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Newsletter of ICVolunteers Fourth Quarter 2006 Letter from the Editor 2 Federation 2 Swiss Students Experience the Desert 4 school of Ouadnagim Did you Say CyberVolunteers? 5 Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in the 6-7 Cyberspace The Agence de la Francophonie 8 Discovers Cybervolunteering Switzerland 9-10 France 11 Spain 12 Mali 12 Uganda 12 Senegal 12 Brazil 12 South Africa 13 Other places 13 Internships and long-term volunteering 14 Volunteer Charter 15 Greetings 16 About ICVolunteers 16 Impressum 16 Headquarters: ICVolunteers, PO Box 755, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland, phone: +41 22 800 14 36, fax: +41 22 800 14 37, email: [email protected], website: www.icvolunteers.org ICVNews, Fourth Quarter 2006 Letter from the Editor Dear Colleagues and Friends, eration), GIAN (Geneva International Academic Network), INTIF (Institut francophone des nouvelles technologies It was a great pleasure to work, de l’information et de la formation), the City of Geneva, progress and dream with all of UNESCO-Switzerland, the City of Ferney-Voltaire, you throughout this past year. I Chambre de Commerce de l’Ain, SCAC (French Gov- believe we achieved a lot and this ernment), Office cantonal de l’emploi de la République is thanks to your commitment and hard work. et canton de Genève, CERN, Hewlett Packard, MCI Group, Syni, DRM, MCART, Lycée International de A special thank goes to all our volunteers how have Ferney-Voltaire and Linguamón. spent over 40,000 hours of work for our projects in 2006. 450 volunteer positions were coordinated by I wish you all the best for the upcoming 2007 and spend ICVolunteers. We have at this point a network of many more fun and interesting moments with you. 6,500 volunteers, 1,500 of whom are active. Viola Krebs Many thanks go to our partners and sponsors, in par- Executive Director of ICVolunteers ticular SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Coop- Federation Annual Figures New Partners The ICVolunteers Federation celebrated its first birthday A new associate member has also joined the network: the 21st October 2006. As this first candle is blown out the Conservation Through Public Health Telecentre we can record a positive outcome for all the organisa- which is located in the Bwindi Impenetrable Na- tion’s activities. Worldwide, these activities covered 48 tional Park in South-Western Uganda. This centre has projects, 450 volunteer positions – of which 220 in con- done excellent work in raising awareness in the areas of ferences, 60 for language services, and the rest for cy- both the protection of the environment and health. bervolunteering, training and cooperation projects – all of which totalled over 40,000 work hours. Furthermore, we have signed a partnership agreement with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, which further formalises the work we’ve undertaken with this organisation recently through the CyberVolun- teers Programme, particularly in particular at the Cam- pus Numérique de la Francophonie in Bamako. Another partnership agreement has been signed with the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), on behalf of whom we manage an internship programme for student-interpreters within the frame- work of the International Master of Advanced Studies in Development which, thanks to ICVolun- teers’ interpreters, can be carried out in three lan- guages, i.e. English, French and Spanish. ICVoluntarios-Barcelona Membership-wise, ICVolunteers has just launched a new national office: ICVoluntarios-Barcelona. This of- fice will be ICVolunteers’ representation in Southern Europe. 2 ICVNews, Fourth Quarter 2006 Swiss Students experience the Desert School of Ouladnagim Viola Krebs and Christine Clerc I decided to be part of the UNESCO Group be- Shindouk, the community leader, has also been able to cause I wanted to be part of a charitable project find pencils and notebooks, donated by a Ghanaian “ where I felt that I would really be helping some- friend, as well as a small blackboard. The tutor will one, to know why and to do as much as possible to teach the children the basics of reading and writing and achieve this. In this Group, each of us can express his or elementary calculations with the available means. her desires, and impressions for an idea that is common to all of us: building the school, ’Oasis of the Desert’.” Lucie von der Weid, 17 years old, Switzerland Ouadnagim is a Tuareg community of 1500 people who live in the Sahel desert on the far side of Timbuktu. ICVolunteers has been accompanying the tribe through its CyberVolunteers Programme activities since 2003. That is how the www.shindouk.org website was cre- ated. The community’s well and its new Desert School are located 120 km from Timbuktu. Until now, the children As the community has around 50 to 60 children aged of the desert did not have the possibility to go to school between 5 and 15, there will be continued endeavours and were therefore illiterate. to ensure good-quality basic education for all, inas- much as is possible. The community has begun proce- dures to obtain acknowledgement by the National Edu- cation Board, which would ensure that a teacher is posted/assigned and that his or her salary is paid through the public schooling system, but nothing has been confirmed yet… The students of the UNESCO Group of the junior high- schools of Candolle and Calvin are preparing different fundraising activities for the Desert School of Oulad- nagim. Role of ICVolunteers: Part of ICVolunteers’ work con- sisted in informing and raising awareness to help the community find new partners. Now, however, there is good news: the very first school In the context of its CyberVolunteers Programme, year at the Desert School began on the 15th October ICVolunteers is in charge of keeping the students of 2006! A retired teacher from the high-school of Tim- Mali and Switzerland in touch. It is also facilitating ac- buktu decided in fact to teach in the desert. He speaks cess to volunteers and contacts in Mali itself. Tamasheq and knows the local customs well. He will settle down at the camp where the community pro- vides him with a tent and food. Thanks to the generos- In the photos Oulad- ity of Mirjam Brunner, a volunteer who taught at Ou- nagim’s Desert School and the students of the ladnagim this summer, the community will even be able UNESCO group of the to pay him a small salary of CFA 40,000 per month. junior high-schools of Candolle and Calvin. Photos by Viola Krebs 3 ICVNews, Fourth Quarter 2006 Did you say CyberVolunteers? Cyrille Marc Schmid, CyberVolunteers Project Manager n the present article, I will try to present to you the decided to give priority to South-South, South-North CyberVolunteers Programme and answer any ques- and North-South type of exchanges and therefore, I tions you may have about it. I will strive to provide whenever possible, recruits candidates with specific you with a precise explanation like a quartz watch, but skills for the task. far easier to understand than a timekeeper of a me- ICVolunteers participates in the transportation and chanical mechanism. housing costs of cyber-volunteers. In specific cases, What do we mean by “CyberVolunteers”? To begin health and accident insurance may also be covered. with, let me define the word as it is used at ICVolun- Consequently, it is essential for ICVolunteers to be able teers. A cyber-volunteer is a volunteer who puts his or to find funds over a period of time, not simply limited her expertise, acquired through academic or profes- to that of one cyber-project, but which will ensure the sional experience in the areas of information and com- contributions necessary to its long-term sustainability. munication technologies (ICTs), as well as his or her How can I help? First of all, anyone may make a fi- human qualities at the service of NGOs, associations nancial contribution. The budget for one cyber- and cooperatives. This definition leads us to the next volunteer’s 2-month mission in Uganda at Conservation question: Through Public Health (CTPH) came to less than SF Who are ICVolunteers’ cyber-volunteers? Our cy- 1,000. It is not much, particularly considering the bene- ber-volunteers, just like other ICV volunteers, are moti- fit of such a mission for the local population. This is just vated and come from different cultures and horizons. the most recent exam- There are the young, the not-so-young, and the retired. ple and it can easily be They all have one thing in common: all want to con- multiplied by the hun- tribute their knowledge of ICTs, their skills and their dreds, since ICVolun- know-how to projects that will help improve the life of teers has a whole stash a community that needs help. of cyber-volunteers just waiting to bring one of Since the launch of this programme, in January 2005, the selected projects to more than 200 volunteers have expressed their inten- bear fruit. However, the tion to participate in one or another of our projects. On funds must continue to average, two or three candidates put themselves for- be available. ward every week. Another way to con- But what do the selected volunteers do? As you tribute is to do so in can imagine, ICTs are vast and can be described in kind. This includes many ways. For ICVolunteers, the following activities books and computer equipment you do no longer need, are often proposed and their duration can range from a but are still in excellent condition and would be of few days to several months: training on ICTs, designing great help for the populations of developing countries.
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