Building Global Friendship
CISV es una organización sin fines de lucro, independiente, no política y laica. Conformada por voluntarios, promueve la educación multicultural por la paz. Creada hace casi 60 años, CISV educa e inspira para actuar por un mundo más justo y pacífico.
Todos los Programas de CISV tienen un enfoque de Educación para la Paz, el cual usamos para inspirar a nuestros participantes para convertirse en Ciudadanos y Ciudadanas Activos Globales. Nuestros principios educativos son:
- Apreciamos las similitudes entre las personas y valoramos las diferencias.
- Apoyamos la justicia social y la igualdad de oportunidades para todos y todas.
- Motivamos la resolución de conflictos por medios pacíficos.
- Apoyamos la creación de soluciones sostenibles a problemas relacionados con nuestro impacto, uno al otro y al medio ambiente
Novedades
Maybe we can learn something together
After CISVing in a couple of camps as a leader and staff, it was my
moment to be a delegate. With the best opportunity ahead I went to the
IPP Amazônia representing my country, Argentina.
For those three weeks I've got to experience better the impact of
working in a real community as a volunteer.
Beyond IPP's goals, I've got in contact with the school of the little
kids from the community where the program was held, and I saw a real
need there.
As a woman who grew up in a big city, the diferences from my childhood
were huge in both, positive and negative aspects, specially in terms
of education structure, I was deeply moved and I thought... maybe we
can learn something together.
I developed a sustainable educational project for them and presented
it to FAS (Amazon Sustainable Fundation) the Partner Organization (PO)
from the IPP, they would have to approve it and pay for my ticket to
go back to Manaus, (Amazona's state capital). Lucky me :) they said
yes, and one month ago I moved to Tumbira, a riverside community
located in the biggest reserve of the brazilean amazon forest.
The project, based in Howard Gardner's Multiple Inteligences Pedagogy,
was ideal for this kind of schools, where are students from 2 to 12
years old attending the same class, in the same classroom, with only
one teacher.
However... life is not that easy, and even with the best intentions
the project had to be developed in a secondary layer. This school was
working without any support from the community, or the families, and
even with only three students being able to read, the teacher would
take more than ten days off in less than three weeks.
As it almost always happens when dusting the library, a deeper need
appeared, and it was the urgence of changing the base of the
educational condition of all the schools in the reserve. And this
includes the interaction of communities, families, schools, teachers
and students.
Last saturday I leaded the first meeting, a three hours activity with
12 teachers from diferent communities, we started working together in
this important issue and it was awesome. CISV's know how was applyed
with this amazing people, making it so perfect and giving us great
indicators and material to continue working.
I am not saying that the fact that I have put my eyes on this little
school in july made this whole change happen, but I like to think that
I helped starting it.
We, human beings, are so particular, that we would do really hard work
with so much passion without being payed! And even if the work to be
done is very big, it would still be wonderfully worth it.
That is called volunteering; a global movement based in an uncertain
reciprocity that is being more and more common nowadays.
To be a volunteer is to be open to change.
To be open to change yourself, to change your plans, to change your
life conditions and to change your life, to take the chance of maybe
changing something.
By Bianca Monti
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The Embers
- 02 sep 2010
"Terminé el campamento con una sonrisa gigante y 68 amigos de distintas partes del mundo. CISV ya forma parte de quién soy y de cuales son mis principios e ideas"
Clara, participante
