The Alba Association wins the Web Award for Health Projects 2018

Alba Association The Alba association has received the web prize for health projects. The objective of the entity is to help organizations that promote health with criteria for improving society. The winning project will have an iWith.org website with accompaniment until 2021.
 

The Alba Association aims to provide comprehensive care for all those with any kind of disability, groups of young people and children, elderly people as well as other groups at risk of exclusion, based on their needs and the Your interests and those of your families. The purpose is to achieve maximum human development and maximum inclusion in society.



 

With this award, iWith.org will provide the entity with a portal that will allow to unify and coordinate in a single platform all the entities of the sector of the county of Urgell and La Segarra. In this case, it will try to make a web portal with resources from the entities of the sector, news, events agendas and resource guides.
 
The iWith.org Scholarship Committee, together with Imma Roig, who contributes with their unselfish endowment to this prize, first selected the best proposals from among those that were presented to the call and were awarded a scholarship advice. Thus we have had the opportunity to meet many people dedicated to projects of great social value and to exchange knowledge and impressions about web strategies and online communication.
 
Specifically, on this occasion we have offered advice to: l’Associació ADMO, Conartritis, Stop Sida, Comitè 1er de Desembre, associació Avan.cat, Madrid Sin Gluten, Associaó Per Ells, Asexve, Fundación Chacras, Cos Coop, Ayuda Cuba, Asem Madrid and Fundación Recover.
 
We congratulate the Alba association, winner of the Web Project for Health Projects. We also thank all the organizations and people that you have approached to iWith.org on the occasion of this call.
 
iWith.org awards prizes annually in different areas to promote a project and also, without being less important, to know those who are working to improve the world.
 

 
 

eBay solidarity: the marketplace to donate to NGOs

This marketplace is committed to collaborate and help institutions, foundations, associations and organizations around the world to generate more funds among the millions of users of its platform.

This website has direct and visible access from the eBay home page, where sellers and buyers of eBay Spain can support the organizations with which they will collaborate through solidarity auctions, or when buying solidary inventory at a fixed price or from exclusive charity collections.​




Since its launch eBay Solidario has been very successful and, in fact, during the past 2017 managed to raise 161 dollars per minute (around 132 euros) while it has managed to obtain more than 810 million dollars in revenue since 2003, year in which it began to support solidarity causes.

 

One more of our projects was approved by Spanish National Agency!

Great news!  This time it is training course “Youth trainer online”. The main aim of the project is to promote e-learning approach and the set of digital tools for online non formal education activities in the youth field. 

Fifteen educators and youth trainers from Spain, Hungary, Greece, Germany, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine will meet together in Barcelona in the middle of December in order to reflect on such topics as:



- education in and for information society,
- types of online education,
- main characteristics of online education,
- how to work with virtual group: group dynamic and communication,
- main principles of the content for online education,
- trainer in online reality: language, speech, image,
- assessment and Feedback for online education,
- success criteria for online education.
 

New collaboration for strengthening common action!

iWith.org within our project TURN ONline starts collaboration with Strategic Partnership initiative ICT4YOUTHWORK, funded by Erasmus+ programme.

 

The ICT4YOUTHWORK project aims to better enable youth organizations, youth services and youth workers in reaching young people and delivering to them activities that will ensure responsiveness to the trends in society such as the latest progress in technologies and digital media.



We are going to work together on cross-dissemination activities in order to achieve our common goal: to bring technology to the youth field.

Enter the School Superhero Comic Contest!

UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations are calling on children and young people to defeat the ultimate supervillain – The Silence – to help end violence in and around schools.

The Silence – a supernatural character that uses its powers to stop children from speaking up and taking action against violence in and around schools – was unveiled at New York Comic Con this week to launch UNICEF and Comics Uniting Nations’ superhero comic contest. Children and young people aged 25 years and under are invited to design their own comic superhero that will defeat The Silence and help keep children safe in school.

“There should be no room for Silence when it comes to children’s safety,” said UNICEF Director of Communication Paloma Escudero. “With this creative contest, we are hoping to get students, teachers, families and communities to speak up and beat The Silence.”

From fighting and bullying to sexual harassment and corporal punishment, violence in and around school can have devastating, long-term consequences for children. The Silence superhero comic contest will encourage children and young people to be part of UNICEF’s global campaign to shed light on and spark action to #ENDviolence in schools through the creative medium of comic design. 

The top submissions in the contest will be chosen after the closing date on 25th October by a special panel of judges, including comic artist Gabriel Picolo and last year’s comic contest winner Sathviga ‘Sona’ Sridhar. The public will then have the opportunity to vote online for their favourite comic hero between 16th and 25thNovember. The winner will be announced in December and will work with a professional team to turn their winning idea into a full-length comic book. Their comic will be presented to World Leaders at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations in July 2019, as well as distributed to schools and children worldwide.

21-year-old Sathviga ‘Sona’ Sridhar, from Chennai, India, won UNICEF’s inaugural superhero comic contest in 2017. With a focus on combatting climate change, her winning character ‘Light’ was a half tree-half human who uses special powers to save nature from a warming planet. The contest received nearly 2,900 submissions by young people from 99 different countries and more than 21,000 votes from 162 countries were cast to determine the winner. 

For more information visit: https://uni.cf/school-superhero