NVDA is
An international networking NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) to promote international voluntary service (especially international workcamps) in Asia/ Pacific * In NVDA, "Asia" means "Asia and Pacific regions".
It was started in 1997 by 11 NGOs in
11 countries and now consists of 22 member NGOs in 16 countries/ area.
In 2010, NVDA members: Organized 974 workcamps/ international voluntary service projects that can estimate to have working power of 477,769 "vols. x days". Exchanged 13,290 volunteers which
consists of:
* Hosted 3,864 international (incoming) volunteers in their projects.
* Hosted 4,963 national (incoming) volunteers in their projects.
* Sent 4,463 (outgoing) volunteers to the projects all over the world.
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NVDA organized
the 6th Annual meeting (11th -14thFeb)
and WTA Special
Meeting (13th-16th Feb) in cooperation with IIWC (Indonesia
International Work Camp) of PKBI in Semarang, Indonesia Click here
*Welcome 3 new associate members of NVDA:
Global Voluntary Camps (GVC), Volunteers Initiative Nepal
(VIN) in Nepal and Solidarités Jeunesses (SJ) in
France were approved by EC members in Jan and Mar 2011 with
their general purposes to build network
and strengthen cooperation for voluntary development in Asia and
other voluntary service.
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The 9th TNW (training & Networking Workcamp) and the 8th GA
(General Assembly) of NVDA (01st -10th February 2012) in Kalka,
India.More...
* The 3rd Global
LMTV (Long/ Middle Term Voluntary service) meeting in Bangalore,
India will be co-organized by 3 networks NVDA, CCIVS and
ALLIANCE, hosted by FSL, India from 10th-14th February 2011 after
the 9th TNW and 8th GA of NVDA.
More...
* NVDA Executive Committee (EC) meeting 2011:
After the World Summit for Forest Actions, the EC meeting of NVDA
was
held.The purposes of the meeting are discussion about all
matters of NVDA and preparation for the 09th TNW & GA in 2012.
* In
cooperation with Implementation Committee of WSFA (World Summit for
Forest Actions) and NLAPO (National Land Afforestation Promotion
Organization)
NICE has organized gWorld Summit for Forest Actionsh in the
occasion of "International Year of Forests" and
"International Year of Volunteers + 10" from 08th to 10th
October 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. For
more details
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The
global common logo of
International workcamp (IWC)
was finally selected by 5 co-organizers including VYA, NVDA, CCIVS,
ALLIANCE and SCI.
The idea of this campaign was originally made in the Asian PR Summit
in Tokyo, Nov. 2011 launched
by VYA in co-organization with NVDA. This global common logo aims to
strengthen the volunteer solidarity, create the global volunteer
identity, and support each other all over the world.
*NVDA, SJV and NICE organized the 3rd Eco
Sponge Action special workcamp (29th April - 05th May) at Fisher
village, in Hanoi.
Workcamp report!
* The 2nd
Global LMTV (Long/ Middle Term Voluntary service) Meeting
was successfully co-organized by VPV, NVDA and CCIVS (from 5th
to 9th April) in Hanoi, Vietnam .This important
meeting had a valuable opportunity for who are organizing/
exchanging LMTV involving different networks in many aspects
(creating new partnership, making a global common working
system, etc.)
Meeting report!
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