As most of you might now, I am a current exchanger student and this blog was created for my online course provided by PH International - GNML(Global New Media Lab).
I am certainly enjoy my time learning all the new information in the classroom and gaining important knowledge.
There is a video for one of my assignments, I hope you will enjoy it!
Feel free to write your suggestions and feedback's. Thank you!
The New Year is coming up! Christmas is a great time to make differences in someones life or just simply give a feedback to your community.
Today, I found very post about the Peace Corps, and more than 160 new Peace Corps volunteers were sworn into service in the month of December.
All of them went through the hard process of preparation to live their country next year, and spent two years serving a great purpose to the "new" home, working on different kinds of community and social projects and campaigns. The went through the long process of learning all the information about the country they are going to stay in. And all of that happed through month of December.
Isn't that amazing?
Original article - http://www.peacecorps.gov/media/forpress/press/2317/.
Also, please watch this nice video about all the work and projects done by the Peace Corps.
I very excited to post a new message in my blog about all the new things I learnt.
My new blog is going to be about using RSS and Google Alerts and "Training information to find you".
I would not say that it was very easy challenge for me, cause you need to specific with your goals and all your requests, because only you know what kind of information you need. You can find tons of it, but the purpose to find sort of information which will be useful for YOU!
All this post is about all the accomplishments of Red Cross organization in Ukraine, all the difference they made, and all the help they provided, I was amazed by the statistics and all the facts which were in this post.It also helped to find out all kind of areas which Red Cross in Ukraine deals with, to be true I was impressed by that amount.It gave a vision and understanding of where I can go, and whom can I ask for support or help during my community campaigns!
To make a conclusion I want to say that RSS and Google Alerts not only save your important time, it allows you to skip reading all those unimportant information which doesn't have no value to you, just start to use those tools and you will see a difference.
My name is Denys, I am 16 and now I am spending an amazing time in USA as an exchange student. It is going to be an introduction post about all the ideas I have, and which I want to share with you, so lets the show begin!
The topic I am going to talk about is volunteering and peoples attitude and vision of it. Yes, Volunteering - helping other people or your community without expecting to get any profits and benefits, spending your time for helping others and making differences. I strongly believe that right attitude and vision is important for my young and developing country. And now I am going to explain you "why".
“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” –Aristotle
A lot of people all over the world, and in my country might say: "No, I am not going to waste my time for unimportant things, like volunteering, I wont get any profits or benefits and my time would be wasted." And you know what, They are ABSOLUTELY WRONG! Here is why:
While you are volunteering you spent your time making changes and being an active citizen, you are the master of your life, for example if you don't like trash on the street you go and clean it up, instead of sitting in front of computer and spending time with any purpose;
You increase your knowledge, receive important information and learn new and important things for your future, probably you need an example, here is one, you organize your own project, its helps you to learn how to interact with people, plan your time and resources, fundraising and a lot, lot other important stuff.
And last, but not least, it actually can help you to have a great job and stable future, just because you meet new people, you ,making new friends, you communicate with people who provide you with funds and resources. You never know, but one day some of them might give you high paying job!
So, now we know why volunteering is that important, and personally I am going to continuing share and providing information for people back in my country - Ukraine. I am going to tell people how amazing volunteering is!
That is one of the reason why I participate in GNML, to learn how to provide people with important for them information and encourage them to participate and be an active citizen.
There is an example, during my time in United States I volunteer a lot, and one of the places I go - is Feed My Starving Children. For those of you, who don't know, FMSC - is an organization which provide people with food in more that 72 countries all over the world.
Back in Ukraine, unfortunately we don't have FMSC, but we have a great organisation Red Cross, which is,probably working together with FMSC. But a lot of people in my country have never heard about this one, and the reason why - lack of information and knowledge.
To make a conclusion, I want to say that when I will go back home, I will start to promote and share information with people,because a lot of people don't even know what kind of great opportunities they are missing and how great it is to volunteer. And the audience I am going mostly work with is young generations, because all of them, together with all the important information and resources will make a difference in the future and WE WILL CHANGE OUR COUNTRY FOR BETTER!
P.S. Comments, feed backs and following very appreciative!=)
