View from a Volunteer Team Leader: New Year, New Project.: A s most of you will already be aware, I am no longer (although I hope the door will always be open) a team leader for Habitat for Humanity....
So take a look at this tears projects with Developing World Connections and The Fuller Center for Housing. Rajasthan and Nicaragua, here we come......
Tuesday 19 January 2016
New Year, New Project.
As most of you will already be aware, I am no longer (although I hope the door will always be open) a team leader for Habitat for Humanity. Therefore the title of this blog. "View from a Habitat team leader" is now kind of out of date. I am not sure if I can change it but I will try.
I now lead for a Canadian based organisation by the name of "Developing World Connections" DWC for short. They were kind (or daft) enough to take me on as a TL. In August last year (2015) You can read about my first encounter with DWC in a previous blog: "A lot has happened in 2015"
I am also a leader for "The Fuller Center for Housing" again the details of my encounter with this organisation are in the above blog from 2015. I will report on my next assignment for them (Nicaragua Nov 2016) at a later date.
So here I am, its 2016 and my project for DWC is well under way. I have enough team members to make the trip "all systems go". I could do with some more if anyone is interested!!.
We are embarking on a trip to Rajasthan. Our objective is to help the local villagers and farmers with a water harvesting project.
Volunteers work in villages around Bhinder, a community on the outskirts of Udaipur known as the Venice of India, with our host partner Sahyog Sansthan. We will work with subsistence farmers and their families in the construction of water harvesting structures, like small sub-service dams, water barriers and well and land partitions. These new water sources allow farmers to grow two crops per year instead of one, which enables them to provide for their families and earn an increase income by selling their produce.
Crazy that it should be called Venice when they have so little water but hey, they can dream. Located in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan is India’s largest state that is home to more than 68 million people. High levels of illiteracy, insufficient water sources, inadequate health care and extremely limited access to social services are pervasive problems.
So you see, we have a lot to do. The trip commences on May the 7th and no doubt I will back on the blog after we return. I apologize for not adding to it whilst in country, but I just don't get the free time to do so, its as much as I can do to post a few Facebook entries.
Whilst I am in Delhi I hope to grab some time to spend with the "Robin Hood Army" if you are not familiar with them, take a look at their web site. http://robinhoodarmy.com/ The Robin Hood Army is a volunteer based organization that works to get surplus food from restaurants across to the less fortunate people in cities across Pakistan and India
There will be stories to tell, so watch this space.
I now lead for a Canadian based organisation by the name of "Developing World Connections" DWC for short. They were kind (or daft) enough to take me on as a TL. In August last year (2015) You can read about my first encounter with DWC in a previous blog: "A lot has happened in 2015"
I am also a leader for "The Fuller Center for Housing" again the details of my encounter with this organisation are in the above blog from 2015. I will report on my next assignment for them (Nicaragua Nov 2016) at a later date.
So here I am, its 2016 and my project for DWC is well under way. I have enough team members to make the trip "all systems go". I could do with some more if anyone is interested!!.
We are embarking on a trip to Rajasthan. Our objective is to help the local villagers and farmers with a water harvesting project.
Volunteers work in villages around Bhinder, a community on the outskirts of Udaipur known as the Venice of India, with our host partner Sahyog Sansthan. We will work with subsistence farmers and their families in the construction of water harvesting structures, like small sub-service dams, water barriers and well and land partitions. These new water sources allow farmers to grow two crops per year instead of one, which enables them to provide for their families and earn an increase income by selling their produce.
Crazy that it should be called Venice when they have so little water but hey, they can dream. Located in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan is India’s largest state that is home to more than 68 million people. High levels of illiteracy, insufficient water sources, inadequate health care and extremely limited access to social services are pervasive problems.
So you see, we have a lot to do. The trip commences on May the 7th and no doubt I will back on the blog after we return. I apologize for not adding to it whilst in country, but I just don't get the free time to do so, its as much as I can do to post a few Facebook entries.
Whilst I am in Delhi I hope to grab some time to spend with the "Robin Hood Army" if you are not familiar with them, take a look at their web site. http://robinhoodarmy.com/ The Robin Hood Army is a volunteer based organization that works to get surplus food from restaurants across to the less fortunate people in cities across Pakistan and India
There will be stories to tell, so watch this space.
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