And Again: Topic NGO
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Omar M. Ali, Njini King Caro, Ricardo Koslez and Norbert Pintsch
Money is not there for its own sake, but for the sake of the society.Time is NOT money.Time is for the benefit of the society.LIFE is not there to suppress other members of the society, but to serve them.Development does not mean Consumption, Job-Searching and Leisure Activity any more, rather the quest for the highest form of luxury: the voluntary surrender and drawing of individual boundaries for the good of the society.
Again and again we come across good reasons for pointing out the differences between the NON-Government Organizations and the Government organizations and companies!
NGOs work without a fixed budget and financial planning. This means their existence is not secured fund the highest level of attention is required to navigate the small boat in stormy waters of everyday situations.
Read more »Labels: Dr. Norbert Pintsch, NGOs, Njini King Caro, Omar M. Ali, Ricardo Koslez
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:16 AM,
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Who is Saba Mallah?
Monday, April 28, 2014
Read Salman Rashid story 'Standing ovation for Saba' here.
Labels: NGOs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:41 AM,
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Recent Developments in the Basic Health Unit (BHU) AFA Thatta Ghulamla Dhiroka
Monday, April 14, 2014
Volunteers
Dr Leila, DGFK, General Physician, New Zealand, Bettina Fiedler, DGFK, Pharmacist, Germany
Dr Elizabeth DGFK, General Physician, Australia, Dr Karola, CIDA, SES, General Physician, Germany, Rescue Nurse, Switzerland, Erika Burchard, Optician, Germany, Gundula Gomoll, Physiotherapist, Germany
Development
Originally meant to be medical service in a neglected village with 40 patients in the beginning put up ina temporary housing.
Shifting into a converted farmers house with equipments for Doctors,nurses and patients chambers as well as residentials room in upper storey for doctor and assistants.
The upper story is now also available for registered guests or tourists against payment [WC, Shower and Kitchen is available].
Once a year "One-Baby-OneTree" event takes place. A measure for improvement of micro-climate.
The school children in the village schools are treated for lice and other special insects once a year regularly.
The BHU is funded through donations. A Tambola event is organized annually to raise funds for supporting the work of the BHU.
A change is taking place due to the massive influence of industrially produced medicines; uncontrolled use of medicines is leading to various illnesses. The NGO has therefore decided to promote the use of traditional medicines (Moringa-tree, Neem Tree).
Labels: AFA, BHU, Elizabet Carew-Reid, Erika Burchard, Gundula Gomol, Karola Groch, Leila Masson, Marlies Bartkiewitz-Schmid, NGOs, Thatta Kedona, Volunteers
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:49 AM,
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Village Life
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Labels: NGOs, Rural Culture, TGD
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:50 AM,
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Annual Sports Day
Monday, October 28, 2013, was a very eventful day in Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka. Brightly dressed students from different schools of Lahore, Okara and participated in sports and games organized by AFA, SPARC and FPAC under the supervision of senor Volunteers Dr Norbert Pintsch from SES.
Three teams took part in the day long competitions. Lahore Team was from Tufail Foundation School, Ram Kot Lahore (with teacher M. Javed), Okara Team was from Ahmad Jalal Kids Campus Okara (with Principal Rucksana Hussain and Vice-Principal Nosheen Ali) whereas our very own tean from Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka Village Government School (with all the teachers).
After games School Ground the team members had lunch in Women Art Center of AFA.
On this occasion, interviews for Internet-Radio-tv-thatta village were also carried out.
And, that is the beauty of the dolls village – the people. Here are some of the images of the day.
Read more »
Labels: Dr. Norbert Pintsch, Education, FPAC, NGOs, SPARC
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:44 AM,
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Thatta Kedona Project
Friday, May 3, 2013
The project that was started by Dr. Senta Siller and Dr. Norbert Pintsch in a village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka situated on the bank of River Ravi some two decades ago has come of age. A lot has changed over last twenty years.
Read more »Labels: Dr. Norbert Pintsch, Dr. Senta Siller, Handicrafts, NGOs, Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:50 AM,
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Volunteers from Switzerland
Thursday, April 11, 2013
As we are having beautiful spring in the Dolls Village, volunteers from around the world are visiting the Village. Last week TGD NGO A-F-A had two guest from Switzerland: Irene from Berne, the veteran volunteer who had been working together with Dr Senta Siller – the founder of the project and Dr. Norbert Pintsch. The other was Madeleine from Geneva. Both volunteers spend happy time in the village, meet local volunteers and members of the village NGO noted the changes that have occurred over time.
Read more »Labels: NGOs, TGD, Volunteers
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:39 AM,
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Difference between NGO and GO
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Even if generally and in the meanwhile the term NGO has degraded into Sham-NGO, an effort is made to describe the most important functions of such an entity.
Contrary to a GO (Government Organization) and a Firm (prive or public limited company, etc.) the offices of management in an NGO are honorary positions, i.e. the president, treasurer etc. do not receive any remuneration for their work. The members of the NGO are not salaried employees, rather they work according to their own possibilities and necessities of the NGO, because contrary to the above mentioned entities, the NGO posesses neither the annual budget nor can it operate in a perspective.
Labels: Dr. Norbert Pintsch, NGOs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:34 AM,
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Problems Facing Projects is Less-Developed World
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Prof. Dr. Norbert Pintsch
Who could have imagined during the Cold War how wonderful new socialism would be (Fast Food Spray 2002).
Problems facing projects is less-developed countries
One feature of the general approach in development co-operation that is not discussed much is misunderstandings between urban and rural cultures. The diversity between the cultures is ignored -- differences between the urban and rural culture of a country as well as between different cultures, between western and western-orientated cultures.
As a consequence of misunderstandings, processes are augmented, multiplied, compounded by use of scientific and industrial methods to assess the consequences of technology.
Labels: NGOs, Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, Project
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:32 AM,
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How to Start and Manage Non-Governmental Organizations
Saturday, July 7, 2012
How to Start and Manage Non-Governmental Organizations
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 1:27 PM,
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Public, Prinate Organisations and NGOs
Thursday, May 31, 2012
The problem has already been described at another place; however the differences in various forms of organization are again mentioned specially in context to the anthropological and ethnological aspect.
The constructed Organizations have rationalized their inter-human problems. Hostilities, Mobbing etc. do exist but are principally possible to be reduced by way of changes in work place, even if it does sometime entail social injustices. Losses of income, slipping into poverty etc. are only the tip of the iceberg. Members of the city culture today do not live under the pressures, which under the slogan “city life makes you free” led to immense growth of the cities and a freedom of the person in the sense of independence from social responsibilities.
The NGO, if it really represents an alternative to the constructed organizational entities, is flexible and it can react faster to the changes. This is the theory.
If the NGO works in the rural environment integrated into the traditional culture, the city persons come across additional intangible problems, which cannot be solved by anthropologists and ethnologists, unless they work together with the village NGO and do their research covertly.
Even in relatively small village units of about 1000 residents exist in the course of the day chaos, the violence, archaic circumstances, which can disturb the sensitive work of the NGO.
The behavioral structures here are not at all so different from the construed organizations but the effects are more difficult and complex. Who marries whom, which field belongs to whom, who has more fields, who enjoys what type of respect, who behaves as a member of village society, who is physically stronger, who is psychologically smarter, which doesn’t mean that it leads to longer life because violence can easily be applied from many directions.
Who shall work in the NGO, will it change their position in the village community, should this be possible?
Who takes over the leadership function, should he be allowed to exercise influence over the family? Can he exercise influence and to what extent?
Although there may be lot of general knowledge about the traditional culture but the reality can only be experienced by being there in person.
The efforts of the NGOs should not be directed towards financing the whole life but only income to the extent of earning the daily bread. But this also means that the production methods which maintain the cultural identity are made difficult by the above mentioned factors. Pressure cannot be exerted due to the missing dependence of the subjects and the village customs must also be taken into consideration.
The task is like walking on a cable rope even for special experts, whose performance can hardly be judged in tangible terms.
The constructed Organizations have rationalized their inter-human problems. Hostilities, Mobbing etc. do exist but are principally possible to be reduced by way of changes in work place, even if it does sometime entail social injustices. Losses of income, slipping into poverty etc. are only the tip of the iceberg. Members of the city culture today do not live under the pressures, which under the slogan “city life makes you free” led to immense growth of the cities and a freedom of the person in the sense of independence from social responsibilities.
The NGO, if it really represents an alternative to the constructed organizational entities, is flexible and it can react faster to the changes. This is the theory.
If the NGO works in the rural environment integrated into the traditional culture, the city persons come across additional intangible problems, which cannot be solved by anthropologists and ethnologists, unless they work together with the village NGO and do their research covertly.
Even in relatively small village units of about 1000 residents exist in the course of the day chaos, the violence, archaic circumstances, which can disturb the sensitive work of the NGO.
The behavioral structures here are not at all so different from the construed organizations but the effects are more difficult and complex. Who marries whom, which field belongs to whom, who has more fields, who enjoys what type of respect, who behaves as a member of village society, who is physically stronger, who is psychologically smarter, which doesn’t mean that it leads to longer life because violence can easily be applied from many directions.
Who shall work in the NGO, will it change their position in the village community, should this be possible?
Who takes over the leadership function, should he be allowed to exercise influence over the family? Can he exercise influence and to what extent?
Although there may be lot of general knowledge about the traditional culture but the reality can only be experienced by being there in person.
The efforts of the NGOs should not be directed towards financing the whole life but only income to the extent of earning the daily bread. But this also means that the production methods which maintain the cultural identity are made difficult by the above mentioned factors. Pressure cannot be exerted due to the missing dependence of the subjects and the village customs must also be taken into consideration.
The task is like walking on a cable rope even for special experts, whose performance can hardly be judged in tangible terms.
Labels: DGFK, Dr Karola Groch, Dr. Norbert Pintsch, NGOs, Volunteers
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:57 AM,
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And Again on NGOs
Friday, May 4, 2012
Omar M. Ali, Njini King Caro, Ricardo Koslez and Norbert Pintsch
Money is not there for its own sake, but for the sake of the society.Time is NOT money.Time is for the benefit of the society.LIFE is not there to suppress other members of the society, but to serve them.
Again and again we come across good reasons for pointing out the differences between the NON-Government Organizations and the Government organizations and companies!
NGOs work without a fixed budget and financial planning. This means their existence is not secured fund the highest level of attention is required to navigate the small boat in stormy waters of everyday situations.
The members are not employees with a fixed description of their duties, rather they are to be accepted as they are, which requires a lot of patience on the part of the management. The members of an NGO should not be dependent upon their earning from the NGO, which should only make up the additional income. They should be working to earn their bread, but should watch out that they do not become dependent upon the NGO. This strange concept, strange because about 100% of NGOs are not such in nature and follow approximately the direction shown by F Bergmann, the philosopher and consultant of the US American automobile industry, in his publication The New Work.
- Project work for money,
- Work according to individual capabilities and
- Work for and in the society
These are the three pillars of his system, which corresponds to the new economic orientation in the 21st century.
The reality even in these so-called NGO’s characterized by:
- Allowances,
- Official residences,
- Official cars with driver and similar facilities,
In fact killing the NGO by exploiting it to the last drop, still emphasizes the following qualities:
- Responsibility,
- Carefulness,
- Ownership,
Also a certain level of selflessness, which is still found in the roots of the traditional cultures, is necessary, but seldom available.
In present times, we are quite used to hearing terms like teamwork and performance, in a certain way qualities of the previous cultures, which have been lost under western influence.
Welfare organizations and individuals, who submit to the means of modern economics (tax reduction, donation receipts, money investments) are nothing more than the extended arm of a Faust; the master of the Faust would like to do good, but risk and lose nothing.
The pardon writings of the middle-age Christians were supposed to help the owner to enter paradise, at least leave a good conscience.
Labels: NGOs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:37 AM,
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Work Land Capital
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Greatest European thinkers and a large number of scientists and authors have expressed the opinion, and it has been generally deemed to be correct, that Work-Capital-Land are the three determining factors of our system, and that it is considered to be a European-north American system. It cannot be another system for the simple reason that there is no other system and this is believed also by those people, who really have nothing to do with the system because they are culturally differently organized.
Unluckily, due to centuries old political practices, other cultures can hardly or not at all identify or adopt even comparable concepts. One may see this as an example of their inferiority, but also as an example of erroneous basis research, indeed long overdue and still missing proper direction of the basis research.
For this reason such a discussion is not possible at this stage. So let us confine ourselves to discussing the ABK-model, which is well known in economic circles and also generally cited in politics, even if very basic matters remain unresolved, e.g. the strength or power of a political something, which can actually hardly be considered isolated from the economics (A-B-K). The same is valid for the knowledge, which is not of economic nature at all and has to be derived from social backgrounds. It is not static in nature!!
One could give long philosophical explanations about for example the contents of the term Land, namely the climatic geographical resources of an area.
In the European way of thinking, one is more inclined to splitting up problems and also their summing up, which is very helpful for understanding them and to process them, however appropriate recourse should always be possible to the starting point. This refers to the awareness and consciousness, the actual reason for which one has split or summed up in the first place. If one ignores this fact and is pleased about only the new knowledge gained, one is being led into making a grandiose error.
In short, in order to correct the direction and gain control of general problems, it is very important to recognize the basic flaw of the ABK-System, namely that factors Information and the Power are missing! It therefore appears more appropriate to name our system KABIP (in German = Kapital-Arbeit-Boden-Information-Power) or Capital-Work-Land-Information-Power, which determine the happening. Economics-Society-Resources (=natural factors) -Knowledge (Education)-Politics (worldly as well as religious), they determine the strength of a culture, which is not identical with the ability to cope with the future.
Two examples should make these considerations more clear:
Unluckily, due to centuries old political practices, other cultures can hardly or not at all identify or adopt even comparable concepts. One may see this as an example of their inferiority, but also as an example of erroneous basis research, indeed long overdue and still missing proper direction of the basis research.
For this reason such a discussion is not possible at this stage. So let us confine ourselves to discussing the ABK-model, which is well known in economic circles and also generally cited in politics, even if very basic matters remain unresolved, e.g. the strength or power of a political something, which can actually hardly be considered isolated from the economics (A-B-K). The same is valid for the knowledge, which is not of economic nature at all and has to be derived from social backgrounds. It is not static in nature!!
One could give long philosophical explanations about for example the contents of the term Land, namely the climatic geographical resources of an area.
In the European way of thinking, one is more inclined to splitting up problems and also their summing up, which is very helpful for understanding them and to process them, however appropriate recourse should always be possible to the starting point. This refers to the awareness and consciousness, the actual reason for which one has split or summed up in the first place. If one ignores this fact and is pleased about only the new knowledge gained, one is being led into making a grandiose error.
In short, in order to correct the direction and gain control of general problems, it is very important to recognize the basic flaw of the ABK-System, namely that factors Information and the Power are missing! It therefore appears more appropriate to name our system KABIP (in German = Kapital-Arbeit-Boden-Information-Power) or Capital-Work-Land-Information-Power, which determine the happening. Economics-Society-Resources (=natural factors) -Knowledge (Education)-Politics (worldly as well as religious), they determine the strength of a culture, which is not identical with the ability to cope with the future.
Two examples should make these considerations more clear:
- The young USA reached the top position, because the problem Land acquisition did not exist and the power was available to materialize a certain policy and it was possible to increase the value of the work.
- The Peoples Republic of China will achieve a top position, because the society as well as the politics favors mass production.
In the following considerations, we will try to explain these assertions however without going into detailed proofs.
Labels: NGOs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:24 AM,
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Public, Private Organisations and NGOs
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
The problem has already been described elsewhere, however the differences in various forms of organization are again mentioned specially in context to the anthropological and ethnological aspects.
The constructed organizations have rationalized their inter-human problems. Hostilities and mobbing do exist but are principally possible to be reduced by way of changes in work place, even if it does sometime entail social injustices like loss of income and ultimately slipping into poverty is only the tip of the iceberg. Members of the city culture today do not live under the pressures, which under the slogan “city life makes you free” lead to immense growth of the cities and a freedom of the person in the sense of independence from social responsibilities.
The NGO, if it really represents an alternative to the constructed organizational entities, is flexible and it can react faster to the changes. This is the theory.
If the NGO works in the rural environment integrated into the traditional culture, the city persons come across additional intangible problems, which cannot be solved by anthropologists and ethnologists, unless they work together with the village NGO and do their research covertly.
Even in relatively small village units of about 1000 residents exist in the course of the day chaos, the violence, archaic circumstances, which can disturb the sensitive work of the NGO.
The behavioral structures here are not at all so different from the construed organizations but the effects are more difficult and complex. Who marries whom, which field belongs to whom, who has more land, who enjoys what type of respect, who behaves as a member of village society, who is physically stronger, who is psychologically smarter, which does not mean that it leads to longer life because violence can easily be applied from many directions.
Who shall work in the NGO, will it change their position in the village community, should this be possible ? Who takes over the leadership function, should he be allowed to exercise influence over the family? Can he exercise influence and to what extent?
Although there may be lot of general knowledge about the traditional culture but the reality can only be experienced by being there in person.
The efforts of the NGOs should not be directed towards financing the whole life but only income to the extent of earning the daily bread. Nevertheless, this also means that the production methods, which maintain the cultural identity, are made difficult by the above mentioned factors. Pressure cannot be exerted due to the missing dependence of the subjects and the village customs must also be taken into consideration.
The task is like walking on a cable rope even for special experts, whose performance can hardly be judged in tangible terms.
Labels: NGOs
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 7:30 AM,
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