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Youth Cooperation Program |
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Diary
15th to 19th July
15th
July 2001 Norbulingka
Today both the brochure groups almost finished their work. The restaurant
group has already written everything for the brochure, now they only need
to take pictures to make the brochure more attractive.
The tour group is also done with the content. They too need to take
pictures now. They want to use pictures of the carpet factory, daycare
center and of tourists.
Actually the
plan was to take the pictures for the restaurant brochure today. The group
had decided on getting the pictures of the cooks with their uniforms and
in front of the food they had prepared. But the weather conditions made it
impossible for the group to take the pictures. The brochures are expected
to be finished by the evening.
The newsletter group is all set to work now.They are working on human
rights issues. The group has divided work amongst themselves and are busy
taking interviews for articles.
Each group has
a number of persons working together as a team.
The Tour group has Regine, Ivalu, Jaya, and Sonam working together.
Similarly, the restaurant group consists of Angutimmarik, Sophie, Gokarna,
Jampa, while Steffen, Elin, Mitra, Tashi, Mickey are working on the
newsletter.
Besides this there is also a pagemaker group, they design the newsletter
and the brochures. Their group consists of Anne, Anil, Uttam and Deepak.
All the
participants are busy working in their group during the day. Everyone
meets with the facilitator at 4:30 to evaluate the day’s work and come up
with new ideas.
16th July, 2001
The brochures are done and have gone to the page maker group. Now the two
groups have combined to make a recipe book. Their project is to make a
recipe book for the Norbulingka Restaurant group.
The recipe
book will contain recipes of traditional Tibetan cooking. This book is
going to be a bit different than the rest in the market. The participants
have decided to add a little bit of color by writing about the tradition,
the festivals and culture on Tibet too.
The newsletter group have finished a couple of articles, including human
rights and sports articles. Steffen from the newsletter group have written
about the sport activities around the Tibetan camp, while Elin have
interviewed Katja (Danish developing worker) from MS about the YCP project
(Youth Cooperation Program). Mickey from the group have also made an
article about refugees and their rights.
And final Mitra have made a article about Tibetan human rights where he
interview an old lady (Sonam Luckchung) from the senior resident in the
Tibetan camp.
As yesterday
all the participants are very busy today working with their projects. 4:30
same time as yesterday everyone meets and evaluating their work with the
facilitator.
17th July 2001 Norbulingka
Today the recipe group have started their work with the contents for the
recipe book. They had brainstorming session on how to go about designing
it.
The newsletter
group is making corrections where it needs to be done. Steffen from the
newsletter group is helping out with the recipe group also. The recipe
group is quite busy working with the recipes and the tradition and culture
so any backup from the rest of the camp is more than welcomed.
Beside that the day today is very similar to the rest of the days. The
groups are very busy and they are working very hard to keep their
deadlines.
Information
about Pokhara and Bardiya was also given to the YCP today. All of us are
visiting Pokhara after the training is finished. we are looking forward to
it.
18th July 2001 Norbulingka
All the groups were quite busy doing their work. The restaurant group was
all set to take pictures of traditional Tibetan food like dumpling and
vegetable curry. The boys working in the restaurant were asked to dress up
and pose for pictures. But unfortunately the pictures didn't come out so
well. now they have to take the pictures again.
The tour group
is also working earnestly. They took pictures of the carpet factory ,
kindergarden and also of the camp. Their work is almost finished.
The newsletter group has also already finished writing and are busy
correcting their work. The rain is making it difficult for two brochure
groups to get the pictures they want.
Work is also
going on in the recipe book. Everyone is busy pouring over books trying to
find interesting facts to write about Tibet. The recipe book is going to
be special. It is not only going to contain recipes but some historical
and cultural facts on Tibet also.
19th July 2001 Norbulingka
Today the
groups are meeting as usual. 9:00a.m. they meets at the Norbulingka
office. The groups are making their plans for the day with the
facilitator, asking for ideas and showing new ideas for the facilitator.
After the meeting the groups are returning to their bases to continue
their work. But around 10:30a.m. and 11:00a.m. there is a power shutdown
and it makes it difficult to work for all of the groups. The problem is
that it is necessary for the groups to use the computers for their work.
And because of the shutdown everyone is pleased to do the handwriting. Now
everything is done by handwriting, the working process is very slow.
All the work is late because of the power shutdown. The tour and
restaurant group cannot take the necessary pictures for the brochures, the
digital camera needs to be recharged. The groups are working even harder
with they work. They are busy keeping their deadlines, now without
computers.
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