Higurakgoda workcamp

Speaker : Hirushi

GV4GF Sri Lanka

The project is situated in the North Central Province, home to the historic city of Polonnaruwa, which served as the capital over 1,100 years ago. After the kingdom relocated to the central region, the population dwindled. In 1956, a government initiative began resettling villages and distributing land for cultivation. 

Today, the descendants of these original settlers—spanning three generations—continue to reside here. Despite this legacy, the community still faces challenges, including a lack of common facilities and persistent poverty. While the first generation primarily engaged in agriculture, the third generation is now seeking employment opportunities. Our partner organization is actively working with women's groups and self-help initiatives to enhance income prospects for families in the area. 

The project consists of two key components. First, we support families engaged in self-employment by enhancing their income-generating activities, which include home gardening, family workshops, and nurseries.

In the second component, we visit villages to engage with the community, including self-help groups, youth, and local institutions like temples and kindergartens. This provides volunteers with the chance to share their lives, cultures, and experiences with the locals while fostering meaningful connections within the community.

Barli workcamp

Speaker : Meriam

GIED Philippines

The local government of Barili, Cebu is one of GIED’s active local partner institutions and through their recommendation identified Barangay Pang-pang to be the  host community for our Japanese participants. Barangay Pang-pang is a dynamic rural community with a good population of young and old families. Farming is one of their means of livelihood.  It has a health center, public elementary school, multi-purpose hall and Barangay office that offer public service to the local community. They also have an organic demonstration farm that is supported by the Municipal Agriculture Office. 

Pang-pang Community is an ideal venue for community immersion. Until today, GIED continues its RISE PHILIPPINES effort by contributing in the delivery of humanitarian support from various partner organizations around the world and actively participating in creating safe, healthy and resilient assistance as well as advocating for securing the welfare of the most vulnerable population. 

The project aims will be

  -Learn and understand the effect of climate change to the typhoon    prone Philippines’ agricultural development

  -Help enhance school environment as contribution of a good  

  quality education for the students

 -Gain inter-cultural learning opportunity among participants and locals

Yumefukuro Workcamp

Speaker : Mami

NICE  Japan

This project is actively working for SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDGs 15 (Life on Land), organized together with NAP (Nobel Application of Plant resources) since 1992 and since 2016, as a part of SCC(Stop Climate Change) projects initiated by NICE with NVDA (Asian network). ....Details

Teaching at Community School Workcamp

Speaker : Varsha Pradhan

VIN Nepal

Many children in Nepal fail to attend school, drop out and do not complete their primary education or progress to secondary education. The schools within the communities are public, funded in part by the government and owned within the community.  Whilst the government has committed to provide teachers in community schools on a ratio of 1:40, the situation is very different in sparsely populated rural areas......Details