PROJECTS AVAILABLE 2015-2016
THE PHILIPPINES
List of Projects:
1. Lifeboat
Project Lifeboat aims to raise awareness on the importance of Disaster Management in the Filipino community. One of its main objectives is to teach communities the proper procedures to be taken in emergency situations, especially with the recent calamities in the forms of earthquakes in Cebu and the most recent Typhoon Haiyan, or locally known as Typhoon Yolanda.
2. Canvas Manila
Canvas Manila is an avenue to learn and to promote Filipino arts and culture. It aims to deliver hands-on experience to Exchange Participants through learning first-hand from its partner organizations and from travelling to and living with indigenous and native groups in the Philippines, specifically in Northern Luzon.
3. Kickstart
Kickstart aims to raise youth volunteerism in a variety of social issues and problems such as gender inequality, street children, maternal care and many more. To broaden the scope of the project as well as the experience of the interns, the project aims to cover as much as social issues as it can by partnering with NGOs of varied backgrounds.
4. World Youth Alliance Asia Pacific
The World Youth Alliance (WYA) started with Anna Halpine who stood up for her belief in the dignity of the person at the United Nations in 1999. Today, WYA has spread to six regions and continues to attract young people who wish to defend the dignity of the person through advocacy, education and culture. Their advocacy work equips young people to work on critical topics that they face today. They provide research and fact sheets on current international policy issues.
5. Wonder
Project Wonder exists to empower the Philippine Special Education (SpEd) community. They believe that children with special needs, who are often looked at as the "pariahs" or "lepers" of society, deserve to be heard. Wonder has two main thrusts: to raise awareness for the SpEd community in the Philippines, and to maximise the impact delivered to these children through the community that surrounds them.
6. Child Justic League Inc.
Specializing in the legal protection and promotion of children rights. It aims to advance the best interests of children and contribute to national development efforts by: (1) providing facilitative legal recourse to child-related concerns; (2) empowering children and their support groups through legal education; and (3) promoting greater understanding of child right issues in the national community. To achieve this, CJL litigates, educates, advocates, and pushes for law and policy reforms.
7. Chinese- FIlipino Museum Internship
The Bahay Tsinoy (literally Chinese-Filipino House) is a museum located in the Intramuros (Old Walled City) section of Manila. Housed within the Kaisa-Angelo King Heritage Center building, the museum documents the history, lives and contributions of the Chinese in the Philippine life and history.
Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran, Inc., a non-profit organization co-founded by Teresita Ang-See, envisioned the project to provide another venue for advocating patriotism to the Philippines and promoting cultural identity and understanding between the local Chinese and Filipino communities. Chinese- Filipino Museum Internship is to promote and increase visitorship for Bahay Tsinoy, museum of Chinese in Philippine life, get university libraries to purchase KAISA publications, get universities and high schools to subscribe to Tulay Fortnightly and to perform social work in Philippine and Chinese community.
8. My Language Pal @ Miriam
Miriam College (Tagalog: Dalubhasaang Miriam) is a non-stock, non-profit Filipino Catholic educational institution for girls and young women in Quezon City, Philippines. It offers academic programs from pre-elementary to post-graduate and adult education levels that develop the learning and caring competencies of students and are enriched by a wide range of national, regional, and international linkages. Interns' roles are to teach Chinese( Mandarin), Japanese, Spanish or French