• 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.”

Friday, November 30, 2018

Operation Smile To be a leading NGO in providing Integral Care and Reconstructive Surgeries to children, youth and adults with cleft lip and cleft palate.

It helps to narrow the gap in the need to provide access to safe and timely surgeries by partnering with hospitals, governments and ministries and / or health departments, training local medical personnel and donating equipment and supplies that are very necessary in places where surgeries are performed throughout the world. 

It is one of the oldest and largest organizations, based on a volunteer dedicated to improving the health and lives of children around the world through surgical care.

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Thursday, November 29, 2018


BUILDING NEW HOPE

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Building New Hope is a volunteer-driven nonprofit organization based in Pittsburgh and Nicaragua. In Nicaragua, they partner with a worker-owned organic coffee cooperative, operate two supplemental schools for at-risk youth, and provide high school scholarships for students in need. Their mission is simple: help those in need by providing educational opportunities and fair prices for goods and services.  For more than a decade, they have purchased coffee from El Porvenir according to Fair Trade principles, helping the cooperative to stay out of debt, replace aging coffee plants, build a health clinic and expand educational opportunities for young people.

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 Nicaragua based volunteer opportunities:
Applicants must have advanced to fluent Spanish language ability.  Their Nicaraguan teaching staff most need support in ESL and sharing expertise in music, art, or technology and STEAM.  They ask that volunteers come with lessons plans prepped. If groups would like to visit their supplemental schools as part of their time in Granada, Nicaragua, please contact us for possibilities and more information.

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Support your “local” coffee farmer. Buy Building New Hope Coffee from El Porvenir!

CONTACT THEM: 

info@buildingnewhope.org


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Habitat for Humanity summons people to build homes, communities and hope, as well as God's love in action. It is a non-profit organization that advocates and works for the right to adequate housing and the sustainable improvement of community habitat. Promotes the social and political recognition of adequate housing as a basic right.


Since its founding in 1984, Habitat for Humanity Nicaragua has benefited more than 10,000 families and more than 40,000 people with various alternatives for improving their housing conditions throughout their years working in the country.

Their most important goal is to "Create a world where everyone has a suitable place to live."
TECHO(Un Techo para mi País)

  • Location: Departamental 440, San Joaquín, Santiago, Chile, United States.
  • Is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes youth volunteers to fight extreme poverty in Latin America, by constructing transitional housing and implementing social inclusion programs. The organization has more than 720,000 volunteers and has constructed houses for over 102,400 families in 19 countries in Latin American and the Caribbean. It is the most known for its large-scale construction projects, building transitional homes for people living in slums (campamentos) in Latin America. The homes are made of wood and built by volunteers who work alongside the beneficiary families.
The project "Sí A La Vida" was founded in 1994, by as a program for homeless street kids, with the mission to rescue and provide rehabilitation services; in a loving, caring and respectful environment.
They first purchased "Casa Nuevo Amanecer", in Managua, and about 30 kids received educational and health services per year. After stabilizing in Managua, they went to "Casa José María" in Ometepe Island and established their official offices. 

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Some of the activities they perform are:
  • Rescuing and fostering homeless street kids, in order to develop and reinforce a healthy lifestyle/ quality of life.
  • Educate, counsel and carry out rehabilitation services against drugs, alcohol, among others.
  • Improve family interactions, by providing in-home counseling. 

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Sí A La Vida seeks for volunteers with primary or secondary teaching experience/abilities; teachers with Spanish language ability are required, as well those who can teach Mathematics, or English, however, teachers for non-academic subjects, such as arts, sports and/or mechanics, are more than welcome. The organization also seeks for volunteers who are willing to do building maintenance, construction and agricultural work. 
Each of these volunteers must pass a background check in order to work with children.

If interested in volunteering, contact/send email to amigossalv@gmail.com

REMAR, is a Christian charity ngo, whose acronym means, Rehabilitación de los Marginados. The vision of this organization is that the kids and teenagers follow the example of Jesus life, and provide help to the marginalised in order to restore their lives in their psychic, spiritual, social and physical area, with the aim of achieving reintegration into society and thus be useful and willing people to put his life at the service of others. Its mission is the development of program aimed at adults and minors so they can find the solution to the problems they present. Its mission also is to achieve the spiritual, physical, psychic, and family restoration of people by evangelism, discipleship and social work.

Some activities that this organization do is project P.A.N which is to sponsor a child, solidarity dining, rehabilitation program, special protection homes for children and teenagers and health program. 
They will always need volunteers and in order to become one you have to get involved directly full time or in a timely manner, helping in different areas of our foundation. You can donate money to their banking accounts. Also you can collaborate with donations of foods like sugar, rice and beans.
Remar is located in Managua near a church.  
  

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. 

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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/