The Taita Foundation “For Children in Africa” – St Joseph’s Children Home (Kenya).
This voluntary service project was awarded the Special Green Award for Sustainability:
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Following are some photos of the work of Taita Foundation at St Joseph’s Children Home:
Following award of the Special Green Prize for Sustainability, Ágnes Csordás was interviewed on Hungarian National television. You can see the video here:
You can see their certificate here, or visit their website.
Durbanville Children’s Home was awarded the Gold Ubuntu IYVS Award:
Yvonne Mathieson (Volunteer Project Manager) & Cozmore Fungulani (international volunteer from Zimbabwe who served at the Durbanville Childrens’s home from 2004 to 2008)
Following are some photos of Durbanville’s work, sent to us at Ubuntu:
IKU Sweden
Internationellt KulturUtbyte (IKU)/ICYE Sweden is a youth organisation with 2000 members. The vision of IKU is a sustainable world in peace, where young people are active citizens. We send and receive young volunteers to/from different countries of the world, and engage young Swedes in local groups who run peace projects.
Ruth talks about volunteering in Sweden for IKU
Ruth Odofoley Nortey from Ghana (sending organisation ICYE Ghana) came to work in the hosting project of IKU / ICYE Sweden and is about to finish her project. She has been involved in different aspects of the work of IKU. She has been a support in the voluntary service sector.
IKU belives it is crucial not to only send Swedish volunteers to Africa, but also to host African volunteers in Sweden. This is as relevant, although Sweden is usually seen as one of the most developed countries in the world. The partnership in our projects is very stable, since we work through the federation of ICYE, which we have for many years.
Stockholm is in Sweden
African Information Movement (AIM)
AIM was awarded the Silver Ubuntu 2009 IYVS Award:
AIM is registered both in Germany and in Ghana. Both organisations work closely together by organising projects for young people. Since the very early stages, German volunteers have been supporting development efforts in Ghana.
The activities are centred on working with the youth and motivating young people for social and intercultural aims. The core part of the efforts that led to the development of the project is result of successful and voluntary commitments by young people from Ghana and Europe.
All the volunteers plan and realise their own projects; this way it is ensured that they are well occupied and serve the community well.
AIM is based in Komendar, Ghana.
Imani Rehabilitation Center
Center for International Voluntary Service is a non-profit voluntary service organization based in Kenya, with an aim of providing innovative and competent support services to empower communities and organizations aimed at stimulating self–development initiative among the disadvantaged members of the society as well as developing harmonious relations among people of different backgrounds and cultures.
Imani Children Home was established to cater for the needs of abandoned babies, orphans, children of imprisoned mothers and those children whose survival has been endangered in one way or the other such as the street children who go to the streets to escape poverty or battering at home or perhaps they were orphaned due to the AIDS.
CIVS - Kenya is based in Nairobi
Alexander McCall Smith Traditional Rest Camp (Mokolodi Nature Reserve, Botswana)
This project, submitted by the Botswana Workcamps Association (BWA), construction of Alexander McCall Smith Traditional huts and rest camp using the traditional construction materials.
The main objectives was to have a resting place where visitors especially tourists to Mokolodi Nature Reserve can relax during their tours and also get to appreciate the Tswana culture in terms of architecture, food and local items.
The Mokolodi Nature Reserve is in Botswana.
Campagne Des Hommes – Sports and Youth
Campagne Des Hommes was awarded the Bronze Ubuntu IYVS Award:
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This project aims at finding remedies to the problem of a lack of physical education teachers in the secondary modern schools and grammar schools of the Prefecture.
Campagne Des Hommes is active in Togo.
