Water pollution in St.Petersburg, outskirts

and a little bit closer

Pollution in Russia

Air pollution in St.Petersburg and Moscow

Nevsky prospect, St.Petersburg


Moscow-river, Moscow

Water pollution

Factory in Russia

Individual discovering and self-reflection

Competence model in AIESEC


Currently GAIA members can't get team-experience, but it's good time to discover ourselves and reflect, what was happening. Trainees are getting theoretical knowledge about some skills development and competence model now. 

What is happening now? Virtual spaces!

Dear aiesecers and not only aiesecers!
Project"Gaia" is still living!
We are driving 6th element of global learning environment - Virtual Spaces! Currently we have 3 groups - in facebook, in vkontakte 
(russian version),
in chinese version of facebook. 
We have several discussions, we upload pictures there.
The main goal of these groups is to inform people about environment.

dustbins in my hometown 2

These two dustbins are made of wood, so they seem very natural and harmonious with the environment.

dustbins in my hometown

In a few years ago, there were few dustbins in my hometown just as Baroda, but now my hometown has improved a lot. I chose some typical ones.

This dustbin is devided into 2 parts. People can put the recyclable waste into the right box and others into the left box, so that rubbish can be classified.

go on GAIA in China

Mickey and I have come back to China for one week. We have already built a Chinese group about our program. Till now I can still remember the learning event. We were superstars on that day . Our AIESEC is recruiting now, and we will go on promoting GAIA in China. Today is the lady day in China.Best wishes to all the beautiful ladies in GAIA!!!!!!!

"Empower"

Yesterday guys from AIESEC Baroda organized special event for recruitment "Empower". Students from University got general information about international organisation AIESEC. Trainees took part in Global Village, when they presented their culture in different ways (presentations, traditional staff, flags, pictures etc). Bonnie presented amazing China, Carolin showed incredible Bavaria in Germany, Dasha explained people, how to survive in -70 in Russia...

learning events!!!

Trainees, Organizing Committee and Executive Body:
Bonnie, Shine, Tanvi, Rahul, Manthan, Dasha


After seminar girls are atacking trainees


Coordinator of the project Manthan is asking children


Children in the Bright Day School


This week we went to one of the schools in Baroda and gave the presentation about global warming.to the students there. Also Caro made a wonderful presentation about Germany and german culture. We got a very warm welcome from all the teachers and students. We showed the video of global warming to them and asked them to tell 3 main causes of it. Naturally they got the right answer at last and i'm sure they've learned something from it. They also asked so many questions to us. We were very happy. At last, everyone of us was asked to give them autographs. We were surrounded by many students, just like stars. It was a day to remember!!!

My fist days here in Baroda

Tanvi, Bonnie, Shine and a small girl are listening


"Global village" in school


Carolin in Navarachna International

Carolin in the Bright Day School

Hello everybody!
Finally on Sunday I arrived here on Baroda airport for joining Gaia project. For the first days I stayed at Pratham's home. I got to know his friendly family and a bit of the Indian way of life. I'm very impressed, especially of the way and kind of eating. Those last four days I went to Navrachna school with other trainees. I did a presentation about Germany and German culture. Especially the easter eggs I brought found great interest I like the school with it's interested teachers and students. I also got to know many of AIESECers from LC Baroda. Thank you for being so helpful as I am sometimes confused about the things happening!
So far I had a good time and am looking forward now to begin with the work on the project!
Regards,
Caro

our picture

happy ending

our work in SOCLEEN has aleady ended. Today is the last meeting with Mr.MODI. He treated us some delicious food and sent us beautiful flowers as present. Here are our working notes during these days.
--------Internship in SOCLEEN---------

VISITING NOTES

Thanks to respected Dr.MODI and all the staff in SOCLEEN. During one month internship in Baroda,we have learned much knowledge in different fields by visiting some special places. Here are some notes of the places we visited to record our journey which will stay in our memory forever.
Sincerely,
Mickey and Shine
Feb 21st. 2008

Time Feb 7th. 2008
Place Biology department. M.S.U
Activity Visiting the experiment garden of Biology department and having a talk with students there.
Reflection Getting to know some special tropical plants and seeing how students do their experiments.

Time Feb 8th. 2008
Place Architecture department. M.S.U
Activity Being shown around the teaching building and seeing some designs of the students.
Reflection Students are very creative and have much freedom to do their work , for instance ,they can have classes outside and talk with the professor freely.

Time Feb 11th. 2008
Place New Era Senior Secondary School
Activity Giving speeches about environment and Chinese culture. Interacting with the students there.
Reflection Getting to know the education system of India which has some difference with China , a good case in point, they don't need to pass a very difficult national examination to entre the university , so their life in middle school is more colorful than us.

Time Feb 12th. 2008
Place Nature Party health centre
Activity Watching how the doctor did work and visiting the health centre.
Reflection They treated patients in natural ways and thought diseases could be driven away through proper diets and exercise .

Time Feb 16th. To 18th. 2008
Place MELA
Activity Helping decorate SOCLEEN's store and sending posters . Walking around and talking with staff of other NGOs.
Reflection Getting to know the different kinds of NGOs and realize the daily activities and the responsibility of the NGOs.

Time Feb 19th. 2008
Place LUKSHMI VILAS Palace
Activity Visiting the distinguished architecture in the old days and seeing special statues.
Reflection Getting to know the history and the meaning of the palace.

Time Feb 20th. 2008
Place Old city
Activity Seeing the lake and the buildings beside it and shopping there.
Reflection Knowing the differences between the old city and the new city . To some extend, we've seen the development of Baroda and even finding the beautiful future of it.

Time Feb 21st. 2008
Place Muni Seva Ashram
Activity Visiting the garden and the different departments of it, such as education, health care energy & environment department.
Reflection It's very different from the Nature party treatment centre for its advanced medical equipment and modern ways of treatments.

Time Feb 22nd. 2008
Place Central Pollution Control Board
Activity Being shown around the lab and discussing some environment problems with Mr. B .R. Naidu
Reflection Knowing that India government has done something to protect the environment though it ‘s not very efficient. We suggest that India government and NGOs should cooperate and make contribution to the society.


Time Feb 23rd. 2008
Place Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation
Activity Visiting the industrial area in Baroda and getting to know how they dispose the solid waste.
Reflection Knowing some knowledge of disposing the waste and realizing India government’s effort.

We felt so happy and best wishes to everybody.

MELA

We attended a mela for NGOs in Baroda.
Mela is a fair in which NGOs can show themselves. It was held in a playground. Every NGO could have a small store to show itself. Our NGO SOCLEEN put a lot of flowers in the store which made it very attractive. We also had some posters hung on the wall which could show the activities held by SOCLEEN. We walked around and visited other stores. I got to know some knowledge of NGO. NGO focus on different aspects, including environment, woman right, health, helping the disabled, etc.
We also enjoyed ourselves very much because many stores had some goods to sell which made by themselves. Some beautiful bags and decoration were made by the poor women. Some bowls were made by disabled children. There was a NGO which was against plastic bags. They made a lot of cloth bags to sell.
Every NGO can have a chance to show itself on the stage. So we saw some different performance. The one impressed me most was a dance done by some deaf children. They could not hear the music. They could only watch their teacher’s gesture and dance. I was touched by them.
Mela let me know more about NGO. They are really good people who make a contribution to the society.

our work in socleen

We have already worked in socleen for some days. Our jobs are diffierent everyday. However, most work is connected with schools or MSU. Every morning, we went to have a talk with Mr.Modi, and he would arranged for us. We had already visited the zoology, biology and architecture department in MSU. We had a talk with the professors in the department and some students showed us around their departments. From these, we got to know the similarity and difference between the advanced education of China and India.
Today, we went to a high school. We gave a lecture in one classroom. We discussed something about environment with the students there and told them something about China. We had lunch with them and spent a really good time with such lovely children. And we promised to go there again.
A few days later, Mr. Modi will arrange a trip to the temple and palace for us, so that we can know more about India. I'm looking forword to that.

My work in Navrachana!!!

Dear all… it’s the second week since I got my job in Navrachana international school. I think it’s time for me to post and share my work experience here. Right now I am sitting in the IT-room busy with my work plan for the 2 month.

First I would like to tell u what I have done in the last week:

· Presentation about China To be honestly I never spoke for that long time alone before --- a whole session, even in Chinese!!! So it’s really a big challenge for me. At first I was so nervous that I thought I couldn’t handle it. But as I received lots of help from all of you, I was so encouraged to do it as good as I can. After a whole night preparation I talked about my home town, west lake, Longjing Tea, dragon, Chinese zodiac, Chinese food, etc. on the next day. It cannot be called a successful job, but at least I did my best..

Special thanks to Saud… you really helped me a lot for gathering the topics and info. Also to Manthan and Dasha, both of you encouraged me a lot and helped me to think out lots of ideas.

· German sessions It was such a interesting experience to be with the German teacher and students. I gave lessons about Modal Verbs to them, at the same time I learned a lot from them --- English, Gujarat, even cricket… Teachers are kind, students are cute… I couldn’t expect more…

That’s all for last week… In this week, more accurately tomorrow, I will give a speech about Chinese New year in the morning assembly. And in the following days, I will give sessions to grade 2 to tell something about Chinese folk tales. After this week, the same survey which we did in MSU will be carried out in grade 9 to grade 12. Meanwhile I will also give presentations about environment problems in India… And what’s more… I will give sessions to grade 3 to grade 5 about water pollution and traffic pollution… And… according to your non-pollution party, there’s also recycle day/non-pollution day in my plan… if any of you have any idea about that..please tell me..

Again thanks to all of you!!!

Excellent work guys

Hello Everyone

First of all i would like to apologize for signing up late on the group.Excellent work Dasha and Gaia team you have covered all the aspects of the learning enviornment.I am going to post this project as ideal IBXP to the MC.The credit goes to you guys for that.

About the opening conference venue i and Aashay are going to talk to Navrachana and GPS about it.I hope that we will get the venue and we get to organize opening conference real soon.I jsut had appointment with Lions Club they are ready to provide inkind for all the learning events that we organize.Also they have huge group of corporates that can be approached for ER.

The only part left to cover is the trainee parties.I think you guys should think of some good theme based trainee parties.I think Dasha is really good at it.

Good luck to you guys,Great work

Cheers

Rahul

wonderful tree lover's day

Last weekend,we started to plant trees with a NGO named TREE LOVER.After two days' hard work , twenty five lovely young trees settled their new home beside the road in Baroda. Only Sarah and Richard belong to the ngo TREE LOVER, but all the members joined in this activity including Manthan and Dasha because we found it a very meaningful job. At first I found the process of this job is simple but a little boring to us,we need to put the young trees in the holes and put the soil in them,then fetch many bottles of water to water them, but at last we finished our job,we feel so thankful to find there're 25 trees besides the road already! It's an amazing job for us ,not only the improve our skills but also do much contribution to the enviroment. Yes,we are all tree lovers!

About trainees and learning

In this week 4 more trainees came in Incredible India for the project GAIA. 4 beautiful and smart chinese girls! We introduced ourselves, made team-building, had a lot of fun and work as well.

Currently we implemented 5 elements of Global learning Environment: self-discovery, learning circles, seminars and conferences, virtual spaces, team experience. We prepared special learning log for our organizing committee and trainees, which is supposed to help them in the learning process (general AIESEC knowledge, project details, planning, sharing thoughts, feedback, developing competencies and skills). After the project realization these workbooks will be signed by NGOs (it will be like Case Study after the internship).

The First Meeting

Yesterday we had the meeting.

It's the first meeting I had since I came to India.

Manthan introduced a lot about everything.

I had a complecated feeling,nervous,exciting,puzzled...

I think that I gotta try my best.

Next days i m going to prepare some information and go with Aashay to some places to check the situation of this city

And something else,i ll think about more

That's all

Hope i could do good work to the project

Some project details...

Some pictures








Now we give some information about our project.

Concept/Vision:

To influence the conservation, protection and rehabilitation of environment for the benefit of people.

Objectives:

• To Promote understanding of environment related issues prevalent in India by working with NGOs on such Issues.
• To show the importance of environment in the society and to bring nearer the process of bringing environment issues to main stream society.
• Give interns a chance to learn about the issue and impact their society by sensitizing them about it.
• To spread awareness about the issue amongst various schools/colleges.

Awareness through Education:

• Schools, NGOs and organizations focusing on Environment
• Educating villagers and unprivileged citizens on:
  Sanitation and Drinking Water
  Waste management
  Health and nutrition
  Ecology & Biology
  Plant & animal existence
  - Recycling
  - Bio-Gas
  - Alternative energy
• Environment counseling to Corporates
• Education and training in formal educational setups
  

Activities:

• Opening and Closing Conferences
• Field/Industry visit
• No Littering Day
• Air Pollution Check Day
• Dustbin Day
  
  

Blog of the Project Gaia is started...

OC team of the project Gaia (Manthan, Aashay, Rajesh, Richa, Rupal, Tanvi and Dasha) starts blog. We will write about all events, seminars, happy and sad moments during our project. Trainees will share their experience, which they will get in schools, in villages, on roads (Dustbin day).