GVI Playa Del Carmen Monthly Achievement Report July 2014

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July 2014Playa Del Carmen, Mexico

First successful NSP completionin Playa del Carmen, Community projects Mexico

ObjectiveTo empower local community members and contribute to their personal development bybuilding their capacities and training on key issues within their surroundings.

Summary

On the 27thof May we accepted our first National Scholar, Karla, who worked with us for 2months. Karla is a student with only half a year to go before completing her university de-gree. As part of this degree, she had to undertake a social service- type placement, whichlead her to GVI.Karla was responsible for volunteers, worked in all three of our projects in the communitysegment and was in-charge of delivering Green Action classes to the children at the Lu-doteca. She also participated in extra activities that GVI was able to participate in throughlocal partners.Overall Karla was a great member of the team who worked hard, with a heart of gold and

was an asset to the lives of the volunteers and staff during her time here.

Report

The National Scholar program through the GVI Charitable Trust initiative allows a student or

adult from the region where GVI is based to be apart of the project to gain skills, knowledgeand opportunities that may lead to long term improvements for them, their local communityand environment1. The problem GVI identifies is that there are limitations to the access ofeducation and training in some countries in which they operate 2. Therefore, the solution wasto create scholarships for students and young adults to ensure the skills and training can be

passed on to national personnel.

So far, 25,092 local people have been trained through classes & programs3from around theworld. This program has been utilized in the Seychelles, Mombasa, Laos, Fiji, Nepal, Gua-temala, India and more4. Although this is not the first time the National Scholarship program

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has hit Mexico5, it is the first for our young Community development projects in Playa delCarmen.

Karla is from Mexico City and is 6 months away from completing her degree from Univer-sidad Iberoamericana in Mexico city and as part of her social service; she applied for a posi-tion with GVI Mexico.

Karla was able to complete her two months working in all three projects that make up theCommunity projects; childcare, healthcare and vets. She has been in charge of preparingand delivering, in collaboration with volunteers, Green Action classes to the children at theLudoteca. She has learnt to perform physical therapy, occupational therapy, equine therapyand aqua therapy at the health care project. At the vets, she has completed and is certifiedwith Veterinary assistant training from CocosCat rescue and IFAW.

Figure 1. Karla working at the Ludoteca, Equine Therapy and Coco's Cat Rescue

In addition to this, she has completed an Emergency First Responder and Secondary re-sponse training for adults and children. She has also participated in the Environment Expowith GVI where all local organizations presented talks, ideas and their cause to the commu-

nity of Playa del Carmen.

Figure 2. Karla and Nandita (a fellow volunteer) working at the Environment Expo

Karla has contributed an impressive amount to our work here at GVI but the most memora-ble is the energy and life she brought into the house. She helped those who were eager tolearn Spanish, she made others understand her culture and she brought much laughter andfun times to the volunteers and staff members. As much as GVI could give her in terms oftraining and developing skills, she gave it back through her energy, dedication and under-

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standing. She made bonds with the children, our partners but most of all with our volunteersand staff.

Congratulations Karla, you are our achievement of the month. We wish her nothing but thebest with the rest of her school, and for whatsahead in her life.

Figure3. Karla doing what she does best at the ludoteca.

If you would like to find out more about what we do:

http://www.gvi.co.uk/programs/volunteer-health-project-mexico/Or the National Scholarship program:http://gvi.org/our-impacts/gvi-charitable-trust-national-scholarship-program
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GVI Playa Del Carmen Monthly Achievement Report July 2014