Posted: Wednesday Jan 16, 02:06 PDT Updated: Wednesday Jan 16, 02:06 PDT
Fight Poverty-Help In Development
In MAY 2008 we start new programs in which we will train Poverty Fighters to work in projects in Ecuador or Brazil under the headline
“FIGHT SHOULDER BY SHOULDER WITH THE POOR”
* You don’t need any special education * You need to be at least 18 years old
YOU NEED TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE FOR EVERYONE
9 months programs.
USA – Brazil / Ecuador:
2 months at IICD: Rich and poor in the Americas
1 month bus travel in Brazil/Central America: Diversity and Contradictions
4 months: Fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Poor in Brazil/Ecuador
2 months at IICD: Spreading Knowledge in the US about Fighting Poverty
Period 1: 2 months at IICD: Rich and poor in the Americas
During this period you study, learn, work and build up the team.
A major topic is rich and poor, their lives and the causes for the divisions of the world today. You dig deep into the issue of wealth and poverty. You prepare concretely and practically to go to Brazil or Ecuador. You meet Americans while raising funds for the program and you train to do investigations and to produce reports and presentations.
Period 2: 1 month travel in Brazil or in USA- Central America
Together with your team you fly to Brazil or you drive in a bus from IICD to Costa Rica where you fly to Ecuador. In this month you seek out the wealthy businessmen of the big city to listen to their view of the country and where it is heading. You meet street children and get to understand the nature of their plight. You meet young and old, housewives, factory workers and the unemployed. You send home articles, poems and pictures recording your findings to the school web site, newsletter and other outlets for your findings.
Period 3: 4 months: Fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Poor
You go to Cancancao in Bahia State in the Northeast of Brazil or to in Andean Alti-Plano in Ecuador. In this area, Humana People to People has its projects. At each project four participants work two and two together. Throughout the four month project period you visit a new family or other poor every day and use at least half the day there - contributing, advising, discussing the situation of the poor, helping out every time. In this way you visit your 25 newly won friends four times during the four-month period. One whole day each week the whole team with its groups of two gets together with the project leader from Humana People to People to discuss, develop and elaborate impressions and experiences, study what to do, agree on new steps to be taken and prepare for them.
Period 4: 2 months at the school - Spreading Knowledge in the US about Fighting Poverty
Having finished the four months in Brazil/Ecuador with a grand fiesta - the whole team and all the poor together at the project in celebration of the joint results - you return to the school in the US for the final two months. Here you put together a grand presentation on rich and poor in the Americas. You will be the poor mans voice using many different media, first and foremost yourselves as presenters and backed by pictures, interviews, films, drama and exhibitions and presenting it at fairs, in the streets or in any number of places where people gathers.
About IICD Michigan.
We are located in a small town called Dowagiac with 3 hours drive to Detroit (East) and Chicago (West). This is the training center where you will live, work, cook, study, clean and build during your time in US together with staff and other volunteers.
Read more at our website www.iicdmichigan.org “Latin America”
e-mail: info@iicdmichigan.org
Reply to: development.volunteers@gmail.com
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