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Why vote for VEGlobal? What will VEGlobal do with $10,000?

VEGlobal is a different kind of volunteer organization. A 501(c)3 non-profit organization, VE is run by volunteers dedicated to bringing equality of opportunity to Chilean children and ending cycles of poverty and child abuse. Volunteers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities work with children in schools, community centers and orphanages to develop and implement educational and recreational programs and build lasting relationships. We empower our volunteers and the children we serve not only to dream of change, but to be the change.

Should the Razoo community give VEGlobal its vote of confidence, the bulk of the money would go to our programs and events that directly serve our kids in local community centers, children's shelters and schools. While these venerable institutions provide for the children's basic needs, VEGlobal provides supplemental programs and events designed to encourage physical, intellectual and emotional growth. With extra funding, VE volunteers can improve and expand VE’s reading, English, art and sports projects. 
 
Vamos a Leer! (Let's Read!) brings over 600 books of all levels to our children, providing them with the opportunity to improve their reading skills with individual attention and motivation from volunteers. While the children may initially pick up books through a prize oriented system, they eventually read for fun and enjoyment! This program has become a community effort, with donations of books from incoming volunteers, local libraries, GrupoSantillana, ice cream prizes from Savory, and carnival donations from Santiago’s small businesses! Further funding would help VE realize or acquire: a mobile library, libraries/reading spaces in each institution, school books and books in English.

Liga de Deportes (Sports League), which started originally as a soccer tournament, has evolved into a monthly, day long, multi-institutional event of skills development and sportsmanship workshops in soccer, volleyball and other games and activities. Currently, VE can only afford a concrete playing field but with additional funding, Liga could find a safer field as well as incorporate other fun sports along with their specific equipment.

English is now a required subject in Chilean schools but instruction in local schools leaves much to be desired. Taking advantage of our abundance of native English speakers, we provide English instruction in our institutions as a supplement. As English language ability is an invaluable benefit in the working world, VE has developed a curriculum to spark interest and motivate students as well as provide higher quality education for the children we serve. An increased budget would help this program acquire scarce English reading material, workbooks and other interactive instructional materials as well as improve volunteer training in the English curriculum.
 
VE’s @ccess the Future project provides computer and Internet access as well as a curriculum designed to make school work easier and provide the children with the technological awareness and skills taken for granted by most people in our digital age. Recently, Business News Americas helped VEGlobal fund the construction of a new computer lab with 7 computers and Internet access.  Children at another institution have started their own blogs and use their computers on a daily basis to do their homework. With additional funds, VE would be able to bring this opportunity to more institutions and their children as well as upgrade those labs already created.
 
OJOSnuevos (newEYES) brings the world of art to children in our institutions, encouraging them to find new ways of thinking. Beginning with photography programs in three institutions, OJOSnuevos has brought digital cameras (thanks to the generosity of private donors in Chicago as well as PENTAX and TakeGreatPictures.com) to more than 15 girls.  The pilot program culminated in a photography exhibition sponsored by Universidad ARCIS, a local Arts & Sciences University. To view photos from the exhibition, please click here. Additional funding would help: bring this creative program to other institutions, pay for related excursions and printing costs, provide additional cameras and other accessories and recruit new, knowledgeable instructors to continue the program.
 
While the children are our main focus, VEGlobal also strives to bring socially conscious volunteers from around the world and mold them into leaders of social change. Currently our Formation Committee guides volunteers through the process of cultural immersion, increasing awareness of important issues like poverty and social exclusion and vulnerability through an Orientation week, a Jornada (reflection retreat) and discussion groups. Winning the Change Your World contest would allow VEGlobal to cast a wider net for likely volunteers as well as enhance our leadership training with knowledgeable speakers, useful reading/reference material and more appropriate venues, all at a much lower cost to our volunteers.
 
These are just a few of the ways, the Change Your World contest would change VEGlobal’s world. We encourage YOU to be the change, and vote for VEGlobal.
 
 

Website: http://www.ve-global.org
Tags: Children's Rights, Chile, cross-cultural, diversity, Education, Human Rights, inequality, international service projects, Latin America, Leadership Development, recreation, social justice, volunteer, youth

 

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