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that program or activity for 2008
FOR THE FORMS THAT NEEDED TO
APPLY FOR THESE PROGRAMS PLEASE CLICK HERE.
Informational Contacts:
Village & Junior
Counselor: Heidi Saleh
emaly33@hotmail.com
Interchange & Junior
Leader:
Ketti Finneran
ketti@whosfirst.com
Seminar Camp:
Heidi Saleh
emaly33@hotmail.com
Summer Camp: Heidi
Saleh
emaly33@hotmail.com
International Youth Meeting:
Heidi Saleh
emaly33@hotmail.com
Adult Leaders: for
11 year-olds see Village contact above; for 14 - 15 year-olds see Interchange;
and for 14 year-olds see Summer Camp contacts above.
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Galicia, Spain [2008-043] (2 male and 2 female age 11 and male
leader ages 21 and +), 7/4/08 – 7/31/08
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Mexico City, Mexico [2008-032] (2 male and 2 female age 11 and
female leader ages 21 and +), 7/1/08 – 7/28/08
This four-week international camp was the original CISV program, and is still its flagship program. Its main aims are to help participants learn to understand and appreciate people of different cultures, and to provide both an experience in active coexistence and the opportunity for creative participation in the decision-making process. A multi-lingual camp, the Village features a mix of educational, cultural and sporting activities which emphasize cooperative global and intercultural living. Each Village hosts delegations from
ten or twelve countries, and each delegation consists of two girls and two boys, all eleven years of age, and an adult leader. Five staff and six Junior Counselors, aged 16 -17 also help to run the Village. Each Village lasts twenty-eight days.
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Mexico City, Mexico [2008-16], (4 youth age 14 and male or female
leader ages 21 and +), 7/11/08 to 8/2/08
As more and more eleven-year-olds returned from Villages, fired with enthusiasm about their experiences, other young people, often those who had been unable to attend a Village, felt that they too would like to have their own Village-type experience. After a good deal of debate, it was decided to hold a number of experimental Summer Camps, and these proved so successful that the Summer Camp was finally approved as an official program in 1995.
Aimed at slightly older children than the Village, the Summer Camp encourages participants to take initiatives towards leadership and responsibility for program planning. In addition to promoting the ClSV philosophy, each Camp focuses on a specific educational theme, aiming to overcome prejudices, build self-confidence and stimulate critical thinking, through activities and discussion Delegations from six or nine different countries consist of either four or six young people plus an adult leader. The duration of each camp is three weeks, and the age range of the young people is 13 - 16. Single sex Summer Camps are possible to accommodate cultural sensitivity regarding mixed camps for teens.
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Our Interchange program will be with Trento, Italy for 14 and 15 year olds and will
be summer 2008. We will need at least 4-5 boys and 4-5 girls of this
age group, as well as an Adult Leader. If you are interested in this
program, please contact Ketti Finneran
– 216.932.0017 or
ketti@whosfirst.com for more information.
The enthusiasm of returning delegates from the early Villages and the subsequent formation of local Chapters and Junior Branches, produced a nucleus of young people, friends and relations, eager for their own international ClSV experience, and thus, in 1962, the Interchange was born. This was a group exchange with individuals staying with carefully matched partners, within a family setting. The first group of young people, ranging in age from twelve to nineteen, traveled from Hamburg to Newcastle, to stay in families there. Some of them were meeting up with friends they had made at Villages, some were brothers or sisters and some were school friends. The whole group then traveled back to Hamburg for the second phase. The local Chapters undertook responsibility for the organization and realization of the overall activity, which must have been a great success, since the same Chapters conducted another only three years later. In 1981, Interchange was recognized as an official program.
The Interchange program encourages a deeper understanding of another culture by enabling young people to live as family members. Group activities involving all participants are also a vital component of Interchange, and these help to foster individual and group attitudes consistent with the ClSV philosophy. Although it offers a very different approach from a camp model, Interchange is based on the same educational principles. By living as family members, participants are able to gain an understanding of people of another culture, and are encouraged to incorporate this experience into the daily lives of themselves and their families. Interchanges take place either during a single year or over two years, depending on the distance of the travel involved, and last for between two and four weeks for each of the two phases. Each Interchange involves delegations from two International Chapters, of six to twelve young people, ranging in age from 12 - 15, plus adult leaders. Single sex Interchanges are possible, to accommodate specific cultural requirements.
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By 1956, there existed a growing number of young people who had had a taste of the CISV experience and who wanted to try to re-live some of it on a future occasion. Because of the deep and lasting friendships forged during Villages, participants naturally felt that they would like to meet together again, and the first "reunion" camps were held in the late 1950s. Eventually, these camps attracted and were opened to young people who had no previous Village experience. Seminar Camps are now an educational program in their own right, which provide the first international CISV experience for a significant percentage of participants.
The Seminar Camp is an intensive program, designed for an older age group. It is actively conducted by the participants, who are encouraged to discover and form opinions about individual, international and intercultural matters, to examine their own motives and the behavior of themselves and others, to appreciate the responsibilities involved in group living, and to gain practical experience in positive conflict resolution. The Seminar Camp fosters interest in the world as a whole, and develops a sense of responsibility for its peaceful survival. A local and international staff of five act as resource personnel and Chapter liaisons for the participants. The thirty selected young people of ages ranging from 17 18 travel independently to participate in the three-week camp.
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Val d' Isere, France [2008-016] (male age
16 - 17), 7/4/08 – 7/31/08
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Campinas, Brazil [2008-003] (female age 16
- 17), 6/28/08 - 7/25/08
Junior Counselors, like adult leaders, are carefully selected and trained. They too need a love for working with children and a belief in the philosophy of CISV. They have an important function in the Village Program being able to relate to both the adults and the children. Although Junior Counselors who have been involved in other CISV Programs will have an advantage, that is not a prerequisite.
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International Youth Meeting
Summer 2008
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VILLAGE
- Galicia, Spain [2008-043], male leader ages 21 and +, 7/4/08 – 7/31/08
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VILLAGE
- Mexico City, Mexico [2008-032], female leader ages 21 and +, 7/1/08 –
7/28/08
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SUMMER CAMP -
Mexico City, Mexico
[2008-16], male or female leader ages 21 and +, 7/11/08 to 8/2/08
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INTERCHANGE- Italy - TBA
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