Impacting on Communities through CRIDOC Resource Centre (Library)!

March 14, 2012

Child Rights Information & Documentation Centre , Malawi
George Kayange

Under the Documentation & Information Management Programme, CRIDOC  has put in place a resource centre/library that provides such information to various stakeholders, including pupils from surrounding schools, researchers, NGO representative and the general public.The Centre was established in order to achieve some of the organisation's core goals, which is to document and create access to information on issues pertaining to children/youth and related issues.CRIDOC has received donations of books and other materials from the Bishop Mackenzie International High School; the UK-based Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), the National AIDS Commission (NAC), among many others.As an institutional member of the National Library Service (NLS), it has also received a considerable amount of educational resources specifically for children.In particular, the resource centre is also being accessed by pupils/students from various schools within Lilongwe...

The CRIDOC Resource Centre (Library)

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HIV and SRH Services in Schools

March 14, 2012

Child Rights Information & Documentation Centre , Malawi
George Kayange

 Under the School Outreach Programme, implemented by Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC), we have been providing information and service on integrated health information, education and counseling on Sexual Reproductive Health as well as HIV and AIDS.Through libraries and clubs that we establish and manage in schools, we also distribute contraceptives, lubricants, condoms, and IEC materials such as posters, leaflets and other reading materials.We use these structures to mobilize not only club members but even out-of-school youths in surrounding schools to participate in some of the activities (e.g. dialogues) with a view of increasing demand for HIV and SRH services within and outside the school settings.Through our programme, we also seek to positively influence change of harmful social, cultural and gender norms, which are a barrier to SRH...

Interaction with School Club members

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Awareness Campaigns on Child Rights In Dedza, Malawi

March 14, 2012

Child Rights Information & Documentation Centre , Malawi
George Kayange

INTRODUCTIONChild Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC) in collaboration with the Youth and Child Rights Shield (YOCRIS) carried out District Awareness Campaigns in Dedza on the Child Care, Protection and Justice Act (2010) under the umbrella of the NGO Coalition on Child Rights (NGOCCR).The NGO Coalition on Child Rights (NGOCCR) is a legally registered coalition of existing and willing registered coalitions that work on child rights and related aspects, which was established and formalized on 6th May 2010 at a conference of over 60 child rights focused and governance centered NGOs and networks to attain the vision of creating the NGO Coalition on Child Rights.The NGOCCR embarked on a campaign to popularize a new law - which the Malawi Parliament passed in 2010 - with the aim of enhancing...

Awareness Campaigns on Child Rights Law

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Vermont Nurses Heading to Hospital Escuela in Leon!

March 13, 2012

Hospital Escuela, Nicaragua
Kyle Dempsey

 http://www.reformer.com/ci_20126163/bmh-nurses-prepare-service-project?IADID=Search-www.reformer.com-www.reformer.comThree nurses from Vermont found out about the Hospital Escuela in Leon through Omprakash will be departing this week to teach courses about lactation and newborn care and delivery methods.They've done some wonderful fundraising work and have been working hard to put the trip together!Will post futher updates!

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Mental Preparations

March 11, 2012

Honduras Child Alliance, Honduras
Katherine Olden

I am not your average volunteer. For starters, I am 32 years old. I have a master’s degree in International Education and am almost done with a master’s in Teaching Early Childhood.  I have a full time, year-round job teaching bilingual preschool with a public charter school in DC. And, this isn’t my first time volunteering in Honduras. This isn’t part of a life transition time for me (although my first volunteering experience was!) Instead, sharing my expertise in education on a volunteer basis has become a regular feature in my life. It has taken me to Honduras, Bolivia, and Cuba over the past four years, and I’m excited to be getting back to Honduras and really doing what I’ve come to love. Thanks to the generosity of Omprakash, I’m going...

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Week One at EDELAC, and the Opening of the Library

March 11, 2012 | 1 comment

Escuela de la Calle, Guatemala
Alyssa Hoyle

Scroll down to the very bottom if you'd like to see pictures of my first week in Guatemala! I arrived in Xela Monday afternoon after an overnight flight and a long bus ride. I had a late lunch with Delia, my host here, and Dianne, a volunteer who comes every year for a month to work at EDELAC, before settling in and finding an internet cafe to send my parents a quick 'I'm alive' email.That evening I went with Dianne to a Quetzaltrekkers meeting. Quetzaltrekkers is made up of a group of about 15 volunteer guides that lead treks around Guatemala, in order to raise money to support Escuela de la Calle (EDELAC; a school providing primary education for grades K-6) and Hogar Abierto (a shelter for the kids attending...

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The Office and Golf Day

March 10, 2012

Amy Biehl Foundation, South Africa
Michael Perugini

     Though I typically tell people that I am in Africa to teach, I actually spend a good part of each day in an office, not a classroom. Indeed, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., I reside Cape Town’s central business district, and my official title is Events, Public Relations and Fundraising Intern.      I’ll be honest, I did not expect to enjoy my time in the office very much. I imagined myself hunched over an ancient computer in a dingy cubicle, counting down the minutes until I could switch over to teaching. Visions of Windows 98 and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome haunted my dreams.      Fortunately, the office is nothing like that. Every day I work with nearly twenty others in a bright, open room, the walls of which are...

Mowbray Golf Club

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Maintaining your inner activist

March 10, 2012

Honduras Child Alliance, Honduras
Katherine Olden

As I prepare to work with HondurasChildren this summer, I have begun looking over my writitngs from previous trips and experiences. Below is a repost from my personal travel blog, www.diariavoluntaria.blogspot.com. i think this, too, is a great forum for these thoughts.March 30, 2010I have meant to write on this subject for quite a while. It is a subject that comes up regularly when I am speaking with someone not in the international development field. How can you keep your awareness of world realities alive when buffeted by and enveloped in the daily life of a wealthy, technologically-advanced nation?You tend to forget. We all do. Maybe you travelled abroad or travelled domestically or even just read something that awakened in you an awareness of an issue about which you...

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The End (for now)

March 09, 2012

Honduras Child Alliance, Honduras
Sarah Moye

Well, I have now been back in Virginia almost a full week, and things that were once so familiar could not seem more foreign to me. I do believe I am experiencing reverse culture shock. I have had quite a hard time re-adjusting to the lifestyle, climate, and people that surrounded me before I left for Honduras seven months ago. The last few months have gone by quicker than I ever could have imagined - and now I wish I could rewind and drag time out before returning to the U.S.Honduras Children was a wonderful organization to be a part of. It provided me the opportunity to comfortably live within a community of some of the most generous, friendly people I've met in my life. I definitely will always hold...

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Ellen and Amy Volunteer in Quito, Ecuador

March 09, 2012

 We are medical students from Rocky...

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