Building Capacities: Best Practices in Asia Pacific (4/5)
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies mobilize people at community level to improve the lives of the vulnerable. They achieve this by involving them in planning services that meet their own identified needs and building their long-term strengths to manage themselves.
This film contains many examples of work which show that strong branches mean strong communities and vice versa.
In this five films series, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies profiles organizational best practices in Gender and Diversity, Resource Mobilisation, Youth and Volunteers, Participatory Planning, and Community and Branch Development. Building Capacities features insights and interviews with volunteers, beneficiaries and leaders from Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies including Australia, Cambodia, Mongolia and Nepal. The series was produced by the Asia Pacific zone under the direction of the Organizational Development unit.
Related videos:
Part 1/5 – Volunteers and Youth in Asia Pacific: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztEjcmQCUos
Part 2/5 – Resource mobilisation in Asia and Pacific: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IyOzpXMsBE
Part 3/5 – Gender & diversity in Asia and Pacific: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrkKBOPj2gg
Part 5/5 – Participatory Planning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bft-_gKvt8
More information: http://www.ifrc.org
Year: 2009
Duration: 23 minutes 27 seconds
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http://Plenty.org
Tony Sferlazza is a field director working with the graqssroots relief organization, Plenty International. Plenty is a not-for-profit alternative relief and development organization founded in Tennessee in 1974.
Duration : 0:21:25
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Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=328
Former Microsoft executive John Wood discusses hand-delivering a load of donated books to a rural village in Nepal, an experience that inspired him to quit his job and start the international non-profit organization “Room to Read.”
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John Wood discusses “Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children”
In 1998, John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft when he took a vacation that changed his life. What started as a trekking holiday in Nepal became a spiritual journey, and then a mission: to change the world one book and one child at a time. So upon returning from holiday, John did what most of us can only dream of doing: he walked away from millions to do “more”. Over the next five years he would make the unlikely marriage between Microsoft business practices and the world of non-profits to create Room to Read, an organization that has created a network of over 2,000 schools and libraries (with over one million books) throughout communities in Southeast Asia and India.
Duration : 0:3:33
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Toronto’s Pearson Airport Professional Firefighters Association IAFF Local 4382. Proud and Dedicated to protecting Pearson International Airport.
Duration : 0:4:5
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http://www.rotary.org
What would it take to change the world? Rotary International is the world’s first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
http://www.shop.rotary.org
This Is Rotary is available on DVD as part of a collection of public service announcements and short videos about Rotary.
Duration : 0:4:8
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