that has been implemented to disseminate the project;
- Publication on SDGs - we are currently preparing the t-kit with the different methods to use in the youth work dealing with the Sustainable Development Goals;
- Makeover of www.bevolunteer.net - the web is getting ready for some important changes, when it will be done, you will get informed;
- Results of the project - the last edition of the newsletter, summarizing what the project has achieved.
Job Shadowing stage of the project
From the final reports we can learn that the biggest benefit that this activity brought to the participants was the intercultural learning, many people mentioned in their evaluations that it was benefitial to understand the different way of thinking, get ready to deal with the cultural differences while hosting volunteers. Many people mentioned the improved intercultural communication.
Second most important learning was the importance of partnerships, some job shadowers were going without a high expectations and then coming back very much surprised how much ideas can be gathered by the simple chat. The most interesting for me was when someone mentioned, that during the activity has realized that it is worth to do the project in the partnerships, and not to treat partners as a tool to send volunteers.
Another group of results are related with EVS, and here many things were mentioned from learning how the different management systems works to expectations of volunteers. I was happy as well to learn that several people improved the project management skills, that means that slowely we are reaching our objectives.
It was not very directly mentioned the learning about Sustainable Develpment Golas, but some of the quotes below proofs that some important learning has happen, even through the participants are still not able to link it to the ¨big theories¨. As each change needs to start on the personal level, looks like a lot of nice things has happened:
- People smile all the time, they are always ready to help you, very open to working with you, learn from you, to accept you as you are.
- This experience is a motivation to make me a better “global citizen”.
- More respect for chances which I get in my life
- Thanks to this experience I realized how much water I used every day.
- It makes me think about my lifestyle, and the way I see the things before and after this travel has completely change.
And finally there were a lot of comments on personal development. This category is too big to even describe, so I would like to share with you three quotes:
- I realized that the cultural shock is very big obstacle for the successful performance.
- This experience made me a stronger person and become motivated enough in achieving my dreams through perseverance and hard work.
- People smile all the time, they are always ready to help you, very open to working with you, learn from you, to accept you as you are.
More more insides about the job shadowings I would like to invite to read the blog:
http://www.bevolunteer.net/tags/global-place
100 and more advices for future volunteers
This publication is one of the results of the work of our network during the last 3 years. In all the EVS activities we have been developing we were asking the returning volunteers for their recommendations to pass them to the ¨new generation¨. We have collected all the insights, organize them and here it comes the publication.
It is a recommended tool to use whenever you are working with the EVS or international volunteering, especially when you are sending/hosting young people from the different continent. So check out the link and share it with your volunteers.
Update on SDG´s
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially known as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, are an intergovernmental set of aspiration Goals with 169 targets. The Goals are contained in paragraph 51 United Nations Resolution A/RES/70/1 of 25 September 2015. The Resolution is a broader intergovernmental agreement that, while acting as the Post 2015 Development Agenda (successor to the Millennium Development Goals), builds on the Principles agreed upon under Resolution A/RES/66/288, popularly known as The Future We Want.
On 19 July 2014, the UN General Assembly's Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forwarded a proposal for the SDGs to the Assembly. The proposal contained 17 goals with 169 targets covering a broad range of sustainable development issues. These included ending poverty and hunger, improving health and education, making cities more sustainable, combating climate change, and protecting oceans and forests. On 5 December 2014, the UN General Assembly accepted the Secretary-General's Synthesis Report which stated that the agenda for the post-2015 SDG process would be based on the OWG proposals.
The Intergovernmental Negotiations on the Post 2015 Development Agenda (IGN) began in January 2015 and ended in August 2015. Following the negotiations, a final document was adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit September 25–27, 2015 in New York, USA. The title of the agenda is Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Goals 1-6 directly address health disparities, primarily in developing countries. These six goals address key issues in global public health and public health: Poverty, Hunger and food security, Health, Education, Gender equality and women's empowerment, and water and sanitation.
Pistes Solidaires lunches new volunteering programme as a follow up of the project
In 2016, the French organisation Pistes-Solidaires launches a new programme through the French Civil Service in different countries, out of Europe: Kenya, Argentine, Nepal and India.
This programme is supported by the French government and is for youngsters between 16 and 25 who want to be involved in the society as a volunteer, in France, but also in the world!
Pistes-Solidaires, willing to implement high-quality projects has developed a new concept in order to ensure quality for all in this project.
That’s why the selected volunteers will start with a volunteering period at local level during one month, before going abroad. This first month will also be the occasion to do a long pre-departure training, answering to all the needs and questions of the participants, talking about cultural diversity, linguistic preparation…
Then, they will go abroad, in the different partner countries during 4 months on different topics, depending on the activities of the hosting partners (education, health, environment…).
Once this period will be over, they will come back in Pistes-Solidaires for one moth, in order to help them to evaluate their volunteering period. One objective will also be to help them think about all the skills they have developed and how to highlight them in a CV, during an interview…and to build their personal project.
They will also participate in the promotion of the programme among other youngsters.
There will be in total 5 mobility periods, 2 of them being in partner organisations that staff members of Pistes-Solidaires have met during the Global Place project: CADIF in Kenya and Ruchi in India. Job shadowers of Pistes-Solidaires had been hosted for a job shadowing period of 3 weeks in these organisations, which has enabled the development of this new cooperation since the partners have had time to know better the different activities that could be proposed to the volunteers, talk about the hosting conditions…
This new programme is a great chance for both youngsters and partner organisations! In order to follow the adventure of the volunteers, just visit the website of Pistes-Solidaires: www.pistes-solidaires.fr
Vu from Vietnam is implementing his follow up project on Sustainable Development Goals
Ourgeneration17plus: Young Southeast Asian Leaders’ Initiative (YSEALI) is a signature program of the U.S President Barack Obama to foster the development of ASEAN community. With the mission to connect and empower youth leaders from 10 ASEAN countries, and to encourage youth initiative, YSEALI Seeds for the Future was launched to support the most promising initiative to address regional issues.
Our Generation17plus is an innovating project which has received the funding support from YSEALI Seed for the Future 2015, the project aims to encourage and develop youth initiatives through youth mobility, capacity-building and global cooperation, to tackle on each specific goal in accordance with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations.
The project's activities include: 1) Training course (Hosted in Manila - in collaboration with Urban Youth Academy - you can find more information at www.facebook.com/apye2016, 2) Media campaign to raise awareness of youth about SDGs, 3) International youth conference and music festival (Hosted in Bangkok, i'm planning to collaborate with UN SDGs campaign in Bangkok to deliver this event)
About the project
The project GLOBAL PLACE: Global Partnership for Learning, Acting, Creating and Educating aims at creating the global partnership for the EVS coordination and the sustaiable development.
We have engaged 17 partners in total from16 different countries: Spain, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, France, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Kenya, Malawi, Nicaragua and Peru in order to achive together the following goals:
1) Strenghten a network of organisations with common vision on volunteers exchange and sustainable development,
2) Create a response to the post-2015 development agenda in the sphere of youth,
3) Foster cooperation and improve the quality in the field of EVS Exchange.
The objectives of the project we are planning to meet with the following activities:
a) International Conference – that will take place in December 2014 in Lorca, Spain and will aim to create a space for networking, sharing the best practicies in EVS and creating guidelines to work together as well as set the foundations of a coóperative process for developing an educational Tool-kit dedicted on the Sustainable Development Goals
b) Development of the T-kit with tools how to address the topic of the Sustainable Development Goals in the work with young people, that will be downloadable from the web www.bevolunteer.net and will address the upraising need to tackle the topic of the new goals that are going to enter into the practice from 2015 (after the Millenium Development Goals)
c) Implementation of the SDG Awareness raising Campaign – that will consist of the international contest of the postcards representing 12 different Sustainable Development Goals, and will be followed by the activities of the job shadowers and local dissemination activities
d) Job shadowing phase – that will include in total 33 different mobility from/to Europe and to/from different parts of the world, in order to build capacity and strengten the cooperation between the partners.
As a result of the project 39 youth workers associated with the project partners will participate in the international conference and 33 will do a job shadowing in another continent. These youth workers, directly involved in the project, represent a specific target group. While the development of their competencies is also part of the impact on their organizations, it needs to be highlighted that the learning provided within the project does not only affect the people professionally, but also on personal level – such as competencies for intercultural awareness, commitment for sustainable development and living.
SNAPSHOP FROM JOB SHADOWINGS
Mihai in Nepal
Gly in France
Steve and Kishwor in Poland
Dan and Huong in Greece
Maria in Vietnam
surrounding of Ha Noi.
Karolina and Gheorghita in Malawi
Emanuele in Nicaragua
Aga and Ivo in Thailand
Clara in Spain
Francesco in Philippines
Gly and Om in France
Thisanut in Poland
Sibi and Anaïs in India
Joao and Pong in Italy
Mariu and Magali in Kenya
Olimpia and Manolo in Perú
Vu and Mukesh in Romania
Vivien in Bulgaria
Be Volunteer
Email: aga@cazalla-intercultural.org
Website: www.bevolunteer.net
Phone: (34)968-47-11-23
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bevolunteer.net/
Partnership:
- ACTOR Romania
- Semper Avanti Poland
- YOUnet Italy
- USB Greece
- Focus-European center for development Bulgaria
- FUNDACJA CENTRUM AKTYWNOŚCI TWORCZEJ Poland
- Pistes Solidaires France
- SJ VIETNAM
- Ruchin India
- VIN Nepal
- YSDA Philippines
- VSA Thailand
- Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Peru
- CADIF Kenya
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION Malawi
- APAN Nicaragua
- Cazalla Intercultural Spain