LA ODISEA DEL VOLUNTARIADO [ Ver Video ]
The Odisea del Voluntariado (Volunteer’s Odyssey) is a project that was born under the protection of the International Year of Volunteers organised by the UN in 2001 and has the backing of the Volunteers of the United Nations..
La Odisea del Voluntariado is a series of 49 programmes that last 15 minutes and are broadcast every day and are about the world of volunteers. 21 youths from five continents went around the world filming volunteer actions. The 21 reporters that formed the seven groups of the Odisea were chosen because of their creative capacities and narrative and technical aptitudes that answered the announcement published in film schools of television and reporting of the five continents.
Each team is formed by a group of three young people, men and women formed according to their own criteria depending on their personal affinities, their language for communication and responsibilities assumed in the team.
Each region of the world visited by Odisea is covered in seven reports and seven enigmas. The regions visited by our participants were the European Union and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Asia as well as the South Pacific, North and Central America, South America and the Caribbean, SubSaharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa.
In the edition produced for Canal 2 Andalucia during the summer of 2.002 the series shows the work by Andalusian volunteers as well.
A large part of the world population is unaware of the importance of the activities carried out by volunteers. Even so, these activities are happening just around the corner... If it were not because of the constant efforts of millions of volunteers, many sectors of human activity would not be able to survive, health, education, democratisation, environment issues, infrastructure construction, human development, etc.
The goal of "Odisea del Voluntariado" is to promote higher participation of citizens in volunteer activities awakening interest in viewers. La Odisea permits different countries of the world to converge on a common theme.
Broadcast by Canal Sur TV Andalucia (Spain), Documanía (CANAL+/DIGITAL+) Europa Satélite-EbS (European Union), RTBF LaDeux (Belgium), RTBF Sat (Belgium), Duna (Hungaria), TV5 (Asia + South America, United States, Belgium-France-Switzerland), TV5 (Africa + Canada).
Presently being broadcast by Humania (Canal Documanía - Sogecable).
Each one of the seven teams that formed Odisea del Voluntariado visited the following places of the world:
TEAM B: Ms Sandra Camps (Spain)
M. Barnabas Toth (Hungary)
M. Emmanuel Tchindebe (Tchad)
VIETNAM: Ho Chi Min
In the international place of Vietnam our team of reporters has met with a group of volunteers that work on the aim of replacing houses located in areas with contaminated water and the construction of new urbanisations.
ARGENTINA: San Nicolás de los Arroyos
A group of Boy Scouts cares and maintains nature. In this documentary they visit the Park of F. Rafael de Aguilar and gather seeds, irrigate, plant trees and teach children to care for the environment.
MAURICIO: Port Louis
They help people in villages in need. Among other activities they visit houses periodically (once a week), fix damages in houses such as water filtrations in roofs, educational activities, visits to schools, supervise evolution of ill or wounded people.
COSTA RICA: Puerto viejo San José
Centre for teaching environmental conservation of Sarapiquí: Some of the activities carried out are a reading club where they teach reading and playing to children, reading to the aged. They also care for the environment, teach English language to children and adult night classes.
NIGERIA: Lagos
The most important work by the 15 volunteers of the United Youth Front International is that of controlling children education. They also supervise the operation of an orphanage and sports activities.
MALTA: Valetta
This group cares for street poor people. In Malta there is low population thus there are not very many people living on the street and besides, these people hide. The work of these volunteers is to take care of these people and condition flats so they can live in better conditions.
INDIA: Nueva Delhi
CADAM is a NGO for defending the rights of the population of the Dalit, the lowest caste of Indian population. Above all they care for the women. They organise conferences, publish newspapers, create self-help groups in communities and offer legal and social backing.
TEAM D: M. Pablo de Selva (France)
M. Freddy Embumba (Congo)
Ms Valeria Ruiz Salas (Perú)
ROCHESTER: Minnesota
This is a centre for co-ordination of volunteer activities that collaborate with organisations and foundations of North America. Among their numerous activities is education for foreign adults which has been chosen.
TANZANIA: Kiromo
Neema is a Dutch organisation that sends volunteer students of pharmacology to help ill people in a village (Kiromo). They receive visits of ill people, children or adults. They also fight against malaria and tuberculosis, diseases that affect many people.
TAILANDIA: Chiang Rai
In this documentary we see that the activity carried out by a Canadian volunteer. She centres her activity on ecological development of a Thai community., Chiang Rai. Plants are cultivated, fertilizer is producted and contact with the inhabitants is done.
NEPAL: Katmandhu
Volunteers belonging to Amnesty International fight for respect of human rights. In Nepal there are conflicts and all sorts of violence. These volunteers go to schools and give chats for children to gain indepth awareness of rights and problems on a national and international level.
BRASIL: Salvador de Bahía
Their main goal is conservation of the environment. Some of the things they do is to clean the river that crosses the village, plant seeds for restoring some areas. Their cultivation is an attempt to help needy people with low income levels.
LEBANON: Beirut
SCD is a French organisation that sends volunteers around the world. In Beirut a hydraulics engineer volunteer is in charge of development and water distribution in Beirut, which after suffering two wars, has damaged water channels. Among some of the activities carried out by these voluntars are water finding, sanitation, distribution and use of water resources.
ESPAÑA: Madrid
In Spain we have the association called Asociación Gruñidos Salvajes, which is in charge of offering artistic and circus activities for young people with drug abuse problems as an attempt to bring them away from drugs.
TEAM F: M. Rocco Romeo (Italy)
M. Itamar Rotem (Israel)
M. Christophe Istace (Belgium)
USA: Manchester
Residence for the aged where all sorts of activities are carried out such as playing dominoes, arts and crafts, massages, singing...
India: Anantapur
In this report we observe how volunteers teach handicapped children to develop their possibilities and live a little better. The field work helps solve many psychomotric problems in children with some type of difficulty. They also help handicapped women to become trained and learn how to carry out some activity.
New Guinea
Prisoners and criminals are housed in a centre located in an island. They are taught how to cultivate land, raise animals and in this way learn how to survive in a country were violence and poverty are very high.
GUATEMALA
This is an association that teaches mothers to promote breastfeeding of children. They attempt to teach women to breastfeed their children because a mother’s milk is essential for babies besides being more economic, healthier, etc.
PERÚ: Ayacucho
CARE is an association that houses young volunteers that pay their stay for three weeks and help local indigenous communities in matters such as health, nutrition, aid for handicapped children...
BOTSWANA: Gaborone
These are volunteers that work in the humanitarian organisation called PEOPLE TO PEOPLE. They are creating a network of co-ordinators that in turn train people in villages that train other people. They are 10000 informers throughout the country. They focus on fighting AIDS.
TURQUÍA: Ankara
Boy scouts that are dedicated to rescue missions in large catastrophies and at the same time they attempt to involve young people in ecological care subjects.
The Odisea del Voluntariado (Volunteer’s Odyssey) is a project that was born under the protection of the International Year of Volunteers organised by the UN in 2001 and has the backing of the Volunteers of the United Nations..
Each region of the world visited by Odisea is covered in seven reports and seven enigmas. The regions visited by our participants were the European Union and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Southern Asia as well as the South Pacific, North and Central America, South America and the Caribbean, SubSaharan Africa, Middle East and Northern Africa.
