Project (Africa)

Africa

Malawi

Malawi is a landlocked country slightly smaller than Pennsylvania and has a population of 13 million. Roughly 1/6 the size of Namibia with a 6 times greater population. It gained independence peacefully from Britain in 1964. With no wars, domestic or otherwise, to speak of ever since.

Malawi ranks among the world's least developed countries. The economy is predominately agricultural, with about 85% of the population living in rural areas. The economy depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations. In 2006, Malawi was approved for relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The government and people of Malawi faces many challenges, including developing a market economy, improving educational facilities, dealing with environmental problems, and with the rapidly growing problem of HIV/AIDS.

Humana People to People has been working in Malawi since 1995. DAPP Malawi runs16 projects.

2007 is the first year that CCTG has sent volunteers to Malawi - our DI's were working with the Farmers' Club and TCE projects.

The current Development Projects of DAPP MalawiThe strategy of development of DAPP Malawi includes establishing projects covering a wide range of activities such as:
The DAPP Teacher’s Training College, Chilangoma in Blantyre Rural District
The DAPP Teacher Training College, Amalika in Shire Highlands district
Vocational Training School in Mikolongwe, Chiradzulu District
Child Aid in Lilongwe
The HOPE Humana project in Blantyre District
The Farmers Clubs project mobilizing 12.000 farmers into Farmers’ Clubs in Zomba, Chiradzulu and Lilongwe
Total Control of the Epidemic
DAPP Clothes and Shoes Sales in the Northern, Central & Southern region of Malawi

Mozambique

The Mozambique program at CCTG offers you the chance to spend 6 or 12 months in Mozambique volunteering at one of the projects run by ADPP Mozambique (part of Humana People to People).
Mozambique, unlike Angola, has been at peace since 1992. Mozambique is still however, one of the poorest countries in the world. Affected by frequent natural disasters – flooding in particular – which rarely receive attention in the western media, but affect thousands of Mozambiquans every year.
Approximately one in six adults are HIV+ in Mozambique. One shocking consequence of this is that more Mozambiquan teachers die of opportunistic infections due to AIDS than are being trained each year. Some CCTG volunteers work (and have worked) at teacher training colleges run by ADPP - these colleges enroll 60-70 students a year on a two and a half year program. Typically a few of these students (who are aged in their mid-twenties) die of AIDS before they complete their training – a human tragedy! Therefore, HIV/AIDS education is a crucial part of the work at all of the projects of ADPP in Mozambique.
The people of Mozambique are eager and motivated to take part in development. The first president of independent Mozambique, Samora Michel, spent two years traveling throughout the country talking to the people and making clear his expectations that the people themselves are responsible for their own development – outside agencies can only participate and assist. You can be part of that process!
CCTG volunteers currently work at the projects in Nacala in North East Mozambique (where there is a Child Aid project, a teacher-training college, and a vocational school). We also have some volunteers with a teacher training college in Maputo, HOPE Maputo and Itoculo Cashew Plantation and Training Center and Child Aid project.

The Activities of ADPP – Mozambique
Child Aid Nhamatanda
Child Aid Nacala
Child Aid Gaza
Child Aid Inhambane
ADPP Polytechnic College
The Vocational School Nhamatanda
The Vocational School Nacala
The Agricultural School Bilibiza
The Teacher Training College Maputo
The Teacher Training College Nhamatanda
The Teacher Training College Nacala
The Teacher Training College Chimoio
The Teacher Training College Niassa
The Teacher Training College Cabo Delgado
The Teacher Training College Macuse, Zambezia
The Teacher Training College Gaza
The Teacher Training College Inhambane
The Teacher Training College Tete
The Teacher Training College Nampula
One World University
HOPE Humana Beira
HOPE Humana Maputo
Children's Town Maputo
Sports School Xipamanine
Sports School Patrice Lumumba
ADPP Secondary School No Caminho da Vitoria
Street Children School Nacala
Street Children School Chimoio
Farmers Club Mozambique
Farmers Club Itoculo
TCE - Total Control of the Epidemic, Mozambique
ADPP Clothes Sales in Mozambique
The Development Instructor Program
The Scholarship Program

Namibia

Namibia was taken by Germany when the European powers divided Africa among them at the Berlin Conference in the 1880-ties. When Germany was busy in Europe during the First World War, South Africa occupied Namibia in 1915 and did not leave before 1990, when the Cold War was over and Apartheid in South Africa came to an end.

Namibia is a large country with just 2 million people, more than half of them living in the North. Although the mining sector is the most important income for Namibia it employs just 3% of the work force. The majority of people are small farmers, who struggle to live from the land, that is increasingly deteriorating. 56% of the population live on less than 2 $ a day.

Humana People to People has been working in Namibia since 1990. DAPP Namibia runs 12 development projects.

CCTG has been sending volunteers to TCE project in Namibia since the project started in 2006. In 2007 we also received positions with the Child Aid and Environmental project and the Vocational Training School.

List of projects in 2008
Child Aid and environment Project in Omusati
Child Aid Oshikoto
Child Aid Ohangwena
Child Aid Kavango
Vocational Training School Onambelela
DAPP Private School Onambelela
HOPE Namibia
12 TCE Areas
South Africa

South Africa is the richest and most developed country in the Southern African Development Community. The country could not achieve its full potential because of the rift created during the apartheid era.
South Africa is located on the southern cape of Africa. It shares its borders with Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Lesotho is situated within South Africa. South Africa has nine provinces: Gauteng, Western Cape, Kwazulu Natal, Eastern Cape, North Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and the North West. The capital city is Pretoria, and there are other major cities like Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizaberth, Bloemfontein and East London.
South Africa has the largest economy in the southern African region. Service industry, mining, manufacturing and agriculture contribute to the economy of South Africa. Globally South Africa is recognised as a mineral supplier. It exports minerals to 87 countries, with approximately 55 different minerals produced from more than 700 mining facilities. The country’s industrial and financial infrastructures are well developed and have the potential to grow.
Over 50% of the population in South Africa live in urban areas. The wealth in the country is not equally distributed as a result of the relicts of the apartheid era. South Africa held its first multiracial and democratic elections in 1994. The country was under the racial segregative rule of the white minority with legislative clauses making the white minority race more superior and favouring them.
Nelson Mandela was the first president of democratic South Africa. He negotiated with the National Party government and this culminated in the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. The ANC won the elections under the leadership of Mandela marking an end to the apartheid era in South Africa. The ANC government started building on reconciliation policies.
Humana People to People in South Africa is a section 21 non profit company, registered in 1995 in order to respond to the socio-economic needs of underprivileged South Africans. DAPP runs social development projects which focuses on children's welfare, HIV and AIDS and Human Resources Capacity building.
An overview of the Projects
TCE - Total Control of the Epidemic
Child Aid in Doornkop, Bakenberg and Tubatse
HOPE Humana Mopane and Bushbuckridge


CCTG has started to send Development Instructors to the TCE project in South Africa

Zambia

Northern Rhodesia gained independence from Britain in 1964 and changed its name to Zambia. Zambia is a land locked country with 11 million inhabitants. Copper is Zambia’s main export earning covering over 90% of the country’s income. The dependency on a single export product and with falling prices on the world market and increased prices for import products has broken Zambia’s economy. The country has a huge debt, 50% unemployment and around 85% of the population live below the poverty line. Furthermore the AIDS epidemic has hit the people hard. 85% of the people live in rural areas as small scale farmers.

Humana People to People has been working in Zambia since 1986. DAPP Zambia runs 16 development projects.

Currently our DI's work with the Child Aid projects in Mazabuka, Chimombo and Samfya, there has also been DI's in the Children's Town project.
The Projects DAPP in Zambia is running development projects, which are very comprehensive and cost effective. The programs deals with some of the major social and economic issues in Zambia such as HIV and AIDS, Community Development, Agriculture, Environment, Education and Water and Sanitation.

DAPP in Zambia is currently running the following projects
Child Aid Chibombo
Child Aid Samfya
Child Aid Central Province with the entities
Child Aid Mkushi
Child Aid Serenje
Child Aid Kapiri Mposhi
Child Aid and Environment Southern Province with the entities
Child Aid and Environment Monze
Child Aid and Environment Gwembe
Child Aid and Environment Mazabuka
Child Aid and Environment Kalomo
Child Aid and Environment Choma and Sinazonge
Child Aid Luapula Province with the entities
Child Aid Mpika/Mporokoso
Child Aid Nchelenge
HOPE Humana Center in Ndola with the Hope Projects
Hope Kitwe
Hope Kabwe
Hope Livingstone
Hope Lusaka
Hope Kaoma / Mongu
DAPP Children' Town in Malambanyama
Total Control of the Epidemic - TCE in Mazabuka
DAPP Clothes and Shoes Sales.

Humana People to People

Humana People to People is a movement that focuses its attention on creating answers to some of the main questions facing humanity.
It does not compare itself to anything or to anybody but itself.
Luckily this places the organization completely outside any sort of competition - left or right. It has done its own things - and still does.
The inspiration to start what is today Humana People to People back in 1977, came from years of travel done by teachers and participants at the first "Traveling Folk High School" - meeting people around the world in their often horrible conditions. This first meeting inspired action - and ever since the first actions, it has been the reality facing fellow human beings that have inspired to fierce competition - to do more, to become better, to raise the quality, to reach more people ...... And that is still where the inspiration comes from.
Ideas for projects and actions are provokingly simple and uncomplicated to understand and take their point of departure in the fundamental issue of bringing about humanizing conditions for people in need. These needs are often very basic, and it is not lack of know-how or technology that prevents them from being met. We know how to drill a bore hole, how to prevent and treat diseases, how to grow nutritious food, how to build schools, etc. So somehow it is a matter of just doing it - placing the needs of fellow human beings at the center - building capacity - and mobilizing as many people as possible to become active creators in their own development.
Today, there are 32 national associations connected to the Humana People to People Movement. The associations are working in 40 countries around the world. Humana People to People members presently operate more than 225 development projects reaching out to more than 7.5 million people on a yearly basis within the areas of basic health, HIV & AIDS, education, agriculture, environment, relief aid and community development. Furthermore, about 4.5 million people are reached annually through the secondhand clothes sales and distribution system.
In brief the activities cover:
- 17 teacher training colleges in Angola, Mozambique and Malawi educate every year more than 1,000 primary school teachers for the rural areas.
More than 4,000 teachers have been trained so far.
- 24 schools for children and vocational schools provide education to street children, orphans and other children from grade 1 to grade 9 and vocational training
of youth.
- 500,000 people are reached by Child Aid Projects, which is a variety of activities aimed at improving living conditions for the whole family and for the children
in particular.
- HOPE centers in 8 countries have over the past 10 years played an active role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Through mobilizing the communities around education,
information, counseling, testing and care, tens of thousand of people have got new hope in countries where the HIV prevalence sometimes is 30%.
- Since the year 2000, the TCE Program - Total Control of the Epidemic - has been involved the fight against AIDS on a larger scale and with a radical approach that
mobilizes each and every person in the community to do their part. TCE is implemented in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Angola
and South Africa.
- In emergency situations Humana People to People has given relief aid to refugees from wars in Africa and Europe, to people hit by drought or floods in Malawi,
Mozambique, India and Sri Lanka.

Projects (Central America and Latin America)

Central & Latin America


Belize

Under the shadow of its forests blooms Belize. Although better known for its diving paradises and the second longest coral barrier in the world, Belize has extensive forests, mountain chains and wet lands. Occupied and robbed for years mainly by British settlers, Belize was a source of wood for Europe; and Maya farmers, native to the land, were forced out of the country, few remaining on the very countryside. Also colonized by refugees from Civil War in the United States and later African slaves, the country shows its diversity in race and culture, and the many social divisions, results of the divide and rule principle of colonialist.
Today, the society still tries to overcome the underdevelopment patterns introduced by colonialism and exploitation. Agriculture became the main economy. Education receives investments, but the population still faces poverty, unsustainable foreign debts, and increasing urban problems, and HIV/AIDS rates.
Humana People to People runs a Child Aid project in the North and another one in the South, also it has a Clothes Sale with 3 shops generating funds for the Child Aid projects.

Costa Rica

Although explored by the Spanish early in the 16th century, initial attempts at colonizing Costa Rica proved unsuccessful. In 1563 a permanent settlement of Cartago was established in the cooler, fertile central highlands. In 1821, Costa Rica became one of several Central American provinces that jointly declared their independence from Spain. Costa Rica’s stable economy depends on tourism, agriculture, and electronics exports. Poverty has remained at roughly 20% for nearly 20 years, and the strong social safety net that had been put into place by the government has eroded due to increased financial constraints. Immigration from Nicaragua has increasingly become a concern for the government. The 300,000-500,000 Nicaraguans estimated to be in Costa Rica legally and illegally are an important source of (mostly unskilled) labor.
Our last stop before flying to Ecuador is Costa Rica.

Ecuador

Ecuador has a history of turbulence and political instability. Since 1979, it has been under civilian rule. Ecuador has substantial petroleum resources, which have accounted for 40% of the country’s export earnings. Since 1968, the country received huge loans for engineering, construction, and infrastructure projects that basically benefited the richest families. Over the following three decades Ecuador’s debt increased from 240 mill $ to 16 billion $ and poverty level rose from 50% to 70%, bringing the country on the brink of collapse in 1999. Since then some improvements have taken place, but Ecuador still has huge poverty problems.
Humana People to People runs a Child Aid project in Ecuador with the Village Action Groups.

El Salvador

El Salvador is a tiny and densely populated country struggling to find its way in a post-guerrilla war era. It is a fertile and beautiful land with lush valleys and low lying mountains covered with plantations growing coffee, corn, and sugar cane. The possession and power over this valuable land has sprung countless insurrections and a twelve-year civil war. The war ended in 1992 with peace accords signed and promises made. Though the country is at peace, the struggle continues to create a strong economy and to improve living conditions for all the people of El Salvador.
We travel through El Salvador during our investigation period.

Guatemala

Guatemala has been called the “Land of Fire” for the blazing reds, blues and yellows of its hand-woven clothing, the searing heat of its lowlands, and the fiery blood of over 200,000 people killed during its 36 year civil war. The year 1996 marked the end of the war as a newly elected government took power and a peace agreement was signed. The struggle for justice and an equal share in the country’s wealth, however, continue. Most effected by poverty and prejudice is the indigenous population, the largest in all of the Central American countries.
Humana People to People is planning to start a Child Aid project in Guatemala in 2009.

Honduras

Honduras is known as the “Banana Republic” because of the major role foreign industry has played in the both economic and political affairs of the country. While its neighbors were mired in civil war, Honduras has seen relative peace in recent decades. Peace did not mean prosperity, however, as outside influences and a succession of military rulers have kept power, money, and access to resources in the hands of a few. Estimates indicate that the devastation to infrastructure, homes, and agricultural lands brought by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 will set the country’s development efforts back several years. It is the poorest populations who will feel the greatest impact of these setbacks.
Our investigation period takes us through Honduras.

Mexico

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. Mexico has a free market economy that recently entered the trillion dollar class. It contains a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture. Per capita income is one-fourth that of the US; income distribution remains highly unequal.
Humana People to People is planning to start a Child Aid project in South of Mexico in 2009.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes, characterized by beauty that stands in sharp contrast to the poverty and struggles of its people. It is a country still recovering from a decade of civil war in the 1980’s and the repercussions of economic “shock therapy” during the 1990’s. Nicaragua is among the poorest countries in the Americas. Most rural areas and many urban neighborhoods are deeply impoverished making illiteracy, malnutrition, illness and unemployment widespread.
Humana People to People is planning to start a Child Aid project in Nicaragua in 2010.

Cloth Collection

Cloth Collection Clothes Recycling
The Clothes collection and recycling program are collecting and re-selling unwanted clothes and shoes for the benefit of Campus California TG and of course, the environment. The project is run by dedicated teachers from CCTG, employed staff, participants in the Development Instructor programs and volunteers.
For more information with the Clothes recycling project contact our people in the Bay area directly.

Contact-mail: jan@cctg.org

phone: 510 302 7117


The Aim
At the moment (according to the EPA) 85% of people’s unwanted clothes and shoes are being dumped into the landfill. Campus California TG offers a service to the community by providing a clean and efficient way to collect these clothes and recycle them instead of increasing our landfills. To do this, we make agreements with local business owners, landowners, property management companies, corporations, schools etc to host our drop off boxes where the public can drop their unused/used clothes and shoes at their convenience. Currently we have over 300 boxes placed in the Greater Bay Area.
Recycling this way makes it possible for us to reuse 95% of the items donated. The clothes which are in good shape (approximately 85%) can be sold and worn again; the less desirable items (approximately 10%) are recycled into rags, furniture stuffing etc.
The good thing about recycling is that the more that is collected to recycle/reuse, the more we can earn for our projects, and the better it is for our environment. As a non-profit organization, the money we earn goes to support the training of volunteers who do development work in Africa and Central America. These projects include AIDS education, Schools for Street Kids, Teacher Training Colleges and Micro-Credit programs, to name a few. Textile recycling is a creative way to benefit the local community and environment while at the same time earning much needed funds to be able to support worldwide development. It’s a WIN, WIN situation!
In 2006 over 3.2 million lbs of clothes were collected from the Greater Bay Area!
Our part in the recycling industry
Here I would like to tell you something about the clothes and shoes recycling industry and what is our part in it. We (CCTG) place our green drop-off boxes in front (or on the side, or at the back J) of different businesses. Currently we have over 400 boxes in 9 counties of the Greater Bay Area. We are constantly adding new places so the best way to find one near you is to call us (510 932 3839) or email jan@cctg.org The general public (i.e., you) can then put their unwanted clothes and shoes into the boxes.
Our drivers regularly go by the boxes and collect the donations. Most of the boxes are emptied twice a week, but many three times or even more often, depending on their individual place.
Everything is being brought into our warehouse. Currently we are located in San Pablo, Richmond. We have two warehouse workers, local Richmond people, handling the clothes as they are brought in. We do not sort the clothes, only the obvious house garbage (we get that too!) is removed, along with bulky items like electronics and/or books. We cannot use wet or heavily stained clothes either. These are put aside and unfortunately end up in garbage as well. Regretfully a lot of these clothes would not get ruined if the people would put them into a bag before donating them. A simple plastic trash-bag protects the clothing from getting wet or dirty and thus would enable us to be more effective in recycling. Approximately 5% of the weight we receive every week is trash of different types. This is usually about 3,000 lbs per week.
There are three ways we process the clothes before they are shipped off. Some of the clothing gets sent without packing, usually to local thrift stores or similar customers. This is what we call “Loose loads”. The loading is done by hand.
Another way is called “Capsacking” where we use big capsacks, each of them weighing about 350 lbs. This makes the storing and handling of clothes much easier and faster (forklift) both for us and also our customer.
Our last, and most used method is baling. We have a bailing machine which makes about 1,000 lbs weighing bales. Before this operation we remove the shoes as the high pressure in the machine would damage them.
When we have enough clothes we load them into a trailer or a sea container and send them to the customer. At this point our (CCTG's) role in the whole recycling industry ends and others take over.
But the journey of the clothing collected in the Bay Area is not at the end, not by far. Our customers are located all around the globe. Locally, we supply some places directly here in the Bay Area, L.A., East Coast, Central and Southern America, Europe (mostly East), Southern Africa and sometimes even Japan or elsewhere in Asia.

What happens with the clothes?
After the shipment arrives, everything has to be sorted. There are more than 180 different types and quality categories. Approximately 25% of the amount is so called SHOP “A” or SHOP “B” quality, which are sold in the Thrift sores and worn again by other people.
The rest is called “MIXED RAGS” and people put a big effort to finding out ways of re-using these materials. The next table breaks down the materials donated into our (and other’s) collection boxes, or as we call it: “CREDENTIAL CLOTHING”.
Here is some examples on how the different components of “Mixed rags” are re-used.
Shoes: they get sold and worn, or if they are not repairable, they may be used as an addition in insulation materials for building industry. The same fate usually awaits synthetic materials if they cannot be recycled like i.e. PE bags.
Woolen materials: get re-span and re-used in new clothes
Cotton wipers: re-used as cleaning materials for industry
Wearable clothes: usually sold into 3rd world countries. They might be a little damaged, out of fashion or otherwise not-sellable in a developed world thrift store.
I will use an example from south-eastern Africa. The clothes usually arrive by sea and then are directly sold from the container or warehouse to the wholesalers. A person, usually a local businessman or company takes a truckload of clothes (might be baled in 100 or 200 lb bales) and delivers them more inland into another town. There, the load is directly sold off the truck or through local warehouse/second-hand stores by bales.



A local person comes and buys a 100 lb bale of clothes for let’s say 30USD. Then he goes to the market and starts to sell the clothes for 30 or 50 cents a piece. He/she is usually able to make enough surplus to support the family by much needed cash. For many people of Sub-Saharan Africa (and many other places) this is also the only way they can afford to buy clothes.
There have been studies about the effects of the second-hand clothing being “dumped” into 3rd world countries and what it does to the local economy. The effects can be very bad if the clothes are just given out for free. People who receive them will not appreciate them because it costs them nothing, no business is generated and once the inflow of clothes stops, people are left in worse situation than they were before.
On the other hand if the clothes and shoes are bought, sold, and paid for, this generates a much needed economical movement in the otherwise stagnating or declining economy. Of course this varies from country to country, but in case of the poorest ones that lack the strength to develop their own clothing industry (because of materials, skilled workforce and investment availability, not even mentioning the global competition from Southeast Asia) or the local production is still too expensive for the poorest to afford it, the import of second hand clothing has very positive economical effects. There is a whole chain of people who make their living by buying, selling, repairing and/or re-sewing the clothes and shoes which many of us would not wear any more.

What should you know about donating?
How can anybody help us create development and reduce the landfills? (or you just have a full closet of clothes and don’t know what to do with them)
1. Put the clothes into a plastic bag (33 gallon plastic trash bag is the winner!)
2. Tie the bag firmly (very important, please!)
3. Drop the bag into any of our (or someone else’s, but ours is better, of course!) collection boxes
4. Enjoy the satisfying feeling of helping those who need it (and giving less work to the city waste management services!

Staff

Staff

We are a mixture of personalities and nationalities. We are very ambitious, have wild plans for the future and we are pretty certain (and crazy enough) that we are going to make it happen. Some of us have been working on the CCTG project for some time and some have joined CCTG a short time ago.

This is who we are:

Jana Teppih from

Estonia - Director for Instructional Development and Research/ Headmistress jana@cctg.org

Anthony Nugent from the USA - Co-manager and promoter -

anthony@cctg.org

Rita Lapof from the USA - Teamleader for DA team and the Ecuador Fight Poverty teams- rita@cctg.org

Kei Sato from Japan - Volunteer team leader for the Central America (Belize) team

Hiroko Nakano from Japan - Volunteer team leader for the May Africa team

Jelizaveta Zaiko from Lithuania - Volunteer team leader for the August Africa team

Keld Duus from Denmark - General Manager for the Clothes Collection clothes@cctg.org

Jan Sako from Slovakia - Expansion and Information jan@cctg.org

Legal Status

Legal Status


Campus California TG is a registered non-profit organization incorporated within section 501 (c) (3), Internal Revenue Code and is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt organization. It was incorporated in the year 2000 and in 2001 CCTG become recognized by IRS (# 94-3371033), and the State of California (# 2238562), as a tax-exempt organization, eligible to receive tax deductible contributions.
We are an educational & charitable non-profit organization, with the overall goal being in all possible ways to do Good for people, for nature and all of its beings, and to do our bit to create positive development.
You can also find Campus California TG's tax returns at www.guidestar.org

Introduction

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Introduction

Campus California TG is a private non-profit organization located in the small town of Etna in

Northern California. The operations started in the final months of 2000 and has since then conquered a 12,000 sq ft building to house up tp 40 people at any time, including staff, volunteers and participants training to go abroad to work at humanitarian and environmental development projects. In 2002 Campus California TG started its first Development Instructor program preparing people from several parts of the world to volunteer in Mozambique. Later on Campus California TG started programs leaving for Zambia, Botswana, Nicaragua and Guatemala and has since its start trained and placed over 300 people from app. 25 different countries and all continents to work abroad. This is what is called the Development Instructor program, an activity that for many can turn out to be a life changing experience. In 2008 May we started with the new program called Fight Poverty where we send international volunteers - Poverty Fighters - to Central American countries.

Even though the focus of Campus California TG is of International character is it aiming to be part of creating positive development not only in what can be called the "third world" but any place where we are and where we can take action. Be it holding presentations at schools in Oregon, arranging cultural activities for people living in the surrounding areas, performing theatre, work with Street Children in Los Angeles, help at a local Hospice, teach at schools, speak to thousands of people during fundraising, making sports tournaments or simply just spreading a positive attitude. This is all Development work, and part of a series of activities aiming towards to create a good life for this planet, its people, all it's beings and for ourselves as activist promoting a positive change. One significant activity started in 2004 is the Clothes collection in the San Francisco Bay area where Campus California TG collect many, many lbs of clothing and shoes for re-use. Instead of a pair of unwanted trousers ends up in the landfills, can the same pair be of great use for another. At the same time as we raise some of our funds by the Clothes collection activity do we give people the opportunity to help the environment and recycle.

Campus California TG (or CCTG as we call it in the daily life) is a new international campus. It was started by the help of many volunteers from many places. A bunch of "dreamers and doers" wishing to show that we can achieve great results by putting our efforts and resources together towards a goal. We started it from scratch!

But CCTG is much more then a dream that has become reality. It is a concept based upon many years of experiences involving thousands of people who have and still are carrying out development and educational work worldwide. Although it was the first time for California to host the Development Instructor program it is not new in concept.

CCTG is a part of an international movement of institutes and colleges in Europe, Asia, Africa and USA that for years have been offering Development Instructor programs. It is a partner with the Humana People to People movement carrying out development work in 3 continents, and it also belongs to the family of private schools originated in Tvind, Denmark. These connections offer a great access to a very rich and resource-filled web of experiences.

Campus California TG - Why the name?

Campus – California – TG
3 words, 3 parts that each means something special.

Campus

The word “Campus” represents a place where we:
-Educate ourselves about the phenomena of the modern world and to understand and increase the potential of people in the developed and so called developing world.
-Nourish development and globalization for the sake of humanity in the name of the Solidary Humanism.
-Grow the good, instead of fighting the bad. We want to show that the environment and nature, includes mankind, and that we are an important part of the Web of life on this planet.
-Will demonstrate how to generate development. We will show that development is not created for us, but by us, in co-operative relations.. An idea based on the concept that the total sum of all the parts is bigger than all the entities simply added together.

California

The word “California” represents where the Campus is situated. California, chosen on behalf of its natural beauty, its diversity, and its geographic, and economic position in the world. A dynamic, multi-cultured center, facing the pacific rim and yet still a young state. Hosting environments from deserts to oceans, volcanoes to farmland, rivers to oceans, and our mountain where we will build up CCTG.

TG

The abbreviation “TG” are the initials for the Teachers Group. The Teachers Group is the group of people constituting the “back bone” of CCTG. People, who have decided to share life within the principles of joint economy, joint time and joint work.

Our vision for CCTG is:

• To run a lively, inspiring and contagious Campus in California in the spirit of the emerging global civilization for enhancing the lot of our planet with a large range of goals, people, and activities:
• The overall goal being in all possible ways to do good for people and for nature and all of its beings - and within this framework to spread knowledge, to organize people and ventures of multiple kinds, to start many different activities, to incorporate people of all walks of life wanting to work for this goal, to attract funds for this goal, to work together with school movements, developmental and environmental organizations and with humanizing enterprises of all sorts and to do all other things that are in any way connected to and furthering this overall goal and any of its specifications.
• The people being trained, seasoned and experienced in doing good for people and for all nature’s beings and through this training also get well versed in how to make life and work and passion intertwine so they all develop to be efficient. Interesting and fun and funny. The activities or entities being more specifically the ones mentioned below:

• To run a Center for Development, which invites people to participate in programs, courses and activities where they get the opportunity to take action as responsible world citizens and to learn about the phenomena of the modern world. The Center for Development is offering programs focusing upon International understanding, development and the improvement of the living conditions for many.
• It is a school for adults, training them to become Development Instructors and Poverty Fighters in Africa, Asia and Latin America for a 4 or 6 or 12 month period, thus doing it's bit to work for Solidary Humanism and thus creating development, where this is sorely needed in our present world.
• To run a center for combating AIDS, declaring war against the epidemic. A center working to unify all resources available in the battle toward total control of the epidemic and eventually its eradication. Activities comprising of the identification of and collection of funds for systematic programs of combating aids, included as essential elements herein the spreading of information, the systematic self defense organization of people hit by the epidemic, and the provision of the necessary medicines, practices and services for all the HIV positives in all stages.