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GSC
News from Maasailand to Phnom Penh
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Addressing
the Water Challenge in Maasailand
In
typical Maasai households, women have to walk
5-10 kilometers (3-6 miles) for a bucket of
water. Imagine if an entire village had water
storage facilities at each household, safe and
affordable for all, reducing labor and time to
fetch water, enabling the luxury of an
occasional bath, and if purified, water for
cooking and cleansing, thus reducing disease
incidence.
A hafir water storage system
is a trench that is lined and covered with
plastic sheeting. This home water cistern filled
by rain surface water provides the means for a
Maasai household to keep small vegetable gardens
irrigated throughout the year. Starting in July
2009, Global Service Corps-Tanzania began
constructing these innovative water harvesting
tanks in Maasailand, with the assistance of a
generous donation of plastic sheeting from two
local hardware stores, Bulk Supplies and Olotu
Trading Company Ltd. These hafiirs were created
through the generous hard work of local
villagers, along with GSC and Tanzanian
university volunteers. To finish reading this
story, click on the photo to the left.
To
learn more about how you can participate on this
and other sustainable agriculture and food
security projects, go to http://www.globalservicecorps.org/site/tanzania-agriculture-and-food/
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Tanzania
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Health, and Life Skills Day
Camp
You
Can Help GSC Create a Generation Free of AIDS in
Africa!
Did you know that the pre-teens
and teenagers are among the most vulnerable to
the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa? Here's how your
support will help students in Tanzania become
equipped to live healthy lives free from
HIV/AIDS!
During June, Global Service
Corps organizes a two-week long Peer Education
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Health, and Life Skills Day
Camp. GSC staff and volunteers work with
approximately 200 - 300 Tanzanian high school
students and teachers to help educate youth
about HIV/AIDS prevention. These camps are
designed to be an interactive way for students
to learn about HIV/AIDS, prevention,
relationships and sexuality in a fun, creative,
and ultimately sustainable manner. Students then
disseminate information about HIV/AIDS, life
skills, and other health issues through peer
health clubs at their schools throughout the
rest of the year. Surveys make it clear that
programs are needed to move youth from awareness
and knowledge to actual behavior change. This is
a primary goal of these camps.
In order
for GSC to maintain this vital work with the
youth of Tanzania, we need your help. Even from
far away, you can help to fight the devastating
effects of HIV/AIDS and assist in saving lives.
Your support and donation of any amount is
needed now; with your help we can send a
Tanzanian student to Camp, train and support a
Camp counselor, buy lunches for the students,
and purchase supplies. Visit our online Secure
Donation Page accessible at: http://www.globalservicecorps.org/site/donate/
To
read more about the GSC Day Camp Program,
including a detailed case study, click on the
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Buddhist
Immersion-EFL Program Expansion
Global
Service Corps (GSC) Thailand is excited to offer
our expanded Buddhist Immersion-EFL Program to
those interested in learning about Thai Buddhist
culture, while also giving back to the local
community. Working with an established and
respected Buddhist monastery (wat), this program
provides participants with the opportunity to
become truly immersed in the Thai culture and
Buddhist way of life by living at the wat while
teaching English to Buddhist monks.
GSC
is fortunate to have formed a strong working
relationship with a wat that is home to
approximately 200 novice, senior and visiting
monks, many of whom wish to learn more English.
The wat is situated in a beautiful and serene
setting with lakes and lush greenery surrounding
the many temples, educational buildings, dorms
and meditation centers. Following Buddhist
practices, volunteers can participate in the
traditional day-to-day activities of the monks,
including the opportunity to learn and practice
meditation several times throughout the day.
Regardless of your level of knowledge about
Buddhism or Thai culture, this program provides
you as a GSC volunteer with a level of cultural
immersion and service-learning rarely
experienced by most volunteers. For more
information, see http://www.globalservicecorps.org/site/thailand-buddhist-immersion/
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Introducing
Our New Cambodia In-Country Coordinator
GSC
is happy to introduce our new Cambodia
In-Country Coordinator, Sophy Tun. Sophy
received her B.A. in Teaching English as a
Foreign Language and has taught both English and
Khmer at a number of schools in Cambodia. Sophy
also earned a University Diploma of Technician
in Food Technology and Chemical Engineering. The
skills she obtained working as a technician
studying the resistance of HIV at the Institut
Pasteur du Cambodge make her a great resource
for GSC's programs focusing on the prevention of
and education about this deadly disease. Sophy
works to coordinate all volunteer placements,
while also providing valuable cultural insight
into the Cambodian culture. For more information
on our Cambodia service-learning volunteer
programs in the areas of teaching English,
HIV/AIDS prevention, orphanage care and
international health, go to http://www.globalservicecorps.org/site/cambodia-service-learning-programs/
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