Initiation booklet for ambassadors
One Child + One Country + Three Questions
Our Vision
Our Mission
We produce a sense of urgent change among citizens in order to shape our future.
We interview children around the world in order to communicate and enable their dreams.
Why?
Why?
the power of collaboration as a
children to communicate our
way to change the world.
current and future challenges.
> We believe and demonstrate
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> We believe in the power of
Job Description
Position Type : Ambassador Job Purpose: Record a 3 minutes video interview of a child either boy or girl from a low-income class between the 7 and 12 years old from your country. Duties:
Reward:
1. Get a high quality video camera in good working condition.
- Your name will be mentioned as an
2. Find a child in your country from 7 to 12 years old coming from a low-income class.
ambassador in our website.
3. Take a picture of the child and collect his/her basic information (full name, age).
- Be part of one of the most significant
4. Do the video interview respecting the video standards established in this booklet.
collaborative project in the world.
5. Translate the interview into English (even if the child is speaking in English) on a word or PDF
- A certificate of participation will be sent to
document.
you for future reference.
6. Add the translation of the interview to the video using Subtitle Workshop.
- Enable the dreams of children from low-
7. Send the video to your region responsible (America, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Asia,
income categories.
Oceania). 8. Upload the video on Youtube and Vimeo.
Competencies Required:
9. Sign the contract at the end of this booklet and send it back to your region responsible.
- Inclusiveness - Effective communication
Tips:
- Resilience
- Memorize the questions before asking the child.
- Flexible thinking
- Have someone to support you during video shooting if possible.
- Commitment to result
- Communicate with child’s parent or guardian if available before shooting video with the child.
- Innovation
“1 ambassador > 1 child > 1 interview > 1 video > Several dreams”
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Video Standards Format: 1. Videos to be a maximum of 3 minutes in length. 2. Video format: WMV, MPEG4, AVI (Divx, Xvid) format, 320x240 resolution, MP3 audio 3. Maximum file size: 100MB Sounds recording standard: 1. Option 1: use an external microphone or put
Flow of the video and interview questions: 1. Children profile and presentation : 30 seconds
earphone if the camcorder has the plug on it to record
2. Question 1 : 1 min
the video 2. Option 2: If the ambassador doesn’t have any external microphone: - Get closer to the object (the children) - Avoid noises (e.g. : don’t record near fan, open air with traffic, etc)
“What would you like to change in the World today?” 3. Question 2 : 1 min ”
What is your dream for the World tomorrow?” 4. Question 3 : 30 seconds “What is your personal dream?”
Language: 1. Children should answer the questions using their native language 2. Translation in English has to be enclosed in separate documents (Word, PDF) 3. The translation should be added to the video by the >Subtitle Workshop<
ambassador using this software (Subtitle Workshop-free download: http://www.videohelp.com/download/subtitleworkshop251.zip).
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be an ambassador for one country.â&#x20AC;?
Structure Afghanistan,
Armenia,
Azerbaijan,
Bangladesh,
Bhutan,
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia,
Brunei,
Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Cambodia, China, East Timor, Georgia, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Democratic People'S Republic Of Korea, Republic Of
Abkhazia, Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia And
Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia,
Korea,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transnistria, Ukraine, United
Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nagorno-
Kingdom, Vatican City.
Karabakh, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Ossetia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam.
Algeria,
Angola,
Benin,
Botswana,
Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad,
Asia responsible:
Antigua
And
Comoros,
Xu Yi
Barbuda,
Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados,
Djibouti,
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba,
Dominica,
Europe responsible: Jean Suhas
Dominican
jeansuhas@gmail.com
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Collaborative
Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras,
Jamaica,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts And Nevis,
Saint
Lucia,
America responsible:
Tobago,
Trinidad United
The
Equatorial
Guinea,
martinp.n@gmail.com
Saint
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania,
Mauritius,
Sahrawi
Arab
Tome
Democratic
Republic,
Sao
Senegal,
Seychelles,
Sierra
And
Principe, Leone,
Somalia,
Somaliland,
South
Africa,
Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
States,
Uruguay, Venezuela. Africa responsible: Abayomi Ogundipe abayomi.ogundipe@gmail.com
Of Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand,
Morocco,
Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tanzania, Togo,
And
Marshall Islands, Federated States
Eritrea,
Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana,
Rwanda,
Martin Perez
Australia, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati,
Democratic
Mozambique, Namibia ,Niger, Nigeria,
Leadership
Vincent And The Grenadines, Suriname,
Congo,
Republic Of Congo, The, Cote D'Ivoire,
ennasusebot@gmail.com
Middle East responsible: Marlissa Dessy marlissa.dessy@aiesec.net
Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu.
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Middle East responsible: Aisha Al-Mahrami aisham@aiesecoman.org
Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Islamic Republic Of Iran, , Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Northern Cyprius, Oman, The Palestinian National Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.