Himalayan Mountains

one ball, one world, football!

A Typical Breakfast...

Drumming and Dancing Lessons

 drawing for the students at Parijat Academy!!!

painting team

Fun at the beach

Volunteeting at Parijat Academy, Assam.

mentoring English language to the primary school pupils

fun time-volleyball at the beach

Group debate in Gener Class

Kalwangkyi(Shem staff)

This photo is taken during the first Gender Class held in 2012. After class teaching Gender Instructor of Shem Women's Group arranged a dabating session for the students. The dabate is focued on where it is socialy problem or selve issues that forced rural Tibetan  women have relatively low social status.

The whole class was divided into groups and everybody in the groups was encouraged to give ones own idea for rejection.Therefore, the debate took much longer than it was designed by Shem Staff since all the members were very motivated to talk.

After the debate one of the Gender instructor finalized the result and it showing the problems of rural Tibetan women in low social status is because of both social and self problems. The conclusion was made for solving the problems that women themselves have to build self-confidence and improve their life skills, however, it is very essencial providing equal position,status,education and opportunities to local women by the society is the most crucial part for women getting empowered.

Gender Specialist(Fengyuan) giving training to Shem members

Basonlhamo(Shem Staff)

Fengyuan, as a  specialist in Gender Studies focusing on domestic abuse, has volunteered to give a two days training for Shem members in Dec 2011.

During her training she gave brief introduction to Gender Studies and helped Shem members to analysis social division; she also came up with various activities related to group division and self reliance and so on.

Group Discussion In Gender Class by Nov 2011

Basonlhamo(Shem Staff)

This photo is taken during group discussion in Gender Class by Basonlhamo, who is a full time staff and Gender instrutor of Shem Women's Group.

Gender Class is a crucial part in one of Shem's Core Project since Shem's inception 2003. This class is to mainly help young Tibetan college women raise gender awareness and discover their own potential; it is  also designed to encourage them to fight for better life, further education and more opportunities. And a stage for discussing gender issues that are rarely shared and discussed back at their own communities is provided to the Tibetan young women by this class as well

class room

 We are looking for people who are interested in cultural exchange and volunteering with us for our education based organization. We are also looking for some one who can market and manage our guest house which is a source of our funding for our rural youth education and awareness center.

villages and our work

 We have opportunities for an overall cultural exchange, volunteering to teach English, Maths and Computers. Help us in building a youth and women's center. every single soul is invited and welcomed. Our target to bring smile to every needy kid and we are trying to help these kids throughout the year. Every volunteer can get a chance to actually see and be a part of rural India and the village people.

We are also looking for some one who is interested in helping us in market and promote our homestay which is also is a main source of funding our non profit organization.

COVA

The ProWorld House!

My view of Ghana from the plane!

Environmental mural

Looking for a fun and creative environmental project for kids? My environmental club, "Los Tucanes", in Honduras went around to all the local stores collecting aluminum bottle caps that normally would have been incinerated. We created a mural to hang in the school by hammering them to a large plywood board. Not only were we beatifying the school with an environmental message, but we were recycling!

We just wrote a common slogan, but with enough time and bottle caps, you can get really creative with your mural design. And the kids love it!
 

Today for Tomorrow Project KIds after recieving their materials donated to them by volunteers from Japan

Today for Tomorrow Project KIds after recieving their materials donated to them by volunteers from Japan

Today for Tomorrow Project KIds

Health in Ghana

cultural dance at the volunteer welcoming party

consrruction of a community school classroom

safari trip to Mikumi National park

Dolphin tour over the weekend in zanzibar

japanese cultural night presentation

painting a classroom

consrruction of a community school classroom

fun night at a pub

cultural night presentations

Digging up a trench for laying down a foundation for a classroom

Coop members certify the funds generated by VillageLink's sale of their tea

A Volunteer Prepares Tea for Packaging and Distribution

Setting up working relationship with Anhui cooperative, Spring 2012

Huangtian Cooperative at Work

One day of work in the Students Laundry "Su Lavandería"

FINALLY! (Passport and Yellow Card)