CI day in Food Bank

About Željka

Name: Željka Baniček
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Hometown: Varaždin, Croatia
Faculty: Faculty of Organization and Informatics
Year of study: graduate

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Why UWP? traveling, helping people, making friends

Contact me: upwithzeljka@gmail.com

Some Links:
Video: VTV interview in show "Koktel"
Article: Studentsli Lider Klub
Article: FOI web page

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Marianna Alfa Fernando-Pacua (Philippines)
Rafael Cardoso (Brazil)
Callie Amweg (USA)

About UpWithPeople

Program I'll attend: July 7 - December 10 2007

Five Aspects of UpWithPeople program:
1) International Participants
2) World Travel & Host Family Living
3) Community Partnerships
4) Global Education
5) The Show

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Cast C tour:
USA:
7 July - 6 August
Denver, Colorado
6 August - 13 August
Tucson, Arizona

AZIJA:
13 August - 3 September
Thailand

EUROPA:
3 - 10 September
Espoo, Finland
10 - 17 September
Sodertaije, Sweden
17 - 24 September
Vimmerby, Sweden
24 September - 1 October
Uelzen, Germany
1 - 8 October
Erfurt, Germany
8 - 15 October
Hasselt, Belgium

USA:
15 - 22 October
Gwinnett County, Georgia
22 - 29 October
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
29 October - 5 November
Easton, Maryland
5 - 12 November
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
12 - 19 November
Hartford, Connecticut
19 - 26 November
Suffern, New York - Mecy's thanksgiving parade
26 November - 3 December
Somerset Hills, New Jersey
3 - 10 December
Bangor, Maine

24.10.2007., srijeda

My community project for today was working in Food Bank. It was so much fun and we ended up sorting different kind of food that Food Bank receives from groceries stores and we were mainly checking the expiration dates and sorting them as type of food they belong to. We were working with 5 boys from Winston-Salem high school and it was fun to meet them.

After CI, we come back to our main facility and we had some educational time. We were discussing about poverty and we had few very interesting workshops. Last one was the one who touched our hearts very deeply. We were invited to come into one room and pick one small piece of paper from hat and after that we were split in 3 groups – high income, middle income and low income. My paper said that I belong to high income. There were around 8 people in high income, around 15 in middle income and all others (around 30) in low income.
High income had a chance to sit at the nice decorated table and we got really nice food served to us. Middle income got bi pot of rice and a lot of lemonade and low income got small pot and 2 glasses of water they had to share. Me being in high income, it was really hard to eat nice food when watching my cast members having to share small pot of rice and not being able to give them our food was frustrating but at the same time really awkward. I didn’t have appetite to eat any food.
Of course, after the workshop, we started really nice discussion and it seemed that everyone were frustrated because of the situation how in reality it’s really hard to help poor people as sometimes government doesn’t help you to help. It’s been really harsh discussion.

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