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Manual
This is a toolkit on global learning for critical volunteering organisations. We look at the power structures and the global context, when a person from Europe goes to the Global South for a voluntary service. Includes methods, resources and reflections.
We want to question and deconstruct what lies behind "good intentions" that volunteers from the Global North have, when they go to the Global South. What does it mean to "help" in a context of colonialism and ongoing economic exploitation? We aim to break racist and colonial stereotypes and hope to motivate organisations to work on global justice and peace rather than reinforcing existing harmful structures.
The aim of this manual is not to focus on the Global South itself, but on the European
organizations' perception of Global South and how it influences the picture of volunteering.
If formal education doesn’t make young people aware of global injustice and its long history, we as volunteering organisations need to step in.
We see three necessary steps:
1. They have to make global injustice, its history and its implications the primary topic in a mandatory preparation of their volunteers (“global education”).
2. They have to make an intense evaluation with volunteers to give space for reflecting the experiences made in such a sensitive context.
3. They have to speak out about these power imbalances through awareness-raising actions in Europe. And most importantly, organisations have to become aware of their own postcolonial pictures. All of us need in the movement of international voluntary services have to overcome racism and other forms of systematic injustices.
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http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/2034
This tool is for
Volunteering organisations Organisations working with Global Learning
and addresses
Anti-Racism, Voluntary Service, Intercultural Learning
The tool was created by
Service Civil International
in the context of
Seminars "Picturing the Global South" (Vienna 2015) and "Los Otros" (Madrid 2016)
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Thomas Schallhart (on 1 August 2017)
and last modified
27 March 2017
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