2. Project status: FINAL SUBMISSION
The name of your project: Development Instructors
Team leader: Agnes Telepya
Impacted underprivileged group of youth: in Denmark:
immigrants, youth with criminality record, foster care
youth, in Africa: people in poorest, rural areas
Number of people in the team: 4
Volunteering hours spent: 40 hours weekly
Number of youth impacted: 13 youngsters daily
Period of project/action: August 2011 – July 2013
3. “It is about fostering new generation with golden hearts
and heads and hands, well-educated and with a
personal ethic of such proportions, that humanized
relationships of all sizes can serve as substitutes for all
sorts of dehumanized phenomena.”
4.
5. Volunteer training part of running the school
Challenges
Fund Raising Multicultural Environment
Teamwork
BOARDING SCHOOL
youth clubs
Self-development building weekends
Africa studies
Teacher assistant
Social work
Project management
6. participating in lessons as teacher assistant
spending time with kids in afterschool activities
being pedagogue assistant in Care Home
participating in Study Days with other DIs
maintaining the school
participating in Building Weekends with other DIs to
help other schools
organizing different cultural-, music- and sport events
for youngsters
helping to run the program by Fund Raising
learning Danish
implementing your Responsibility area
running a club for youth in the school
7. learning about the situation in the
world
courses, project works, individual
studies, field visits
studies about: HIV and Aids, Health,
World in balance, Economy, Culture
8. preparation for the project in Africa
language courses
social work
9. 380 development projects are available in Southern Africa,
India, China and Central America, reaching out to a total of
around 12 million people.
The Projects in Africa are:
1. Child Aid
2. HOPE or TCE (Total Control of the Epidemic)
3. Teacher Training Colleges
4. Vocational schools for young people
5. Schools for street children
6. Farmers Clubs
7. Raising funds for the social projects
10.
11. teaching small school students in Denmark
writing The Journal + Finalising exams in obtaining B-
degree certificate in “Pedagogy” and “Fighting with the
Poor”.
12. Småskolen ved Nakkebølle
Fjord, Denmark
Agnes Telepya (Hungary)
Kristine Bruvere (Latvia)
Egija Akmene (Latvia)
Brian Rukundo (UK)
www.volunteer-in-africa.com