Volunteers for Africa
2010 August Africa Team
The Development Instructor Program in Africa is representing the Institute for International Cooperation and Development ( IICD ) located near Dowagiac Michigan.
We are going to Africa !!
Insitute for International Cooperation and Development 56968 Dailey Road - Dowagiac, Michigan - USA
About IICD Michigan IICD Michigan is a private non-profit organization founded in 1997 incorporated in state of Michigan.
IICD is registered as a 501(c)(3) with the Tax ID# 38-3379778 We fight poverty shoulder to shoulder with the poor in Africa and the Americas, working with local communities. As a participant, you are involved in all duties within the school, such as cleaning, cooking, and maintenance of the buildings. IICD was created because we believe that international cooperation and development are necessary goals for people in our time. The institute is an alternative school which puts its participants in the driving seat of the education,and trains people to be in charge of many different tasks. The programs encourage new thinking and bring changes for each individual.
We are Development Instructors The Development Instructor Program is divided into 3 periods Period 1 | 6 months at IICD | Training to go Africa The training to become a Development Instructor takes place at IICD and contains the training of essential life skills - not only for the development work in Africa, but for living a meaningful life in the 21st century. They are not served as room service in the program, but brought about through the active participation of all the people involved - staff and participants alike. As a participant you are the driving force in your own education and at the same time you practice to be a team player. Period 2 | 6 month in Africa | Volunteer work A Development Instructor is someone who stirs things up at the project and pushes them forward. Development work is not something you do, go home and collect your pay. You do it with the project staff to move a nation forward and to improve the lives of people through your project Period 3 | 2 months at IICD | Take Action and Fight Poverty Camp Future is the name of the 2 month final period following the development work in Africa. The purpose of Camp Future is to complete the Development Instructor Program through a period with further studies and elaborations on the development work and outreach and information work.
Africa August Team 2010 We are Development Instructors, we are doing volunteer work in US and in a few months we are going to work in southern Africa. Our team started in IICD Michigan in August of 2010, we are now seven people, three from Brazil, three from Korea and one from Japan.
Team Members Chiharu (Japan) Jieun (S.Korea) Jung (S.Korea) Mauricio (Brazil) Ronan (Brazil ) So Young (S.Korea) Talita (Brazil) and Cristiani (Brazil) is our Team Leader
Development Projects Child Aid
Child Aid targets the families in an ara and mobilizes them to take part in a long term plan whereby they, step by step will be able to change their conditions - capacity bulding and help to self-help. Child Aid works with ten lines of development.
Picture taken by Rudney Novaes
Picture taken by Rudney Novaes
Picture taken by Rudney Novaes
Teacher Training Colleges
Teacher Training Colleges is to teach the children in the village, generally without adjusted accessible resources, combined with the task to develop the general community thus putting the teachers like important persons and the school like the center of community. The training of teachers have to be better than the demand, rising to the reality of life of children and parents, integrated with the village.
Picture taken by Marcela Arango
Picture taken by Marcela Arango
Picture taken by Vanessa Valente
TCE - Total Control of Epidemic
Total Control of the Epidemic The princiciples of TCE are basically to mobilize each and every individual in the community to KNOW and to ACT. Together with each individual, the TCE Field Officer makes a plan for what he or she must do to contribute in getting the epidemic under control.
Picture taken by Marcela Arango
Picture taken by Marcela Arango
Picture taken by Yoon
HOPE HOPE offers care and support to those infected and affected by with HIV/AIDS focusing particularly on the provision of Post Test Services. Hope remains in the area and increases the activities and reaches out to more and more people with new and more services and programmes.
Picture taken by Rudney Novaes
Picture taken by Rudney Novaes
Picture taken by KBS
Farmers Club
The Farmers Club project seek to improve living condition of a community by providing resources to small farmers develop their agriculture business. The project allows these farmers and their communities to have better and nutritious food and also make money with that, creating a sustainable development in the community. The project is 5 years long and in the first 3 years it is focused on training the farmers in basic knowledge about sustainable farming and the last 2 years concentrate on cash crop production and effective ways of processing the produce.
Picture taken by KBS
Picture taken by Rudney Novaes
Picture taken by KBS
Childrens Town
Childrens Town is an orphanage that take care of childrens witch the parents died from HIV/AIDS and have no relatives to take care of them. This project offer assistence for HIV/AIDS infected childrens and give accomodation, food and education for them.
Picture taken by Vanessa Valente
Picture taken by Vanessa Valente
Picture taken by Vanessa Valente
Development Action in California
How to donate on internet
1. Go to IICD website on http://www.iicdmichigan.org 2. Click on “Donate” button (right upper side) 3. On purpose write 2010 August Africa Team 4. Write the donation amount 5. Click on Update Total 6. Fill in the Credit Card Form or Log in into your Paypal account 7. Click on Review Donation and Continue (end of the page) 8. Click on Ok