Where: Bucharest Romania, “Gradinita Rasarit”

Instructors: Dada Nirmalkrsnanada, Didi A. Devapriya

After last year’s successful course, AMURTEL Romania is organizing its second annual  Disaster Relief Management Training. The course last year resulted in a motivated team of volunteers that organized a small scale intervention in August 2010 at a camp of families displaced by flooding in Brailla.

The goal of the course is to strengthen and build the AMURT and AMURTEL  volunteers that are ready to be part of a “Rapid Response Team”  responding to disasters both on the national and international levels.

The training will be led by instructors who have participated in the AMURT and AMURTEL relief efforts for large scale disasters in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Haiti. In particular the course will focus on creating “Child Friendly Spaces” programs, based on the successful experiences of AMURT and AMURTEL in recent disaster relief situations.

Cost: 75 euros

For more details go to “Contact Us”
+40 744565252

www.amurtel.ro

Permaculture
planning session: July 12-14
Poieni, Romania
Cost: 100 Euro

You are invited to participate in creating a sustainable permaculture design for AMURTEL’s farmland in Poieni Romania.
Permaculture is a holistic approach to designing and planning efficient ecological systems. It is based on patterns that occur in nature to maximise effect while minimizing wasted energy. Elements in a system are viewed in relationship to other elements, where the outputs of one element become the inputs of another. Within a Permaculture system, work is minimised, “wastes” become resources, productivity and yields increase, and environments are restored.

The planning session will be guided by Dada Subuddhyananda, who has studied permaculture design in Croatia and applied this knowledge to development work in Haiti.

Participants will be introduced to the fundamental principles of permaculture design, and will have the opportunity to put the concepts into practice using the concrete example of “Casa Iedera” Poieni.

AMURTEL runs a children’s home and after-school center in the nearby village of Panatau, and is seeking to create a design that will increase the long term sustainability of the projects, designing ecological social economy projects and increasing food production on the land.

Participants will stay in the beautiful rustic country farmhouse on the land. Healthy vegetarian meals will be served, and there is the option to participate in daily meditation sessions in nature.

For more details and to sign up please contact:
Didi 0744565252
didi@amurtel.ro

Poza din intervetie in urma inundatiilor din vara anului 2010 in judetul Braila in tabara de sinistrati de la Lacul Sarat.

Poza din interventia in urma dezastrului cauzat de cutremurul din Haiti la inceputul anului 2010.

Procesul de recuperare poate lua luni sau chiar ani. Interventia in caz de dezastre nu consta doar in asistenta medicala insa este nevoie deasemeni sa fie adresate nevoile sociale si emotionale a persoanelor afectate. Copii mici au nevoie de locuri de siguranta unde sa se joace. AMURTEL a creat astfel de spatii “Spatii prietenoase pentru copii” la interventiile dupa tsunami din Indonezia si cutremurul din Haiti, iar in Romania in vara anului 2010 in urma inundatiilor in Braila la Lacul Sarat, unde am organizat un program educational pentru copii sinistratiolor, implicand activ si parintii. In cadrul acestui seminar vom avea si un reprezentant de la IGSU, unul din partenerii nostrii, care ne va prezenta aspecte ale proiectului SafeQuake, impreuna cu brosura acestuia.

Acest seminar introductiv v-a continua printr-un curs detaliat in luna Iulie, tinut deechipa de expertii internationali din AMURT si AMURTEL de interventie in caz de dezastre, pentru cei care sunt interesati sa devina voluntari in acest domeniu.

Seminarul interactiv “Cum sa facem fata comportamentelor copiilor cu un istoric cu trauma” pentru a intelege copiii cu un istoric de trauma si cu probleme de atasament.

Minciuna, furtul, ignoranta, depresia, sau comportamentul violent apar din dificulltatea de a face fata stresului. Invatati cum sa raspundeti nu doar sa reactionati acestor provocari luand in considerare sursa problemei nu doar simptomele. Aceasta este o prezentare pe scurt a abordarii dezvoltate de Heather Forbes din Statele Unite, o mama adoptiva a trei copii abandonati din Rusia si este relevanta pentru asistentele maternale, parinti adoptivi, lucratori sociali si voluntari implicati in a ajuta copii cu probleme de atasament.

Prin daruire si deschidere sufleteasca putem realiza miracole.