VSI Bulletin March 2008
1 Mar 2008
In this issue
- VSI Volunteer Info Event, Sat 5 April 2.00pm-4.30pm
- College Fair -April
- IVP Projects
- IVP Leader Training
- Africa Asia Latin America Programme 2008:
- SCI's Nico Verzjiden wrote
- Latin American Week 2008
- Amnesty International (My Name Is Rachel Corrie) A play that was postponed indefinitely in New York and cancelled in Canada.
- The Border Arts Centre
1. VSI Volunteer Info Event, Sat 5 April 2.00pm-4.30pm
We invite you to the VSI Volunteer Info Event on Sat. 5th April from 2.00pm-4.30pm at the ILAC Library, (Dublin City Council) ILAC Centre, Dublin 1 (Henry St/Parnell St)
The Info Event will include the launch of the VSI Volunteer Book 2008 which gives information on the following projects -
- Volunteering Projects (10-21 days) in Ireland, Europe, North America, North Africa, Japan and Australia
- Volunteering Projects (6 weeks -2 months) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Middle East
- Longer Term Volunteering Projects ( 6 months plus) including European Voluntary Service Programme (EVS)
- Volunteering with the VSI Youth Programme on weekends and International Youth Exchanges to Europe during the Summer
- Volunteering with the VSI Dublin Local Group (weekends in Dublin)
2. College Fair - April
VSI is looking for 1-2 volunteers who could help with a VSI stall at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Rathmines on Thursday 24th April from 1.00pm-2.30pm. They are holding a Global Day for their students and teachers. Interested Contact Tom at the office.
3. IVP Projects
There are still places available over Easter in Ireland, Japan and Italy and there are lots of projects coming up in the next few weeks. You can search projects available throughout the year on the SCI search engine (http://www.sciint.org/workcamp_search.phtml), or linking through the VSI website (http://www.vsi.ie)
Application form available on the VSI website or from the office. Contact Helen or Laura devofficer@vsi.ie 01-8551011
4. IVP Leader Training
Would you like to be a Group Coordinator for international volunteers this summer?
We are searching for 'Coordinators' or 'Leaders', for International Volunteer Projects or 'workcamps', in Ireland this year. The projects take place during the summer and last for 2 - 3 weeks each. See the 2008 programme for details. Training is taking place in Croatia from 29/04 to 07/05. If you are interested in taking part please contact Helen or Laura.
5. Africa Asia Latin America Programme 2008:
The programme enables people to gain an insight and understanding of different development issues facing people and countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America by participating in voluntary work projects, of practical benefit to local communities.
The Projects are organised by local voluntary work organisations and involve teams of local and international volunteers helping: The 2008 Projects will be available on our international search engine http://camps.sciint.org We hope to have the majority of programmes by early March 2008.
a.. to build extra classrooms onto a local school,
b.. to renovate a rural health centre
c.. to plant trees and other environmental projects
d.. to make play facilities at a centre for disabled children
During their two- month stay in a developing country, volunteers will join in 2-3 short- term projects in different parts of the country as well as visiting development and community projects run by other organisations. If you are over 20 and have some volunteering experience under your belt then contact the office for further details.
Next Preparation Workshop-10/11 May Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Interested!- contact the office for more details or come along to our Volunteer Info Event on Sat 5 April next.
6. SCI's Nico Verzjiden wrote
Nico Verzjiden from SCI wrote
Dear all,
I came across BankTrack, an NGO supported by Friends of the Earth, Oxfam and many others. BankTrack is a network of civil society organisations and individuals tracking the operations of the private financial sector (commercial banks, investors, insurance companies, pension funds) and its effect on people and the planet.
We have put our resources and minds together to be effective in our work and coherent in our vision, but we remain independent organisations, each with our own way of doing things.
Very interesting site!
7. L.A.S.C
LATIN AMERICA WEEK 2008 7th to 12th APRIL: TURNING THE TIDE: RESISTING THE WATER TRADE...
A week of educational and solidarity events focused on the issue of the private exploitation of water, and the impact of this on human development in Latin America.
EVENTS: public debates, seminars, workshops, photo exhibitions, documentaries, fundraisers, Club Sandino....
SPEAKERS: activists from Ecuador, Colombia and Europe
WHERE: Dublin, Derry, Limerick, Belfast and Galway.
To receive full programme of events please contact Ilaria on: 01 6760435 or info@lasc.ie or visit http://www.lasc.ie/activities/law/law2008.html
Carolina Smeriglio
Events Officer
Latin America Solidarity Centre
events@lasc.ie
8. Amnesty International, My Name Is Rachel Corrie
You are invited to a reading and panel discussion presented by Amnesty International Irish Section in association with Fishamble: The New Play Company.
Saturday 15th March 2008; 8pm; Project Arts Centre, 39 East Essex St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2
A play that was postponed indefinitely in New York and cancelled in Canada. A true story of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, who travelled as a peace activist to the Gaza strip, where she was killed by an Israel Defence Forces Caterpillar D9 bulldozer in March 2003, while attempting to prevent a demolition of a home in a Palestinian residential area of Rafah.
Rachel was a gifted person, an idealistic humanitarian; her journals and emails from her time in Palestine have been edited by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman, who directed the acclaimed play, "My Name is Rachel Corrie", first staged in April 2005 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. It went on to win the Theatregoers' Choice Awards for Best Director and Best New Play, as well as Best Solo Performance.
On the fifth anniversary of Rachel's death, Amnesty International in association with Fishamble: The New Play Company are pleased to present this special one-off reading of the play.
Tickets €28 & €22 (conc); now on sale from the Project (01 881 9613/4) and online at http://www.project.ie. All profits will go to Amnesty International.
9. The Border Arts Centre
I am delighted to invite you for the first meeting of the Group of Theatre of the Oppressed Island of Ireland. The Border Arts Centre has been using TO in most of its activities. We have a course in Art and Conflict that uses TO as a methodology. We have 3 jokers working with us and we have been running workshops for different organizations such as: Trinity College of Dublin, West Belfast Festival, Gleencree Peace and reconciliation Centre, Gernika peace Museum, Portlouise Prison, Alternatives Greater Shankill. After the 3rd edition of the course in Art and Conflict and several workshops in TO in Ireland and Northern Ireland we have decided to set up a monthly space for debating, sharing experience, developing skills and meeting other facilitators.
Our first meeting will take place at Black Box Theatre- DKIT - Dundalk. on Saturday the 15th of March from 10:00 to 13:00. Please confirm your presence to Raul.Araujo@dkit.ie
VSI Staff
30 Mountjoy Square
Dublin 1
01-8551011