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Local SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) On Sep. 26, 2015, SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) was approved in the United Nations (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld). NVDA has been planning to create its own common long term goals corresponding to creation of SDGs and had approved to make the “Asian Development Goals” in its General Assemblies from 2014 to 2016. The goals will consist of the numbers of “Local SDGs” to be made in each IVS project the members organize together with the local NGOs and people, international volunteers, that could also benefit to:

1. Increase impact of each project by having clear direction & goals 2. Recruit/ motivate more volunteers by showing attractive visions 3. Strengthen cooperation in each and with other similar projects

Pilot practice was invited to the members since 2015 Aug. and 3 projects in Japan and Vietnam made the goals during the workcamps. It is agreed to promote to more projects during 2016 in any of 3 phases;

1. Projects agreement & Call for vols., 2. Project Leaders Training, 3. Orientation and discussion during the workcamps and LMTVs.

Below is the list of SDGs in reference to the United Nations:

• Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere • Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable

agriculture • Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages • Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning

opportunities for all • Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls • Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all • Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all • Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive

employment and decent work for all • Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and

foster innovation • Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries • Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable • Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns • Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts • Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for

sustainable development • Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,

sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

• Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Summary List of Projects Country/ Region NGO Project Name SDG(s)

Cambodia CYA CYA-Learning Center 4 China DWC Sustainable Rural Development 1, 3, 13 Hong Kong VT Long Valley Rice Harvesting 8, 16, 17 India RUCHI Baddi 6 India SMILE Street Angels Project 1, 2, 3, 4 Indonesia DJ MTV 4 Indonesia IIWC Mangkang Mangrove 13 Indonesia IIWC Tegalrejo Red-District 1, 4, 10, 16 Indonesia IIWC Dance4Life 3, 5, 10 Japan NICE Kuromatsunai 4, 11, 12, 13, 15 Japan NICE Onuma 6, 15 Macau MNCYA The Feast of Na-Tcha 11 Myanmar COM Payartaung Project 4, 10, 17 Nepal FFN “Walk With Project” to Complete Community House in Daman 11 Nepal VIN Multi-Purpose Farm 2 Singapore GVC The Water Watch Society (WWS) 14 Taiwan VYA Taisi International Art Village 9 Thailand DALAA Withee Tai 3, 4 Vietnam CSDS Global Education 4, 8, 17 Vietnam SJV Mai Chalis 1, 9 Vietnam VPV Recycled Playground 4, 9, 12

Cambodia CYA-Learning Center

Hosting NGO CYA SDG Education

Current Situation

CYA-Learning Center has been set up and enabled the opportunities for the children in the community for the education with multi-facility in the learning process plus the support of the LMTV volunteers has made the activities run by the center has been smoothly implemented; however, there is plenty of things to develop in the areas. Due to the fact of educational, environmental, and sustainable development, we are going to upgrade these features in the most implantable way.

Goals by 2018 to 2020

We want to create a community with good system of cleanliness that everyone is responsible in hygiene and sanitation. We also want to provide the community access in job creation for the women and the old people in the village to earn their income from their existing resources in order to reduce the migration from the hometown. We definitely want to see more children involve in education not only languages, but other subjects so sharpen their talents, and build up their potential for their future professions.

Existing Actions and Impact

We have hosted both groups, and international workcamps within the period of 1 week in minimum since 2014 to basically started up the center, and the LMTV volunteers to sustain the activities of education. The center has been home to about 200 local children having access to global education. CYA Learning Center has been recognized by the villagers, district people as the community center providing free access for both children and teenagers.

New Actions and Impact

• Workcamps and LTV volunteers are still in place of hosting as yearly project, but developing the feature of the workcamp activities:

• Intensive training to make the volunteers are more prepared within the local context. • Including the learning session within the workcamp period so that the volunteers can both

learn and help in the meaningful way. • Including more active community activities with practical actions particularly on local

tradition, rituality,, and the history.

Personal Actions • Collecting related information for the assets in implementing the activities. • Finding stakeholders to cooperate the related activities. • Write proper and clear vision for the projects.

China Sustainable Rural Development (Conghua)

Hosting NGO DWC SDG Poverty, Health, Climate Change Date made/revised 2016/06/10 Made by Julie Chao (Project manager in DWC and camp leader)

Current Situation

1. In rural Chinese villages, many men leave the village to work in the city, leaving behind unattended elders and women. Elderly and women feel useless with not much to do in the village.

2. Volunteers assist the villagers with farming and help with the processing of the village products to help increase tourist attraction. Volunteers also give villagers ideas on how to improve their eco tour as well as widen the views of the villagers so that they are more open-minded to new options to improve their quality of life.

3. Thus, villagers are improving on their eco-tour and feeling a sense of importance.


1. Better constructions of roads and trails for the eco/nature tour. 2. Enhance volunteers’ and villagers knowledge and influence their action towards a more

sustainable lifestyle. 3. Decrease littering in the village by enhancing the villagers’ knowledge and efforts in

maintaining their home clean. 4. Help construct a learning centre in the village.


International workcamps: we have had 5 past workcamps in the village and the villagers love our volunteers. With the help of the volunteers in farming and harvesting, the villagers can sell and earn more, increasing their income. They also gain knowledge about eco-tourism and organic farming from the volunteers. Villagers enjoy telling their stories about their roots to the volunteers and have an increase in self confidence. Villagers also are more open towards meeting people from different culture and hearing about other countries when at first, they focused more sharing about their own stories. Kids in the village are no longer as shy as before and would involve more with volunteers’ activities rather than before would observe the volunteer work.


Upcoming workcamp will re-assess needs of the villagers and focus more on development and perfecting the nature trail in the village.

Personal Actions • Shared with friends. • Continued to organize projects and follow up with progress.

Hong Kong Long Valley Rice Harvesting

Hosting NGO VT SDG Water, Justice, Partnership Date made/revised 2016/12/31

Current Situation

The project is co-organized by VolTra and Ta Kwu Ling/Ping Che Alliance for“Saving Our Home”. The aims of Ta Kwu Ling/Ping Che Alliance for “Saving Our Home” are to protect villagers’ home and culture and to conserve the environment. There has been discussion between the government and the villagers on the North East New Territories New Development Areas Planning.


We also want the community with more active participation of all stakeholders such as young people, farmers, villagers etc.


We organize 2 weeks workcamps and more than 4 times of 1-day event during the year. We successfully raises awareness among public towards the development of the rural village in Hong Kong. Those participants also learn and appreciate the importance of the local village and its Hakka culture.


We will keep workcamps every year to create more impact to raise awareness among public by promting activities such as: 1. Beautify or renovate the visitors’ centre; 2. Farmer experiential activity 3. Encourage volunteers to Join the project again as LMTVs. 4. Link with the similar NGOs in my country!

India Baddi

Hosting NGO RUCHI SDG Water

Current Situation

Baddi is an industrialised township of this state. Search for cheap labour engaged by industries has resulted in eruption of slums around industries and villages. This has caused serious water and sanitation issues. The area faces water shortage in summer despite having a good annual rainfall because of lack of conservation practices.


• Make potable water to all communities in project area by 2030. • Increase water conservation and cover about 30% of farming land under irrigation.


a. RUCHI has introduced several low cost measures to conserve water but we have yet to go a long way.

b. Two MTVs assisted RUCHI staff in educating local people on health issues and need for a better living condition.

c. Many water bodies were developed and recharged with assistance of volunteers. d. Plantation was done of 1200 trees.


New water conservation measures on development of Check Dams, percolation tanks, Gully plugging, contour trenching, roof water harvesting, irrigation tanks are being developed.

Personal Actions To raise funds for new actions. New actions proposed to be introduced.

Street Angels Project, Madhyamgram (Kolkata)

Hosting NGO SMILE SDG Poverty, Hunger, Health, Education Date made/revised 2016/12/31 Made by Mr. Debarun Chakraborty (Youth Volunteer coordinator)

Current Situation

There are hundreds of street children around the city of Kolkata.


Our target to bring happiness and smile among these most neglected communities in the country and being a regular health care ,proper sanitation,eradicting poverty and bring education to all children through our different year long initiatives.We are looking for more and more Youth Volunteers and students participation to help us in this goal by 2030. Together we can bring smile on these cute faces.


We are regularly working in projects like this one based in many different locations in the city. We found lots of impact in underprivileged communities in the last 13 years through our activities. We are very hopeful to find a better tomorrow. We organize many workcamps and MLTV for international and local youth volunteers


We will keep organizing more and more Workcamps and LTV projects to make our different projects successful. We welcome long term Volunteers up to 20 weeks. We welcome groups like students,interns,professionals in our projects. We are looking forward to receive more cooperation from our Asian partners.

Personal Actions • We have introduced multiple SNS to promote our projects. • Communication for Cooperation with local and international educational institutions • Looking forward to receive our Partners and members of NVDA support

Indonesia MTV

Hosting NGO DJ SDG Education Date made/revised 2016/12/28 Made by Amelia Christanti (Project Coordinator)

Current Situation

Dejavato would like to send more youth overseas through IVS program. In university, students need to join teaching internship program during their study. This intership is almost same such as voluntary program in education field. Moreover we developed intership program with our partner in ASEAN. The experience for overseas internship is very useful for students to understand better other culcture, system, and habbit othe countries


We would like to expend to send volunteer in ASEAN Countires


Many MTV volunteers to Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan as well as LTV volunteer for Europe with duration between 6 – 12 months


This year we had not enaugh time to promoted our program overseas. What we will do next year do more in promotion and introduction about our program in Universities.

Personal Actions • Promotion from university to university • Active in social media • Make an advertisiment

Mangkang Mangrove (Semarang)

Hosting NGO IIWC of PKBI SDG Climate Change Date made/revised 2016/01/12 Made by Dania Moehas (Coordinator)

Current Situation

The project is answering the needs of preserving the coastal side of North Java Sea in Mangkang. This area is now in danger since the abrasion of the sea, cutting mangrove by local factory and heavy force from the river flows. Flood is a common thing, and local people get used to it. Garbage problem was re-raised in the recent years. Lack of local’s awareness about environmental friendly lifestyle will destroy the nature slowly. They also face problem, they do not have integrated garbage management system, and even worsted by there is no daily truck garbage picker in this area.


• In 2030, we expect Mangkang does not have any flood when the heavy rain is coming. • In 2030, the kids that been educated about environment will grow up as teenagers who

have awareness toward environment. • Urban Farming being a new culture, and we expected every house in Mangkang has a

small garden in front of their house.


We held 5 work camps in 2016, and 3 hosted 3 MTV. We also collaborated with local movement which called GAMES “Gerakan Ayo Menanam Sayur” or “Vegetable Planting Movement”. In 2016, we planted 22.000 mangrove seeds, built up a small public garden for local people to learn how to plant vegetables.


We still organize work camp in 2017 and still counting. Our plans in near future are: • Implementing the advantages of eco sponge and promote it • Collaborate with youth community to enlarge youth participant

Personal Actions • Looking for funding partner • Enlarge local participation by advocacy to local stakeholder

Tegalrejo Red-District (Semarang)

Hosting NGO IIWC of PKBI SDG Poverty, Education, Inequality, Justice Date made/revised 2016/01/12 Made by Dania Moehas (Coordinator)

Current Situation

Tegalrejo is the biggest red-district area in Semarang Regency. More than 100 families living there who mostly work as prostitutes or food sellers. We ran this project since 2006 together with our mother organization PKBI. This work camp focus on improving the quality of life of marginalized children by giving them shelter for fun education, character building class, cultural exchange and fulfilment children’s rights on birth certificate. Most of the children who lived in this area, were have no identity card due to their parents didn’t have identity card either, they can’t afford higher level of school, and must faces high-risk-sexual activity scene (such as violence, sex bargaining, or sexual exploitation) as their playing ground.


• In 2030, we expect the numbers of kid discrimination will be decrease and easily get birth certificate in order to reach higher level of school.

• In 2030, the kids who joined our activity, will growing up and have self-awareness about violence that might be occurred.


We held 5 work camps in 2016, with 27 international volunteers who was joining and 8 local volunteers. There were 100 kids who regularly come to our shelter or study centre where kids can read books, make handicraft, fun studying, and cultural understanding with volunteers. Since 2014, we started to advocacy to regional education office as well as civil administrative office. They need us to collecting as much as information about kids and the parents that we can get. This year, there are 70 data were collected, but we still need permission from the parents or guardians for registering children to get their birth certificate.


We still organize work camp in 2017 and still counting. Our plans in near future are: • Do recruitments for more local volunteers • Registering children to get birth certificate • We would like to give health services for the kids collaborated with our mother organization

PKBI


Tegalrejo (Central Java)

Hosting NGO IIWC of PKBI SDG Poverty, Education, Inequality, Justice Date made/revised 2016/01/12 Made by Dania Moehas (Coordinator)

Current Situation

There is a study mentioned that AIDS mostly detected in people aged 25-35 years old. As HIV has 10 years of windows period to become AIDS, most people were infected HIV virus in 15-25 years old. By this fact and giving information about HIV-AIDS to young people aged 15-19 years old, we expect they will understand about sexual and reproductive health so they can protect their self, and to be less discriminating people living with HIV-AIDS. We also expect young people could be the agent of change to promote safe sexual choices, including safe from HIV-AIDS, STD, and gender based violence.


• In 2030, we expect HIV-AIDS, STD and gender based violence will be decrease • In 2030, the young people that been educated about dance4life can be the agent of change

and be able to educate others. • People living with HIV-AIDS will less discriminated.


We held 5 work camps in 2016, in 5 cities in Central Java. Collaborated with our sister organization Youth Centre PILAR PKBI Central Java, we did school roadshow in 29 Senior High Schools and educated 2.710 students. We also did 7 radio shows during the work camps.


We still organize work camp in 2017 and still counting. Our plans in near future are: • Conduct a training for students to be peer educator who will continuously disseminate

information about HIV-AID, STD, and Gender Based Violence • Collaborated with our mother organization we hope we could hold Dance4Life camp in

other province in Indonesia


Japan Kuromatsunai (Hokkaido)

Hosting NGO NICE SDG Education, Cities, Consumption, Climate Change, Forests Date made/revised 2016/04/21-30 Made by Workcamp vols (7 from 5 countries), Local Host (President and 3 staff), Kai (NICE President)

Current Situation

There are vast abandon fields and forests in Japan incl. this area due to serious depopulation and aging. • Japanese kids learns study just for knowledge, so need more qualified non formal and

nature education. • Buna-no-mori Shizen Gakko (nature school with beech forests) was started in 1998 to

promote ecological education and organizes various kids nature camps. • They have got a land and started to create an organic, community farm and needed more

voluntary power!


The farm will be developed to be home where various kinds of people (mentally/ physically challenged, elders, kids, etc.) can gather and heal their bodies and mind by play & work in the nature & farm. • A hot spring where we can feel heaven after farming! • Café to enjoy ice cream using local fresh fruits and milk • Free space where kids can make their secret bases • Long slider with the roof covered by the fruit trees • Organizing real survival camps with using river water

• Yoga on the snow, grow cows, drawing facilities, etc.


4 International workcamps have been organized in 2015-16 where the volunteers and local people planted berries and other trees, and created biotope along a stream in 20ha of the land, so the view and the ecological value has been greatly improved! Thus, the volunteers joined their kids programs in the weekends that has grown new friendship amd promoted their global education naturally.


We keep improving the ecology and view of the farm by planting trees, cutting alien plants, etc. as well as construct toilets, kitchen, camping sites and other things to achieve the above goal!

(Workshop in the workcamp to make Local SDGs)

Personal Actions • Introduce the farm to the friends especially mothers with small kids, so they can share their

difficulties to grow the kids and encourage each other. • Join the workcamp again!

Onuma (Hokkaido)

Hosting NGO NICE SDG Education, Cities, Consumption, Climate Change, Forests Date made/revised 2016/12/31 Made by IKEDA Makoto (Japan, local coordinator), Kai (NICE President), 10 vols in the workcamp 2016

Current Situation

Though Onuma Lake has been a popular tourism spot for a long time because of its beautiful scenery, it has been polluted by over use of agricultural chemicals in cattle farming and erosion from abandoned forests with alien trees. President of Cooperative has bought a forest and wants to revive it to original nature with native trees!


We would like to get the clean lake like 100 years ago where people can enjoy swimming and more various types of native fish and plants can be grown! We also want the community with more active participations of all stakeholders such as young people, farmers, etc. Tourists can enjoy the area in a more slow way not harming the nature and the farmers can keep cows without polluting.


We organize 2 weeks and 2 months workcamps since 2004 that revived over 3 ha of forests by moving alien conifer trees that disturb growth of other plants and animals and made water quality worse, made 200 rafts with reeds every year in the lake to purity the water and helped the research with some specialists. Onuma was registered by the world’s Ramsar treaty thanks to the workcamps, the local host says. The projects also connected different people who did not work together.


We will keep workcamps every year to create more and more impact to purify the lake with some new programs such as; • Promotion of using eco sponges to the locals • Hosting Longer term volunteers (e.g., 6 months) • Running eco-tourism with less negative impact

Personal Actions

• Introduce to my friends by SNS. • Collect the fund for the materials. • Join the project again as LMTVs. • Link with the similar NGOs in my country!

Macao The Feast of Na-Tcha

Hosting NGO MNCYA SDG Cities Date made/revised 2016/12/29 Made by Wiko Kok, Betty Hong (local project coordinator in MNCYA)

Current Situation

At present, for the majority of tourists that have visited or planning to visit Macao, the only tourist attraction seems to be “casinos”, that is also the reason why Macao is as renowned as “The Eastern Las Vegas” all over the world. However, Macao is not only made out of “casinos”, indeed we have much more to show, especially our unique culture when Chinese and Portuguese cultures encountered. But due to the prosperity of gambling industry, the shine of Macao World Heritage and traditional culture is always outshined. Macao is also a place that embraces different cultures in harmony and there are many treasurable stories to be unveiled. Besides letting people overseas to discover the hidden beauty of Macao, we also want to promote the idea of “world citizens” and “international voluntary services” in Macao. In recent years, voluntary service has become more and more popular in Macao, however this is only limited to local voluntary service, general public’s attitude towards international voluntary service is still conservative. From our experience, lots of Macao citizens are afraid or insecure of language barriers, foreign environment, or cultural differences, etc.


We would like to introduce Macao as a unique cultural centre to the world. Even if people who have not visited Macao casinos will still find Macao as a great place and would definitely want to revisit it. Besides the cooperation between local communities and authorities, it is also important for us to study the experience of other countries in world heritage protection. The participants in our workcamp are general from different careers and countries, they might be able to provide interesting thoughts for us after they have understood Macao by themselves and compared that with their own culture, and for sure these innovative and diverse thoughts will help us to improve in both the organization of workcamp and promotion of international volunteer services. Last but not the least, Macao International workcamp will also be a great opportunity for local volunteer to have a pre-experience with foreigners, and in hence help them to eliminate their fear and prejudice towards international voluntary work.


From 2010 to 2016 we had hosted 7 workcamps with the theme of World Heritage Preservation. These past workcamps were hosted in great success and won good reputation from the participants


In the future, we would like to continue to host Macao international workcamp – The Feast of Na-Tcha, so that both people from local community and from all the other parts of the world could learn more about Macao’s World Heritage.

Myanmar Payartaung Project (Nyaung Shwe)

Hosting NGO COM SDG Education, Inequality, Partnership Date made/revised 2016/03/05 Made by Payartaung leader, monks, volunteers, COM development team and Thazin Aung (COM)

Current Situation

Nyaung Shwe Township has been tourist attraction area because of Inlay lake. However, Payartaung village is located in the corner of Nyaung Shwe Township and edge of other three neighbouring countries. Therefore, access to education and health are under developed. Since it takes only 4 hours by boat from Nyaung Shwe, there are many tourists often visit to the village. Therefore, responsible tourism is also needed in that area not to damage culture and nature.


The community leader and the young student would like to improve their education system especially in English communication skills and to have better job opportunity for young people. Tourist can also enjoy with the community in that area with the responsible way by not harming nature and culture.


We had organized 12 workcamps and 3 midterm volunteering since 2013. In every workcamp, there is culture sharing event to have better understanding between local and international culture. There is also English session for the student to learn more about English communication in informal way of learning.


We will keep the exchange and education session and recruit long term volunteers (6 months to one year) for teaching purpose in Payartaung.

Personal Actions • Introduce to my youth network and international network • Share the knowledge and experience to local community • Cooperate with private sector and other NGO to improve the situation of local community

Nepal “Walk with Project” to Complete Community House in Daman

Hosting NGO FFN SDG Cities Date made/revised 2017/02/01

Current Situation

Friendship Foundation Nepal (FFN) is organizing International Voluntary Service since 1994 in Nepal. Nepal is a developing country, more than 80% of land occupied by mountains and Himalayas. Development of Nepal is a great challenge. Last year Nepal faced deadly earthquake and suffered badly. Our aims are: 1. Helping in development process of Nepal through voluntary service as much as possible. 2. To attract Nepalese youth in voluntary service. 3. Playing an important role to create social and cultural awareness.


1. Post Earthquake Reconstruction Projects: To organize special international workcamps in different areas to build public schools and poor people’s houses which were badly damaged by earthquake.

2. Post Conflict Awareness Creation Projects: We will organize awareness creation and advocacy International Workcamps on Peace and Social Harmony.

3. Youth Involvement in Development Projects: We will organize national workcamps for Nepalese university students to motivate them to involve in nation’s development by joining in voluntary service.

4. Creating Better World: We will make effort to promote international volunteer and youth exchange. We do believe that this way we can create better understanding among the youth in the world. We can create better world when we understand each others !


International Workcamps: 1. Community Development: Making school buildings, drinking water supply for villagers, and

toilet facility for local students. 2. Educational activities: Teaching camps, sister school projects between Nepalese and

Japanese schools. 3. Greening Asia Project: Planted more than 30,000 trees on river banks and mountain areas.

(Pokhara, Banepa and Bhorle ) 4. World Peace Workcamp: Hiroshima Day, international peace day LMTV: Teaching, Office Intern


• We have many long term plan but we need to go step by step so this 2017 year we will try our best for the Daman community house to complete still we have many challenge to collect the fund and big number of volunteer to support.

• Supporting to Banepa community house to make garden and living place for the elder people

• Women empowerment and sustainable programme • Health and hygiene/training for the awareness programme

Multi-Purpose Farm

Hosting NGO VIN SDG Hunger Date made/revised 2016/01/01

Current Situation

VIN’s Multi-Purpose Farm (MPF) concept is based on low-external inputs and sustainable farming practices, which allow farmers to integrate different technical elements into the MPF system. It will support to produce crops for both, home consumption and cash income generation. Adopting diversified agricultural activities, mono-cropping (rice or maize or wheat or millet) fields converts into integrated farms, which included fish ponds, fruit trees, cash crops, vegetable gardens and domestic animal husbandry.


It is a five-year plan in Taluwa community, and is in partnership with local youths, which we aim to develop as a teaching farm to the villagers. Our goal is to train local people in the fields of agricultural management, entomology, disease control, organic farming irrigation, plantation etc. • Develop social entrepreneurs and run enterprises in rural Nepal • Reduce youth migration for Labour to other countries • To support earthquake victims


• We have conducted 2 work camps in 2016. Our staffs are working together in this project on regular basis.

• We train local people in the fields of agricultural management, vermi composting, composting, low cost irrigation; fodder cultivation, organic farming .

• Create mass awareness about the hazard of chemical pesticides so as to aware other farmers in the community info organic production.

• Involve and work with Multipurpose farming group or the local farmer’s/women’s group in food crops, cash crops, mixed crops, livestock, horticulture and fishery etc


Our project site staff will monitor the project in regular basis. We will conduct work camps and long term project under “Multipurpose farming project”. Study the impact of the project on periodic manner.

Personal Actions • Share about the project information • Emphasis on volunteer mobilization under “Multipurpose farming project.

Singapore The Waterways Watch Society (WWS)

Hosting NGO GVC SDG Water

Current Situation

Founded in 1998 with a firm advocate of public education on water and environment awareness. • Build up individual responsibility and shared ownership of our water resources • Awarded the inaugural Presidential Environment Award in 2006 • Honorary WaterMark Award in July 2007.


Provides a unique opportunity for volunteers to get directly involved with water and environment awareness.


• Hands-on beach clean up • Bicycle patrol to understand how our water systems connect and the importance of valuing

our environment • Kayak river clean-up to learn about water environmental issues


Taiwan Taisi International Art Village

Hosting NGO VYA SDG Infrastructure

Current Situation This is the 10th year that VYA organizes series of International workcamp in Taisi for painting and education etc. And now Taisi is famous for its painting Art. People call it “Taisi international art village”.


1. Create a new economic service project such as social enterprise for community and create new job opportunity.

2. Empower the local youth for running the community enterprise in the future.


1. Art project and painting for community. 2. Community is now very welcome int vols and visitors. 3. Local school is looking forward to working with int. volunteers after we run the workcamp in

Taisi.


1. Local teenager empowerment project 2. A new community development model for global society 3. MTV project in the future

Thailand Withee Tai

Hosting NGO DALAA SDG Health, Education Date made/revised 2016/12/22 Made by Alex

Current Situation

In the community of Withee Tai, members try to free themselves from any kind of slavery from the mind to the body and the entire society. “The important domains we try to be free from are education, economy, society and health. It should be starting by ourselves, then the family, the community (natural or chosen), the country, the world. We want to change the world by acting locally, not only dream. Everyone is responsible.” It was created 2 years ago, start to receive international volunteers 1 year ago and just got the official agreement to start their community learning center.


Imagine a world where most people would REALLY put in practice those agreements: 1. Find our common ground within our differences. 2. Learn from others by observing inside ourselves. 3. Say what you do and do what you say. 4. Everything is based on the relationship of brotherhood. 5. Develop heart of ownership. 6. Positive thinking. (Get free from judging others). 7. Do not take side part from one or another when a conflict occurs.


They are planting and collecting their food as much as possible, cooking with wood fire, build a clay house for volunteers, use alternative way for health, walking, yoga, and started a green market at the next small town. The community learning centre has now 9 children registered (who don’t need to go to regular school). Impact is to make participants responsible for themselves and others.


We will continue to send MLTVs and to organize international family camp every year. They have many ideas and volunteers will add some. One is to (re-)start a ceremony for Thanks rice and water. Organize some walking trips. We will make links with other community learning centers and support to create some more. Give to people the strength of autonomy.

Personal Actions Practice of those above agreements. Join Withee Tai activities. Thinking about alternative education for our daughter.

Vietnam Global Education

Hosting NGO CSDS SDG Education, Work, Partnership Date made/revised 2017/01/15 Made by CSDS Team

Current Situation Children and young people in rural part of Vietnam suffer from having not enough skills for future employment due to lack of education on global issues and language


Young people in Vietnam have quality education and sufficient skills to work in a competitive globalized world, as well as to live peacefully with all people around the globe through partnership.


We have been facilitating language support for children, but mainly in the city.


We will expand language support in rural area, and include global education in the activities

Mai Chalis

Hosting NGO SJV SDG Poverty, Infrastructure Date made/revised 2017/01/15 Made by Nam

Current Situation

Mai Chalis a mountainous area that most of population is from ethnic minorities. They lack of facilities and education as they don’t have enough infrastructure to their village. Since 2012, SJ Vietnam started to send volunteers of workcamps to work with local people to create sense of community tourism. There has been lots of learning and exchanges between volunteers and the community. Until now, a model of community tourism has been set up and managed by local people and it can be a sustainable income resource for them


To promote the area to become a model of community and responsible tourism by investing in infrastructure for accessing the community easier and limited number of poor family until the rate is 0.


We organise workcamps regular at the community and we invested into renovation of houses, bridges, streets. We had training for local people to work with international volunteers and welcome tourists We advised local community to set up a system and created services for tourism like cooking, study tours, biking and trekking, working with local famers


• To help the community to be self-sustain by learning how to promote themselves to different target groups of tourist

• To get more partnership from local government for investing in infrastructure • To reserve local culture by organising workcamps, LMTV projects focusing on cultural

exchanges so more people can learn about wonderful culture of the ethnic minorites Recycled Playground (Lao Cai)

Hosting NGO VPV SDG Education, Infrastructure, Consumption Date made/revised 2016/08/31

Current Situation The children in many school sties in Lao Cai province, in the northern of Vietnam don’t have a proper playground for the children. Currently, the children just play directly on the ground without any toys or facilities. This makes the time at school less enjoyable for the children.


• Building at least 2 playgrounds with recycled materials at two school sites in Lao Cai province, jointly inspiring them to go to school more often.

• Organizing some workshops for the children here on environmental issues, particularly the importance of recycling.


This project is the succession of similar project in Lai Chau, another mountainous province in Northern Vietnam with positive impacts on the local community and the volunteers.


We will just carry out similar activities that we did with the previous project. We expect this project will have as positive impacts in Lao Cai as it did in Lai Chau.

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