Some pics of our work at the SCALA center as it is being set up. Meetings and more meetings seem to be the order of the day! We have orientation meetings and update meetings and presentations, etc., depending on who we are meeting with and what role they have in the SCALA project. The great thing about the Philippines is that meetings always involve a snack of some sort! [View Full Entry]

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Second Bi-Weekly Overseas Volunteer Report Volunteer Name: Lisa White Departure Date: May 18, 2005 Partner Agency: DSWD Return Date: Sept. 2, 2005 Project Location: Iloilo City, Philippines Reporting Date: June 27, 2005 Lisa’s Special SCALA Questions Strengths and weaknesses of EWB Volunteers and SCALA Trainers / Center Managers as Volunteers 1. Describe the benefits of a Filipino setting up a center and the strengths and weaknesses specifically of your partner. Explain which weaknesses you will be able to help strengthen. What qualities/skills do you as a Canadian or an EWB v [View Full Entry]

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First Bi-Weekly Overseas Volunteer Report Volunteer Name: Lisa White Departure Date: May 18, 2005 Partner Agency: DSWD Return Date: Sept. 2, 2005 Project Location: Iloilo City, Philippines Reporting Date: June 19, 2005 Special Questions for First Report 1. Please provide contact phone numbers and names where you can best be reached in the office, in the field, and at home. I am available on my cellphone anytime at 09283967996 (Smart). 2. Please describe where are you living now? Does it allow for cultural integration? Is it safe? How much does it cost a month? Is this where you [View Full Entry]

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So to integrate into the community, I decided to get involved with a local Girl Scout group. Before I got to my city of Iloilo (in the Western Visayas), I visited the headquarters of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines in Manila and bought myself a uniform, but I also wear my Canadian Girl Guide international scarf and world pin to show that I am a member of the international Guiding community. So off I went to find the Girl Scouts! As luck would have it, there was a local group that meets right next door at the Molo I elementary [View Full Entry]

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