The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is holding a unique event in London’s Trafalgar Square to raise awareness and funds for Darfur’s refugees.
This is an all-day event designed to illustrate a mock refugee camp on the border of Chad and Darfur.
UNHCR is looking for self-motivated and enthusiastic volunteer fundraisers and tour guides to help run the exhibition. Tasks will include collecting donations and details from the members of public and providing information on every aspect of the exhibition. Training will be provided.
If you are friendly, an excellent communicator, enjoy working in a team and most importantly have a genuine passion for the causes that UNHCR represents, we would like to hear from you.
Ideally we are looking for people who are available for the whole day.
Exhibition times are from 09:00 - 17:00.
To volunteer at this unique event, please send a copy of your CV with details of your availability at: jonesian@unhcr.org.
Visit the Experience Darfur profile to keep up to date on the event
For more information on UNHCR UK visit their profile on ammado or their website
UNHCR and ammado are reaching out to everyone in an effort to spread the word for this year’s World Refugee Day on June 20th and raise awareness of the plight of refugees all over the world.
This year, World Refugee Day is about protection, the heart and soul of UNHCR. With rising oil prices, decreasing food supplies, the adverse affects of climate change, the ongoing crisis in Darfur and a high number of unexpected natural disasters including those in Myanmar and China, the world’s refugees have never been more in need of protection.
The UNHCR has launched a worldwide photo campaign to spread this message of protection on World Refugee Day 2008. UNHCR staff around the world have gathered photos of refugees imitating the UNHCR’s “protecting hands” symbol.
They are now calling on everyone to start collecting as many photos as possible of people making the “protecting hands” symbol - forming a triangle with their hands over their head. The UNHCR has created a community on the ammado platform where people can easily uploaded their for World Refugee Day 2008.:
We are calling on you to raise awareness for those in need by collecting photographs of your friends and family making the “protecting hands” symbol and uploading these photographs to the UNHCR Community. Your photos will help to make the World Refugee Day on June 20th, 2008 a day of humanity and hope.
About the UNHCR
The UNHCR is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Almost entirely funded by voluntary contributions, UNHCR’s primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. In more than five decades, the agency has helped an estimated 50 million people restart their lives. Today, a staff of around 6,300 people in more than 110 countries continues to help 32.9 million people. The refugee challenge in the 21st century is changing rapidly. People are forced to flee their homes for increasingly complicated and interlinked reasons. Some 40 million people worldwide are already uprooted by violence and persecution, and it is likely that the future will see more people on the run as a growing number of push factors compound one another to create conditions for further forced displacement. Today the task facing the international community in this new environment is to find ways to unlock the potential of refugees who have so much to offer if they are given the opportunity to regain control over their lives. The UNHCR cannot do this alone. With your support UNHCR can begin to turn the tide, giving refugees hope for the future and new opportunities for their families and their communities
A few months back we added a feature which makes it easier to invite your friends to join you on ammado. So if you like what ammado is doing and you think your friends will also enjoy being part of ammado, you can easily invite them with a few simple clicks.
You can manually enter in your friends’ email addresses or you can send invites to your friends via your email address book. Currently we support four email providers; Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and MSN.
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- click on the icon of your preferred email client on the left side of the page
- enter your email username and password and click on ‘Get list of contacts’
- select the friends you wish to invite and then click on the ‘Add Contacts’ button
Your friends’ email addresses then get added to the ‘To’ field. To send out out the invites, simply click on the ‘Invite People’ button. Your friends will soon receive an email inviting them to join you on ammado. It’s that easy! Feel free to invite as many friends as you like.
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We know that being a member of ammado means that you care, so we want to find out what you care about. To do this, ammado has launched an online video campaign to gather the opinions and thoughts of our global community. We are trying to collect as many video clips of people sharing with us what it is they care about and will share these clips with our community by broadcasting them from our site.
As we may not reach some of you, this is your chance to have your say!
Simply tell us in a short video recording (a minute or less), who you are, where you are from and what you care about. It’s that easy.
It could be the work you or your organisation does, the causes you believe in, anything or anyone you feel passionate about or a list of things you want to change in your community or country.
So have your say, record it and email it to us at: video@ammado.com
All video clips will then be viewable from our site in June 2008.
We cannot accept files larger than 3MB and footage will be checked by ammado for suitability for broadcast.
With some 76 sessions planned, this event takes in discussions on the future of Social Enterprise. There are practical sessions too on topics from law to marketing to finance to web project management. Workshops range from themes such as human values to climate change to innovation. There are even installations dedicated to connecting you to the people that can most help you grow and a live social networking site from work from Tom Alcott and Bonnie Shaw (one that continues making connections on the long term). You have the opportunity to let government know what you think. Bergin O’Malley from the Social Enterprise Coalition will run a session on getting government to make it happen, followed by an hour and a half with David Rossington, the man responsible for the Department of Community and Local Government’s Social Enterprise Unit.
On Sunday, you’ll be able to pitch live to UnLtd for a chance to win a £5k award for the development of your business. Arising are producing an installation and set of discussions on Human Needs - including contributions from the New Economics Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, Institute of Public Policy and Research, Haringey Arts, the Blekinge Insitute of Technology and more…Michael Norton, author of ‘365 Days to Change the World’ and ‘The Everyday Activist’ will be running sessions on asking for money, becoming an ‘Everyday Activist, and on turning ideas into success.
I will be hosting a session on digital storytelling on Sunday morning.
To get tickets to SHINE go to www.shineunconference.com to purchase tickets. To learn more about UnLtd visit their profile on ammado or their website.
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Our very first podcast features an interview with Andrew Davies, Web Producer with Greenpeace International. Andrew traces the growth of Greenpeace’s activity in Indonesia.Centralising the importance of public opinion in action, he draws attention to the organisation’s recent affront on the use of palm oil, extracted through forest draining and destruction, in products.
Looking to the future innovations in online social media, he discusses the power of bloggers and warns against considering them as an aggregate. For more info visit the dove page on Greenpace.
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