Un ETAI pour le Vietnam

ETAI is a french student organization, probably the closest organization of SJ Vietnam: both share same goals and the members have the same age. ETAI is the main donator of SJ Vietnam. Each summer the member of ETAI and SJV work together to improve the lifes of the children in the National pediatric hospital in Hanoi and the "Fisher Village" in Long Bien district in Hanoi. The collaboration between ETAI and SJV is a good exemple of understanding and international solidarity between young people having different nationalities and cultures. The current SJV web site design is based on a original designed of ETAI webmaster Brunet Baptiste

History

In September 2004, two Toulouse students decided to found an association. They were quickly joined by several students from various universities. Both wanted to create a new project, independent of the already existing organizations of International Solidarity. The choice of Vietnam as a ground of action was prompted by Professor TELLS, honorary President of Paul Sabatier University and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Toulouse, which took part itself, and has always taken part in actions of this type in this country since 1985.

The project began with a exploratory mission during the summer 2005. This first stage enabled ETAI to meet Vietnamese partners and to define grounds of action. But this mission also gave them the occasion to discover the Vietnamese culture, which is of primary importance for ETAI 's members to be able to carry out a project in Vietnam. Thanks to the regular contacts that ETAI maintained with Vietnamese partners , like with formations with the projects of International Solidarity exempted by the ANEMF (National Association of the Medical students of France), ETAI could prepare the project throughout 2005-2006. In the summer of 2006, the first bases of the project were installed. In addition, actions of support were carried out with the families in difficulty

Goals

The goal of the association is to set up long term aid for the underprivileged populations. ETAI first desires is to create an educational structure for the children living in poor conditions in Vietnam. This school, in Long Bien, will be a springboard to enable them to become pupils in state schools into Vietnam and to obtain the diplomas necessary for their professional life.ETAI wants that the local population will invest in the project in order to ensure its continuation. Thus the choice of a project of this type corresponds fully to our ideals and encourages us in ETAI task. ETAI second objectives is to persuade young French people from the problem areas to take an interest in International Solidarity. The final intention is to enable a young person to accompany the members of association to Vietnam.

Contact

37 allée Jules Guesde 31300 Toulouse , France

General e-mail : etai.vietnam@yahoo.fr

Président : Camille HEITZ - lavac2@yahoo.fr

Trésorière : Emmanuelle DUSSEUX - manue-the-51@hotmail.fr

Secrétaires : Marie VOGLIMACCI STEPHANOPOLI et Justine ATTAL - marievogli@yahoo.fr

Web Site: http://etai.vietnam.free.fr/

CCIVS

SJ Vietnam is full of member of CCIVS since 2005 and participate regulary of CCIVS meetings and activities.

Origins

International Voluntary Service began in its modern form in 1920. The idea was the result of a meeting of a group of Europeans following the First World War (1914-1918). They decided that they had to do something active to try to deal with both the dreadful effects of the war, and to find a way to remove the causes of conflict. Volunteers from former enemy countries were invited to rebuild a village in France, which had been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting. The international group of volunteers built houses and lived together in an international community. After World War II, new organisations sprang up to help reconstruct Europe, both physically and in terms of bringing former enemy populations together. These new organisations needed co-ordination. With the support of the recently established United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) was created in 1948. Over the following 50 years, CCIVS expanded its membership from a West-European base to include youth movements in Eastern Europe and volunteer organisations in Africa, Asia, Arab Countries and Americas.

Objectives

The objectives of CCIVS are related to the promotion and development of the voluntary service movement on national, regional and international levels in the contemporary world:

- Towards peace, international understanding, friendship and co-operation among the people of the world, particularly the youth, in order to advance and improve the future of humanity;

- Towards the development and the furthering of efforts concerning developing countries, in order to strengthen their national independence;

- In Solidarity with people struggling for national independence, democracy, social progress and against all forces not observing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

- For the benefit of people affected by all forms of social and economic exploitation, unemployment and bad working and living conditions, and the promotion of awareness and action against these forms of degradation;

- For the benefit of a fruitful co-ordination of the activities of the CCIVS members.

In order to achieve:

- The propagation and development of the aims of voluntary service and its educational impact both on the volunteers and the community in which they work; The promotion and development of relations and co-operation with other voluntary service organisations, with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), with youth and student organisations and movements on a broad political, religious and social spectrum, which are dedicated and committed to contributing to the objectives of the voluntary service movement;

- The support of the United Nations Principles: co-operation and contribution to the implementation of the programmes and the initiatives of the United Nations and its bodies on questions of common interest, especially to develop co-operation on a broader scale with UNESCO, striving for the realisation of common initiatives and the contribution to each other programmes.

Members

To download the complete list of CCIVS members, click here: http://www.unesco.org/ccivs/New-SiteCCSVI/CcivsMembers/Documents/directory.rtf

Activities

The Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service is an international non-governmental organisation which promotes peace, development and human rights through the promotion, development and co-ordination of national and international voluntary service. The work relies on cooperation between national and international voluntary service organisations, which constitute its network of members. CCIVS coordinates the exchange of information and promotes international volunteers programme through:

· Displaying information and documentation

· Organising seminars, conferences, training sessions

· Promoting the activities of member organisations

· Contacts and cooperation with other international organisations

· International solidarity campaigns and joint actions

· Studies and research work

· Support for fundraising

Contact

Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service

UNESCO House 31 rue François Bonvin 75732 Paris Cedex 15 FRANCE

Tel : + (33 1) 45 68 49 36

Fax : + (33 1) 42 73 05 21

E-mail : ccivs@unesco.org

Web : www.unesco.org/ccivs

NVDA network

The Network for Voluntary Development in Asia (NVDA) is an organisation which dates back to 1993 when the idea of an Asian regional networking was agreed and planned. The network was founded by 11 NGOs from 11 different countries:
ACYF - China, BWCA - Bangladesh, FCN – Nepal, IVP - Australia, KNCU - South Korea, KYDO - Cambodia, NICE - Japan, Solidarités Jeunesses - France, UNA - Wales, and VYF – Vietnam. SJ Vietnam is an active member of NDVA since 2005.

Since 1996 NVDA has organised the Training and Networking Workcamp (TNW) with the aims of :
* starting workcamps in those Asian countries
* where workcamps are not organised,
* improving the existing workcamps in Asia, their
* organisations and the exchange of volunteers
* developping regional co-operation by NVDA

Since 1999 NVDA hold its General Assembly parallel with the TNW every other year. The TNW and GA have been taken place as follows:

* TNW1995 Russia (informal establishment of NVDA)
* TNW and GA1997 China (formal start of NVDA)
* TNW1999 Vietnam
* TNW and GA2000 Vietnam
* TNW2002 Japan
* TNW2004 and GA Nepal
* TNW2008 Vietnam Hanoi (hosted by SJ Vietnam and VFP )

The focus

The network has been working in many aspects of the voluntary field and organising different actions particularly workcamps, long term voluntary projects, common campaigns like Greening Asia, World Peace Project, Bracelet Project.Other actions include:

* International / weekend workcamps to protect forests including planting trees over 1,300 Green Foster Parents in Japan to grow the seeds of native trees for 2 years
* Greening Asia Fund by donations and fundraising to be used to protect forests in Asia (If parents of 2 grow 5cm, 5$ can be used!)
* Drawing contests in Indonesia and Japan with 250 kids, CO2 reducing actions, etc.
* World Peace Project: by collecting kilts with peace messages from volunteers and locals in Nepal, Korea, etc. to Hiroshima workcamp.
* Trainers' Seminar to organise workcamps.
* Publishing newsletters, web., and other booklets to promote international voluntary service.

The members

NVDA counts among its members the following organisations : ACYF (All-China Youth Federation), BWCA (Bangladesh Work Camps association), GREENWAY, Thailand, IIWC (Indonesia International WorkCamp team) of IPPA, IVP (International Volunteers for Peace), Australia, IWO, Korea, KNCU (Korean National Commission for UNESCO), KYDO (Khmer Youth Development Organization), Cambodia, MCE (Mongolian workCamps Exchange), NICE, Japan, NIFC (New International Friendship Club), Nepal, VYF (Vietnam Youth Federation), SJ Vietnam, VFP Vietnam, SCI (Service Civil International), YAP (Youth Action for Peace), UNA Exchange (United Nations Association).

The funding

NVDA is funded by membership fees, activities such as workcamps, large-scale projects (AEVE - Asian Europe Volunteers Exchange which was funded by ASEF for instance), different foundations, and others. It has a secretariat based in Seoul, South Korea, and the Steering is composed of NICE - Japan as President, NIFC - Nepal as vice-president, IWO - South Korea as General Secretary, and KNCU - South Korea as Treasurer.

Contact

NVDA secretariat: Ismi Novia Setyaningrum

Address: Jl. Jembawan Raya No. 8, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
Tel: 62-52 7603503
Fax: 62-24 7601989
Email: nvdasecretariat@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.nvda-asiapacific.org

World Bank

In the past decade the World Bank has supported 40 development projects in Vietnam. Since reengaging in Vietnam in 1993, the Bank has helped the government fight poverty by providing financing for agriculture, infrastructure, health programs, schools, and other essential needs.In may 2006, SJ Vietnam received one world bank grant ("innovation day") to develop our projects in the national pediatric hospital of Hanoi

Overview

The World Bank is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge to support governments of member countries in their efforts to invest in schools and health centers, provide water and electricity, fight disease and protect the environment. This support is provided through project or policy-based loans and grants as well as technical assistance such as advice and studies. The goal of the World Bank is to reduce poverty and to improve the living standards of the people in low and middle-income countries. The World Bank was established in 1944, as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Recently the "World Bank" name has come to be used for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). When it first began operations to speed post World War II reconstruction, it had 38 members, now it has 184, almost all the countries in the world. As membership grew and their needs changed, the World Bank expanded and is currently made up of five different agencies. The World Bank is present in 100 countries and has a staff of approximately 10,600 people from around the world. One of the Bank’s main strengths is the international experience provided by its diverse staff. All support to a borrowing country is guided by a single strategy (called the Country Assistance Strategy) that the country itself designs with help from the World Bank and many other donors, aid groups, and civil society organizations.

Contact

The World Bank
63 Ly Thai To Street, 8th Floor
Hanoi, Vietnam
Tel: (84-4) 934-6600
Fax: (84-4) 934-6597
E-mail: Krohland@worldbank.org
Web: http://www.worldbank.org/vn

Youth Action for Peace

"Youth Action for Peace (YAP) is an international movement which aims for societies of justice, peace and human solidarity... ... It struggles against the different forms of violence, exploit­ation, injustice and exclusion; against networks of ideological, religious, sexist, political, cultural and economic oppres­sion and imbalance of natural surroundings. It supports all those, women or men, who want to take their destiny into their own hands so as to organise collec­tively a responsible and liberating society." ( Preamble of the Constitution )

History

YAP was born after the First World War (in 1923) in France and Germany, under the name Christian Movement for Peace (until 1994), in order to work towards peace and reconciliation between countries formerly at war, particularly with the younger generations. Over the years the movement has always retained its original vocation of striving to avoid conflict by helping young people to get to know each other, but it has also moved with the times. Thus since the Second World War YAP has taken on other basic aims according to changing contexts. In particular, the movement has increasingly focused upon the combat against social exclusion and the support of people in their struggle for freedom and self-determination. YAP is an international youth movement, with branches, associated groups and partners world-wide.

Structure

Youth Action for Peace is an international federation of autonomous national branches and associated groups, striving together to attain common goals. In order to function democratically and efficiently, a structure based upon four bodies has been developed:

* the International Congress

* the Directors Committee (General Assembly)

* the Steering Committee (Board)

* the International Secretariat

The aims of the YAP international structure are to define and maintain the movement’s aims and priorities and then to co-ordinate the activities of the branches and associated groups, encouraging exchanges between them, as well as to stimulate the founding of new branches and work with other partners world-wide.

Mission

To raise young people's awareness about the constant changes at local and global level. To enable and empower all young people, including those facing exclusion and discrimination, to transform society through active participation.

Priorities

Review of YAP’s working priorities

A. PEACE & HUMAN SOLIDARITY Societies of justice, peaceful independence, peaceful independence movements of nations and groups under occupation, self-determination

B. EDUCATION ON GLOBAL ISSUES Education on global issues, environmental protection, sustainable development, alternative economy

C. EQUALITY & DISADVANTAGED GROUPS Protection of minority rights, equality, participation of women and their status, disadvantaged young people

D. STATUS OF VOLUNTEERS Status of volunteers, mobility, legislation regulating this topic, social benefits, insurance, recognition Final Management Priorities are:

E. SUSTAIN THE ORGANISATION F. ORGANISATIONAL BUILDING G. ENLARGE THE MOVEMENT WHILE MAINTAINING QUALITY PROGRAMMES H. PROMOTING THE ORGANISATION

Contact

YAP International Secretariat Youth Action for Peace (YAP – AJP)

Av. du Parc Royal, 3 B-1020 Brussels Belgium

Tel. +32 (0)2 478 94 10 Fax. +32 (0)2 478 94 32

E-mail: General info: info@yap.org

Youth exchanges, training and seminars: exchange-training@yap.org

Long-term Volunteering: ltv@yap.org

Publication: publications@yap.org

Website: www.yap.org