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Τετάρτη 12 Δεκεμβρίου 2012

Αλληλεγγύη είναι...../ Solidarity is.....




A new Goodcitizenship campaign has been launched today in ALBA. The “Complete the phrase”         Campaign will be active until next Friday!

We have placed a big box at the lobby at Xenias 6 and we ask all of you to write down in a piece of paper what solidarity means to you. We need you to complete the phrase and put it in the box. All phrases will be read at the Christmas party on Friday 21st.

We want you to be as creative as possible. Be unusual. We need your fresh spirit. Just complete the phrase and put it in the box. As simple as that….:-)

Thank you in advance for participating in the “Complete the phrase campaign”.

Παρασκευή 2 Νοεμβρίου 2012

WE HAVE A NEW COLLECTION CAMPAIGN!!!!


We will collect used books for OKANA http://www.okana.gr  and MEDIN http://www.medin.gr/. Both NGOs need books for their libraries. MEDIN mostly need books for children (and young adults) in Greek, English, Arabic and OKANA needs mostly books for adults (literature, novels, poetry and educational books if available).

So, this is your chance to use your GoodCitizenship bag (ALBA staff). The idea is that we collect all books at Xenias 6 Ground Floor on 21/11/2012 at 3.30 p.m (one day before the Thanksgiving Day). This will be a great opportunity to meet all at the Ground floor and to pre-celebrate Thanksgiving with a good cause! So, check your home libraries and see if any of your books can be shared with others. We understand that some of you do not want to be separated by your books and your books are sacred but please consider those who cannot afford to buy not even a book. This is our chance to give and to share.

We are looking forward to collecting the books on 21/11. See you all there!!!!!

Πέμπτη 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2012

SOS Children's Village at Vari (http://www.sos-villages.gr/content/actions/paidiko-xwrio-sos-barhs/14-paidiko-xwrio-sos-barhs) is in urgent need of medicine - even the most basic type of medicine.

To help and to deliver needed medical supplies you can:
a.  Visit ALBA Graduate Business School, Xenias 6-8, 5th Floor, Applied Reseach & Innovation Department (ARIP) or
b.  Contact Ms. PENNY Travlou @ 210 899 5981

Παρασκευή 27 Ιανουαρίου 2012

THERE IS A LARGE DEMAND FOR  NON PERISHABLE FOOD, (INCLUDING CANS OF TUNA,  HONEY) CLOTHING, SHOES,  (especially for men and boys) TOYS, EVEN OUR TAKE OUT CONTAINERS (FOR THE SOUP KITCHENS)
 
AWOG (American Women's Organization of Greece) www.awog.gr WILL BE COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING TO A NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS AND IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HELP, LET THEM KNOW:

1. Near ALBA , is AWOG's CLUB ROOM which is located at Evrytanias 33, Ampelokipi, near the Panormou Metro Station,  phone number is 210 362 4115
Office hours are 10AM to 1PM. or at your convenience with appointment
Call to make an appointment for drop off with Shannon Daley, office manager @213 034 6410. 

2. In the Northern Suburbs, contact Marian Assimakopoulos @210 807 5273 or 693 755 3027

3. In the Southern Suburbs, contact Ms. PENNY Travlou @ 210 899 5981

AWOG Community Service Representative is Angelique Hatziantoniou, at 210 766 5960. 

Angeligue also suggested Deputy Mayor of Athens for food collecting or Battered Women. Contact her for any questions regarding other charities. AWOG contributes to over 70 Greek Charities, as the one below for example:

- toys for children ages 2-5 which will be delivered to Agios Yiorgos Day Care Center.
- SOS village
- PIKPA
- Soup kitchens in various neighborhoods in Attica

If you want to offer and help all these organizations AWOG collects staff and distributes according to requests. They currently receive hundreds of requests from everywhere!!!!

Τετάρτη 31 Μαρτίου 2010

Loan $25 to change lives through Kiva

Kiva (http://www.kiva.org/) is a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe. You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. It's a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of poverty.

How Kiva Works

1) It all starts with our Field Partners, which are microfinance institutions operating around the world. Our Field Partners approve and disburse a microloan to an entrepreneur in their community. They take a picture of the entrepreneur and write down the entrepreneur’s story.


2) The Field Partner uploads the entrepreneur’s profile to Kiva’s website. The profile, if it’s not in English, is translated by one of our hundreds of volunteer translators. After translation, the profile appears live on Kiva.org

3) Lenders like you browse the entrepreneurs’ profiles and choose someone to lend to, using PayPal or their credit cards.

4) Kiva provides the funds to our Field Partners by aggregating the loan funds from all contributing lenders. Most Field Partners then use the Kiva lender funds to backfill the loan they’ve already disbursed to the entrepreneur. Disbursals can happen up to 30 days before, or 30 days after a loan request is uploaded to the Kiva website.

5) Over time, the entrepreneur repays her loan. The Field Partner collects those repayments and lets Kiva know if a repayment was not made as scheduled. We give Field Partners the option to cover both currency losses and entrepreneur defaults.To speed things up and to minimize the number and expense of wire transfers, Kiva works on a net billing system. This means that, for any given month, we subtract the amount of repayments that a Field Partner owes to Kiva lenders from the amount that a Field Partner fundraises for entrepreneurs on Kiva.If the balance is positive, that means that the Field Partner has raised more than they need to repay, and we use those funds to credit your lender account with the repayments due to you. If the balance is negative, then the Field Partner has 30 days to send us a payment for the balance. As soon as we receive that payment, we use those funds to credit your lender account with the repayments due to you.
Repayment and other updates are posted on Kiva and emailed to lenders who wish to receive them.

6) When lenders get their money back, they can re-lend to another entrepreneur, donate their funds to Kiva (to cover operational expenses), or withdraw their funds to their PayPal accounts.

Since launching in October 2005, over 111 MFIs in 52 countries have raised 0% interest debt capital from 693,000+ social investors via Kiva. Kiva partners with highly reputable MFIs across the globe. As an online fundraising platform, well-established MFIs use Kiva to access low-cost debt financing from social investors via the internet. Smaller, less established MFIs also use Kiva's online platform as a source of growth capital and a way to prove their legitimacy to larger funders over time.

All MFIs benefit significantly by reducing their cost of capital and exhibiting their work and impact to an international audience - Kiva is the most trafficked website in microfinance with hundreds of thousands of site visitors each month. In fact, Kiva is on track to be one of the largest microfinance funds, experiencing an average month-to-month growth rate of over 30%.

Do you need additional information? Do you have a recommendation for a Field Partner? Wondering why Kiva does not have a partner in XX country? Are you an organization looking for a different type of partnership?

Get your questions answered at http://www.kiva.org/

*  The link was sent by our colleague Nikos Mylonopoulos

Πέμπτη 5 Νοεμβρίου 2009

1) Ομάδα ΡΕΤΟ, πρώην ναρκωμανών. Παίρνουν οτιδήποτε, είτε λειτουργεί, είτε όχι, και απασχολούν άτομα για επισκευές ή κατασκευές. Έχουν ένα ή δύο μαγαζιά με μεταχειρισμένα αντιεκίμενα/έπιπλα κτλ. Παραλαμβάνουν από το σπίτι, μεγάλα και μικρά αντικείμενα (έπιπλα, ηλεκτρικές/ηλεκτρονικές συσκευές, ρούχα, παιχνίδια κ.ά). 210 66 25 096.


RETO, an organization of former drug addicts that do work therapy, and they pick up anything from your house, repair it and sell it, or just use the work to occupy people for rehabilitation purposes. They take anything, big or small, furniture, big electric devices, anything electronic, clothes, toys, etc. 210 66 25 096.

2) Οι δύο ιστοσελίδες χαριστικών παζαριών, http://www.freecycle.com/, και http://www.xariseto.gr/. Γίνεσαι μέλος και μπορείς να δίνεις και να παίρνεις χωρίς διακίνηση χρημάτων. Μπορείς να βρεις οτιδήποτε στην κυριολεξία.

two sites for exchanging stuff for free, www.freecycle.com, and www.xariseto.gr. You become a member and place adds for offering or looking for usable stuff in good condition. Anything goes.

3) Στέγη κακοποιημένων γυναικών / τηλ. Κα Δορκοφίκη 6973871004 / 2108103496

women who have been harrassed

4) Θεόφιλος - στέλνει σε πολύτεκνες οικογένειες σε όλη την Ελλάδα: 2108819397

families with many children or single- mother families

5) Οι ξένοι της Νέας Μάκρης (Foreigners of Nea Makri) οργανώνουν παζάρι κάθε πρώτη Κυριακή του μήνα στο καφέ Τίκι, από περιοχές βορειοανατολικής Αττικής (Ραφήνα, Λούτσα, Πικέρμι, Νέα Μάρκη κ.ά) παραθέτω παλιά τους ανακοίνωση. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες, καλέστε την Ingrid 6973350024, e-mail foreignersinneamakri@yahoo.gr

Foreigners in Nea Makri, Rafina., Loutsa. Pikermi, and all of North eastern Attica are having their monthly carbootsale every first Sunday of the month at Tiki World cafe in Paralia Marathona (next to schinias). for more information or participation call Ingrid 6973350024 or e-mail foreignersinneamakri@yahoo.gr

6) Habitat for Humanity, Greater Athens, Stratigou Eindou 14, 185 36 Piraeus, Greece, Tel: +30 (210) 418-2251, Email address: hfhgr@ath.forthnet.gr

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟ ΚΑΡΑΒΑΝΙ ΑΛΛΗΛΕΓΓΥΗΣ, ΠΛ. ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑΣ 1 Τ.Κ. 105 53 ΑΘΗΝΑ, ΤΗΛ. 210 3314334 - 210 3378412 - 2103816886, ΦΑΞ:210 3314334

Eπιχειρώντας τομή στον τρόπο ενίσχυσης της εθελοντικής προσφοράς και των εσόδων των Μη Κυβερνητικών Οργανώσεων, το ΕΛΛHNIKO ΚAPABANI ΑΛΛHΛEΓΓYHΣ αποφάσισε να μεταφέρει και στην Ελλάδα, τον τόσο δημοφιλή και διαδεδομένο στην Ευρώπη και σε όλο τον κόσμο, θεσμό των καταστημάτων "Charity Shop".

Τα "Charity Shop", που στα Ελληνικά μπορούν να ονομαστούν "φιλανθρωπικά καταστήματα" ή "καταστήματα αλληλεγγύης" πωλούν σε πολύ χαμηλές τιμές και σε άριστη κατάσταση, είδη δώρων, βιβλία, δίσκους και CD και μικροέπιπλα που τους προσφέρονται δωρεάν από τους πολίτες.

Τα περισσότερα εμπορεύματα του Καραβανιού είναι δεύτερο χέρι διότι μόνο έτσι μπορεί να τα εξασφαλίσει με μηδενικό κόστος από τους φίλους του, και να τα προσφέρει σε ιδιαίτερα χαμηλές τιμές.

Στο μαγαζί του Καραβανιού, γίνεται από οικολογική άποψη μια πλήρης ανακύκλωση όχι απλά των πρώτων υλών ενός αντικειμένου (χαρτί, γυαλί, μέταλλο), όπως έχουμε συνηθίσει. Ολόκληρο το αντικείμενο "ανακυκλώνεται" και επιβιώνει ακέραιο. Ένα πράγμα λιγότερο χρηστικό και παλιό για τον ένα, γίνεται καινούργιο απόκτημα και χρήσιμο για τον άλλο. Έτσι πραγματοποιείται ένα όμορφο, χαρούμενο, ανώνυμο παζάρι ανάμεσα σε αυτούς που προσφέρουν δωρεάν και σε αυτούς που αγοράζουν.

Τα αντικείμενα στο Καραβάνι δεν έχουν να ζηλέψουν τίποτα από τα καινούργια.Όλα έχουν περάσει από αυστηρή διαλογή, με βάση την ποιότητα και την αισθητική. Έχουν τη δική τους, μοναδική προσωπικότητα, που προέρχεται από τις αξίες και τα πρότυπα του ΚAPABANIOY.

Σε άλλες χώρες, οι αγορές από τα "charity shops" έχουν πάρει τεράστιες διαστάσεις.

Στο δεύτερο χέρι λειτουργεί η γωνιά της αντίκας, με είδη γεμάτα με μυστήριο για τον καθένα. Kαι να σημειώσουμε ότι αν κάποιος επιμένει σε "πρώτο χέρι" μπορεί άνετα να ψωνίσει αχρησιμοποίητα αντικείμενα, που είναι προσφορές ζωγράφων, συγγραφέων, εργαστηρίων επιχειρήσεων κλπ. στην ειδική γωνιά "πρώτο χέρι". Φειδίου 14-16 106 78 Αθήνα, Tηλ/Fax: 210 3816886

8) Συνεταιρισμός για το εναλλακτικό και αλληλέγγυο εμπόριο «ο Σπόρος», Σπύρου Τρικούπη 21, Εξάρχεια, 2103801375. http://www.sporos.org/ Ώρες λειτουργίας Σποροχώρου: Δευτέρα έως Σάββατο πρωί 11:30 - 15:00

Δευτέρα έως Παρασκευή απόγευμα 17:30 - 20:30Λειτουργεί μεταξύ άλλων, χαριστικό παζάρι. Κυρίως ρούχα (καλή κατάσταση), και κάποια βιβλία, παπούτσια, βίντεο, μικρά παιχνίδια. Περιορισμένος χώρος (παταράκι του μαγαζιού), γι'αυτό θέλει προ-συνεννόηση για να πάμε αντικείμενα εκεί.