On
this program during their stay in community,
volunteers will mainly organize awareness raising
activities to help promote the understanding
of various environmental and development issues.
Volunteers will combine artistic activities,
such as dramas, painting, story and poetry writing,
as well as games and competitions, with educational
information.In this way, children’s groups
in particular will be highly motivated and more
effectivein disseminating needed education and
awareness. One focus is to create newsletters
for government schools, enabling the students
to have a major creative outlet that can be
used for confidence building and education dissemination.
Volunteers will work together with VSN and a
motivated and experienced Nepali counterpart,
who have experience organizing activities that
mobilize students into action. These activities
may cover environmental campaigns, sanitation
campaigns, conservation campaigns, health issue
campaigns, etc.
This program will work in partnership with students
and the community at large, and will be implemented
by a team of volunteers, students, partner NGOs
and community members. Volunteers
provide support to local projects by contributing
labor and time, while students and community
members contribute by providing local materials,
labor, and needed experience.Examples of this
type of a micro-level project include the setting
up of a local library, community dramas, classroom
renovation, school building painting etc.
VSN is aware that not all volunteers posses
the same skills and capacity, which is why the
volunteers' prime responsibility is to organize
extra curricular learning activities through
student groups (children’s clubs).Volunteers
will either establish or work with an existing
students group. The existing groups are run
by motivated, enthusiastic, and committed students
— the students are essential in reinforcing
your work at the school and it will be their
responsibility to maintain the groups and activities
after you leave. With capacity building training
and resource support, these student groups can
help raise theawareness, about a variety of
issues, of other students and the community
at large,to ensure a sustainable impact. |
