By Meg Davis
Before you begin recruiting volunteers, you should come up with an outline of the projects you need help with, and create a schedule that involves a few different volunteering opportunities. Different organizations have different schedules for their volunteer programs. Because Asia Catalyst volunteers are mostly students, we usually follow a four-month
term.
by Meg Davis
One of the issues groups ask us about often is how to recruit and manage volunteers. Based on our experience (a lot of our work is done by student interns), and some manuals we consulted online, we are putting together a manual on volunteer management and posting chapters from it to this blog. Please share your own suggestions by posting a comment.
By Peter Ford
Sitting in a bare office behind an anonymous steel door, Yu Fangqiang
feels under siege.
His small nongovernmental organization, Yirenping, has enjoyed
remarkable success in helping HIV and hepatitis B sufferers fight
discrimination by Chinese employers, universities, and government
departments. For this challenge to the authorities, though, the group is
paying a high price.
Last year, police raided Yirenping’s Beijing office and confiscated
all its publicity material and legal aid brochures – hence the empty
bookshelves. In March, officials subjected their accounts to an
unusually prolonged investigation and warned them of more to come.
Now, new government regulations are starving Yirenping and other
controversial NGOs of funds.
“I am very worried about our future,”
says Mr. Yu, Yirenping’s chief coordinator. “I’m afraid we may have to
close.”
Read the full story at Christian Science Monitor.
By Yu Fangqiang
The other night, a little after midnight, I was about to turn off my computer and go to sleep when
I noticed, with surprise, an article in China Development Brief’s Community Times: “Droughts in the Southwest
Test Emergency Response: Where are the NGOs?”
China has recently been hit by a number of natural disasters, including the epic
drought in the southwest and an earthquake in Qinghai. After reading this
article, I had a few thoughts I had to share.
Asia Catalyst invites applications for one scholarship to
participate in the International AIDS Conference in Vienna from July
16-24. Applications must be received by April 25. The scholarship will support a Chinese
PLWHA， a current or former sex worker or drug user to
participate in the meeting.
亚洲促
进会邀请中国艾滋NGO申请一个参加
维也纳7月16日到24日召开的国际艾滋大会的奖学金。申请截至日期是4月25日。我们会支持一位感染者,
现在或者目前性工作者/成瘾者，参加会议。
