GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP DAYS
The team has covered its global citizenship days in following key areas keeping in mind the theme of the Global Exchange programme which is the
poverty and inequality and youth participation and the needs of the community, the activities were well planned and the involvement of the community was satisfactory. The discussions were interesting and rich in information. The spirit and the enthusiasm of the team were high and exemplary of team work.
Deborah, Sarmad and Rabail on
Tourism IN MALINDI
The positive and negative impacts of tourism
Approach of people towards tourism
What can we do to improve the negative impacts and enhance the positive ones.
Raheel, Zaake and Alex on
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
How poverty is responsible for crime and punishment
The work of Red Cross for prisoners
Visit to prison
The shared stories of prisoners
Kiran, Suzanne and Salma on
SEXUAL HEALTH AND POVERTY
How poverty affects the sexual health
What are STI’s, its effects and precautions
What is HIV, HIV in Pakistan, and in Kenya?
How to live HIV positive, the stigma, and use of drugs
Najiba, Maria and Sabina on
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
What is poverty?
The impacts of poverty
The role of youth in eradicating poverty
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Monday, 31 August 2009
COMMUNITY ACTION DAY
Community Action Day Building school in Mgoni Village
The team has finished their community action days by building a school at Mgoni village. It was a community demand. A primary school was already there but it was not enough for the children. It had very little capacity to accommodate all the children and the location was very remote so it was hard for the children to walk for such long distance .With the help of MEDA Centre, community people and the global exchange volunteers build a school for the community children. the community was very thankful for their help. The volunteer enjoyed working in the mud and with wooden sticks it was a new experience for them .
The team has finished their community action days by building a school at Mgoni village. It was a community demand. A primary school was already there but it was not enough for the children. It had very little capacity to accommodate all the children and the location was very remote so it was hard for the children to walk for such long distance .With the help of MEDA Centre, community people and the global exchange volunteers build a school for the community children. the community was very thankful for their help. The volunteer enjoyed working in the mud and with wooden sticks it was a new experience for them .Wednesday, 26 August 2009
COMMUNITY WELCOME IN MALINDI
On 11th of July we did our community welcome in Malindi. As we arrived on late evening on 9th so we had only one day to prepare for community welcome. So we divided the work among the volunteers, some volunteers did the flip charts for volunteer placements, some for GCD's CAD's that we did in Glasgow while some decided to decorate the community hall for community welcome, everything was sorted out & everyone worked as a group & that helped us a lot doing lots of work in short time. The flipcharts & other stationary was provided by Malindi Education & Development Association ( MEDA ).
On the morning of 11 every volunteer headed for community welcome, we had posted all flipcharts i the c0mmunity hall for people to see what v did in Glasgow. The community welcome was started with recitation of verses from Quran which followed by speech done by Mr.Baruwa CEO of MEDA, also there were speeches done by different chair persons from different organizations working in Malindi. After speeches there was brief introduction of Global Xchange was done Programme supervisors as well as volunteers, the audience in the community hall were really excited to hear about GX & they were looking forward to work wit us, the audience consisted of people from MEDA ,host homes, people from volunteer placements & people from all walks of life. At 1 in noon there was lunch provided for everyone, which followed by cultural plays & dancing.
Overall we received a very warm welcome ( karibu ) by people of Malindi and everyone is very excited to live & work in Malindi & INSHALLAH we all had a very good time being here.
ASANTAE :)
On the morning of 11 every volunteer headed for community welcome, we had posted all flipcharts i the c0mmunity hall for people to see what v did in Glasgow. The community welcome was started with recitation of verses from Quran which followed by speech done by Mr.Baruwa CEO of MEDA, also there were speeches done by different chair persons from different organizations working in Malindi. After speeches there was brief introduction of Global Xchange was done Programme supervisors as well as volunteers, the audience in the community hall were really excited to hear about GX & they were looking forward to work wit us, the audience consisted of people from MEDA ,host homes, people from volunteer placements & people from all walks of life. At 1 in noon there was lunch provided for everyone, which followed by cultural plays & dancing.
Overall we received a very warm welcome ( karibu ) by people of Malindi and everyone is very excited to live & work in Malindi & INSHALLAH we all had a very good time being here.
ASANTAE :)
MY 2 MONTHS IN GLASGOW
Our UK volunteering phase were consisted of two months & we had to do volunteering work in
Scotland's largest city Glasgow. Glasgow boosts the metropolitan life at its best with easy & best
transport available to move anywhere around the city, with the best place for shopping and with its beautiful architectural laid buildings the city of Glasgow captures ones imagination about working & living in this magnificent city.
My host home was located in the north-east area called 'Riddrie' and my volunteer placement ( VP ) was located in the southern district of city area called 'Toryglen'. It was approximately
2-miles south of city center. The name of my VP was 'URBAN ROOTS' , it was an environment based project, the main working areas included maintaining the on-going forest conservation project in the woodland area, to build wooden board walk in the woodland area, to grow fresh vegetables for local community and to setup and help in running the 'Fruit Barra' that will sell low-cost fresh fruits & vegetables for local community. My VP counter part was Suzanne, she was from Wales UK, she was clever, honest & hard working. We really had a great time working together.Besides VP there were CAD's GCD's MPR & Debrief that we did as a whole group & we learned & enjoyed a lot doing those.
The city of Glasgow had a friendly atmosphere in which working was a good fun with lots of learning. Everything seems perfect in Glasgow. To be as live-audience in BBC Scotland studio,
doing traditional scotish dancing, or being 'Bards' at pub, everything i did in Glasgow was full of fun with lots of learning. From the best shopping places, to the most beautiful vistas of Crainlarich, from the most beautiful buildings of University of Glasgow, from warm welcome by Scotish Youth Parliament in Edinburgh to the cool breeze of Irish Sea, from George Square to Glasgow central station I can honestly say that i had the best time in my life in Glasgow. I LOVE GlasgoWOW : )
Scotland's largest city Glasgow. Glasgow boosts the metropolitan life at its best with easy & best
transport available to move anywhere around the city, with the best place for shopping and with its beautiful architectural laid buildings the city of Glasgow captures ones imagination about working & living in this magnificent city.
My host home was located in the north-east area called 'Riddrie' and my volunteer placement ( VP ) was located in the southern district of city area called 'Toryglen'. It was approximately
2-miles south of city center. The name of my VP was 'URBAN ROOTS' , it was an environment based project, the main working areas included maintaining the on-going forest conservation project in the woodland area, to build wooden board walk in the woodland area, to grow fresh vegetables for local community and to setup and help in running the 'Fruit Barra' that will sell low-cost fresh fruits & vegetables for local community. My VP counter part was Suzanne, she was from Wales UK, she was clever, honest & hard working. We really had a great time working together.Besides VP there were CAD's GCD's MPR & Debrief that we did as a whole group & we learned & enjoyed a lot doing those.
The city of Glasgow had a friendly atmosphere in which working was a good fun with lots of learning. Everything seems perfect in Glasgow. To be as live-audience in BBC Scotland studio,
doing traditional scotish dancing, or being 'Bards' at pub, everything i did in Glasgow was full of fun with lots of learning. From the best shopping places, to the most beautiful vistas of Crainlarich, from the most beautiful buildings of University of Glasgow, from warm welcome by Scotish Youth Parliament in Edinburgh to the cool breeze of Irish Sea, from George Square to Glasgow central station I can honestly say that i had the best time in my life in Glasgow. I LOVE GlasgoWOW : )
Thursday, 13 August 2009
A BIT OF TEAM 85 MID PHASE REVIEW
Gx team85 had their Mid phase review on the 31 of July 2009 in Lamu.. A piece of heaven...With all the natural beauty , excitment, enthusiasm, fun and joy the team reflected on all the past work...with all the delicious food and sailing the team promised for the best for the next month.Plans were made for the best to achieve and things were discusssed which were lacking in the team.... All the best of times... with lovely memories..... laughter.... smiles... Indian ocean.. Sea... Beach...... Coco trees...boats... shells....women wearing black hijabs.... kids playing in the streets with all their smiles and greetings... donkeys with their cute and innocent gestures on their way.... and Kenian with African warmth and hospitality..... Made all the best of impressions and reflections on our minds... a life long expirience ... a lovely memory and so lovely to remember.....A nice tour and a Pracious gift from Global Exchange......
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
NUSRA (BY KIRAN)
When I met the students at Nusra I thought they are shy and will be unlikely to participate actively when I'm going to teach them but it's a cultural shock for me that the students at Nusra technical training institute asked us (my work placement counterpart Sarmad) quesions in our very forst lecture about culture focusing on Pakistan and Kenya. We asked them what they want to know about Pakistan adn we were bombarded by so many questions mqaking us continue our lecture the following day. They asked us about provinces, independeces day, colours of the Pakistani flags, governance in Pakistan, political adnd transport systems, about terrorism, population, illegal businesses in Pakistan, wedding ceremonies, Pakistan and Indian economy and government etc. I enjoyed repling to their challenging questions.
NUSRA was established in februaury 2005 by the Malindi Eduaction Develiopment Assosiation (MEDA). The main aim of the institute is to rescue the youth of cuommunity from the bad traits of the streets by providing them with technical training skills. My counterpart, Sarmad and I have been teaching students about Pakistan, interview techniques adn tips, C.V. making, stress management, healthy living, sales adn marketing, communication, urdu adn reproductive health so far.
As the school will be closing for the summer holiday period we have devised a whole months programme for August. We are going to train two students about glass about painting as aprt of life skills education. They will be selected through proper procedure. We are going to publisize NUSRA by conducting orientations in different schools, our target audience are teachers and students. We are going to paint busy street walls and we are going to distribute flyers to shops. Apart from that we are going to conduct awareness raising sessions within the communities that will be arranged by students. Moreover, we are going to paint a wall in clothing department and will plant a tree as well. We have also planned to paint GX logo on one of the walls at NUSRA.
When I met the students at Nusra I thought they are shy and will be unlikely to participate actively when I'm going to teach them but it's a cultural shock for me that the students at Nusra technical training institute asked us (my work placement counterpart Sarmad) quesions in our very forst lecture about culture focusing on Pakistan and Kenya. We asked them what they want to know about Pakistan adn we were bombarded by so many questions mqaking us continue our lecture the following day. They asked us about provinces, independeces day, colours of the Pakistani flags, governance in Pakistan, political adnd transport systems, about terrorism, population, illegal businesses in Pakistan, wedding ceremonies, Pakistan and Indian economy and government etc. I enjoyed repling to their challenging questions.
NUSRA was established in februaury 2005 by the Malindi Eduaction Develiopment Assosiation (MEDA). The main aim of the institute is to rescue the youth of cuommunity from the bad traits of the streets by providing them with technical training skills. My counterpart, Sarmad and I have been teaching students about Pakistan, interview techniques adn tips, C.V. making, stress management, healthy living, sales adn marketing, communication, urdu adn reproductive health so far.
As the school will be closing for the summer holiday period we have devised a whole months programme for August. We are going to train two students about glass about painting as aprt of life skills education. They will be selected through proper procedure. We are going to publisize NUSRA by conducting orientations in different schools, our target audience are teachers and students. We are going to paint busy street walls and we are going to distribute flyers to shops. Apart from that we are going to conduct awareness raising sessions within the communities that will be arranged by students. Moreover, we are going to paint a wall in clothing department and will plant a tree as well. We have also planned to paint GX logo on one of the walls at NUSRA.
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Priscilla's Host Home Experience
I am one of the Global Xchange programme host parents and I would wish to express my feelings about the whole programme. This has been a very good programme for me because it made me learn different ideas and culture through the children I was hosting. I learnt a lot about the food the girls liked which included more vegetables than meat. This has made me adopt the life style and am almost becoming a vegetarian which is good for my health.
The other thing I learnt while staying with them is that each party is trying to learn a new language, the girls are trying to learn our language and I am also learning a few words in Pakistan. It is good to learn that people behave the same whether Africans or not. I am a mother of adolescents and what I've most observed is that there is no difference between my sons and the host children I had. They both need understanding, appreciation and love.
We have shared a lot of experiences together and I have always enjoyed sharing talks especially on the days activities. At first I had a big challenge especially with the meals because it was not easy to know their likes but now I know what they like.
The only challenge I had was being there for them every evening because I work up to very late so balancing the two was a challenge for me.
Another challenge was understanding their pronunciation so one has to repeat a sentence before you get the meaning. Otherwise I have really enjoyed having them in my house and I wish their stay could be extended.
Lastly I would wish to meet the parents of the children I have stayed with through the Global Xchange programme.
Host Mum to Kiran and Suzanne
The other thing I learnt while staying with them is that each party is trying to learn a new language, the girls are trying to learn our language and I am also learning a few words in Pakistan. It is good to learn that people behave the same whether Africans or not. I am a mother of adolescents and what I've most observed is that there is no difference between my sons and the host children I had. They both need understanding, appreciation and love.
We have shared a lot of experiences together and I have always enjoyed sharing talks especially on the days activities. At first I had a big challenge especially with the meals because it was not easy to know their likes but now I know what they like.
The only challenge I had was being there for them every evening because I work up to very late so balancing the two was a challenge for me.
Another challenge was understanding their pronunciation so one has to repeat a sentence before you get the meaning. Otherwise I have really enjoyed having them in my house and I wish their stay could be extended.
Lastly I would wish to meet the parents of the children I have stayed with through the Global Xchange programme.
Host Mum to Kiran and Suzanne
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