Friday, December 4, 2009

The 1st Day Of December 2009

   It is stands for the AIDS day. The entire world celebrates this day every year since the 1st of December 1988. The world AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness and improving education.


Marching With Fakklers


    Every year the UNAIDS chooses new theme for the day. The theme for 2009 is . The theme has been chosen to address the critical need to protect human rights and attain'Universal Access and Human Rights' access for all to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. It also acts as a call to countries to remove laws that discriminate against people living with HIV, women and marginalized groups.

    Like the rest of the other organizations and associations who care about AIDS problem, we in Møre Og Romsdal District were so worry to establish Ålesund new Red Cross youth group before the 1st of December to celebrate the day together, as it is one of our challenges in Møre Og Romsdal District. Fortunately we succeeded to get five new members, four females and one male. But the total number of the whole group by the leaders is ten members.
Before Intering The Place Of The Program
    We started our program by marching and holding fakklers from the district Red Cross office till Moa Mole, the place of the program, after we put some posters in different telling people the place.
Norwegean Church Aids Members

    The program was collaborated with the Norwegian Church Aids by one lady called Bente. They had the same program. We had a big Christmas tree decorated with big red ribbon and other small ones in addition to candle like lights. We put it in some area between moles.

    I started to give people membership cards, pamphlets and reflects and asked them to fix the small red ribbons on the Christmas tree to make them feel their solidarity with the day. Also we distributed free condoms carefully because some people feel shy when taking it.
Fixation Of Red Ribbon On Christmas Tree By People

    I was focusing to give health education about AIDS, STIs as, facts of AIDS and the risk of the disease, as well as I askeded them to advice others also because the recent statistics of AIDS is fearful and according to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. And 299 case of the diseased was diagnosed in Norway during the year 2008, 182 are males and 117 are females. And the total number of HIV cases in Norway is 4086 people. But the infection of Chlamydia is the most common infection in Norway.
Red Cross & Norwegian Chruch Aids

    According to the new youth members I stayed for long time with them showing how to communicate with other. Meanwhile we tried to recruit some youth to join Red Cross Youth.
Ålesund New You Youth Group

     Although the celebration of AIDS day in Norway quietly different from that in Sudan, because we found it so difficult to communicate with Norwegians, maybe due to their customs and traditions or they are in a hurry all the time and they have no time to lose in such programs!.
Pizza And Nice Time

     At the end of the program we had pizza and we were happy because we celebrated the day with that new youth group of Ålesund and reminded people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Welcome To Christmas

        Just 5 hours ago i was in the christmas manefistation celebration of this year in spelkavik in Ålesund in Norway. Alot of people gathered together to start the first celeprations of christmas from the local area. it was very nice ceine.It Was Cold But You Will Never Fell It For The Happiness..

      Children ,old people and even the Norwegian's friendly nice dogs celebrated with their woners the event. All people watched the lightening of the Christmas tree over one of the mountains in Spelkavik area.

The Gathering..

       It was the first time for me to attend Christmas celebration outside Sudan in. It was nice feeling indeed although Christmas main celebration has not comes yet. I can not believe how it will be.

Dancing Of One Of The Local Groups..

       Sana Cruz gave small children some gifts and fruits to make them happy during this day then they will be eager to attend it again every year..

Santa Cruz Giving Chidren Gifts..

Unforgoten Mment..


       I met nice Norwegian friends and some of other Sudanese friends there. Really it was memorial event in my life that it will be scratched in my memory forever.

Nice Friends..


Nice Picture With Santa Cruz For The Memory..

Ørsta AIDS Day Celebration

        Yesterday the youth local group in Ørsta organized their AIDS day celebration. As people in whole the world celebrate it at the 1st of December each year to remind people that AIDS has not gone yet and there are alot of to do.

The Stand In Sentrum

Condoms, membershib cards and pamphlets

        Ørsta youth group prepared for the program well, as they put posters and invited their members and even the new ones. The program started in one of the shopping centre in the Centrum as stand and distributing membership cards and free condoms then they came down marching from that place up to the Red Cross House holding fakklers with in one uniform.

Marcing With Faklers to The Red Cross House

        In the Red Cross House I did a presentation about the AIDS day. There was about 15 members but some of them went back and only seven attended the presentation.

Part Of The Presentatyion
Part Of The Attendants

After that we had pizza and some fun then slept there because it was so late to catch a bus back to Ålesund.

Some Fun After The Presentaion


        In the early morning we found the white colour covered everywhere. It was snow that invaded Ørsta and Ålesund as well.

Snow In Ørsta
Snow In Ålesund
Snow In Ålesund

Lastly I can say that the program was so successful not like others. So we were so satisfied.

Frustrating Day

          This Wednesday we went to Vanylven “Sevde” to talk about AIDS Day and to give them some ideas about how to celebrate that day as well as to help them to make some handmade paints to use it in the day of the celebration.
Inside The Ferry When We Are Going..


It was the first time in my life to travel to place and change the bus or the car of transportation many times like that day. Also we used different ferries to cross the sea.
Thinking About The Number Of Youth We Will Find..

We were so excited to meet the Red Cross members. But unfortunately they were not there, we just find “Lars”, the leader of the group and waited for long time in order to get some of them. Although Lars was invited alot of youth to attend the program but they didn’t come also.


Thinking About Some Games After The Presentation

At the end we made the handmade posters then come back home. For me.

Surprizing .. All What I was Thinking About Has gone Away..

     I was not angry of what hapened because I know well it is not easy to get the nerwegian youth easy. So we have to find new ways to attract them..

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Ålesund New Group And AIDS Day

One of our important targets is to establish Ålesund new youth group. As this group will help us to celebrate AIDS day.


The new members

 
Last Thursday we hold the second meeting in the Red Cross House in Sentrum after we failed the Thursday before it to get enough volunteers as we got only three. And this meeting the total number has been four, then we gave them some information about the Red Cross Youth activities and ate the pizza.



Enjoying Pizza

Then we discussed how to celebrate the 1st of December “AIDS Day”. We are going to do different activities. So we distributed the duties and we shall have stand in one of the moles.


Discussing how to celebrate AIDS Day

Also we will have condoms show and demonstration in addition to another things I will mention it when I write mycomming blog about that day.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Dogs Day

Sorry my dear reader for this strange title. But actually as I searched for another suitable one I could not find.
Last week we visited Kristiansund to meet the youth group there.



It was very long journey; it took about 4 hours by the bus. When we reached there it was so late where we met Daniel, Cecelia and Ann Christin, then went to the Red Cross House. We wrote a poster to use it when we go to find new members.

The program of the dog started after we went out with Daniel and his small black dog into the city centre. It was so cold night, my hands and feet were frozen.

Daniel & his Dog
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We saw some ships of the oldest transportation company in Norway


Most of Norwegians like breeding animals especially dogs and cats. So, that day whenever we met a woman or a man we found him walking with his dog or carrying a cat.
 

They had pretty rare species of dogs and cats.

 


We visited many places to see the nice old city and had fun.



My Futue's Wife


Before fore we go back we enjoyed pizza in that such cold weather me and Lemi and Daniel and our small friend, Daniel's dogs.

Daniel's Dog..

 


At Red Cross House when we went back we watched some movies then played games with An Christen and Cecilia.



Although it the first visit to Kristiansundal but I was not satisfied with that trip because we didn’t meet volunteers there, because the group leaders did not arranged well for the visit. So they know nothing about the program. But we hope we meet them and do some activities during the coming visit.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

One Night In Molde

         Yesterday we visited the volunteer in Molde. It was the first time for us to go there. We have to use the ferry to cross the sea, same as when we went to Volde, which can carry alot of cars on it.

Alot f Cars In The Ferry

         The funny thing is that my co delegate Lemi as usual was very hungry, he was annoying me whole the journey although he took with him some potatoes chips but it was not enough to satisfy his hunger.

Chris Struggling Hunger Inside The Bus In The Ferry



         When we reached Molde it was about 7pm. Elisabet and the volunteers were waiting for us in the bus station.
         Soon they suggested having something to eat before we go to Red Cross House. So my dear friend Chris was the happiest one and agreed immediately with the Italian pizza idea at one of the restaurant there.




Chris Enjoying The Pizza

          During that we talk about their activities in Molde and how they are going to celebrate ” AIDS” day.


          At the Red Cross office we had a presentation about our activities in Sudan and the voluntary system there.

Me and Chris Preparing For The Presentation


     Also we talked aabout our challenges in Norway (food, weather, language and Norwegian communiy).




The Volunteers Following The Presentation





Chris Was Very Sad For His Compter Which Stopped Working

         Still the bad luck was following my friend Chris, as his computer stopped working suddenly and he was very sad because he lost all his important files there.



After The Presentation We had A fun

        There was small girl, a sister of one of the volunteer. She gave us a gift, a nice candle and apiece of soap she used to make it herself. She collects old candles and soap and melts it then modifies it in different shapes.

Very Nice Candles And Soap


        We returned back but decided to visit Molde another day during our weekend to meet the volunteers again and do some other activities.