AYM Magazine # Vol. 4 (October 2012-March 2013) The ASEAN Volunteer
AYM Magazine # Vol. 4 (October 2012-March 2013) The ASEAN Volunteer
EDITOR'S N TE
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CONTENT
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37
28
47
23
01
Editors Note
04
Letter to Editor
06
10
Country Updates
15
16
Waves of Volunteers in
Southeast Asia
44
67
76
78
Book Review
80
Movie Review
66
Cover Designer: Gail Rae Javier
The cover art, basically, is a sum of the personal takes of the artist on volunteerism,
diversity and unity among the ASEAN member countries. The leaves and the
blue-colored curves signify the geographic and spiritual connection with the ASEAN
youth. Meanwhile, the youth doing volunteer acts signify the various volunteerism
work done in the member countries. The words written all over the artwork are of
various languages with the help of our friends from the region
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PUBLISHER
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Jaruwan Supolrai
CONSULTATIVE EDITORS
Kannika Kuankachorn
Somkid Mahissaya
Supawadee Petrat
EDITORIAL STAFF
Atchara Simlee
Premvadee Serirak
CONTRIBUTORS
COPYWRITERS
Hlne Masson
Tarik Abdel-Monem
Jeanne Ross Atchinson
GUESTWRITERS
TRANSLATORS
PHOTO CONTRIBUTORS
Supported by
VOLUNTEERS
UN Volunteers
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in Regionalism, Melbourne, Australia
Katsamaporn Rakson, 28, PhD candidate
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Nothing is sw
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aring that
our readers
enjoy readin
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learning from
our magazin
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Your
suggestions
are very usef
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future issue. It
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and Americans
Atika Mutiara,
15, Junior
High School,
Purbalingga,
Central Java,
Indonesia
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If
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communicate
on
Facebook, Ed wants to click
LIKE on your post 10 times.
We are lucky to be in an era of
information revolution where
everyone owns media and
benefits a lot. This makes it
easier for us to raise social
awareness and quickly spread
the news asking people to
participate in our volunteer
activities. Lets hope that every
5 people out of 100 click-LIKEs
on Facebook will soon get
bored of sitting in front of
their laptops and iPhones and
go out to volunteer! Ed.
YOUTH VOICE
INTERVIEW COMPLIED
BY ATCHARA SIMLEE
Bopha Soth, 20
a teaching English as
a foreign language
student, University of
South-East Asia
Myo K
yaw T
hu, 22
a Bur
,
mese
yo
study
ing bu uth
s
iness
econo
mics,
City
Unive
rsity o
f
Hong
Kong
Fatin Arifin, 25
a program &
research executive of
Asia Inc Forum
Green and
an executive
director of Prints
Brunei - social
environmental
enterprise,
Brunei
Amalia Ayuningtyas,19
a communication
science student,
University of
Indonesia, Indonesia
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Javier, 26
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Somvilay
Chanthavong, 22
a business
management
student, National
University of Laos,
Lao PDR
Yeji Yoo, 24
M.A. candidate
Department of
Political Science,
Sogang University,
Korea
Clara Wong, 25
from Singapore
a sociology with law
graduate student,
University of London,
England
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Jakkarin Sirimongkon, 24
a community youth
leader, Khaochamao
group ,Thailand
4. If you did volunteer work before, what are the positive changes you have
found?
What surprised me at the very beginning was that my English skills improved very
quickly. However, I believe volunteerism helped shape who I am now. The things
I did and people I met have brought me various life experiences and inspired me
to keep learning in hopes of gaining a greater wisdom.
Andre Kang, 15
a student of
Sembawang
Secondary School,
Singapore
Nelia Menezes, 25
a community
development student,
National University of
Timor Lorosae ,
Timor-Leste or
East Timor
The number one change that is always the most obvious is that
you become a better person through volunteering. You feel
happy that you've managed to do something good for the
community. It makes you feel proud of yourself. Secondly, the
people you've served are happier people too. They get to live
happier lives in improved living conditions. You also get to know
more about things you never really knew before. It's enriching
because you get to learn many, many new things and you also
get to serve people. It humbles you because you find yourself
stooping down to serve these people, instead of expecting them
to come up to some other level.
Chatchai Krongyut, 23
an English and
communication student,
Ubon Ratchathani
University ,Thailand
Julius Christian C.
Macalagay, 19
a communication
student, De La Salle
University Dasmarias,
the Philippines
COUNTRY UPDATE
Brunei Darussalam
Cambodia
Im Chanboracheat
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Indonesia
Korea
Yeji Yoo
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COUNTRY UPDATE
Myanmar
Malaysia
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The Philippines
Singapore
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Thailand
Vietnam
Atchara Simlee
Trang Mint
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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Theresa
The Pow
er of Giv
ing
Caption: What is the future for people who have lost everything-family, shelter and livelihood? How can you say that
tomorrow will be better? Can anything really be done?
Place: "Ka Mar Par Village", Kun Chan Khone City, Yangon Division, Myanmar/Burma
Photographer: Myo Khaw Thu
WAVE OF VOLUNTEERS
Volunteering is an ideal approach to creating a caring and sharing community.
Volunteerism contributes to the well-being and quality of life of all people in our
societies. The challenges are immense. Rapid economic development in the
region is continuing to cause multiple crises on social, environmental, economic
and political levels. Volunteer efforts have the potential to help nations through
times of crisis, and advance progressive and sustainable development towards
peaceful futures. AYM contributors in this issue report on trends and practices in
volunteerism from all 10 countries in Southeast Asia. Lets learn more about the
amazing things volunteers are doing in communities throughout our region!
BURMA/
BRUNEI
CAMBODIA
MYANMAR DARUSSALAM
P.17
MALAYSIA
P.31
P.20
P.23
SINGAPORE
THE
PHILIPPINES
P.34
P.37
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INDONESIA
P.26
THAILAND
P.39
LAO PDR
P.28
VIETNAM
P.41
Trends in Volunteerism
BURMA/MYANMAR
.. 2008
.. 2008
(One Dollar Fund
Myanmar)
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(Raven Blood Donation)
.. 2014
.. 2013
.. 2013
(Unicode standards)
(Wikipedia)
(Wordpress)
(Linux OS)
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Trends in Volunteerism
Brunei Darussalam
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20
(Club of Volunteering)
29
..
2000
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Trends in Volunteerism
Cambodia
People need only look back at the century-long hard years of French
colonization in Cambodia to see how volunteerism shaped this
kingdom into a peaceful, free and independent society. History tells
us that Cambodians came together during the 1950s as a youthfor-peace volunteer group for the purpose of ending colonization
and making Cambodia fully independent.
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(Cambodian
Volunteers for Society (CVS)
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.. 1950
.. 1953
Phnom Penh
Post
(
)
(Millennium
Development Goals; MDGs)
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Trends in Volunteerism
INDONESIA
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4 .. 2010
IYC
IYC
2000
..
2002
...
.. 2006
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Trends in Volunteerism
LAO PDR
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..1997
Church World
Service (CWS)
17
14
.. 1998
(Don Koi Children
Development)
Like other countries in Southeast Asia, volunteerism is also not something new for
Lao people. Villagers have a culture of sharing and caring through Bun, traditional
community events. They all come to help with cooking, carrying tables and chairs,
and setting up tents as directed by a village committee. Whenever neighbors build
new homes, or if there is a new birth or a funeral in a nearby village, young and old
people join together to help out at the event.
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24
Women International Group: (WIG)
.. 1997 250
30
WIG Bazaar
.. 2006
(NUOL)
25
-
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Trends in Volunteerism
MALAYSIA
" "
(Social Media)
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"like
1990
MyCorp
"
"
Food Not Bombs
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Trends in Volunteerism
THE PHILIPPINES
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(Sangguniang Kabataan)
(Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.)
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NOWTB.U.K.S (Now is
Time to Build UP Kids for Sustainability (
)
NOWTB.U.K.S
(
)
(TAYO Award)
TAYO ASEAN 2006
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CNN Hero 2009
Trends in Volunteerism
SINGAPORE
By Clara Wong
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An asset-based
community
development (ABCD)
approach is what
were spearheading.
An asset is something
that one can contribute
with the skills one has,
whether as an accountant,
marketer, lawyer, or just
simply someone who
loves to help out.
Whatever one can
contribute to the
community is
an asset.
"
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(Sun-beam Place)
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(NVPC) "
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.. 2010
NVPC (National Volunteer and
Philanthropic Centre)
23.3
(Kids Invent! Singapore)
"
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NVPC
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"
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"NVPC
"
"
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Trends in Volunteerism
THAILAND
CSR
.. 2554
ood
21
(NGOs: Non Government Organization)
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CSR
CSR
.
Trends in Volunteerism
VIETNAM
By Hoa Quynh Le
"
"
Green
Summer is by far their
best known volunteer
program, sending young
people to underdeveloped
regions to help eradicate
illiteracy, build roads and
bridges, set up charity houses,
provide healthcare, deforest
certain areas, to name but a few.
This program does not only run
during the summer, as its name
suggests, but year-round. Recently,
it was reported in the mass media
that in Ho Chi Minh City alone, some
100,000 youth volunteered, as part of
the program Green Summer 2011,
to build 130 charity houses, and
provide healthcare and free medicine
to more than 70,000 people in the
southern area of Vietnam,
Cambodia, and Laos.
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.. 1986
Exam Season Support
Acer, Avio
PVGas
PVI Holdings
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.. 2007
6.1
Green Summer
(Green Summer)
2-3
Live&Learn
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Green Summer
(Green Summer)
BURMA/
BRUNEI
CAMBODIA
MYANMAR DARUSSALAM
P.45
MALAYSIA
P.56
P.47
P.49
SINGAPORE
THE
PHILIPPINES
P.58
P.60
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INDONESIA
P.51
THAILAND
P.62
LAO PDR
P.54
VIETNAM
P.64
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30 .. 2009
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Myanmar Story Teller (MST)
Myanmar Story Teller (MST)
MST
MST
: www.storyteller.
myanmarsar.org
MST
Myanmar Story Teller (MST)
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(0.7 )
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www.bdac_penyinar.webs.com
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(YFP)
(Youth For Peace: YFP)
YFP .. 1999
5
YFP
..
2011 200
YFP
YFP
21
Phnom
Penhs Royal University
YFP 1
YFP
YFP 7
YFP
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YFP
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ARI .. 2006
Indonesian Fact
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ARI
ARI
ARI
(National
Youth Forum)
(LGBTIQ)
ARI
ARI
15-28
ARI
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ARI !
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ARI
International Conference
on Population and Development
(ICPD)
ARI
ARI
CHOICE for
Youth
Utrecht, ARI
6
15-25
ARI ARI
500
ARI :
www.aliansiremajaindependen.org
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PADETC
PADETC (The Participatory Development Training Center)
.. 1996
PADETC
PADETC
31
PADETC
PADETC
PADETC
(Quality
School Program)
.. 2002
10
60
PADETC
.. 2009
25
PADETC
PADETC
PADETC
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PADETC
www.padetc.org
PADETC
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The experience of
volunteering with Tzu
Zhi Youth changed my
perspective in life.
I have learned to count
my blessings.
15
26
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we even go to communities to
bring the information to people at
the grassroots level, said Leo.
Although vital to a young
persons jobs prospects, the Y-PEER
experience brings much more to
the young volunteer. Anzaira B.
Roxas, 26, the current Filipino
Y-PEER Focal Point In-Charge,
explained that: Y-PEER volunteering does not only provide me with
opportunities for employment but
most importantly, as an individual,
it changes my mindset, behavior
and attitude towards life. Becoming a Y-PEER volunteer is not
meant to serve an individuals
personal interests but to contribute
to making a bigger impact on the
community. Leo explained that
volunteers are made aware of the
issues and changes in social and
political development involved due
to their effort, They are constructively engaging and influencing
policy-makers and decisionmakers, and they are contributing
to the improvement of basic social
services, good governance, human
rights, and youth participation.
Moreover, this is in accordance
with the attitude of Asian youth
toward volunteerism, as Leo
claimed, I can say that it gave me
a sense of worth and identity.
Nevertheless, one good
characteristic of Asian youth
volunteers is that we are
resilient, we rise above the
odds and we continue to
flourish in doing our task as
stewards of a brighter future.
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(Y-PEER)
*)
Youth Peer Education
Network (Y-PEER)
..2552
(UNFPA)
UNFPA 52
Y-PEER
Y-PEER
22
70%
Y-PEER
70%
*
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Caption: A volunteer, amongst others, is working on her dirt work in the village.
Place: Kratie Province, Cambodia
Photographer: Chanty Sam
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(NYC)
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.. 1983
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15-35
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23
YEP .. 2008
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NYC
...
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www.yep.nyc.sg
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This is not a
high-paying
job
like working
for a legal
consulting co
mpany or be
ing
a judge, but
we touch rea
l
people and th
is is a way to
clean our he
arts as well.
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www.thaivolunteer.org
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VGGN
enthusiasts in Vietnam. Recently, "
even the Ministry of Natural
Resources and Environment, and
the Ministry of Education and Training decided to sponsor and techni- " Nga
cally support its programs.
Its VGGN
members strong faith in the
network plus recent attention from
authorities are indeed optimistic
indicators that forecast a bright
http:www.thehexanh.net
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"Go
Vegetarian .. 2010
6,000
Say No to Plastic
Bags
VGGN
VGGN
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VGGN
VGGN
VGGN
VGGN VGGN
VGGN
http:www.thehexanh.net
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VGGN
VGGN
BURMA/
BRUNEI
CAMBODIA
MYANMAR DARUSSALAM
P.68
MALAYSIA
P.69
P.68
P.68
SINGAPORE
THE
PHILIPPINES
P.70
P.70
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INDONESIA
P.69
THAILAND
P.71
LAO PDR
P.69
VIETNAM
P.71
BURMA/MYANMAR
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
CAMBODIA
Ogga, 24
Iswandy Ahmad, 29
Ly Bunthea, 29
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By Sothea Ines
INDONESIA
LAOS
MALAYSIA
Setia Perdana, 22
Phonesouphan Diyangwai, 27
Joe Yap, 30
By Nisrina Nadhifah R.
By Kritsadathan Pantawan
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By Soon Chen
THE PHILIPPINES
SINGAPORE
Alona Alod, 17
By Fann Sim
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THAILAND
VIETNAM
Yingcheep Atchanont, 26
By Hoa Quynh Le
By Areewan Sombunwatthanakun
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24
29
.. 2008
Buddhist
Youth Empowerment Program (BYEP)
BYEP
BYEP
Writers Reference Center
MST
MST
29
(BDAC)
BDAC
8 .. 2004
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29
22
27
29
(YRDP)
.. 2010
2
(.. 2009)
(..
2010)
7 10
Bina
Nusantara .. 2011
(Independent Youth Alliance Indonesia)
GWL-INA (
)
, ,
,
www.brondongmanis.com
Don Koi Children Development
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30
17
.. 2008
(social enterprise)
4,000
"
17
NAKAMATA
Davao ..
2005
9-17
NAKAMATA 113
NAKAMATA
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26
(iLaw)
1
iLaw
ShareTV
...
26
11
4
OSL
(Children Society)
(SHINE Award)
25
11
25
.. 2000
Spontaneous
Flower Garden
.. 2011
Cu Chi
.. 2012
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Doing volunteer work is like growing flowers in your garden. The benefits for us and others in
society are just like beautiful flowers blooming in our hearts. Fill that empty gap in your life,
and add color and meaning to your young spirit by volunteering. Our AYM interviewed youth
volunteers across Southeast Asia and came up with the following simple 10 cool reasons why
ASEAN youth should go volunteering!
2
Discovering Yourself
1
Learning to Give!
Every person needs to find a good fix in life. Why volunteer? Heres a good answer: I volunteer because I like
volunteering. Its very simple. Some of you might
answer the same way too. Thats because we are
addicted to something precious volunteerism! Heres
a thumb up for the happiness that volunteering gives
back to us. We feel satisfied when we do something
helpful for others, and those who receive from us are
happy to get what they really need from us. It is a
win-win situation. Just like the following saying: Those
who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it
from themselves by James Matthew Barrie. Yes, we are
volunteer addicts!
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You are Making a Dierence!
Community Vitality is one of the 9 domains of Gross National Happiness (GNH); the practice of giving and volunteering is essential for the social well-being of people in society. It is an indicator measuring the quality of life rather
than only the economic indicator of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Volunteers always have a sense of community
and are aware of problems that exist due to global warming, hunger, poverty, discrimination, corruption and so on.
You can start solving these problems simply by volunteering. By doing so, you are keeping a community healthier
and our planet happier! Yes, you are making a difference in the world!
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Cost of making children smile? Priceless- Read along session with street kids.
Caption: A member of the organization from the College of Education is reading a childrens book to the kids who were all
ears as the teacher animatedly reads aloud the story to them.
Place: University of the Philippines Diliman campus, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
Photographer: Don Rodney
book REVIEW
700 PLACES TO VOLUNTEER BEFORE YOU DIE: A TRAVELLERS GUIDE
Author: Nola Lee Kelsey, 2010
Everyone can be great because
everyone can serve said Martin
Luther King. So what are you
waiting for? Start volunteering now!
For those who still have no idea
about which group of people to
volunteer for, what kind of volunteer work to do, and how, when
and where to start, then this
definitive guidebook by volunteerism guru, Nola Lee Kelsey can
certainly be your helpful assistant.
The book offers one of the most
varied listings of volunteer projects
available throughout the world. It
also provides insider tips from
industry leaders, advice made by
renowned travel writers and
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AND THE POWER OF NEW IDEAS
Author: David Bornstein, 2007
HAILEYSTONES
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MOVIE REVIEW
MOUNTAIN PATROL
Director: Lu Chuan, 2004
Mountain Patrol is a sensational film inspired by a documentary entitled 'Balance'. This moving
film depicts the powerful story of a
half-Tibetan journalist from Beijing.
He travels across the outskirts of
Kelexili with a small group of
Tibetan mountain patrols. Their
mission is to track poacher groups
and stop the illegal slaughtering of
endangered Tibetan antelopes.
This group of volunteers has to
confront the poachers while at the
same risk themselves in a land of
merciless winds, freezing water,
sizzling plains, and treacherously
snow-covered mountains.
This movie shows the spirit of
ordinary people who volunteer as
antelope protectors without
expecting anything in return.
PAY IT FORWARD
Director: Mimi Leder, 2000
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We
will
overcome!
Caption: Volunteers are helping reconstruction in the area hit by massive earthquake last year.
Place: Miyako city, Iwate, Japan
Photographer: Hiroyuki Hosoya