Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Ålesund Weekend Course



       Ålesund weekend course was the first big and important activity that was achieved after establishing the local youth group there. Actually we prepared the course mainly for the new members to join them with the Red Cross activities and to feel the voluntary feeling and its fundamental principles.
 The Participant of the Course

       Otherwise we want them also to get some experiences from the other youth delegates from Nepal, Rwanda and our contact person “Lotte Katborg” the co-ordinator of the program.
 
Lotte and Durga Fixing The Comment

        The course was hold on the period between the 5th – 7th of March in Vandrerhjemmet Hostel in Ålesund Sentrum, close to the Red Cross House of Ålesund local youth group.
 Vandrerhjemmet Hostel in Ålesund Sentrum

        We sent invitations to all the local youth groups to participate in the course with their volunteers. We had 7 groups.The total number of people who attended the course was 21 participants, the Rwandese youth delegates (Kenneth and Fify) from Lillestrøm an Nepali youth delegates (Sajan and Durga) from Arendal.
Part of The Profram
         Lotte Katborg, Astrid Lindvik Velsvik “the youth leader in the district”, one from Volda, 2 from Ørsta, 3 from Molde and 8 from Ålesund included 3 from the asylum centre also were there. We invited some other youths from the asylum centre, but they also apologized the same day of the course.
 
Lotte and some of The Participants

        The first day of the course started with welcoming and checking in for the participants. Social evening activities were done by youth delegates from Arendal and Lillestrom.
Me and The Rwandese and Nepali Youth Delegates

        The second day me and my co-delegate had a presentation about Ålesund local youth group and what we have done and our strategy for the coming period. Active choice presentation and some games were done by the Rwandese youth delegates as well as we had enjoyed the Rwandese nice traditional dance that Fifi did.
Rwandese Youth Delegates During their Presentation
        Astrid also talked about Red Cross school. Then it was Volda participation by Espen. The participants distributed into groups after gave them a news paper. Each group was supposed to use the pictures and the headlines and letters of the news paper to write an article about one of the activities of the Red Cross.


Astrid and Ruben Distriputing Posts Carts

        Rules of war and the International Humanitarian Low were presented by Britt Eli, the leader of Ålesund local youth group.
       The last day was completely about the human trafficking by the Nepali youth delegates, who are very skilled and have a lot of experiences about this activity.
 Nepalese Youth Delegates During Human Trafficking Presentation

The Social Program of The Asylum Centre

      The social program for the asylum centre people is one of the activities we recently prepared and organized to minimize the stressful situations they feel, as they are living now away from their families and friends.
      The Idea of this program is to prepare recreational programs for the asylum centre’s people such as social gatherings, visiting bowling centre, pizza or visiting one of the parks.

Mueiz traying to throw the ball
       In Ålesund we have two asylum centers. One is in the Sentrum and the second one is in Moa. We visited the two places and met the asylum seekers there to arrange the program with them. There are more than 35 persons in the two centers but the majority of them are males. We could not find specific number for that because they move from place to another inside Norway, or out of it.

Pizza Of The Day.
       On Sunday 13th of January we prepared the first social program for 13 of the asylum seekers, 3 girls and 10 guys. First we went to the bowling centre. We had a nice time there playing and talking. After that we went together to have pizza at one of the restaurants.
Me And Jack At The Bowling Centre
         Actually it was a nice thing that we went together with those people and talked with them, and also it is good for them to recreate themselves instead of the stressed time they spend usually during their waiting for their paper and the permission to live in Norway. We noticed that they were very happy also with the program.
Unsuccessful Try of me
        Unfortunately we were planning to do the same for the second group of the asylum centre seekers but we couldn’t do it according to financial causes, as we discussed it with our contact person at the office, but hope we can do it during the coming period.
Abdollatif In Action