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International Partner Stories

Our international partners accomplish amazing things with volunteers. Read their stories.

Volunteer assistance is critical to enabling our international partners to create change in their communities. Many of them have shared the work they were able to accomplish with the help of international volunteers. Read their stories below. 

 

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SECOND- FREE EYE SCREENING CAMP December 01, 2011 Rural Women Development Trust, India  NEXT PROJECT of RURAL WOMEN DEVELOPMENT TRUSTFREE EYE SCREENING CAMPDate: Jan 1,2012(New Years Day)Place: Sankagiri taluk,Salem dt,TamilNadu,INDIAExact venue: will be confirmed soon(probably in Govt High School)In collaboration with: ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL,MADURAIHow can you help?1. spread the news to all rural people living in and around Sankagiri hamlet villages to come to camp, if they have eye problems- blindness, blurring of vision, glaring, double vision, pain in eye, diabetes etc.We like to bring atleast 800 people to get checked. Eye doctors from Aravind Eye Hospital will peeform free testing. the pateints diagnosed with catarct will be transported and operated , cared for in Aravind Hospital .Everything is Free.2. The Budget to organise( to bring villagers to ) Eye Camp+ Rs.35,000=$700.we have raised $400 so far. we are looking for more donorsIf... Read More

 

 

How can volunteering in Argentina benefit your professional development? November 29, 2011 Voluntario Global, Argentina  In a study carried out amongst students in London during January of this year, it was found that 67% of Students found that their volunteering experience had made them more employable and had given them transferable skills required by employers. It goes without saying that the majority of students asked were willing to put their voluntary work on their CV.You begin to wonder halfway through a fourteen hour flight what it is we are seeking, or what we expect to find, by travelling across the world to what dusty explorers were once able to term ‘a foreign land.’ For my own part, I came looking for an experience which would turn my life upside down. I wanted to be moved by the vulnerability, dismayed by the poverty, touched by... Read More

 

 

RWDT- Interest free MICROLOAN PROJECT-GOAT November 26, 2011 Rural Women Development Trust, India  Goat microloan project was started in Spring of year 2009. Until now 528 goats have been given to 528 ladies living in ten different hamlets of Salem dt,tamilnadu,India. The project is co-ordinated through -Rural women Development Trust, Salem dt. It has waiting list of 800 rural ladies requesting for goat microloan. If this project interests you, kindly consider to help. Your contribution gives economic empowerment to village ladies.GOAT MICROLOAN-Interest free,collateral freeOne female goat kid (3-4 months old) costs Rs.2000 ($40).There is no administrative costs or over head costs involved and so 100% of the funds go into purchase of the goatsREPAYMENT of MICROLOANTerm=10 monthly installmentsAmount= Each lady who received a goat (rs.2000=$40) will repay Rs.200=$4 per month ABOUT GOATS REARING:The beneficiary lady will graze the goat on grass, shrubs... Read More

 

 

SDI Donate to Needy Children in Tole, Buea November 23, 2011 Social Development International, Cameroon www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-children-stay-in-school-for-a-year-in-cameron/updates/Dear Friends and Supporters,We are glad to share this good news with you. On Thursday 29 September 2011 and Friday 30 September 2011. We were blessed to donate text books and deidactic materials (exercise books, pens, pencil, mathemetical sets, rulers etc.) worth over 600 000 FCFA (US $ 1300) to 85 orphans and vulnerable children and some Teachers’ Reference Text Books to 4 Primary Schools – Government Primary School, Baptish Primary School, Catholic Primary School and Presbyterian Primary School all in Tole village, Buea.The Head Teachers of all the schools whose Pupils and Institutions benefitted from this exercise, expressed sincere gratitutde to Social Development International for the gesture was timely, coming at that difficult period of schools re-opening. They hope and pray the gesture... Baptish children displaying books and didactic materials received with school and SDI staff Baptish Primary School children receiving Books and didactic materials Catholic Primary School Head Teacher and Staff acknowledging receipt of books and Didactic materials display on the table Government School Receipients with SDI and School staff Best Maths Pupil in Government school receive a special price from SDI Boss Best Mathematics Student - Baptish Primary School Receiving a special price fromm SDI Boss Read More

 

 

Welcome to GGYN November 17, 2011 Global-Ghana Youth Network, Ghana Allow me to take you on a little tour of what a day in this precious, magical and wonderful organization called the Global Ghana Youth Network. GGYN is an outdoor school that provides exceptional free education for children ages 3-15. The day starts off at 7:45 AM, when the children, clad in striped purple uniforms provided by GGYN free of charge, arrive eager and ready to learn. They help take benches, tables and whiteboards and place them underneath the famous Mango Tree (as seen in the short documentary Under The Mango Tree on GGYN's main website). As the school slowly starts to form, so does the amount of children, and soon the numbers get to the high 90's and oftentimes even break the 100 mark. By 8:30 AM the children have... http://youtu.be/yMm-O9VEjcU Read More

 

 

Life in the Jungle of La ceiba Honduras for a child November 16, 2011 Helping Honduras Kids, Honduras The sky is dark gray and a cold and wet breeze is blowing as dusk sets over the dark jungle hills. 8 year old Juan is chopping away at a small wet branch with his small machete as his little 4 year old sister Rachael, holding a handful of wet branches, shivers from the wet dew and stares at the city lights of La Ceiba that whistle in and out of the clouds beneath her. They have gathered enough wood sticks to keep them and their nine other family members warm throughout the night.She hopes that there will a hot tortilla waiting for them when they arrive back home and she will make sure to drink an extra cup of water to fill her belly to at least... Read More

 

 

RWDT- FREE SEWING TRAINING CENTER, India November 16, 2011 Rural Women Development Trust, India  FIRST -FREE TAILORING(SEWING) TRAINING CENTERRWDT runs two free Tailoring training centers. The first one started in Tharamangalam village, Salem district,TamilNadu state,INDIAIt was started in Dec, 2008 . Next month, Dec 2011 marks the successful completion of 3 years of free tailoring skill training that RWDT has offered the rural teenage girls and women. Thanks to all supporters who donated 10 tailoring machines and helped start this 3 years ago.Number of teenage girls/ladies trained in the first center in past three yearsYear 2009= 60 ladiesYear 2010=60 ladiesYear 2011=60 ladiesTOTAL= 180 StudentsAbout the  training to sewStudents are trained by a qualified tailoring teacher( given a monthly salary of Rs.2000).Each course is given for six months, five days a week, two hours per... RWDT- FREE SEWING TRAINING CENTER, India. Students have learned to stitch skirts Read More

 

 

RWDT-interest free MICROLOAN PROJECT- GROCERY SHOP November 15, 2011 Rural Women Development Trust, India   MICROLOAN PROJECT-GROCERY SHOP,RWDT,IndiaINTEREST FREE,COLLATERAL FREE SMALL LOANS for INCOME GENERATIONFollowing the model of Prof. Mohammed Yunus, RWDT has given interest free , collateral free micro loans to rural ladies to start micro-enterprises that has enabled them to become economically self sufficient. One of the micro-enterprise is village grocery shop. In past 3 years-Year 2009,2010,2011, RWDT helped 32 ladies to start 32 petty grocery shops in 32 hamlet villages. MICROLOAN needed for one petty grocery shop= Rs.10,000REPAYMENT amount- Rs.1000 per month REPAYMENT TERM= 10 monthsREPAYMENT SUCCESS=100%All 32 ladies have paid their loans successfully without default and running their business very well. Thanks to all friends and well wishers of RWDT for trusting and initiating the microloan projects.  SUCCESS of  GROCERY SHOP SMALL BUSINESSIn their shops, the ladies sold rice, all beans varieties(moong beans, broen lentils, yellow lentils, yellow... Read More

 

 

An Introduction to Nivethan November 15, 2011 Nivethan , India NIVETHAN TRUSTMadurai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaNivethan Trust is a registered nonprofit organisation based in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Nivethan was established in the year 2006 by a group of socially committed individuals. Nivethan is presently engaged in activities related to healthcare, education and caring elders.MAJOR PROGRAMME/ACTIVITIESMission Thalassemia: Supporting children suffering with Thalassemia for their treatment and cure. We are presently supporting 66 children with Thalassemia undergoing treatment in Madurai Government Hospital. We provide free medicines, counselling services, supportive care facilities, and support for their education, etc. We are also taking various initiatives for awareness creation and knowledge sharing about Thalassemia among general public. We are presently working on establishing a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit in Madurai for the cure of Thalassemia.Chavadi- Noon meal for the uncared aged: Noon meal for uncared aged... Read More

 

 

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