A. Home
>
Welcome!
“The essence of ubuntu is captured in the principles of interdependence, communality of purpose and mutual respect. It proceeds from the basis that our very identity as people is drawn from what we share and not what separates us.”
- RJ Khoza & M Adam,The Power of Governance (2005)
Gold Award – Durbanville Children’s Home (South Africa)
Silver Award – African Information Movement (Ghana)
Bronze Award – Campagnes Des Hommes – Sports & Youth (Togo)
Special Green Award for Sustainability – Taita Foundation “For Children in Africa” – St Joseph’s Children Home (Kenya)
The winners of the Ubuntu IYVS Award 2009 - from left to right: Joern Preuss (AIM), Yvonne Mathieson (Durbanville Childrens Home), Hobgbenu Kodjo (Campagne Des Hommes), Agnes Csordas (Taita Foundation)
All of the jurors and partners involved in the project would like to express their congratulations to these 4 projects, for their outstanding contributions to international youth voluntary service. Ubuntu Partner organisations released their own response, titled theUbuntu Partner Perpective, which states:
“Today we are celebrating the contribution of young volunteers and the contribution that they make to development, to their own education, to the fostering of relations between Africa and Europe, and something close to my heart, to the development of global active citizens.”
Apress release from the European Commission carried the following statement byJán Figel, European Commissioner forEducation, Training, Culture and Youth:
“I congratulate the winners of the Ubuntu International Voluntary Service Award 2009. They exemplify all that is positive about volunteering: the individual benefits from the experience, the immersion in another society and culture; the recipients of the help offered by the volunteers benefit from their activities; and society benefits from the greater sense of social responsibility and social cohesion that volunteering engenders in those who participate. It further pleases me to see that the next Awards will take place in 2011, which the European Commission has proposed to be declared the European Year of Volunteering.”
Check out the News Section to see photos, and more information about the awards.
Use ‘Compatibility View’ to view this site when browsing with Internet Explorer 8.
Text text text file to download.
