Watch this! It is absolutely beautiful. A friend shared it with me when she heard about the Developing World Connections Team.
RWANDA Video by Mammoth
A little inspiration for your mid-week?
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Developing World Connections
Hello readers, it has been too long! So, I know I lied about writing another Ghana post. This is my travel blog, and there seems to be some force keeping me from adding to it when I am not in some faraway place, or... anticipating being in some faraway place! I have some new motivation to keep myself going while I'm stuck in school, wishing I were out the travelling... I just think about how I am going to spend a month in Rwanda this summer!
I have become a volunteer Team Leader with local non-profit Developing World Connections and will be taking a Student Team to Rwanda to work work on a sustainable development project. Our host partner, Building Bridges with Rwanda, has organized the construction of a medical clinic in the small community of Kazo. Actually, the medical clinic has already been started by the community along with a previous DWC group, but has sat unfinished for several years due to local politics. I got the chance to talk to Wayne McRann, DWC's president and co-founder, at an event in Kelowna and he said that the people of Kazo are very eager to welcome volunteers again and get the funds they need to finish the medical clinic. What a wonderful chance to build friendships between cultures and respond to a real need in the community of Kazo!
So, this is for all the people who have said to me, "I wish I could do something like that." when they hear about my travels/volunteer experience... You're invited!
Anyone 16-29 years old can join, from anywhere in Canada, or even other countries. Just contact me at julia@developingworldconnections.org or, for more information about the organization and their purpose visit the DevelopingWorld Connections website : www.developingworldconnections.org .
I have become a volunteer Team Leader with local non-profit Developing World Connections and will be taking a Student Team to Rwanda to work work on a sustainable development project. Our host partner, Building Bridges with Rwanda, has organized the construction of a medical clinic in the small community of Kazo. Actually, the medical clinic has already been started by the community along with a previous DWC group, but has sat unfinished for several years due to local politics. I got the chance to talk to Wayne McRann, DWC's president and co-founder, at an event in Kelowna and he said that the people of Kazo are very eager to welcome volunteers again and get the funds they need to finish the medical clinic. What a wonderful chance to build friendships between cultures and respond to a real need in the community of Kazo!
So, this is for all the people who have said to me, "I wish I could do something like that." when they hear about my travels/volunteer experience... You're invited!
Anyone 16-29 years old can join, from anywhere in Canada, or even other countries. Just contact me at julia@developingworldconnections.org or, for more information about the organization and their purpose visit the DevelopingWorld Connections website : www.developingworldconnections.org .
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Things are not the same.
I have been debating over what to spend my limited internet time writing about for a while now, but I figured, at last, that I just need to write something. So here it is, no planing this time. And I only have 20 mins left on my internet time!
I miss home more than I ever have before. I love Saltpond.
I want to live the local life. I don't want to go to a five and a quarter hour church service.I love my CWY/SYTO friends. I want another loved one to come rescue me.
I appreciate that my counterpart is who she is. I wish our relationship was so much more.
Being one of the only white people around is interesting and exciting. Having how different I am constantly pointed out is tiring and exasperating.
Working to prevent and control malaria is inspiring. Working in the context of this group... is fairly torturous.
It's easy to be discouraged. There is so much to be happy about.
My local friends are fun. It's tiring to interact with them.
I'm in AFRICA. But is it culturally insensitive to say "Africa" rather than "Ghana"?
I feel restless. I feel lazy.
I want to learn and experience everything. I want to curl up in a ball and go to sleep until I get home.
Is this my privileged way of thinking? What does that even MEAN? What the heck should I DO about it!?
Just a few of my daily thoughts.
I will put up some interesting "local flavour" type story soon, I promise. (But is that promoting stereotypes??)
Con amor,
Aba Julia
I miss home more than I ever have before. I love Saltpond.
I want to live the local life. I don't want to go to a five and a quarter hour church service.I love my CWY/SYTO friends. I want another loved one to come rescue me.
I appreciate that my counterpart is who she is. I wish our relationship was so much more.
Being one of the only white people around is interesting and exciting. Having how different I am constantly pointed out is tiring and exasperating.
Working to prevent and control malaria is inspiring. Working in the context of this group... is fairly torturous.
It's easy to be discouraged. There is so much to be happy about.
My local friends are fun. It's tiring to interact with them.
I'm in AFRICA. But is it culturally insensitive to say "Africa" rather than "Ghana"?
I feel restless. I feel lazy.
I want to learn and experience everything. I want to curl up in a ball and go to sleep until I get home.
Is this my privileged way of thinking? What does that even MEAN? What the heck should I DO about it!?
Just a few of my daily thoughts.
I will put up some interesting "local flavour" type story soon, I promise. (But is that promoting stereotypes??)
Con amor,
Aba Julia
Saturday, August 13, 2011
A New, Big, Wonderful Adventure
I am going to.... GHANA! For three months. And Newfoundland for three months. With Canada World Youth.
Hello! I am just a little bit thrilled...
Heads up, I'm going to ask you for money at the end of this post... I really need your help to make this happen!
The exchange starts in St.John's, Newfoundland, where I will meet the 9 Ghanaians participating as well as 8 other Canadians and our 2 project supervisors. One of the ghanaian girls will become my "counterpart" for the whole 6 months; we will live in the same host family both in Canada and in Ghana and be responsible for certain group activities together.
I leave for St. John's on September 4th. In other words: I will be leaving for 6 months in 22 days.
What CWY has to say about CWY:
-Canada World Youth is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been offering international educational programs to youth between the ages of 17 and 24 for 40 years.
-Canada World Youth's mission is to increase the ability of people, and especially young people, to participate actively in the development of just, harmonious and sustainable societies.
What I have to say about CWY: There are just so many fantastic things about this exchange.
- I am going to AFRICA before my 20th birthday!
-The theme of the exchange is Health, so our volunteer projects will be health-related. The project in Ghana will be working on preventing and controlling malaria in young children and women of child-bearing age.
-Girl power! It is an all-female exchange.
-Learning to speak "local dialect" of where I will live in Ghana.
-St.John's is gonna be brilliant... fiddle music, Newfies (I have to learn two new languages!), ocean, visiting a whole new part of Canada.
-I will get an attestation certificate with some university credit value by the end of the program.
-Having a ghanaian counterpart.
-It is practically free. But.....
One of my commitments to CWY is to fundraise $2800. It is going really well, considering I only started on Tuesday... but I will need lots more donations to keep this commitment! By supporting CWY, you will be making it possible for young people like me to take part in the CWY experience.
If you want to make a donation to Canada World Youth and my exchange, you can do so by credit card via this link:
or by cheque or cash through me. :)
Thank you in advance!
I will do my best to keep the blog lively throughout my exchange! I wonder whether the internet connection in Saltpond, Ghana is any good...
Hello! I am just a little bit thrilled...
Heads up, I'm going to ask you for money at the end of this post... I really need your help to make this happen!
The exchange starts in St.John's, Newfoundland, where I will meet the 9 Ghanaians participating as well as 8 other Canadians and our 2 project supervisors. One of the ghanaian girls will become my "counterpart" for the whole 6 months; we will live in the same host family both in Canada and in Ghana and be responsible for certain group activities together.
I leave for St. John's on September 4th. In other words: I will be leaving for 6 months in 22 days.
What CWY has to say about CWY:
-Canada World Youth is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been offering international educational programs to youth between the ages of 17 and 24 for 40 years.
-Canada World Youth's mission is to increase the ability of people, and especially young people, to participate actively in the development of just, harmonious and sustainable societies.
What I have to say about CWY: There are just so many fantastic things about this exchange.
- I am going to AFRICA before my 20th birthday!
-The theme of the exchange is Health, so our volunteer projects will be health-related. The project in Ghana will be working on preventing and controlling malaria in young children and women of child-bearing age.
-Girl power! It is an all-female exchange.
-Learning to speak "local dialect" of where I will live in Ghana.
-St.John's is gonna be brilliant... fiddle music, Newfies (I have to learn two new languages!), ocean, visiting a whole new part of Canada.
-I will get an attestation certificate with some university credit value by the end of the program.
-Having a ghanaian counterpart.
-It is practically free. But.....
One of my commitments to CWY is to fundraise $2800. It is going really well, considering I only started on Tuesday... but I will need lots more donations to keep this commitment! By supporting CWY, you will be making it possible for young people like me to take part in the CWY experience.
If you want to make a donation to Canada World Youth and my exchange, you can do so by credit card via this link:
or by cheque or cash through me. :)
Thank you in advance!
I will do my best to keep the blog lively throughout my exchange! I wonder whether the internet connection in Saltpond, Ghana is any good...
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