***  Starting work camps in new countries:

     - The first World Culture Heritage workcamp on 17-26/12/2010 in Macau, China Click here!

     - Chambak internation workcamp in Cambodia was organized by IIWC in cooperation with Cambodia Youth Action (CYA) in August 2010. Click here!

  ***  Eco Sponge Action (ESA) 2010 was organized in Sep by a bilateral workcamp between NICE and SJV  Report!

  ***  Sawasdee Thailand was accepted to be an associate member of NVDA from May 2010 (Sawasdee's information)

  *** Biannual Report for 2008- 09 was completed! Click here! 

  *** The 8th Training & Networking Workcamp with the 7th General Assembly was held in 17-26 Jan. 2010 in Taiwan hosted by VYA.Click here! 

  *** The first workcamp in Hong Kong was organized by VT Hong Kong, VYA Taiwan and NICE Japan 19/12/09-03/01/10 with 16 vols.

  *** Group workcamps with  HKIEd were organized in the Philippines and India in 19/12/09-02/01/10 (and in Japan and Nepal in Apr. 2010).
 ***  Special Tanabata Workcamp was organized in Paris 26/11-06/12/09 by vols. to help organizing International NGO Conference in UNESCO.

 *** Acrylic Sponge Action is organized as the official common actions for 2008-09. Click here for the leaflet to recruit the participants.

 ** World Tanabata Action 2009 is organized with CCIVS at UNESCO, NICE Japan and CONCORDIA France and we expect to have 20,000 participants from 40 countries.  Click here for the leaflet to recruit the "National Partners".

 *** The 5th Annual Meeting was held in 17-19 Feb. 2009 in Tokyo, Japan with 21 youth leaders from 15 NGOs in 13 countries. Click here for some more details.

 *** Training for Trainers for Long and Middle Term Voluntary service was co-organized with ASEF,NICE and ALLIANCE in 11-17 Feb. 2009 in Tokyo with 29 participants from 25 NGOs in 21 countries.

 *** Grant of 500,000 yen was approved by JICS (Japan International Cooperation System) on 15 Jan. 2009 mainly for the cost for management.

 *** Group workcamps were co-organized with HKIEd (Hong Kong Institute of Education) and EYES in 23/12/08-04/01/09 in the Philippines (Picture), 05/04-19/04/09 in Japan and Nepal, and 16/06-29/06 & 16/06-30/07/09 in Mongolia. Over 70 students have joined the projects.

 *** News flash for Asia was issued by the General Secretary in Oct. 2008. (Click here!)

 *** The 5th NVDA Special workcamp "Art Diem 2008" was co-organized with SJV and YAP in  08-20 Sep. 2008 in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Report)

 *** Special G8 Workcamp was co-organized with NICE, HIF and CCIVS in 27 Jun. - 10 Jul. 2008 in Hokkaido, Japan with 12 NGO leaders from 8 countries and over 800 local participants. See Project report (3.5 MB).