Basic Facts About Your Country's Alumni Association
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Guideline for SWYAA Annual Country Reports January to December 2012 This is a general guideline for each SWYAA when writing the annual report. Each Alumni Association has the freedom to add/delete specific information. The annual report will be uploaded on the SWYAA official website. Photos (maximum 10 pictures in high resolution, please add explanation) related to major post-program activities of each Alumni Association should be attached to the annual report. Deadline of submission of the annual reports: January 20, 2013 Please submit your report to: [email protected] Tick (✓ or ☒ ) relevant answer/s or write necessary information. BASIC FACTS Basic facts about your country’s Alumni Association: Country Spain Name of the organization SWYAA Spain Organisational structure □ Umbrella organization of the government □ Officially registered X Voluntary group □ Other ( ) Board members President: Almudena Ramos Martín (Name/batch) Vice President: Paloma Fernández de la Peña Treasurer: Number of members Total number of ex-PYs: 60 Active members: 30 Affiliate members: Annual membership fee □ Yes How much? ( ) X No Basic facts about your country’s participation in SWY: Which batches has your country SWY 4 (1992), SWY 12 (1999), SWY 13 (2000), SWY 15 (2002), participated in? SWY 20 (2008) and SWY 24 (2012) Which institution has conducted X Japanese Embassy the selection process? □ Government X Youth organization (in the case of SWY 24) X SWYAA (except for SWY 24) □ Other ( ) Which institution has conducted □ Japanese Embassy the pre-departure training? □ Government □ Youth organization X SWYAA X Other (participants themselves) How many days was the pre- □ 1 day departure training? □ 2 – 3 days □ 4 – 6 days X Other ( ) Communication: How does your AA □ Website URL ( ) communicate internally with □ Newsletter Please attach a copy of the newsletter to this report members and externally with X Mailing list non-members? X Blog URL (http://swyaaspain.wordpress.com/) X Facebook page □ Other ( ) NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIONS WITH JAPAN AND THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY Important associates and □ Government sector (name: ) collaborators? □ Japanese Embassy □ Japanese community □ Other organizations (name: ) Do you organize events □ Yes with the Japanese How often? ( ) Embassy? What kind of events? ( ) X No Do you organize events □ Yes with the Japanese How often? ( ) community? What kind of events? ( ) X No ACTIVITIES IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR International reunions (Please write your AA has hosted an international reunion) Name of the event 20th anniversary of SWY 4 Date of the event 27 April - 1 May 2012 Hosting city Madrid How many participants? Number of domestic participants: 10 + 1 Advisor (Mabel Salido) From which countries? Number of international participants: 43 Names of the countries participated: Spain, Turkey, Japan, Egypt, Hungary, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Sweden, UAE, Algeria and Bangladesh. Please write a summary International SWY reunion held in Madrid with SWY 4 participants (1992) of the event to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Some SWYers even came accompanied by their families and friends and visited Madrid, El Escorial and Toledo. In Madrid, participants visited the Royal Palace, the Prado museum and the Monastery of El Escorial. A full excursion to the city of Toledo was made, where the mayor of the city, Mr. Emiliano Garcia-Page, received them at the City Hall. The mayor made a very touching speech and participants learned that both Toledo and Nara were twin cities since 1972. The city of Toledo arranged a tour through the city including places which are not regularly visited. During the evenings, participants went to eat traditional Spanish food and went to see Flamenco dancing National reunions (Please write your AA has hosted a national reunion) Name of the event SWY Christmas Dinner Date of the event 28 December 2012 Hosting city Madrid How many participants? 15 Please write a summary Informal reunion to meet Spanish SWYers from other batches as well as of the event international SWYers living in Spain. We had SWYers coming from Egypt, Venezuela, Mexico and Canada. Receiving ex-SWY participants How many SWY visitors did you receive 15 PYs were hosted in Spain in 2012: in your country? Three JPYs from SWY 21 (Naoko Koyama, Ayako Sekimoto and Yuriko Tsuji) were hosted by Javier Pinto (SWY 20) in Alicante. The Administrator of SWY 15, Mr. Masayoshi Takahashi, met Luis Miro and Juan Ramón (SWY 15) in Barcelona. Keiko Osawa (SWY 15, Japan) visited our friend Paloma Sotillo (SWY 15) in Madrid. Andrea Kovacs (SWY24, Peru) and José Nicolás Rojas (advisor SWY24, Venezuela) visited Madrid and met Alberto Medina (SWY24) and Paloma Fernández (SWY24). Michèle Sarazin (SWY 24, Canada) was hosted by Paloma Fernández (SWY 24), Juan Fleta (SWY24) and Violeta Sáez (SWY 24) in Madrid, Málaga and Murcia, respectively. Eveline Lefebvre (SWY 24, Canada) and Philippa Gosine (SWY 24, Canada) were hosted by Paloma Fernández (SWY24). Rabab Elmonofi (SWY 24, Egypt) was hosted in Guadalajara by Alberto Medina (SWY 24) and Madrid by Paloma Fernández (SWY 24). Mahmood Alfarsi (SWY 20, Oman) visited Spain and met Alberto Medina (SWY 24) and Paloma Fernández (SWY 24). Misako Yamamoto (SWY 24, Japan) met Alberto Medina (SWY 24) and Paloma Fernández (SWY 24) in Madrid. Haitham Mawali (SWY 20, Oman) and Faisal Hameed Al Bellucce (SWY 21, Oman) met Almudena Ramos (SWY 20) in Madrid. Did you organize a No, but we are going to implement it in 2013. “Homestay + 1” project for the visitors? If yes, please write in detail. Voluntary (Social Contribution) projects – Post-Program Activities Name of the event SWY Information Event: “Intercultural experience and catalyst for projects”. (Violeta Sáez, SWY 24). Date of the event 24 May 2012 Hosting city Murcia How many ex-PYs 5 ex PYs from SWY 24: Dalia Younis (Egypt), Violeta Saez Garces de los involved and how many Fayos, Paloma Fernández, Pablo Castineiras and María Lopez de Bayas beneficiaries? (Spain). 20 people attended the conference. Please write a summary The event was organized by the “Centro de Iniciativas Juveniles de la of the event Región de Murcia (DINAMUR)”, in collaboration with the program “Integra y Participa” (Youth Department of the City Hall of Murcia). Conference about SWY program and the promotion of youth participation. Name of the event First Anniversary of the 2011 Tsunami. Memorial. (Carme Feliu, SWY 13) Date of the event March 2012 Hosting city Girona How many ex-PYs One ex PY involved (Carme). We posted it in our Facebook group (about 70 involved and how many people read it) and sent it so several families and friends in Japan (about 20 beneficiaries? people). Please write a summary Activity organised by Carme Feliu Latorre (ANL at SWY13 year 2000 and of the event Education Representative at Rennaissance Youth Leaders Program year 2004). Carme works as the Director of Nipponia, a private language center specialized in Japanese language and culture in the town of Girona (Spain). The center sent encouraging messages and smiling pictures to our friends at Miyagi Prefecture on the first anniversary of the 2011 tsunami, to let them know that we remember, we are thinking of them and wishing a fast recovery of the affected area. Name of the event Senbazuru (origami cranes) (relocated in a temporary housing area in Miyagi, Sendai, Japan). (Carme Feliu, SWY 13) Date of the event May 2012 Hosting city Girona How many ex-PYs One ex PY involved (Carme) and many JPYs, including the IYEO involved and how many representatives in Miyagi and specially Naoko-san and Milky-san, who beneficiaries? received the Senbazuru and hanged it at the center. More than 100 people participated in the Senbazuru activity in 2011 and donated money in Girona. About the news we received in May 2012: one ex PY involved and a couple of ex JPYs. Hanging the Senbazuru in another center probably allowed more people in the affected area to see it and thus to be beneficiaries of this activity. Please write a summary After the 2011 tsunami Nipponia organized a fundraising activity that of the event allowed to send about 1,700 EUR (200,200 Japanese Yen) to the Japanese Red Cross. At the same time, participants made Senbazuru (origami cranes) with encouraging messages for the victims of the tsunami. Our Senbazuru were first placed at a welfare evacuation center in Miyagi, as can be seen in the pictures. On May 28th 2012, we received news from Naoko-san and Milky-san saying that our Senbazuru had been relocated from the evacuation center to one of the meeting places in a temporary housing area in Miyagi. The following message explains that: Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 23:13:15 +0900 Dear Carme, Hola! How have you been? I can see you are always active and positive through Facebook :) Milky chan (Ms. Miyuki ISE) sent me these photos attached to show you and your students. And today I'll be her translator^^ She's sorry that she couldn't get back to you earlier, but she's sent this info to the whole IYEO mailing list, too, as the part of Miyagi IYEO's report on disaster relief activities. Your senbazuru 1,000 cranes were delivered and decorated in July last year in the "welfare evacuation center" where all the victims who need nursing care evacuated. The center was a former gym located 40 minutes drive away from the coast area. There, medical staff from Ishinomaki municipal hospital served around the clock. (One of the Miyagi IYEO members work as a nurse at the hospital and this hospital has been one of the main organizations Miyagi IYEO is supporting). This evacuation center was closed last December and it seems that the cranes were translocated to one of the meeting places of the temporary housing area where nurses go the round.