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Recruitment for Youth Volunteers - 2005 Global Xchange
Programme

Dear Friends,

Attached to this email is our recruitment flyer for youth volunteers
to the 2005 Global Xchange Programme. Global Xchange is a partnership
between Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), the British Council and
Community Service Volunteers (CSV) who are equally committed to the
idea that International Volunteer Exchanges can help develop active
global citizens, who are committed to working for positive change and
can positively impact local communities in the UK and overseas. In the
Philippines, it is being implemented through VSO Philippines, VSO
Bahaginan and the British Council country office.

Global Xchange is an exchange programme that brings young people
(18-25 years of age) from the UK and from southern countries to live
alongside each other and work together for six months (3 months in the
southern country and 3 months in the UK) as volunteers so they can
share their learning with each other and their host communities. The
programme has been developed out of a highly successful VSO exchange
programme called 'World Youth'. The main objectives of the programme
are as follows:
- To involve young people in voluntary work and to encourage them to
have a positive approach to volunteering;
- To increase their understanding of other cultures; and
- To develop themselves and their skill base.

Teams are made up of 18 young people - 9 from the UK matched with 9
from a southern country - and are supported by a Project Supervisor
from each country. Volunteers live with host families in a host
community, and work as volunteers with community work placements. They
do not earn money while on the programme, but programme expoenses are
covered (food, accommodation, travel and medical insurance, etc.).
Global Xchange is being implemented with partners in the following
countries: Uzbekistan, Kazakhastan, Nigeria, Indonesia and the
Philippines.

We hope that you could assist us in the dissemination of this
information through your own social network of individuals,
organisations and institutions. We would like you to encourage active
young people in your community, school and organisations to apply and
to take part in this international cross-cultural learning experience.
And hopefully, they would come out as more mature people with a better
understanding of the world.

Thank you very much.

For the GXP - Philippine Project Team,
Ana

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Ana Marie O. Dizon
Project Supervisor
World Youth Global Xchange Programme
c/o VSO Bahaginan
Unit 505 Pacific Corporate Center
131 West Avenue, Quezon City
Philippines 1105
Phone (+632) 3746450 or 52
Fax (+632) 3746451
Mobile (+63922) 8048447
Other Email: adizon70@yahoo.com