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Network of Good Neighbors International Good Neighbors International is an NGO in General Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC. ISSUE NO. 64 Third Quarter 2011 Good Neighbors International Headquarters Office 3rd Floor, Myung-shin Plaza, 71-88, Cheongpa-dong 2 ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 140-132 [email protected] Good Neighbors International Cooperation Office in Geneva Rue de Varembe 1 (C/O CCIG), 1202 Geneva, SWITZERLAND [email protected] Good Neighbors Korea 101-4, Cheongpa-dong 2ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, KOREA 140-132 [email protected] Good Neighbors USA (LA Office) 2684 Lacy Street, #218, Los Angeles, CA 90031, USA [email protected] Good Neighbors USA (D.C Office) 801 15th Street South 609 Arlington, VA 22202-5017, USA [email protected] Good Neighbors Japan Maruo Bldg. 2F, 3-17-7 Hongou, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033, JAPAN [email protected] Africa Good Neighbors Chad B.P 5600, N'djamena, CHAD [email protected] Good Neighbors Egypt 62G Tomanby, PO Box 83, Saraya ElKoba, Cairo, EGYPT [email protected] Good Neighbors Ethiopia Nefasilk Lafto Sub-city, Kebele 05, House No. 3181, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA [email protected] Good Neighbors Kenya P.O Box 1641 Village Market, Nairobi, KENYA [email protected] Good Neighbors Malawi P.O. Box 30721, Lilongwe3, MALAWI [email protected] Good Neighbors Rwanda B.P. 5125 Kigali, RWANDA [email protected] Good Neighbors Tanzania (Eastern Office) P.O Box 33104, Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA [email protected] Good Neighbors Tanzania (Western Office) Plot Number 248, Block D, Isamilo, Mwanza Municipality, Tanzania P.O. Box No. 224, Mwanza, TANZANIA [email protected] Asia Good Neighbors Afghanistan P.O Box 5574, Kabul, AFGHANISTAN [email protected] Good Neighbors Bangladesh House No. 282(5th fl.), Lane - 4, D.O.H.S Baridhara Dhaka-1206, BANGLADESH [email protected] Good Neighbors Cambodia House number 12, street 544, Boeungkok1 commune, Toulkork district, PhnomPenh, CAMBODIA [email protected] Good Neighbors India No. 13, 2 nd cross LNR garden, Kariaynapalya, Lingarajapuram, St.Thomas town, Bangalore-560084, INDIA [email protected] Good Neighbors Indonesia JL. Boulevard, Ruko Bukit Gading Mediterania, Block AA, No.19 Kelapa Gading Jakarta Utara 14240, INDONESIA [email protected] Good Neighbors Mongolia 26 th Branch P.O.BOX 130, Ulaanbaatar, MONGOLIA [email protected] Good Neighbors Myanmar No. 17A Seik Yeik Nyein 6th Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon, Union of MYANMAR [email protected] Good Neighbors Nepal G.P.O Box 8975, EPC1605, Kathmandu, NEPAL [email protected] Good Neighbors Pakistan House No. 18, Workshop Road, Habibullah Colony, Abbottabad, PAKISTAN [email protected] Good Neighbors Philippines 17-B Collantes St. Xaviervill 1, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, 1108, PHILIPPINES [email protected] Good Neighbors Sri Lanka No.11 Rheinland Place Colombo 03, SRI LANKA [email protected] Good Neighbors Tajikistan PO Box 212, Main Post, 734025, Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN [email protected] Good Neighbors Vietnam No 402, CT6, Constrexim Yen Hoa Cau Giay Hanoi, VIETNAM [email protected] Central & South America Good Neighbors Guatemala 8 calle 00-22 avenida, Zona 9, Interior 5, oficina 5B, Guatemala Ciudad, GUATEMALA [email protected] Good Neighbors Paraguay Parqe Venezuela, Dpto. 204-A, situado sobre la Avda. Venezuela N 2099 esq. Tte. Fernandez, Asunción, PARAGUAY [email protected] Good Neighbors Haiti PO Box 13206, Delmas, HAITI [email protected] Good Neighbors Chile 1601 Antonio Varas, Dept 206, Providencia, Santiago, Chile [email protected] Good Neighbors Dominica Republic [email protected] Korea Japan Myanmar Bangladesh Nepal Tajikistan Afghanistan Ethiopia Cambodia Philippines L.A Vietnam NewYork Mongolia Indonesia Sri Lanka Guatemala Haiti Dominica Republic Paraguay Chile India Pakistan Kenya Egypt Switzerland Chad Tanzania Rwanda Malawi Support Countries Field Countries UN Liaison Office,International Cooperation Office Washington D.C

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Network of Good Neighbors International

Good Neighbors International is an NGO in General Consultative Status with UN ECOSOC.

ISSUE NO. 64

Third Quarter 2011

Good Neighbors International Headquarters Office3rd Floor, Myung-shin Plaza, 71-88, Cheongpa-dong 2 ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, [email protected]

Good Neighbors International Cooperation Office in GenevaRue de Varembe 1 (C/O CCIG), 1202 Geneva, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Korea101-4, Cheongpa-dong 2ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, KOREA [email protected]

Good Neighbors USA (LA Office) 2684 Lacy Street, #218, Los Angeles,CA 90031, [email protected]

Good Neighbors USA (D.C Office)801 15th Street South 609 Arlington,VA 22202-5017, [email protected]

Good Neighbors JapanMaruo Bldg. 2F, 3-17-7 Hongou,Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033, [email protected]

AfricaGood Neighbors ChadB.P 5600, N'djamena, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Egypt62G Tomanby, PO Box 83, Saraya ElKoba, Cairo, [email protected]

Good Neighbors EthiopiaNefasilk Lafto Sub-city, Kebele 05, House No. 3181, Addis Ababa, [email protected]

Good Neighbors KenyaP.O Box 1641 Village Market, Nairobi, [email protected]

Good Neighbors MalawiP.O. Box 30721, Lilongwe3, [email protected]

Good Neighbors RwandaB.P. 5125 Kigali, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Tanzania(Eastern Office) P.O Box 33104, Dar es Salaam,[email protected]

Good Neighbors Tanzania(Western Office) Plot Number 248, Block D, Isamilo, Mwanza Municipality, TanzaniaP.O. Box No. 224, Mwanza, TANZANIA [email protected]

AsiaGood Neighbors AfghanistanP.O Box 5574, Kabul, [email protected]

Good Neighbors BangladeshHouse No. 282(5th fl.), Lane - 4, D.O.H.S Baridhara Dhaka-1206, [email protected]

Good Neighbors CambodiaHouse number 12, street 544,Boeungkok1 commune, Toulkork district, PhnomPenh, [email protected]

Good Neighbors IndiaNo. 13, 2nd cross LNR garden, Kariaynapalya, Lingarajapuram, St.Thomas town, Bangalore-560084, [email protected]

Good Neighbors IndonesiaJL. Boulevard, Ruko Bukit Gading Mediterania, Block AA, No.19 Kelapa Gading Jakarta Utara 14240, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Mongolia26th Branch P.O.BOX 130,Ulaanbaatar, [email protected]

Good Neighbors MyanmarNo. 17A Seik Yeik Nyein 6th Street, Kamayut Township, Yangon, Union of [email protected]

Good Neighbors NepalG.P.O Box 8975, EPC1605, Kathmandu, [email protected]

Good Neighbors PakistanHouse No. 18, Workshop Road, Habibullah Colony, Abbottabad, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Philippines17-B Collantes St. Xaviervill 1, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, 1108, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Sri LankaNo.11 Rheinland Place Colombo 03, SRI [email protected]

Good Neighbors TajikistanPO Box 212, Main Post, 734025, Dushanbe, [email protected]

Good Neighbors VietnamNo 402, CT6, Constrexim Yen Hoa Cau Giay Hanoi, [email protected]

Central & South AmericaGood Neighbors Guatemala8 calle 00-22 avenida, Zona 9, Interior 5,oficina 5B, Guatemala Ciudad, [email protected]

Good Neighbors ParaguayParqe Venezuela, Dpto. 204-A, situado sobre la Avda. Venezuela N 2099 esq. Tte. Fernandez, Asunción, [email protected]

Good Neighbors HaitiPO Box 13206, Delmas, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Chile1601 Antonio Varas, Dept 206, Providencia, Santiago, [email protected]

Good Neighbors Dominica [email protected]

Korea Japan

Myanmar

Bangladesh

Nepal

Tajikistan

Afghanistan

EthiopiaCambodia Philippines

L.A

Vietnam

NewYork

Mongolia

Indonesia

Sri Lanka

GuatemalaHaiti

Dominica Republic

Paraguay

Chile

India

Pakistan

Kenya

Egypt

Switzerland

Chad

TanzaniaRwanda

Malawi

Support CountriesField CountriesUN Liaison Office,International Cooperation Office

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and international aid NGOs for the purpose of de-veloping a foreign aid model.

GN has had short term experiences with the WFP such as distribution of goods in emergency relief activities. This time, however, GN will make an effort to do its utmost to carry out a 3 year long term CDP with our experience and professional-ism as a coequal partner of WFP. Also, we will continue to reinforce our CDP, by sharing infor-mation and reinforcing cooperation with the WFP office and our executive office. GN will gain pres-tige and take part in global give-and-take as a part of international society through undertaking proj-ects with various IGO, INGO, consultative groups as equal partners like in this FFNV project.

GN has for 3 years now been having annual mid- and long-term planning meetings every Sep-tember, with discussion and study of domestic, overseas and North Korean projects. At this year, we offered strategic cooperation with diverse agen-cies, reinforcing advocacy and efforts to accom-plish child right education and to promote MDGs to executive office for children’s equal rights.

The year 2011 has almost passed with only one quarter left till the next New Year. GN will try hard to finish the year of 2011 well, and to begin well the year of 2012. I hope each of you will have great time also.

Message from the President

Good Neighbors International, making a new leap forward with a new partner

Ilha, Yi President, Good Neighbors International

Partnership Issue No. 64

Publication date Ocober 2011

Published by

3rd Floor, Myung-shin Plaza, 71-88, Cheongpa-dong 2 ga, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 140-133

Tel : +82-2-3278-2223 Fax : +82-2-3278-2299

Web Site www.goodneighbors.org / www.goodnwighbors.kr

Publisher Ilha Yi

Editor Communication Team

Contributors Khuong Sopheak, Su-Hyun Kim, Marivic C. Ong, RSW, Winfred Hwang, Haeun Seong,

Cover Photo Child of Good Neighbors of Rwanda, Photo by Sungjin, Kim

「Partnership」 is a quarterly magazine of the Good Neighbors International published as a resource for members and all those interested. Please address questions or comments to the editor at [email protected] or [email protected].

C ONTENTS03 Message from the President “Good Neighbors International, making a new leap forward with a new partner” - Ilha Yi

04 Field Report : GN Cambodia “Integrated community development and partnership” - Khuong Sopheak

08 Project Report : GN Philippines ‘San-Isidro Community Development Project’ “The 2ND Story of Pot of Reading“ - Marivic C. Ong, RSW

12 Program Report : GN Paraguay ‘Juvenile Rehabilitation Program’- “Program for the vulnerable children and adolescents in Paraguay” - Su-Hyun Kim

15 Interview : GN USA Sponsor and Staff “Eye-opening, Surreal, and Humbling experience in Chad" - Patricia Idler, Winfread Hwang

18 Series : International Cooperation “UNHCR: delivering sustainable solution for displacement” - Ha-eun Seong

21 GNI News

2011 Sponsorship Service Department Asia Regional Workshop in Nepal

2011 Operation Department Africa

Regional Workshop in Rwanda

It was the rainy season, and there was also a ty-phoon and heat in the northern hemisphere. On the other hand, you could feel cool air in the shade in the southern hemisphere. We, now experienc-ing all these varieties of weather, are all families in a global village.

Last July, the staffs of World Food Program (WFP) in Rwanda and Nepal, local governmental agents, and field country staffs of Good Neighbors (GN) took a special course about the Saemaeul movement in Korea through the invitation of the Korean ministry of foreign affairs. This course was chosen as GN had been selected to introduce ‘Food for the New Village’ (FFNV), a Korean style community development project (CDP), in Nepal and Rwanda through WFP. FFNV is a CDP with links to the Food for Work (FFW) Program of WFP and the Saemaeul movement in Korea. WFP ac-cepted the request to use ODA’s multilateral aid fund with the condition that the Korean govern-ment and Korean NGO would work together to complete the project.

For the selection of a suitable organization for this project Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), a Korean foreign aid agency, and WFP investigated and evaluated extensively and our organization was chosen in the end. GN will start FFNV in Nepal and Rwanda from this year. This FFNV is an initial example of coopera-tion between the UN and the Korean government

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Field Report : GN Cambodia

Integrated community development and partnership

Khuong SopheakRegional Manager, GN Cambodia

The Kingdom of Cambodia is located on the mainland of Southeast Asia with Thailand to the north-west, Laos to the north, Vietnam to the east, and the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest.

In 2002 Good Neighbors Cambodia (GN Cambodia) registered with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, and began implementing its rural community development project in BanteaMeanchey province. It is now implementing its projects in 4 project sites in Veang Mu-ong, KounTrei, Sophi and Banoy Community Development Project (CDP) in BanteaMeanchey province as a rural project and also started an urban project in CheungAek CDP in Phnompenh in 2011.

With a view to the alleviation of poverty, GN Cambodia used various approaches to solve the problems faced within its target communities, striving to help bring about the transformational change to which

communities aspire, and to build communities’ resilience to overcome whatever challenges they might face.

Through Child Sponsorship Service, GN Cambodia has initiated some activities, by forming a team for children, to monitor and control the movement of children within community. In order to manage the children's situations effectively, after-school class has regularly been conducted within all project sites, and some activities are organized to guide the children into physical fitness and teach them about per-sonal hygiene, public morality, social welfare, children’s basic rights as well as English.

School meals have been implemented in two primary schools under Koun Trei CDP and Sophi CDP in which 300 children are targetted as the main challenge for child’s nutrition. We hope it will promote child‘s wellbeing and encourage the children to attend school regularly.

For a sustainable community development ap-proach, GNC has launched several projects re-lated to activities to increase income such as the following:

1 - Through project monitoring it has been found that there is leftovers from school meals which are just thrown out. So GN Cambodia or-ganized a meeting between the school commit-tee and Community Development Committee (CDC) to raise up a related project called Duck Raising. This project will derive great benefit from leftovers from school meals for a sustainable program and lucrative livestock project through which they can get eggs and meat through duck raising. It is easy for rural families to raise ducks and produce a high yield. The Project Steering Committee (PSC) was formed by selection from the CDC and the Parents Teacher’s Association (PTA). The PSC was trained on duck and chicken raising by a livestock agent from the provincial department of agriculture. Besides training in duck raising techniques (training), PSC has also been trained in financial management, book-keeping, recording and knowledge of project management including monitoring and evaluation. There-after, this project will extend to all villagers within all target areas and beneficiaries will be trained on the duck raising technique such as how to feed, how to prevent and control disease, how to take care of ducklings, how to make a duck’s pen and how to hatch duck’s egg.

The advantages of duck raising are such as:• Improving agricultural production with duck manure• Improving soil quality using its beak• Producing eggs and meat for daily food and sale• Controlling insects and weed in agriculture• Creating natural food for fish with duck manure

As the first step of this project, GN Cambodia has designed the duck raising project as a community-

Duck raising project

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Banoy CDP, KounTrei CDP and Sophi CDP in which 195 families participated. GN Cambodia has collaborated with provincial department of agriculture, forestry and fishery to provide train-ing. This project was aiming to increase family income as well as consumption within the family. Mushroom growing was also included and two beneficiaries were selected and trained by the ex-pert to be the model persons within Banoy CDP. The seeds were distributed to villagers for start-ing their home gardening.

enterprise controlled by community. PSC is responsible for feeding, caring, and looking after the ducks. In this phase, some ducks and eggs will be a great help in providing the school meals at a low price.

As the second step, hatching: A hatchery will be built as a simple house for hatching eggs. After the ducks produce eggs, some eggs will be hatched, and the ducklings will be kept and vaccinated (provided with vaccination) according to the guidelines in duck raising. (technique.)

As the third step, individual families can obtain ducklings on loan from community for their own raising, and they will pay back in cash when they sell the ducks. The payment will go (is going) into the cash income of CDC to keep expanding the project. Target beneficiaries will be motivated to commit themselves to the sustainability of the project outputs and they will experience the benefits of the project (interventions) in terms of enhanced levels of livelihood and uplifting of living conditions, and play an important role as promoters of change. Through the duck raising project, GN Cambodia has played a main role in promoting the economic status of rural villagers who are living within its target communi-ties, and especially reduce the number of illegal migrants to other countries to earn an income, and their children will have the opportunity to attend school regularly.

2 - Training in vegetable planting and rice farming technique: Through research it is found that the main problem is food shortage caused by low production, lack of farming techniques, low income and unemployment. GN Cambodia tried to solve the problem through training on vegetable planting and rice farming technique. The training course was organized for the

For developing agricultural infrastructure, GN Cambodia has implemented several projects as fol-lows:1 - Water gate Building : GN Cambodia worked with CDC, village and community chiefs to conduct a

feasibility study. GN Cambodia organized community meetings to explain the purpose of the project and to collect some contribution from the villagers. This project is implemented in KounTrei CDP and its purpose is to preserve the balance of water in the reservoir and to protect the dam that would be destroyed by flood.

2 - Reservoir Repairing : To store water for human and animal use for such things as rice farming and vegetable planting in the case of a dry season, GN Cambodia has conducted repairs on a dam which

was destroyed by flood last year. Finally, on August 14, 2011 GN Cambodia celebrated the opening ceremony.

3 - Channel Repairing : GN Cambodia restored 1,600m of channels in Veang Muong CDP to help recover the irrigation system for rice farm-ing and vegetable planting. We hope that they will be able to produce more rice and enough vegetables for consumption.

Regarding the water and sanitation, GN Cambodia commended some projects such as the following;1 - Water purifier distribution : GN Cambodia has distributed 950 Water purifiers in 4 project sites to

provide safe and clean drinking water to rural villagers. GN Cambodia worked with CDC to select the beneficiaries and collaborated with a Water Filter Company to provide training on how to main-tain water purifiers before distribution. The beneficiaries contributed about US$0.50 to $1.00 to the community as the equity fund, and this fund will be used for other development activities in the community.

2- Toilet building : To help provide a better environment and improve heath conditions, GN Cambodia built 70 toilets in Kountrei CDP and Banoy defined by CDC as the vulnerable families who are un-able to build toilets. GN Cambodia distributed toilet materials and a committee helped them to build toilets by themselves. We hope that it will decrease the rate of waterborne disease among the villagers and improve their health condition.

3 - Health and Hygiene Education : GN Cam-bodia collaborated with health center staff to organize the health and hygiene education for 480 villagers to increase the awareness of self-care and sanitation amongst the beneficiaries.Mushroom training in Banoy CDP.

Distributed 950 Water purifiers in 4 project sites.

Health and Hygiene education has been conducted for community people by collaborating with health center

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Good Neighbors Philippines (GN Philippines) San-Isidro Community Development Project since its establishment started to operate the “Pot of Reading” a project in education that aims at providing an accessible and quality literacy pro-gram for the children in the community. The first “Pot of Reading” was implemented through set-ting-up a children’s library in the area and in the same year the Learning Program for pre-school children started. The venue was in the field office of GN Philippines. A characteristic of the area is that there is no library even in the school and only one Day Care Center was operating at that time, so implementing such a program was necessary for the people especially for the children.

Opening the first library in the community was one way of combating the illiteracy problem espe-cially among the younger generation in the area. Our goal is to provide access to a rich array of the world’s stories, ideas and information through the books and other reading materials. It has been operating for almost two years now, since then there was no available library in the area. As the first library in the community it operates daily with an average of one hundred children making visits and attending the different programs. Aside from the usual library services, special activities like arts and crafts sessions, fun games and film showings were being conducted on Saturdays. It helped the children be more interested in using

Project Report : GN Philippines

The 2ND Story of Pot of Readingthe library and in developing their creative skills.

Under the “Pot of Reading” different programs are implemented and various educational and material aids are being provided for learning and development skills. Mostly those who frequent the library are the elementary school children since most of the available books in the library are for elementary students. Groups of children with special needs are being provided with special programs such as tutorials on sub-jects such as math, science and English. A reading program is being conducted in partnership with the school for children who are slow readers. Tutorial services for these special groups have thorough assessment and monitoring to determine whether there is an improvement in the performance of the participants in school.

Another library was opened in the mountain community near the annex elementary school in Base Camp, Sitio Lukutan Malaki. The teachers and students requested a venue where the chil-dren in the school can be given aid in their school work and enhance their academic development. In coordination with the teachers in Base Camp Annex School regular pupils visit the library ev-ery day since the teachers require them to do as-signments and maximize the available resources and educational materials in the library. The librarian provides alternative educational activities that will develop their socialization and life skills and help them become self-reliant.

Included in the “Pot of Reading” is a program that promotes an early childhood education program for GN Philippines sponsored children and all the other children in the area to prepare them before they enter the formal elementary education by introducing them to literacy programs through inter-active activities and socialization. It will thereby provide a nurturing and stimulating environment that will contribute to the social, emotional, physical and mental growth of the children. As stated in “Education for All”, early childhood care and education is a must for the children to have a strong foundation before entering the primary education.

GN Philippines operated the learning center with the local government unit of Brgy. wThe learning program has two class sessions. The beginners’ class caters for children aged three to four years old and provides interactive play and activities that aim at providing physical development that in-cludes general and particular motor coordination through play and manipulative activities through games, simple tasks, etc. In this stage children are also expected to develop personal-social development that in-volves social skills and behavior, health habits, independence, and abilities to follow rules and routines.

Marivic C. Ong, RSW Community Development Coordinator, GN Philippines

1st Pot of Reading

2nd Pot of Reading

Children read books in the GN Philippines library.

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Another session is for children aged five to six years. Cognitive development is very important in this stage. This includes the development of communication skills-ideas and feelings both in English and Fili-pino, numeracy concepts and skills.

Moreover for holistic development of children, personal hygiene for childcare, supplemental feeding, health and nutrition education, learning experiences for early literacy and socialization experiences are all necessary to support social and emotional development. Most learning centers are providing nutritious snacks for the children. Monthly growth and health monitoring assessment of children’s developmental status is included.

guay (GN Paraguay) has conducted with the National Secretariat for Childhood and Adoles-cence protective policies for children and adoles-cents which involves project management, con-sultation, program development, research, staffs’ capability building, etc.

In Paraguay, there has been social and eco-nomic instability due to the lack of social infra-structure and long-lasting political disputes and indifference. This has caused a big income gap

In 2009, starting with an invitation workshop in Korea for officials of the National Secretariat for Childhood and Adolescence in Paraguay, Good Neighbors International assumed the re-sponsibility for managing a Project for the Es-tablishment of a Juvenile Rehabilitation Training Center, which is an aid program of the Korea In-ternational Cooperation Agency(KOICA). It did so by dispatching a Project Manager to Paraguay in 2010. In this regard, Good Neighbors Para-

Program for the vulnerable children and adolescents in Paraguay

(About the Project for the Establishment of a Juvenile Rehabilitation Training Center)

Su-Hyun KimManaging Director, GN Paraguay

Program Report : GN Paraguay ‘Juvenile Rehabilitation Program’

GN Philippines considers that parents have the first responsibility for the growth and devel-opment of their children, so it is important for parents to be involved in the learning center op-eration. In partnership with parents of enrolled children and GN Philippines, the parents’ task is to prepare the nutritious food and learn how they should raise their children and ensure children’s rights and protection.

As the population in the community grows, there grows the need for additional community facilities. The third learning center opened this year under the third Pot of Reading. In the open-ing of the third learning center, there’s a signifi-cant increase in the enrollment compared to the first learning center operation. It has a new pro-gram that will enable the children to achieve their learning through play and playing with other children. It may also be the first time the children

have come into contact with other children. Learning to play together and share the toys is also a big learn-ing achievement for them. Activities are conducted with the aim to encourage children to become confi-dent, self-respecting and able to establish effective relationships with other children in the community.

As we continue serving marginalized children and their families, the learning center operation makes a big contribution in giving a good foundation to the younger generation in our communities.

Juvenile Rehabilitation Training Center

Staff training

Pot of Reading Project will be continued.

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Interview : GN Chad Volunteer

and the breakup of families which generates the social issue of ´children and adolescents living on the streets´. Children and adolescents, who have never been cared for by their families and communities, unavoidably get dragged onto the street to earn a living by begging, wiping car-windows and doing acrobatics, all the time being exposed to the danger of drugs and prostitution.

The Paraguay government has especially had an awareness of the problem of street children and adolescents and has nationally been running some programs for this matter. It can be divided into 3 parts which are ABRAZO, PAINAC and FONO AYUDA. ABRAZO which means ´hug´ in Spanish, is a program to gradually decrease

child labor on the street and to prevent children and adolescents from choosing to live on the streets. PAINAC (an abbreviation for ´program of integral attention for street children and adolescents´ in Span-ish) is an intense program for children and adolescents who don´t have any connection with their fami-lies anymore. Finally FONO AYUDA which in Spanish means ´call for help,´ is a phone-in call service to protect the rights of children and adolescents.

GN Paraguay has been in charge of manage-ment consulting for the Juvenile Rehabilitation Training Center and the Shelter of PAINAC, an aid program of KOICA. Starting with consulta-tion for the establishment of a Juvenile Rehabili-tation Training Center and a remodeling of the Shelter, it has held a successful opening ceremo-ny for both the Juvenile Rehabilitation Training Center and the shelter. Many activities associ-ated with women’s associations in Paraguay and Korean adolescents, such as staff capability building programs of PAINAC, have occurred several times both in Paraguay and Argentina for campaigns and education programs for chil-dren’s rights. As well as an investigation into the situation of street children and adolescents and the citizens´ perception of this problem, a seminar for drawing attention to children and

adolescents was a big part of its work to raise the awareness of the people in Paraguay to the plight of street children and adolescents, and to protect children´s rights.

In particular, the making of a manual for run-ning the Juvenile Rehabilitation Training Cen-ter, which shows a lot of know-how that Good Neighbors have had for a long time, has strongly impressed related staffs and departments in Par-aguay.

GN Paraguay has now successfully finished the project for the Juvenile Rehabilitation Train-ing Center for vulnerable children and adoles-cents. It will keep on working for children´s right in Paraguay with relation to this project.

GN Paraguay newly opened its head office on July 7th in Asuncion, the capital city of Paraguay and is about to start its community development project (CDP) to prevent children from straying on the streets due to family breakup and serious poverty as well as to improve the relationship between chil-dren, families and community. It has tried to implement a community development project in suburban regions of the capital from where a number of children and adolescents come. It is about to proceed with a number of projects to improve the situation of children and adolescents going onto the streets because of parental indifference and family breakup. From now on, GN Paraguay will try its best to protect and improve children´s rights and their living situation, support the poor children and families in need and have sustainable community development projects to make them healthy and self-reliant.

Campaign for children and adolescents’ right and protection

Consulting for establishment of Juvenile Rehabilitation

Training Center

Cover of research report

Opening ceremony of GN Paraguay

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Eye-opening, Surreal, and Humbling experience in Chad

Patricia Idler, Good Neighbors USA sponsorWinfred Hwang, Donor Management officer of Good Neighbors USA

It was amazing to see the Water for Life project first-hand because I got to witness all the hard work put in by everyone involved in this project. You can see the difference these wells make in every village. We would drive for miles and miles to visit some of these villages and I could not imagine kids walking several miles a day to fetch DIRTY water. It was hard to imagine because it is a basic necessity for all human beings and we all take it for granted because it is so readily accessible to us. I also got to see how

The most enjoyable part of the trip for me was when I was able to visit several sponsored children at their homes. I was able to interact with the shy children. I felt such joy and hope for these children when I saw how happy they were that they had a sponsor who cared for them. Not only were the children happy, I could tell that their parents were extremely grateful that their child had a sponsor taking care of their child’s needs.

One thing that really surprised me was when I found out that there were volunteers working for GN Chad. I was surprised because the people in Chad don’t have much and they should be earning money to support themselves or their family, but instead they volunteer without pay so that they can help their fellow people. This blew my mind! It was great seeing the volunteers work hard and playing a big role by helping with development work in Chad.

What was it like to witness Good Neighbors’ Water for Life project first-hand?

What was the most enjoyable part of the trip?

Can you tell us about an experience there that really surprised you, or knocked you off your feet?

A team of sponsors from Los Angeles participated in the Good Neighbors USA (GN USA) Sponsor Tour where they visited the sponsored children and the ongoing Good Neighbors Chad (GN Chad) projects. The sponsor tour was mainly a visitation of many of our project sites that GN USA sponsors and it included visiting the wells, schools, clinic, bath-rooms, and libraries at different communities in Chad. The team also sat in on a training session, oversaw the Charcoal project and participated in a ceremony for a new school and Well number 100 being built. The purpose of the trip was to show our sponsors the projects that were being implemented in the many communities in Chad through their dona-tions.

Interview : GN USA Sponsor and Staff

One image that I’ll never forget is when all the children at a village called Kourgang gathered around to dance and sing songs for us to show us their appreciation for bringing fresh, clean water to their village. The joy I saw in these children will be something that will be forever engraved in my memory.

What’s a mental image of this trip that you think will stay with you forever?

grateful the villagers were for the well that was built for them. You could see the gratitude from their facial expressions when we went to visit them.We visited a village called Malegaga while they were in the process of building a well. We stayed until they finished the well and the look on the faces of the children and the mothers was priceless because their faces lit up and they all had huge smiles.

It was truly one of the greatest experiences of my life and I would go back in a heartbeat because out of any other country I’ve been to, I’ve never felt such genuine joy from a group of people. The people of Chad are so warm, kind and generous. I would like to thank all of the great people I got to meet in Chad, especially the local staff of Good Neighbors Chad for all their hard work.

Anything else you’d like to share?

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Series : International Cooperation Ⅱ

You spent a week in Chad, Africa, which is a trip that most people might never take in their life-time! If you could sum up your experience in one sentence, what would you say?

Good Neighbors USA (GN USA) is an international humanitarian development orga-nization whose motto is “A hand up not a hand out”. They focus on community development, which means that they get the local community involved in every process of any development project. What they have found is that when the local community is involved with the planning, construction, and maintenance of a project the project has a much greater chance of success.

The wells that GN USA was funding in Chad helped to overcome the first two aforementioned challenges: disease and a lack of water. One of the primary contributions to disease in Chad is a lack of clean water, and it is also extremely difficult to get any water in many of the local communities. A second path that GN USA took to limit the negative effects of disease in Chad was to fund the construction of medical clinics.

GN USA believes that one of the central ways to create a brighter future is to increase opportuni-ties in education for the children. The education of children creates opportunities for the children to change their own future.

GN USA’s method of involving the community in the projects that they fund is essential to their success. The projects that they fund affect the local communities and afford them a greater ability to impact children with their child sponsorship program. Trust that GN USA creates by respecting the local community allows them to have a greater impact in their endeavors. Thank you GN USA.

It was an eye-opening, surreal, and humbling experience.

The Office of the United Nations High Com-missioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is one of the largest humanitarian agencies in the global com-munity with the main aim of protecting and as-sisting refugees.

UNHCR provides daily assistance to 4.6 mil-lion refugees (as of 2010) in refugee camps and mixed environments throughout the world by coordinating and delivering food, water, shelter, education, health service and most of all refugee registration that entitles the refugee for protec-tion outside of his country.

UNHCR does not only provide service to vulnerable groups on the field but fosters the implementa-tion and expansion of international, regional, and national legal instruments, promotes policies for the protection of refugees, organizes self-help groups through participation, raises awareness on refugee issues in donor countries and hosting countries, and puts efforts to develop sustainable solutions for the global phenomenon of refugees.

In addition to refugees, UNHCR pays special attention to a broader group of people called ‘population of concern’ which includes asylum-seekers, internally displaced people (IDPs), returned refugees and

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is one of the largest humanitarian organizations under the UN system aiming the protection and welfare of people who were displaced from their place of origin due to conflict, violence and natural disasters. UNHCR works in close cooperation with NGOs to provide basic livelihood and protection to affected population and to deliver sustainable solution and development for refugees and internally displaced people.

UNHCR: delivering sustainable solution for displacement

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UNHCR has set more and more activities related to the sustainable solu-tion of problems caused by displacement which in many instances overlap with development activities. Although priority is given to the traditional documentation process, security of vulnerable groups from violence and exploitation, as well as fulfillment of essential needs and services, more energy and resources are located in order to rebuild community structure in refugee setting, increase employment and agricultural production of refugees in cooperation with host governments, facilitate voluntary return and reintegration to the place of origin, and coordinate resettlement for those unable to return.

IDPs, as well as stateless persons.

UNHCR and DevelopmentThe activity of UNHCR is not limited to help-

ing refugees in camps by providing basic liveli-hood and issuing refugee ID cards. The organi-zation, which was initially created with only a 3-year temporary mandate in 1950 in order to support the post World War II refugee issue in Europe, has gradually evolved into a worldwide humanitarian entity developing both alleviating measures for humanitarian crisis experienced by post-colonial refugees in Africa and Asia and in-ternational policies to effectively tackle the ever increasing number of refugees from the 60s to the 80s.

For this purpose, UNHCR has paid increasing-ly more attention to a broader group of stakehold-ers named ‘population of concern’ that in parallel with refugees need protection from UNHCR due to the lack of capacity from their respective gov-ernments and the particular vulnerability caused by displacement and resettlement.

UNHCR and NGOsUNHCR is a large organization with more than 7000 staff and an annual budget exceeding USD 3 bil-

lion. However, the multiple programmes and activities targeting the 34.4 million people of concern can-not be achieved without the support of national and international NGOs as implementing partners.

A refugee is a person who for political or natural reasons has been dislocated from his or her home and seeks refuge elsewhere. The 1951 UN Convention on Refugees limits the definition of a refugee as a person who due to “a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his na-tionality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country" (Article 1A). Such narrow definition refugee was later expanded by the Convention's 1967 Protocol to include persons who fled their country due to war or massive vio-lence. Refugees, especially women and children, are a particularly vulnerable group who need the foremost attention of humanitarian organizations such as GNI.

UNHCR fulfills its protection mission in close cooperation with UN agencies, regional bodies, governments, NGOs, and private business sec-tor. NGOs make the largest group among UNH-CR’s partners and play a vital role in meeting the diverse needs of the people of concern. In 2010, UNHCR spent USD 544 million, the equivalent of 28 percent of its total annual expenditure, through 153 international NGOs and 534 local CSOs.

Cooperation of NGOs with UNHCR mainly takes place through partnership with the field offices located in each country of concern, and is designated according the expertise and func-tion of the organization that are relevant to the field situation. However, UNHCR holds also co-operation agreements on the headquarter level with major humanitarian NGOs such as Save the Children and International Rescue Committee (IRC) for emergency relief and child protection.

Policy-wise, UNHCR holds annually a three-day consultation meeting with NGOs in order to reflect the opinions and suggestions from civil society on regional and international strategies

GNI Countries that are members of the UNHCR’s governing body, the Ex-ecutive Committee of the High Commis-sioner’s Programme (ExCom) are as fol-lows: Bangladesh, Chile, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Japan, Kenya, Philippines, Korea, Switzerland, Tnazania, and USA.

to be adopted in order to improve the humani-tarian work of the organization. The input from NGOs both on country specific issues, thematic issues, and broader policy matters are then submitted to the UNHCR Executive Committee plenary session.

Good Neighbors and UNHCRBased on its rich expertise in post-crisis resettlement, UNHCR has become the Global Cluster Lead for

camp coordination and management cluster, emergency shelter cluster, and protection cluster. Prior to the adoption of the cluster system in 2005, UNHCR has played a pioneering role for coordination in all major humanitarian crises. Good Neighbors International has also been cooperating with UNHCR in this coordinatory effort since its emergency relief work in 1994 Rwanda.

Since then, the sporadic cooperation with UNHCR continued on an ad hoc basis but failed to develop into a partnership. Given that refugees and IDPs, both on rural and urban setting, constitute a particu-larly vulnerable group, and that the expertise accumulate by GNI in community organization and mobi-lization, child education, and community development project has strong relevance with the sustainable

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solution for refugee issues promoted by UNH-CR, it would be crucial for GNI to gradually set a strategy to build up implementing partnership with the organ.

UNHCRBudget 2010 (USD)

Total Populationof Concern (2009)

Refugeeprogramme

Statelessprogramme

Reintegrationprojects

IDPprojects

Afghanistan UNHU 361,985 51,093,485   46,829,610 11,812,591

Bangladesh 228,586 8,175,453 16,000    

Cambodia 164 784,467 50,000    

Chad 531,663 145,040,806     16,031,830

Egypt 107,914 13,602,088 331,304    

Ethiopia 124,361 100,174,528      

India 190,764 10,066,054 75,000    

Indonesia 2,878 5,126,396 475,000    

Japan 6,792 3,726,878 790,000    

Kenya 882,339 184,852,946 890,000    

Korea (ROK) 1,031 1,401,621 97,267    

Malawi 10,045 3,637,874      

Mongolia 387 198,022 33,000    

Myanmar 790,861 3,919,024 8,923,959   3,400,000

Nepal 909,916 14,000,436 70,351    

Philippines 218 989,074     1,826,330

Rwanda 74,894 20,694,085   1,874,010  

Sri Lanka 531,578 5,906,127   635,032 29,174,350

Tajikistan 6,818 1,206,080 40,000    

Tanzania 274,626 33,218,997   8,733,000  

USA 339,264 4,682,806 653,822   11,682,356

Vietnam 9,678 229,697 100,000 300,000  

For more detail on this statistical data please see:

UNHCR Statistical Yearbook 2009 (http://www.unhcr.org/4ce5327f9.html) and UNHCR Global Report 2010 (http://www.unhcr.org/gr10/index.html)

Good Neighbors Chile signs MOU for earthquake reconstruction

On September 1st Good Neighbors Chile (GN Chile) and Good

Neighbors Japan (GN Japan) signed a Memorandum of Un-

derstanding with the mayors of Hualañé and Constitución for

earthquake reconstruction. By signing the MOU, GN Chile and

GN Japan will support a child’s center and a library. Before

signing the MOU, GN Japan’s director Mr.Satoshi Joizumi

visited Hualañé, Constitución and Pudahuel, the municipali-

ties that will benefit from Good Neighbor’s reconstruction

projects.

Good Neighbors Nepal starts Apple Farm Management trainingOn the 29th of August, 2011 the Mugu Community Develop-

ment Project of Good Neighbors Nepal held Apple Farm Man-

agement training. The training was conducted with the par-

ticipation of 38 farmers from 18 different apple farm groups in

which 6 were female and remaining 32 were male. The main

purpose of this training is to provide fundamental information

about pruning, weed management, drainage and fencing. The

apple farms were found to be unmanaged and the fencing

was not strong enough to protect the apple saplings in the

farm. There was a problem with water lodging in the pit of

cultivated saplings and to solve such problems, the farmers

need to be aware and be able to cope with these situations.

The training also focused on the procedure required for the

management of their farms and allowed farmers to work in

the field with more knowledge and information.

Good Neighbors Guatemala Opening Social Clinic "Health and Hope for Everyone"

There is no health center that is economically reasonable or

close in proximity to the families in the La Fragua Community

Development Project. For this reason Good Neighbors Guate-

mala (GN Guatemala) opened a Social Clinic at the beginning

of the year and holds its celebration on August 2 with chil-

dren, teachers, parents, and the clinical staff. By opening this

clinic, the beneficiaries hope that their health and well-being

will be improved. In addition, to increase access to clinical

services and medicine, GN Guatemala delivered ID cards to

sponsored children.

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Good Neighbors Korea Sponsor Tour team visits Good Neighbors Kenya

The yearly sponsorship team visited Kenya from the 1st to

the 3rd of August 2011. During the visit they focused on

the Jirani Education Centre library renovation. The renova-

tion process did involve the repair of the library roof, floor,

text book shelves, purchase of text books, covering of text

books to ensure durability, coding of the text books to facil-

itate tracing and record keeping, installation of flat screen

and speaker to audio visual studies, installation of carpet

on the floor, installation of chairs and reading tables. After

full renovation, the library was opened officially. It was led

by the sponsorship team leader and the Country Director.

In addition to that, they painted the building and the map

of Kenya which is currently divided in 47 counties. They

also undertook some activities with the children such as

decoration, games and face painting.

Furthermore, they presented gifts of pencils, erasers, pens

and sharpeners to the pupils at JEC, Glory primary school,

Rijah and Glory Secondary school.

Good Neighbors Bangladesh distributes tube wells The Kalai Community Development Project of GN Bangla-

desh arranged a “Tube Well Distribution” program among

its underprivileged families on 24th July, 2011. Distribu-

tion materials were 1 tube well head, 7 pipes, 2 filter, 1

set vertical materials, 175 pcs bricks, 2.5 van sand, 2 bags

cement and other essential materials. The Kalai commu-

nity’s people could not drink safe water and it was also

quite impossible to carry water from so far way. But by

supporting the tube well and materials, the children and

the community’s citizens can drink pure water.

Good Neighbors Vietnam Inauguration Ceremony of Van Phu primary school

The Van Phu primary school construction project was

started on the 25th of January, 2011. On the 3rd of June, GN

Vietnam held an Inauguration ceremony with the presence

of 17 officers from LS Mtron Company, GNV staffs, leaders

of the Son Duong district people committee, Van Phu com-

mittee, teachers and students.

The Van Phu primary school includes two buildings, one of

them is a building with two floors and eight class rooms

whereas the other building has one floor and four multi-

function rooms. It also has a restroom for everyone. When

it is finished, it will be a new school for children to learn.

Good Neighbors Cambodia celebrates International Children day

GN Cambodia organized a special event in the Kountrei

primary school in which 800 people attended this event in-

cluding Government officials, local authorities and volun-

teers on the 1st of June, International Child Day. The pur-

pose of the event was to spread out and share knowledge

and information related to child rights and protection.

The drawing picture contest and child song contest were

very inspiring to the villagers because there is no children’s

singing or even any type of music class in primary schools

in Cambodia. The primary school children sang popular

Cambodian songs which the children had changed the lyr-

ics to include educational content.

Also Child Role-playing which showed the importance of

primary Education was powerful and impressive because

the children acting performed scenes of domestic violence,

parents alcoholism, and child labor in the play. It brought

the villagers the awareness of child rights and protection.

Good Neighbors Malawi holds Bridge and Borehole Opening Ceremony

June 30th 2011, was another good day to remember in

the history of GN Malawi whereby people from Chimutu

Community Development Project received responsibility of

managing a bridge (culvert) and borehole. The bridge was

constructed to offer easy passing for the people from Ka-

buma and the surrounding villages, more especially chil-

dren who failed to go to school during the rainy season.

The borehole was drilled in Kasonga Village after seeing

that people from the village had problems accessing water

from within the village. This borehole will reduce the prob-

lem of waterborne diseases such as cholera and diarrhea

and it will also save time for people especially women

who had to walk a very long distance to look for clean wa-

ter. The borehole has given the community potable water

and more than 500 people will benefit.