Piesse’s Indonesian Adventure: The Local Library and meeting with the PPSDMS
John Piesse This September I represented Youth Without Borders at the TUNZA United Nations Youth Environment Conference in Indonesia. While I was there I had the opportunity to see Kamar Buku, the mobile library and meet with members of PPSDMS, an Indonesian student leadership organisation, who manage the library. In 2007 the founding members of Youth Without Borders met a young resident of Depok City and learnt that, despite the city’s population being 1.3 million, it did not have a...
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The National Conference on Volunteering
Monday 28th -Wednesday 30th November Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Qld. The National Conference on Volunteering is only six weeks away! Registrations are still open; for more information please click here (or, to look at the registration booklet (which has better info, I think – K), click here Conference highlights include: -Plenary presentations by nationally and internationally recognised speakers -More than 80 workshop and presentation choices -Great...
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FYI: Street Library news article
Click here for a recent Gold Coast Bulletin article on our initiative, the Street Library. Apparently, there’s been a very positive response to it, with many people offering to donate books and time to the project. Great!
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Discussion forum: Engaging Culturally Diverse Volunteers
If anybody is keen to go along represent YWB here that’d be great! Please send Ben an email at secretary@youthwithoutborders.com.au. Cheers! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We are inviting you to share your organisations’ experiences or aspirations by participating in a discussion forum on Thurs 3 November 2011 (see attached invitation) from 2pm-4pm at Griffith University, Logan Campus. Developing volunteer...
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This came up in a lecture today and I thought I’d pass it on… Have you ever wanted to volunteer overseas but haven’t because you don’t know how to go about it? Well, here’s your opening – Unibreak provides a body through which you can get out there. Check out their website!
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