{"id":118,"date":"2008-11-14T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-11-28T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T14:45:03","slug":"absolutely-intercultural-70-turkmenistan-international-charity-peace-corps-nicaragua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"absolutely intercultural 70 +++ Turkmenistan +++ international charity +++ Peace Corps +++ Nicaragua +++"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-118-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_070.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_070.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_070.mp3<\/a><\/audio><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-126\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left;\" title=\"logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/logo.gif\" alt=\"100% 2 the children\" width=\"270\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0cm 0cm 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/email-screenshot2.jpg\"><\/a>In this show we go from a European base to Turkmenistan, Kenya, the United States and Nicaragua.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely African:<\/strong><br \/>\nSigne M\u00f8ller is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaospilot.dk\/\">Chaos Pilot<\/a> who decided to take a career break and ended up setting up her own charity helping children in Kenya. We\u2019ll be learning more about the innovative social business and project management Chaos Pilot course in a later podcast. Meanwhile Signe\u2019s groundbreaking approach called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100percent2thechildren.org\/\">100 percent to the children<\/a> is based on allowing donors to choose whether the money they give supports the Kenyan projects directly or whether it helps to pay for the administrative back-up needed to keep the whole enterprise afloat. This new way of approaching charity work earned her the title of Fun Fearless Female 2008 organised by the <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmopolitan.dk\/article\/27287\">Danish edition of Cosmopolitan<\/a> magazine. How did Signe end up in Kenya in the first place?<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely intercultural:<\/strong><br \/>\nYou go to stay at the home of a family in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacecorpswiki.org\/Turkmenistan\">Turkmenistan<\/a> and you notice that you never see the older daughter. She is always in the kitchen cooking or doing housework and she does not eat together with the family. Why is this? Is it because<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\">a) the family do not want their precious first born daughter to mix with foreigners<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\">b) the first daughter is always the least favoured in Turkmen families or<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;\">c) it is traditional for the eldest daughter to do all the household chores<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The next question is would it be possible for you to get to know her better? Find out the answer as Zohre Ovezlieva who has been organising <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacecorps.gov\/\">Peace Corps<\/a> placements for many years explains what to do in this situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely ethical:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen people who don\u2019t have enough to survive are confronted by groups of strangers with access to seemingly unlimited amounts of resources, the problem of corruption often arises. Is this a problem Signe M\u00f8ller of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100percent2thechildren.org\/\">100 percent 2 the children<\/a> recognises and how does she deal with it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely American:<\/strong><br \/>\nZohre has been looking after American Peace Corps volunteers for many years and decided that she would like to find out what it feels like to be a foreigner by going to the US for a month. How did she fare?<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely interconnected:<\/strong><br \/>\nNicaragua is a small country with a population roughly the same as Denmark\u2019s but with much lower living standards partly as a result of the civil war in the 1980\u2019s, so when Nicaragua\u2019s ambassador to Denmark, Mr Ricardo Alvarado Noguera paid a visit to our school in Grenaa his perspective was very much that we are all connected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">The next show will be coming to you on 28 November from <a href=\"http:\/\/wwww.laurent-borgmann.de\">Dr Laurent Borgmann<\/a>, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>So long\u2026stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is: <a href=\"http:\/\/eduspaces.net\/annef\/weblog\">Anne Fox<\/a><br \/>\nEditor: Jan Warnecke<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"EN-US;\"><span style=\"small;\"><span style=\"Calibri;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a title=\"Download the show\" href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_070.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=137617215&amp;s\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes-Abo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this show we go from a European base to Turkmenistan, Kenya, the United States and Nicaragua. absolutely African: Signe M\u00f8ller is a Chaos Pilot who decided to take a career break and ended up setting up her own charity helping children in Kenya. 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