- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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13 people are interested
Delegates for Journey to Kashmir
ORGANIZATION: Global Citizen Journey
Please visit the new page to apply.
- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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13 people are interested
Would you like to engage in a powerful project that makes a difference in the world? Would you like to develop meaningful relationships with people from Kashmir and India?
Join Global Citizen Journey next October, when we will bring 12 Kashmiri and Indian delegates together with 12 U.S. delegates in an exciting experience of citizen diplomacy and grassroots democracy. We are currently recruiting our US delegates.
Global Citizen Journey (www.globalcitizenjourney.org) is a visionary and action oriented project that brings vital energy, support and resources to communities in need - and provides a rich transformative experience for delegates, supporters and volunteers. The project has multiple purposes: citizen diplomacy, peacemaking, leadership training, education, environmental activism and service. Delegates bring 'open hearts, listening ears, and helping hands' to build a living, global neighborhood.
Go to the Kashmir Journey section to learn how 12 US delegates from Puget Sound will join 12 Kashmiri and Indian delegates for a 2.5 week residential experience between October 10 and 26, 2018. We will live together in Srinigar and explore the challenges facing Kashmir today, build relationships across faiths and ethnicities, and engage in workshops on cultural understanding, compassionate listening and leadership skill-building. We will work with ELFA International (Education and Livelihood for All), our Kashmir host NGO, to bring sanitation, water and empowerment to girls in their village schools. in partnership with ELFA International.
We are looking for delegates living in the US, Canada, Europe, South Africa or Australia who offer a diversity of age, gender, ethnicity and faiths, as well as professions and skills. We will seek Kashmiri and Indian delegates with matching demographics and backgrounds as much as possible, so that we can share our networks and interests, perhaps generating future projects. We are especially interested in delegates with the following backgrounds:
-Media / journalist (TV, radio or newspaper)
-Culture (artists, musicians, dancers, actors)
-Environmental issues (restoration, planning, alternative energy)
-Social workers and health practitioners, especially those with a background in public health, women's health and/or hygiene
-Teachers, especially junior and senior secondary schools
-Opthamologists and visual rehabilitation specialists (1000 youth have been blinded in the past year in Kashmir)
Please note we enthusiastically welcome all applicants regardless of background who feel passion and connection to the goals of Global Citizen Journey.
Each delegate will be asked to bring back stories of what they learn and share them widely so we can leverage the impact of the journey well beyond a one-time wonderful personal experience of the individual delegates who participate. Part of our outreach strategy includes encouraging delegates to raise their journey costs, gathering support from friends and organizations. We provide fundraising materials.
Please consider applying to join this historic and inspiring journey. Check out the website - especially the page on Journeys-Kashmir, where you will find the application materials you need http://globalcitizenjourney.org/apply/
It is best to submit your completed application as soon as possible, as we have begun accepting candidates.
NOTE: Youth under 18 may be welcomed if they are accompanied by a guardian.
More opportunities with Global Citizen Journey
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Global Citizen Journey
Location:
4425 Baker Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to create a living network of ongoing cross-cultural exchange that builds understanding, global connectedness and world peace.
Description
Global Citizen Journey is a visionary and action oriented project that will bring vital energy, support and resources to communities in need --and provide a rich transformative experience for volunteers. The project has multiple purposes: citizen diplomacy, peacemaking, leadership building, environmental activism and service. Journeys bring a group of international participants to join with local participants for a three week residential experience, with half the time spent on the work project (such as planting trees) and the other half in circles and workshops to build relationships and develop skills of communication, compassionate listening and conflict resolution as well as cross-cultural and gender relations.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
4425 Baker Ave NWTravel to KashmirGlobal Citizen JourneySeattle, WA 98107
DATE POSTED
March 10, 2018
SKILLS
- People Skills
- Cross-cultural Communication
- Relationship Building
- Disaster Response
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 2.5 weeks in India; monthly meetings before/after
- Sharing what you learn with your community