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Fighting with the poor

Full time 18 months

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You will start in Norway, then travel on land across Asia or Africa, and you’ll finish with 6 months of volunteering in India or the countries of Africa.

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CURRICULUM

Our program curriculum

The program’s outline consists of 4 periods, each one of them focused in different areas, diving into a life of volunteering and traveling together with an international team in Asia or countries of Africa.

  • 1.-  Study
  • 2.-  Travel
  • 3.- Volunteer
  • 4.- BTP
1.-  Study

Study

Period

Location: Norway

Duration: 6 months

Learn and prepare yourself for a theoretical and practical way of learning about the current core issues of our world today.

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2.-  Travel

Travel

Period

Location: Asia or Africa

Duration: 3 months

Choose an investigation topic and travel to Asia or Africa, experience the world by meeting and learning from the locals.

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3.- Volunteer

Volunteer

period

Location: Africa or Asia

Duration: 6 months

Choose between 5 category projects by Humana people to people in more than 14 countries, in the countries of Africa or India, living in local communities, learning and sharing knowledge.

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4.- BTP

BTP

period

Location: Europe

Duration: 3 months

Share your experience with the rest of the world. It’s a chance for you to inspire, speak out, let other conscious-minded people hear out your story. 

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1.- Study
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Study

Period

Location: Norway

Duration: 6 months

Learn and prepare yourself for a theoretical and practical way of learning about the current core issues of our world today.

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2.- Travel
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Travel

Period

Location: Asia or Africa

Duration: 3 months

Choose an investigation topic and travel by land in Asia or Africa and experience the world by meeting and learning from the locals,

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3.- Volunteer
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Volunteer

Period

Location: Asia or Africa

Duration: 6 months

Choose between 5 category projects with Humana people in Africa or India, living in local communities, learning and sharing knowledge

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4.- BTP
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BTP

Period

Location: Europe

Duration: 6 months

Share your experience with the rest of the world. It’s a chance for you to inspire, speak out, let other conscious-minded people hear out your story. 

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HIGHLIGHTS

Program highlights

18 months of new adventures

Together with your team you will learn about real-world issues, travel to see the world through your own eyes, volunteer to get experience and share your new knowledge with others.

Long term volunteer

Choose between Africa or Asia

International team

Learn by doing

PROGRAM COSTS

How to cover the costs of the program

Pre-course
Self-payer

Work to cover all the program costs

Our goal is to allow volunteering abroad to everyone independently of the background or financial possibilities.

Starting every 1st

March and September

Pre-course

Starting from 7000 NOK

Cover all the program costs by working in one of our partner companies.

Starting every 1st

March and September

You will work between 10 to 12 months

Food

Visas

Vaccines

Travel expenses

Health insurance

Accommodation

Volunteer abroad

+ 1.600€ Humana Scholarship

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Pay it Yourself

The most affordable way to travel and volunteer abroad for 18 months with all the expenses covered thanks to our common economy.

Starting every 1st

March and September

Self-payer

72.900 NOK

Cover all the program costs during all the 18 months

Starting every 1st

March and September

Food
Visas
Vaccines
Travel expenses
Health insurance
Accommodation
Volunteer abroad
1.600€ Humana Scholarship
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Study Period – 6 months

At this school, you will find that learning is not first and foremost about listening to the teacher.

The school’s Program consists of a range of intense and spirited activities, theoretical studies and experiences that constitute the sum of learning and life processes carried through by a group of people who for a considerable period of time share a Program with each other that demands cooperation and efforts, and which at the same time is sprinkled with elements that are inspiring and also quite out of the ordinary.

Thus, learning will also take place through communication, deliberations, through working out your plan for learning and sticking to it, and putting to use what you learned, the methods you used, the ideas you got from it and the results you harvested from the training.

You will train yourself in being adventurers and survivors, living and traveling under very humble conditions, not using much money and always finding a way out by ingenuity, being smart and sticking together with your teammates.

Travel period – 3 months

Living on the road, being on the move, finding means of transport and places to sleep, talking to people on the road, being curious to understand and know about the countries you are traveling through.

Making investigations, meeting people, visiting their workplaces, staying in their homes, understanding their problems, meeting their culture and values and sharing thoughts with them about the world and the future.

Telling people about your venture to a third world country, trying out bringing it to the public what you have so far experienced and learned. Putting up investigations on a higher level, asking tough questions to self and to the group, getting hold of more answers and putting up new questions.

Taking notes and pictures, writing reports and discussing the seen and the experienced.
Finding good ways of sticking together in the Trios and in the group as such during the travel period.

Volunteer period – 6 months

The Project Work in Africa or India in cooperation with Humana People to People. In this period, you can work at:

  • Teacher training colleges
  • Educating teachers for rural areas
  • Vocational schools for young people
  • Schools for street children.Preschools
  • Sanitation and hygiene in rural areas
  • Tree planting campaigns
  • Raising funds for social projects by forming partnerships and selling second hand clothes and shoes
  • Stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS (following the program TCE/Total Control of the Epidemic)

Arriving at the project in Africa or India, having left behind a courageous journey where fundamental human capabilities have been turned around, refreshed and energised by knowing that things such as travelling can be done in a totally different way than the mainstream tourist travelling.

Ready for doing the work needed at the project, bringing plans and materials from the previous periods. Getting to know the people at the project, the vision and idea of the project and the many concrete tasks to be carried out.

Carrying out the tasks as defined within the necessities of the project and by the Project Leadership. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with The Poor: building preschools, starting Garden Farming, doing literacy campaigns, eradicating malaria, teaching about big issues of our time while working as a teacher at DNS, starting income-generating activities, working as a TCE Special Force in the fight against HIV/AIDS – as a few examples.

Studying and working with your Specialisation in Fighting with The Poor, finalising with a People’s Exam and a written thesis at the end of the period. Acquiring skills in information work: making interviews, taking notes and pictures, writing summaries and reports, recording videos.

Living together with the people at the project, being a good example of living a humble life while improving things with small means to make daily life better.

BTP period – 3 months

Returning to school with heads and hands full of new knowledge and energy for Bringing it to the Public. Meeting with the team, showing, telling, exchanging experiences and making it common knowledge.

Producing articles, pamphlets, videos, presentations, exhibitions, speeches for debate forums, books and more. Studying further the curriculum in Fighting with The Poor, bringing the truth to the public. 

Going to different schools around Europe to spread the new knowledge in various creative ways – speeches, newspaper articles, lectures at universities and colleges, debates and other public events, exhibitions – leading to a better understanding and inspiring to take an action.

Passing the final exams in Fighting with The Poor. Using the last months together to conclude our future perspectives and possible ways of improving The Poor’s quality in life with humble ways of sharing knowledge.

BTP period - 3 months

Returning to school with heads and hands full of new knowledge and energy for Bringing it to the Public. Meeting with the team, showing, telling, exchanging experiences and making it common knowledge.

Producing articles, pamphlets, videos, presentations, exhibitions, speeches for debate forums, books and more. Studying further the curriculum in Fighting with The Poor, bringing the truth to the public. 

Going to different schools around Europe to spread the new knowledge in various creative ways – speeches, newspaper articles, lectures at universities and colleges, debates and other public events, exhibitions – leading to a better understanding and inspiring to take an action.

Passing the final exams in Fighting with The Poor. Using the last months together to conclude our future perspectives and possible ways of improving The Poor’s quality in life with humble ways of sharing knowledge.

Volunteer period - 6 months

The Project Work in Africa or India in cooperation with Humana People to People. In this period, you can work at:

  • Teacher training colleges
  • Educating teachers for rural areas
  • Vocational schools for young people
  • Schools for street children.Preschools
  • Sanitation and hygiene in rural areas
  • Tree planting campaigns
  • Raising funds for social projects by forming partnerships and selling second hand clothes and shoes
  • Stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS (following the program TCE/Total Control of the Epidemic)

Arriving at the project in Africa or India, having left behind a courageous journey where fundamental human capabilities have been turned around, refreshed and energised by knowing that things such as travelling can be done in a totally different way than the mainstream tourist travelling.

Ready for doing the work needed at the project, bringing plans and materials from the previous periods. Getting to know the people at the project, the vision and idea of the project and the many concrete tasks to be carried out.

Carrying out the tasks as defined within the necessities of the project and by the Project Leadership. Fighting shoulder to shoulder with The Poor: building preschools, starting Garden Farming, doing literacy campaigns, eradicating malaria, teaching about big issues of our time while working as a teacher at DNS, starting income-generating activities, working as a TCE Special Force in the fight against HIV/AIDS – as a few examples.

Studying and working with your Specialisation in Fighting with The Poor, finalising with a People’s Exam and a written thesis at the end of the period. Acquiring skills in information work: making interviews, taking notes and pictures, writing summaries and reports, recording videos.

Living together with the people at the project, being a good example of living a humble life while improving things with small means to make daily life better.

Travel period - 3 months

Living on the road, being on the move, finding means of transport and places to sleep, talking to people on the road, being curious to understand and know about the countries you are traveling through.

Making investigations, meeting people, visiting their workplaces, staying in their homes, understanding their problems, meeting their culture and values and sharing thoughts with them about the world and the future.

Telling people about your venture to a third world country, trying out bringing it to the public what you have so far experienced and learned. Putting up investigations on a higher level, asking tough questions to self and to the group, getting hold of more answers and putting up new questions.

Taking notes and pictures, writing reports and discussing the seen and the experienced.
Finding good ways of sticking together in the Trios and in the group as such during the travel period.

Study Period - 6 months

At this school, you will find that learning is not first and foremost about listening to the teacher.

The school’s Program consists of a range of intense and spirited activities, theoretical studies and experiences that constitute the sum of learning and life processes carried through by a group of people who for a considerable period of time share a Program with each other that demands cooperation and efforts, and which at the same time is sprinkled with elements that are inspiring and also quite out of the ordinary.

Thus, learning will also take place through communication, deliberations, through working out your plan for learning and sticking to it, and putting to use what you learned, the methods you used, the ideas you got from it and the results you harvested from the training.

You will train yourself in being adventurers and survivors, living and traveling under very humble conditions, not using much money and always finding a way out by ingenuity, being smart and sticking together with your teammates.