Give a Gift with Meaning: The Kyomya Calendars are now on sale!

The holidays are fast approaching, and what better gift to give than one that will have a lasting impact on a community in a developing country.

If you're a journalist, a writer, or someone with an interest or talent for storytelling, you're in luck as today we present you with a new and exciting volunteering opportunity.

There is always something cooking in NABUUR Villages. When you're participating in the Villages as a Neighbour and are right smack in the middle of the action, your volunteer time is better filled with researching solutions for the project, making contact with organisations, working on the assigned tasks, etc. All these efforts may not leave much time for other things, but there are Neighbours who may wish to take on a reporting role and write stories about the developments taking place in the Villages.

Remember a few days ago when we shared with you the efforts of Yoshinkel and Gamauli to raise votes on Give Meaning? It seems quite a lot of you were listening, and took swift action to make sure that the vote count rose through the GM roof!

Within 48 hours, the Yoshinkel and Gamauli project had reached their goal of 100 votes - and the votes are still coming in...Now showing 153...154...

Now here's a great way to start the week off...Take a minute or two and voting on GiveMeaning.com to launch a project to raise funds with the aim to provide winter clothes to school children in Nepal. Angelika, facilitator for Yoshinkel, tells us more below.

I voted - Have you?

"Your vote on Givemeaning.com goes out to both the women of Yoshinkhel and the children of Gamauli today :) the two Nabuur villages have entered into a partnership to provide the needy children of Gamauli with winter clothes.

NABUUR woke up today to some heartening news from the project in Kabondo, Kenya.

Here's Eric Ochanji, local representative of Kabondo, to share with you the exciting news.

It's so easy to be proud of the NABUUR volunteers! Here's a little story about the Yoshinkel team...

During the Dutch Innovation Seminar, organised by de Baak last week, we had a chance to present NABUUR.com. The audience: 150 innovation managers from companies and NGO's from the Netherlands, eager to learn about open innovation.
I would like to share what happened during the presentation of Siegfried Woldhek. (founder and CEO of NABUUR.com).

Paul Bulenzi (Local Representative for Jinja-Central in Uganda)and Siegfried Woldhek brought NABUUR ''live''.

As we’ve been telling you over the past few weeks, volunteers have a bit of everything to choose from at NABUUR. Some of the projects need just an extra little push to achieve wonderful results, so we thought that in the next few weeks we’ll highlight some urgent tasks that require TLC from committed volunteers out there.

The project of Kabondo in Kenya is looking for some assistance in writing content for its website: www.kabondopoverty.org

Paul Bulenzi (Local Representative for Jinja-Central in Uganda)and Siegfried Woldhek (founder of NABUUR.com) demonstrated together for an audience in the Netherlands of 150 innovation managers how NABUUR works.

Through Skype, Paul Bulenzi raised a question about the shipment of mosquito nets from the US to Uganda. The audience came up with a number of possible solutions by sharing their ideas live and real time.

One of the participants, Fons Sweegers, got in touch with a friend in the Netherlands who has a girlfriend in Uganda. She works for a US company that can probably help with the shipment. Now that's networking!

The coming days we are busy preparing for the Dutch Innovation Seminar. Siegfried Woldhek (founder of NABUUR) will be keynote speaker on October 9, together with Paul Bulenzi, local representative for the Village of Jinja-Central in Uganda on NABUUR.com.

Siegfried will demonstrate in a live presentation the principle of NABUUR: neighbourly help. How people from all over the world. not knowing eachother, can come up with new solutions by sharing their ideas, knowledge and contacts. The question to solve will be raised by Paul Bulenzi who is coordinating a project for orphans and desabled people. The audience will try to find an answer in 20 minutes, quite exciting!