• Émile Durkheim

    An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature....

  • Karl Marx

    Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please....

  • Zygmunt Bauman .

    “The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.”

Thursday, November 29, 2018


Grupo Fenix organization does not follow a traditional NGO model, because they consider themselves like a social enterprise. This means that they don't rely on donations and grants, they are almost completely financially sustainable; they occasionally and especially for large projects such as new buildings they do recieve grants and donations. Grupo Fenix's vision is to improve the quality of life of rural families and communities in the region. They are located in Sabana Grande, Totogalpa, NIC-15, Cerro Grande.  


This NGO makes activities like:

  • Ecological dry latrines
  • Nano-loans
  • Acesol
  • Ceiba de oro 
  • Bici-futuro


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Volunteers
The program is divided into two categories:


  • Community Development Volunteers and Volunteer Advisers: They will work directly in an area of community development identified by the community itself. The purpose of these positions is to fill a skill gap in our organization and to increase our skill level accordingly.
  • Researches: This program is aimed primarily at students, both undergraduate and graduate, and faculty who wish to find a supportive ecosystem.
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CARE began operations in Nicaragua in 1966 and has continued working there, uninterrupted, despite political turmoil and civil war. During the 1960s and 1970s CARE Nicaragua worked mostly in education and primary health care. During the 1980s CARE expanded its focus to include safe pesticide use, agricultural development and water-system construction. 
Resultado de imagen para CARECARE works to save lives, defeat poverty and achive social justice. CARE is known to work to provide educational help and health for children under terrible cirumstances.The work they do in Nicaragua is to help the poor circumstances they have to struggle with, children that spend their formative years trying to survive somehow for themselves and to help even helping their parents by working with them at a very young age in dangerous circumstances or so, CARE also focuses on the empowerment of the youth.

People can help this community ( NGO ) or get involved by participating in global journeys, not only help the nicaraguan children and peope but also around the world by helping increase smallholder farmer productivity, ensuring the food and nutrition security of communities. CARE mostly gets help by cooperating with other association by partnering, like for example the USAID.
People can help by donating as well.
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$23 can provide a baby kit to a family during an emergency, which contains six reusable diapers, soap and other hygiene items.

$74 can provide textbooks and other school supplies to help a girl, who has had to drop out of school, return to the classroom and earn an education.
$198 can provide 10 children with a warm, nutritious meal at school for a year, to improve their energy, attention and school performance.

CARE has been partnering with Cargill, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty, for more than 50 years to improve food and nutrition security by strengthening rural communities.
There are more 90 CARE associations aroud the world, in 2017 , CARE had manage to appear and work in exactly 93 contries, reaching 63 million people through 950 poverty-fighting development and humanitarian aid programs.
CARE in Nicaragua is exactly located over Bluefields exactly in Region Autonoma de la Costa Carbie Sur.                                                                                              Resultado de imagen para care nicaragua location
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This NGO is composed of a group of volunteers who bases their activities on the education for children located in Granada. Their mission is to provide the resources and opportunities needed for the advancement of education and the community development in this city. Their goal is to improve the future of the children and to help the citizens to improve their conditions.

It was born on 2002 and nowadays they help more than 2,000 children who suffer from poverty in this city.


Some of their activities are:

1. Improving the buildings of schools such as building kitchens, cafeterias, classrooms, etc.
2. Taking children to dentists.
3. Make a vacation program for children.
4. Take the children on fieldtrips.
5. Make vision tests and provide the lenses.

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Some available positions for volunteers are:

  1.  Assisting or tutoring children.
  2. English teachers.
  3. General maintenance work.
  4. Volunteers through internet (translating documents, making promotions,etc)
Every volunteer needs to give a contribution of 50$. Each one is responsible of covering their own transportation and needs.
Volunteers have to work between 4-5 hours daily, and the organization asks at least two weeks of commitment.

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The ngo that i chose was operation smile. I chose this ngo because it popped first into mindas the school works with this ngo in extra curricular events.
Operation  Smile's mission is to help children with facial deformities, Ex: sunken lips.
As mentioned before the ngo does activities in which volunteers can help in doing various activities which help the ngo. Students like us can for example: host a presentation or blog post,etc about operation smile, or any content that is about the ngo and it's goals. Or any kind of activities which help raise money and awareness. The ngo gets money from donations, it's headquarters are located at Virginia US.

Are you ready to make someone smile?

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Feed the Children has worked in Nicaragua for more than 20 years and is currently active in 20 different communities. They provide children with school meals as well as additional supplies to help their growth each day at school. In addition, they teach children simple sanitation techniques to prevent water-borne diseases. In fact, thousands of students have received water, sanitation, and hygiene lessons in school. 

Donate

Contact
Phone: 
(toll free) 1-800-627-4556 
(local) 1-405-942-0228 
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM to 10:30 PM CST
Address: 
333 N. Meridian 
Oklahoma City, OK 73107

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

First of all what is socialization? Socialization is the process by which people learn the characteristics of their group—the knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, norms, and actions thought appropriate for them. There are various of was to socialize for example  in school, outside schools, going out with fiends and more. My frequent socializing activities are:
  • Family socialization this is something I do frequently because I love spending time with m family and get to talk to them about different types of subjects. This usually coccus dung reunions my family makes in order to spend time together.



  • Spending time with classmates is an everyday thing, but I believe that the chance we actually get to socialize is when we are doing group projects and lunch. 



  •   When I hangout with my friends we tend to have a good time and try our best to get a little break of reality and school. This is another way to socialize that I do often.


What are we?
We are the only non-for-profit trekking and outdoors association in Nicaragua. We offer adventurous hikes through the volcanoes in the surrounding areas of Leon, Nicaragua and then donate the profits to locally-run projects working with disadvantaged youth. 

Hikes
They offer numerous hikes including:
  • 1 day hikes: Volcano Boarding, Volcan Telica Sunset, San Cristobal
  • 2 day hikes: Volcan Telica, Volcan El Hoyo, Full Moon Telica, Volcan Cosiguina
  • 3 day hikes: Volcan Cosiguina, Nothern Highlands, Somoto Canyon

Projects
Currently, they are working on 5 projects:
  • Las Tias
  • Minibiblioteca
  • La Chavaladas
  • QT Scholarship Fund
  • Las Zankistas

Volunteering
We rely greatly on our incredible team of volunteers to ensure our organization runs succesfully. Our volunteers help us provide our highly popular hikes at competitive prices whilst maximising the amount of money we donate to the projects which we support. 

Offices
Their office is located at 2da Av. NE, Leon, Nicaragua.


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*Information from: http: //leon.quetzaltrekkers.org/ 


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What's about?
  • It started by a group of for students from Vanderbuilt University that together established an on-campus service organization to bring the university campus into greater contact with the local immigrant community, and to provide international service opportunities for students. After visiting and work several times at nicaragua they decide to establish Manna Project International as an IRS-recognized nonprofit organization.
Objective: Their programs are focused on solving the problems that the people form nicaragua most suffer. Some examples are:  
  • 75% never completed elementary school
  • 43% live on less than $1.00 a day
  • 100% of children need treatment for parasites
  • 15% of children ages 5-14 involved in child labor
  • 1 in 3 children suffers from chronic malnutrition


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 Mission: 
Inspired by the healing and caring Ministry of Jesus Christ, we aim through the positive interaction of caring, sharing and training, to uplift the most vulnerable members of society, especially disabled and abandoned children, and marginalized communities. We are committed to the fostering of homes and communities, which will lead us all to loving service and mutual respect and which will bring us joy, hope, and dignity.
Activities:
  • They give loving and lifelong care for children with disabilities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, and young mothers in crisis.
  • They manage sustainable agriculture initiatives.
  • They provide education, nutrition, and skill training to improve the conditions of affected communities.
Location:
  • Managua 
  • Diriamba 
Help:
  • They will gladly accept anyone´s help as they need to take care of more than 70 people each day. Usually, groups of people go to help and provide them with the basic materials needed to take care of the disabled.



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The ONG "Infacia sin fronteras" works with the 20 more vulnerable collectives to give to the children the rights that they deserve such as give them a equal quality education and a clean and healthy source of energy, etc.They mostly need monetary help to reach their goals and provide to the children the resources or education they need and deserve,you can donate via their website
https://infanciasinfronteras.org/proyectos-ahora/
but they also need voluntaries  https://infanciasinfronteras.org/voluntarios/.

Contact:


  • 2272 3915
  • (+34) 900 535 411
  • Email : admon@infanciasinfronteras.org




So as you know we have around us people for socialization so the activities that I have in my daily activities. I have many activities like socializing for hw and other things.
CODENI


The Nicaraguan Coordinating Federation of NGOs working with Children and Adolescents (CODENI) is a coordinating body of 39 organizations that participate in the Work Commissions. Incorporated in 1992. With Legal Entity in 2000.

It promotes and develops spaces of participation with the State to influence the elaboration of public policies, proposed initiatives of laws and promotes actions of social defense, advocacy, social communication, and social mobilization.

Mission

From its self-determination CODENI assumes the responsibility of contributing to the political, economic, social and cultural transformations so that children and adolescents fully exercise their human rights, promoting processes of coordination, articulation and advocacy in legal frameworks, public policies and actions of social defense at the national and municipal levels, taking as reference the Constitution of the Republic of Nicaragua, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Code of Childhood and Adolescence.

Contact

Canal 2 de T.V. 1c al norte, 2 1/2 c al oeste, Bolonia Casa No. 29. Código Postal: PA-104.

+505 2222 3232

+505 2266 1503

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Tuesday, November 27, 2018


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Socialization, the process by which people learn the characteristics of their own group, describes the ways that people come to understand social norms and expectations, to accept society’s beliefs, and to be aware of social values. 

Socialization can be held anytime and anywhere. Every individuals in society experience socialization everyday while they are interacting with others. As an actual member society, I also socialize with others every single day. For me, most of my socialization activities are held in school. In the school, I meet different people from different cultures, and we share our different perspectives through socialization. 


During the lunchtime in the school, I usually play soccer with others from different grades. While we are playing, each of us tries to cooperate well to make good teamwork and shares different strategies to win the match. Through this activity, I can socialize with others and build stronger bonds with them. 
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Also, another socialization activity that is the most frequent for me is the group assignment. During the class, teachers sometimes give us an assignment that should be worked as a group. Each member of the group works collaboratively and share their different opinions and perspectives.
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