means that I concentrate

more on Pre-Schools and

Youth Clubs. Said in a sim-

ple way, my job is to coop-

erate together with he

members of Youth Clubs,

Child Care Committees and

with the Pre-School teach-

ers to solve the problems

that they face, to improve

the ways of doing things, if

necessary, and to encour-

age and motivate them. I

should also monitor plant-

ing of trees, construction of

firewood saving stoves and

check if what Area Leaders

report, reflects the reality-

this is always funny. From

January, I will start work-

shops with the Pre-School

teachers so they will be

able to give more knowl-

edge to the kids- this is my

new personal project,

adapted to the new situa-

tion.

Let the adventure begin!

May team 2010 has left for

their projects in November.

Here are the latest news

from one of our DIs that is

currently working in Zam-

bia. Enjoy! :)

Zambia, wow! Nice place,

nice people, nice Nshima,

nice nature, nice weather,

nice everything! I can easily

imagine myself here for

more than 6 months. Afri-

can shock? Not really! The

school prepared us exactly

for what is here so take

studies and experiences

serious guys! Really! :) In

this area, the project is al-

ready running for 6 years,

in different forms, so there

is not so much innovation

that I can bring. My per-

sonal project is obsolete,

since more than 90% of the

houses have tippi taps, dish

racks and pit latrines. Al-

most all of the schools have

these facilities also. They

did a good job and every-

body has the knowledge

about health, hygiene and

anything else that they

should know about (a TCE

Project in this area would

be better in this moment). I

am impressed of what I

found here, I adapted to

what is happening here and

my work is based on Lines

3 and 4 of Child Aid, which

The world

of the volunteer N r . 1 , 2 0 1 1 J a n u a r y 2 0 1 1

Iulian (RO), participant in

May team 2010, currently

in a Child Aid project in

Choma, Zambia.

Zambia, India, Mozam-

bique, all three coun-

tries presented

through the eyes of

our DIs. May team

2010 members

seemed to have found

their places in the pro-

jects. Our youngest

team, November team

2010 is “growing” as

well, getting every day

better prepared to face

the challenges that

wait for them on two

continents.

Do you think this is

interesting?

Join us!

DRH Norway

www.drh-norway.org

E-mail:

diprogram@drh-

norway.org

Phone:

004761264444

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“The aim of the

project is to

change the

attitude and the

behavior in the

communities,

reduce stigma

and

discrimination in

order to fight the

spread of HIV/

AIDS”

World Aids Day in

Zambia

They call her Sybe or Sybeso because they cannot pronounce her name

and office work means she has to run along with the kids to catch the

chicken behind the office, let us go through Jitka’s first month in Africa.

“This cannot be described, must be seen” -Dimitar, May team 2010

Amazing Mozambique

Dimitar started his African experience in November, working in the Teacher

Training College in Maputo. Since then he has been through important events on a

local scale, for instance the graduation of 190 primary school teachers:

―I was lucky to be a witness of the graduation of the current students and this was

something really special. For this people this event was something really special.

For all of them. Why? The students sang only one sentence in English: <We are

all happy to be together> and my feeling is that was 100% true. I was also invited

to go in holiday with some other DIs from the Children's Town, which was a good

opportunity to do something usefull in this long holiday. We went with the children

to one of the nicest beaches in the neigbouring district and organized games for

them‖

stock or garden manage-

ment and after the

courses, they receive ei-

ther animals (chicken,

goats) or seeds (corn,

soya, moringa). One of

my tasks is to go with the

community mobilizers for

livestock monitoring, but

there is always a prob-

lem: people eat the ani-

mals instead of breeding

them and then they say

that the chicken was sto-

len or it died.

We work with 3700 peo-

ple and the aim is to

equip the community with

skills so they can start

their own income gener-

ating activity and become

self-sufficient. We are

organizing different

workshops for the people

in the community, live-

Graduation in EPF Maputo

T h e w o r l d

Giving HOPE in Zambia

Jitka (CZ), May team 2010—HOPE Mongu

My main task is to give

lessons about positive

living and basic facts

about HIV/AIDS.

“Equality matters, when it is more than just slogans” Edgars (LV) - May team 2010, TCGD Haldwani, India

P a g e 3 J a n u a r y 2 0 1 1

Between some classes or a

visit to the slums, Edgars

found some time to give us

news about his

activities in India.

At end of first

week I started to

carry out infor-

matics classes and

also to assist per-

manent teacher

Ganesh on daily

classes. On next week I also

started to give English les-

sons. My students are mostly

older than me, as all of them

are/were teachers with two higher

educations. It is always joy to give

them new knowledge, as they are very

eager to learn. Also in my area are

design things, such as invitations,

newsletters, videos, presentations,

newspapers, booklets, etc. In this time

we had also investigations in slums

and villages. In slums you can see

why locals think that white people are

rich. While we can throw out bags of

bread, here kids have no food to eat.

Edgars

My first task here was to make 2 la-

trines for the pre-school which we al-

ready finished in 4 days. We had to dig

2 holes 2 meter deep, after arrange the

bricks inside and make the cover from

cement. The only thing which we have

to make is to buy some bamboo and put

around the latrines. We plant moringa

tree, passion fruit tree and pineapple.

Our next task is to build some enter-

tainment toys for pre-school from

wood. I can say that I am working in all

the projects which Bilibiza has.

Simply India Martins, May team 2010, CDP Orissa

“One thing you have it for sure in Africa, and that is time.”

Oli, May team 2010, Farmers Club, Bilibiza, Mozambique

We were so happy to reach TCGD Orissa, that it seemed like

Long way to India, trains, plane, other trains, this time Indian style,

rickshaws and there they are, Dace and Martins, May team 2010.

One of my tasks is to give presentations about various topics.

Recently we had a tree planting action where we have received

1200 seedlings to plant all over the district. My work is to visit

local villages and talk with the villagers about their problems and ex-

plain about Humana’s activities. Its quite an interesting job, the only

problem is that I don’t know local language, so I need to use body lan-

guage to communicate. But I am slowly learning local language –

Oriya and they are very happy to hear me speaking in their language.

In our operational area we have 22 villages. We organize villagers in

Self Help Groups.—Martins

November team 2010—skying, skating and gaining trust in each other

B u i l d I n g a t e a m

Putting some people together in a classroom does not automatically mean we have a team. Teams here go through many

experiences, difficult ones, funny ones, educational ones… all with the aim to make them trust each other and become

able to work together fruitfully. Here are the latest moments that November team 2010’s member had been through to-

gether. Here are the thoughts one of the November team members, Norbi (RO) decided to share with us.

Cross-country?

So, I even checked what the dictionary has got to say about cross country and it means running on mountain road. Eve-

rything began when a group of happy people decided that they want to spend their afternoon doing something interest-

ing. I was asked if I want to go skiing. You can’t imagine how happy I was to find out that I am not the only obsessed

person in Hornsjoe concerning skiing. We agreed to meet after lunch in the room where the equipment was. I am using

the word "equipment" because what followed was only serving to my

disappointment and confusion. I had to wear a pair of shoes which were

not attached to my skis and besides, those skis were something more

different then the ones I remember skiing last time with, my skis. After-

wards I found out that actually we are going to practice cross-country

which to me was an unknown sport and meaningless. I didn't expect to

have fun but I went because I just wanted to try it. Why not? It was not

that hard to adapt to the procedure and actually it was not that boring

as I was expecting. The only concern is that I didn't find yet that person

who is in fond of skiing, in Hornjoe. The ski track in Oyer is not that

nice, it is more to learn skiing and I would really like to ski downhill

jumping through bushes and avoiding trees. I will continue my pursue

of a partner, in case o get hurt and lose my phone.

Blindfolded happy people

This

was one

weird

experi-

ence.

We

walked

blind-

folded

for like

an hour

and we had to wear our scarves even while we

were smoking or just stopping for a short break.

Imagine that we were supposed to pass over rocks

and bushes or even small rivers because the leader

chose a pretty hard route. The purpose of this

game was to check if we can trust our colleagues

and if not to start trusting them. It was really im-

portant to trust the one who's hand you were hold-

ing because he was the one who was leading you

and sometimes the road didn’t allow us to side-

track.. All in all it was a nice experience and I am

sure that I can trust Nicky, one of my colleagues.

Skating on the lake

Can you believe that it was the first time I skated?

Here, in Hornsjoe. I never considered skating though it

is practiced a lot in my beautiful country, Romania. We

were many, more then 20 people and when we got

there we split in groups, beginners and advanced. I

didn’t join any of these groups because the only thing I

wanted was to get to the other side of the forest, situ-

ated near the most far place of the lake. My only con-

cern was reaching that point by skating. Practically I

was wondering if I could reach it, but I knew that if I

would, one nice picture will be made. I made it, of

course and what amazed me was that it was really

easy, only because it is very similar to skiing. I really

enjoyed it and I

like a lot skating

in the same di-

rection with the

wind because you

acquire high

speed and you

can control the

skates easily.