uwcac: action

This is the page for student initiatives: to publicise their project, to inform others of the purpose and activities, and to communicate between those involved.

Students can be given access to this area of the server, to be able to upload and update the webpages themselves, or provide links to other pages on the internet.

Summer Projects 2007

Please pass any additional information to Bhoomie in Gwynedd House.

Project Name

Contacts

Number

Length and Time

Activities

Aim of Project

Kenya and Tanzania Project
“Watoto Tucheze”

Amina S. (), Scott M. ()

5 weeks (30 June - 25 July)

Nairobi

Providing services like counselling, psychological support and spiritual guidance to HIV positive children and their families. Give HIV transmission prevention education and promote community empowerment.
Play games, perform a play with the children, take them on fieldtrips

Dar es Salaam

Helping out project(started last year) which is focused on building a school/ dormitories for orphans.Teach English and other subjects due to lack of teachers. Games will be played and play will be acted.

AC mission “A change for force”

Raise awareness of HIV/AIDS
Improve communication and social skills with children
Provide knowledge and experience for the participants

Botswana Project

Sadi K. ()

4 weeks (mid-June – mid-July)

Working with children who are both infected or affected by the HIV/AID epidemic. Promoting self expression and creativity through our specially designed programes. Donating specialized toys that drastically appeal to the senses unlike the conventional toys. will establish a community service group made up of the high school students of a nearby school. They will adopt our methods and continue the children activities. We will visit Bana Ba Keletso, which means “Children of Hope”, a charity organization that has opened its gates to a ballooning number of orphans, most of whose parents have died of AIDS. Visit Baylor Centre of Excellence ,a clinic where children go to get antiretroviral treatment and go for check ups. There we will entertain children, play games etc whilst they wait to see the doctor.

Botswana – Harvard HIV Reference Laboratory

Visit these labs to find out about the HIV research being done and the progress made learning about HIV/AIDS effects in rural communities and what is being done to educate those who cannot read and don’t have access to radios and TVs about the virus. To discover Africa’s beauty spend one of the weekends exploring the bushman/san culture at the Kalahari desert.

To do voluntary work, by contributing our time and energy to making a difference to the lives of the children who have been affected or infected by HIV/ AIDS. The basis of this project is a promotion of compassion towards the innocent children who are experiencing life’s difficulties.

Madagascar Project

Zeph P. (), Ranaivo R. ()

4 weeks (June 2007)

India Project

Lauritz, Hritodaya,

Indo-Tibet Project

Tenzin T.

4weeks (1st of July - 29th of July)

Working with orphan, semi orphans and children whose parents live in Tibet.
Students from AC will be staying with Tibetan families to actually experience the Tibetan life in India.
Visiting the Tibetan Government in Exile and we will get an audience with H.H. The 14TH Dalai Lama.
Working with Handicapped and disabled people.
Learning about Tibetan Culture, Art, Religion, Medicine and Music. We are also going to learn about Tibetan Mask and opera dances
Working in a local Tibetan school and to have an exchange with Tibetan students of our age

Mongolia Project

Tamir

4 weeks(4th June – 2nd July)

In the capital city, Ulaanbataar, work with students from a secondary school and teach them English
Help orphanages and teach them English
Throuighout the project explore Mongolian and nomadic culture.
Plan outdoor extramural activities with the students and orphans to the nearest landscape.
Discover the Gobi Desert to get the real picture of nomads and meet the people there, also to explore the unique beauty of the desert itself

Raise money to give the secondary school full scholarship for students.
Explore Mongolian culture and its landscape
Make orphans lterate with English
Give AC students the true impressions and memories of Mongolia

Patagonia Project

Matias Groetaers ()

7(Open for more)

3 weeks (1-24 July)

Building shelter for the homeless through an organisation called “ Un techo para Chile”
Outdoor activities such as skiing, canopying, rafting
Visit indigenous people of Chile
Explore the landscape in Southern Chile
Visit the capital and a local winery/vineyard

The basic aim of the project is community service.
Giving the students the understanding of the lives of homeless Chilean people.
To explore the country and South American culture as well remove stereotypes people have of them.
Spread the UWC ideals.

China project

Yuchen and Yongde

3 weeks(06 June -28 July)

Shenzhen

Spend two weeks with children at the Summer Camp in Shenzhen. Teach them English and share your culture from your countries
Enjoy the night life in Shenzhen.

Sichuang

Go to one of poor regions in Sichuang, a beautiful province in China, and look after needy kids. Also,teach them basis English.
Spend the weekend travelling and visiting the famous attractions in that place.

Teaching children simple English and experience the life of tutoring in a Summer Camp
Learning Chinese traditional culture and arts
Visiting several Chinese famous attractions.
Know more about the Chinese history
Explore the life in both modern city, e.g. ShenZhen and rural village e.g. Sichuang.

Panama Project 2007

Isaiah Usher ()

4 weeks (4th of July until the 4th of August)

Activities will include tough physical labour on the most remote farms we can get to and EMC style outreach work with the communities—especially children. But a definite focus on the farm work.

to aid the community by providing a concentrated burst of manpower to improve their farms, and to improve the understanding of the development process held my the students working on the project.

Thailand Project

Wimalin Chalermporn ()

10-15