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Online Volunteering Award 2011
- Comber Foundation Team
- Delta Women Team
- Fundació Catalunya Voluntària Team
- Goodness and Mercy Missions Team
- Kitega Community Centre Team
- La ferme aux arbres de Dekese Team
- Leaders of Tomorrow International Team
- UN OCHA Team
- UNV Namibia / National Planning Commission of Namibia Team
- Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa Team
Comber Foundation Team
Contribution to MDG8: Develop a global partnership for development
Eight online volunteers transcribed more than forty hours of audio interviews with development workers and volunteers, who over the past twenty years have dedicated themselves to helping the most vulnerable citizens in Eastern Europe. These interviews formed the basis of a book that was produced by the Eastern Europe Aid & Development Network, a knowledge-sharing initiative for Irish charities working in Eastern Europe coordinated by the Comber Foundation.
Delta Women Team
Contribution to achieving MDG3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Paola Brigneti has supported the Nigerian NGO Delta Women, donating countless hours of her time towards advocating for ending female sexual harassment in institutions of higher education in Delta State, Nigeria. Passionate about the organization and its cause, Paola developed advocacy strategies, activities and materials for the organization to raise awareness about sexual harassment and educate people on how to prevent it.
Fundació Catalunya Voluntària Team
Contribution to achieving MDG8: Develop a global partnership for development
70 online volunteers have contributed extensively, during several months, to the Peace Bag for EuroMed Youth toolkit, drafting, reviewing and translating the 191 page publication into 12 languages, as well as creating the layout and a web version. The Peace Bag, which offers practical tools to promote a culture of peace at the local and regional level across the Mediterranean, has been developed in a participatory process that involved 18 youth-led and youth-serving organizations from 14 countries in the region, coordinated by the Fundació Catalunya Voluntària.
Goodness and Mercy Missions Team
Contribution to achieving MDG2: Achieve universal primary education and MDG3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Online volunteer Akanksha Shukla from India helped the Cameroonian NGO Goodness and Mercy Missions (GMM) improve its “Children education through women empowerment” project, which subsequently won the World Bank’s Cameroon Development Marketplace Competition. The project, which aims to enable 100 women to secure their family income through palm oil trading and send their children to school, was the third among 15 projects that were awarded for their replicable innovative approach and high potential for development impact.
Kitega Community Centre Team
Contribution to MDG4: Reduce child mortality and MDG6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Sharing their diverse medical expertise, a team of twelve online volunteers developed tools and materials that help the Kitega Community Centre sensitize the local community on health issues and good practices. The organization’s health education programme benefits the rural population of Kitega, located about 40km from the Ugandan capital.
La ferme aux arbres de Dekese Team
Contribution to achieving MDG1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
The NGO La ferme aux arbres de Dekese works to support the population of Dekese, a war-torn and isolated region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Three IT experts helped the organization develop a software to capture and analyze population related data. The population management tool is adapted to the local context and will enhance the local administration’s capacity to plan and implement projects to advance socio economic development in the region.
Leaders of Tomorrow International Team
Contribution to achieving MDG1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger and MDG8: Develop a global partnership for development
Maria Jakimovska, a business development specialist born and raised in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, supported the newly formed Cameroonian youth-led organization Leaders of Tomorrow International (LOTI) in launching its first programme: an IT centre that offers underprivileged students free Internet access and training to pursue academic studies online, in addition to scholarships that the organization negotiates with different universities.
UN OCHA Team
Contribution to achieving MDG8: Develop a global partnership for development
After the Libya crisis broke, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) relied on the service of hundreds of online volunteers who created and maintained a virtual map that showed live information about events in the country. The Libya Crisis Map provided relief organizations with information on health needs, security threats or refugee movements to help them plan their humanitarian response.
UNV Namibia / National Planning Commission of Namibia Team
Contribution to achieving MDG1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Edmund Paul Kalekyezi, a legal expert from Uganda, prepared legal recommendations on Namibian laws and policies related to volunteerism. The paper supported Namibian policy makers in formulating a well-considered policy seeking to create an environment in which volunteerism can flourish and act as a driver of economic, social and political development in Namibia.
Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa Team
Contribution to achieving MDG2: Achieve universal primary education
Sharing her long-standing editorial experience, Yolanta Cwik from Canada conceived a website and posters for the Deworm Ghana Campaign run by the Ghana-based NGO Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa (VPWA). 3,900 children were dewormed as a result of this campaign, which was the first in a series that the organization will replicate in other West African countries.
