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Throughout the years I’ve been drawn to all sorts of community work starting in high school
volunteering at homeless shelters, 2 years of Americorps working with refugees and immigrants from southeast Africa in Minnesota. I have helped with youth groups and big brother big sister projects. I have done Art therapy volunteer groups for various projects throughout the last decade. I have worked with folks with different abilities as a job but also volunteered with groups that bring isolated individuals together. +
Since the Pandemic breakout, I have been helping to mitigate the COVID 19 crisis as a physician and an assistant in Buenos Aires Argentina.
I helped in many ways, from doing triage for ill patients at primary health care clinics, to putting vaccines and bandage wounds especially when we were short-staffed.
I went door-to-door in the most poorest and worst-struck neighbourhoods looking for possible infected patients to take them to testing and treating facilities. I also handed out food and water supplies for families to be able to withstand the pandemic in their houses. I also helped, when necessary, to relocate people to designated hotels in order to stop the chain of infection in the place where they lived. This is because families had to share communal bathrooms and kitchens with many others.
Besides participating in the process of assessing infrastructure, health and living conditions of people with needs I have also participated in the testing teams for COVID-19 +
At Karma Tashi Ling temple in Oslo, helping the community to fix any technical issues they meet when I have the opportunity to travel there. +
*Feb 2020 One month volunteer at Inspire Equine Therapy Program, Clearwater, Florida.
*Nov-Dic 2017 Voluntiering at Caritas´afternon center for underprivileged kids, Vilnius, Lithuania
*2009-2010 being a volunteer of ARA foundation, going once a week to old people's recidency and sharing time with them. Mallorca
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Yes, of course. All this info is in my curriculum. +
I did volunteer at two different cat shelters. Helping with cleaning and feeding the cats. +
Since I was nineteen I have engaged in community work projects in different countries.
I always like to be part of community projects, either by volunteering or by offering my support.
As my training is in youth psychology and education, my heart is always involved in projects to help improve the situation of children under risk, at the same time of contributing to the shift in education I believe the world needs.
I have been in India, in Panama and in Perú working with disadvantaged children.
The most amazing one was in Panama, where they offered dance classes and school support to children that would otherwise be spending their time in very dangerous neibourghoods filled with wapons and drug dealing.
I believe there is a lot of goodness that can manifest through offering children in need the love and care they deserve, and the tools for their appropriate development: nature, free play, responsiveness and the right stimulation at the right time. +
Asociación Madre Tierra - Loreto Perú
Humanitarian Assistance for Urarinas Communities - Crowdfunding Campaign Team. may 2020
Water Filters for San Antonio - Crowdfunding Campaign Team. aug-oct 2017
Proyecto Centro Comunitario de Medicina Tradicional Cocamillo. Founding Team Member 2014
Friends for Nepal - Dharamghar Dolakha Nepal
A “Herbal Way Of Treatments - How To Take Benefits From Plants” Book comprehensive layout.mar-jun 2016
“Community Health Clinic Dharamghar Dolakha” volunteer on social work
Inti-Reevolucion
Project Presentation in Tawantinsuyu Hatun Tinkuy/III Encuentro de los Cuatro Suyus. 2013 Comprehensive information layout. ap-nov 2013
APCA Permanent assembly of the Comahue for the Water
Active Member 2010-2012
AEC - TEA Associação Bahia Brasil. Volunteer on Social Work, may 2010
La Trama - documentation center for women Neuquén Argentina. Volunteer receptionist. 2005 +
Volunteer Work:
2018: Fundraising & Volunteer Coordinator - The Buddhist Arts and Film Festival, Boulder, CO. This was a 3-day event featuring over a dozen artists and filmmakers.
2011 - 2013: Treasurer - Walla Walla Dharma Sangha, Walla Walla, WA. Tracking, budgeting, and quarterly financial reports. This was for a mindfulness group that hosted weekly sittings, weekend retreats, and hosted visiting teachers.
2011 & 2012: Volunteer Coordinator - Sustainable Living Center, Walla Walla, WA. Coordinated volunteers for the annual, large, fundraising event.
2009 - 2010: Project Manager - Deer Park Institute, Bir, India. This project consisted of building a large garden in the central courtyard of Deer Park. It took 9 months in total to complete.
2008 - 2009: Program Coordinator - The Panya Project, Ban Maejo, Thailand. Coordinated permaculture design workshops that were 2 weeks at length. I also facilitated the volunteers living on the farm. +
lawer services for who no have money
free massage
free yoga class for who no have money +
I taught introductory Buddhism and meditation to grade-school children at Gomde California in October, 2015; in Cancun, Mexico in January, 2016; and to local college students in Kathmandu, Nepal in March, 2016. +
Prior to moving to the monastery I did a variety of community work such as volunteering in a soup kitchen, elderly care facility, and animal shelter. +
I also completed some court mandated community service in or around 2010 at Walter Hoving Home in Garrison N.Y. ( a Christian home for struggling women). I performed community service there for about 3 months or more. This included picking up trash on the side of the road, helping to organize and run programs as well helping to move furniture etc. In addition, I did a few weeks of community service at the SPCA in Hyde Park N.Y. while attending college. +
Participated in translation from tibetan to french and from english to french during teachings. +
No, I spent all my time in Dharma and Sangha activities. +
Between working and doing dharma related volunteer work, I had little time for other community work. +
My service, as related to Buddhist service, has been serving communities in duress/high risk. This service has continued as part of my present career as a psychotherapist since 1998, and before the completion of my Degree at Naropa University. The communities I worked with have spanned a wide range in the field of mental health, such as: Homeless Shelters; at risk youth in specialized school environments; residential treatment centers focused on severe and persistent mental illness; and working with families, children, teens, and adults as a Psychotherapist. +
Quite a bit of informal work.
-Volunteered at Schumacher College in Devon, England for around 3 months in winter 2019 into spring.
Mostly helped out in the kitchen and gardens. Though offered several free sessions to students as well.
-Volunteered in Costa Rica for 2 weeks, doing all sorts of activities, both conservation and community
Work. That was in the summer of 2007.
-2 months in Konso Ethiopia volunteering at a permaculture project, doing all kinds of labor. +
Not in a systematized way in general, in school sometimes I participated in charity programs, in college we also did a brief project of a choir performing in that context too.
I also became a music teacher in part as a way to contribute to others and the community at large through my work.
On a personal level, I always try to give whenever I can, regularly to the firemen (in Chile they are volunteers so they depend on donations), or people on the street. This year I have also been donating blood, making sur offerings regularly, and donating books to the city's library.
Sometimes I have personally financially supported certain people who are in need, mainly homeless people, very poor people or people with serious health conditions, so they can have their basic needs met or get
something specific that they need, like a place to live, a stove to cook, medical treatment,
etc. That has happened in a more spontaneous way, first meeting them on the street, knowing about them, and so on. +
