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I did volunteer at two different cat shelters. Helping with cleaning and feeding the cats. +
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As a teenager I could only work for a short time (as the refugee camp was closed very soon) as child caretaker of traumatized refugee children from former Yugoslavia and was furthermore active in my schoolsХ Anti-fascist group, where we tried to develop awareness programs. During my time as a student of Ethnology and African studies, I was involved in different projects: As a volunteer I took part in community development projects and development educational workshops organized with the ТUsungu Women GroupУ in Makueni/Kenya at the beginning of my studies. At a later point in time I participated in the establishment of a ТCenter for scientific debate & transcultural understanding in South EthiopiaУ (SOMARC/later SORC, http://www.southomoresearchcenter.com/), which was mainly funded as a platform for peace building in an area of various cultural divergent, mostly hostile ethnic groups. At the final stage of my studies, I had been to Mali and focused more and more on the core of my objectives, development aid and especially alphabetization. It was during that time that I became increasingly aware and disillusioned by this scientific and only on development goals orientated approach of trying to allay the gross suffering of sentient beings. I had seen too much corruption, unbelievable useless development projects and especially after having done an internship at an office for democracy and reform, which was in charge of the realization of UN and EU projects, how much power structure, image, deadlines, profit and corruption had destroyed the core idea of humanity. That was not the way I had dreamed of to benefit sentient beings, and it was at this point in time that I finally and fortunately meet my Gurus and the Dharma with a totally new understanding and right approach to deal with the sufferings of the world. +
- Colaborator of CASA - Centro de Apoio ao Sem-Abrigo, in Porto, Portugal (2007-2008), a project by Pema Wangyal Rinpoche to help homeless people all over the world +
Keeping the temple practice commitments as umdze and chÑpon and taking care of other duties in the retreat centre in between retreats. From time to time being chÑpon in the public tsoks. +
During 2 years, I helped at the Amma's Ashram next to my home, mainly taking care of the temple. +
For 2 years, I helped at the Amma's Ashram next to my home, mainly taking care of the temple. +
I have done various community service work throughout my life, including: cleaning community parks and streets, feeding homeless, tutoring youth in juvenile detention facilities, vounteering at elderly homes, volunteering to work with cerebral palsy patients, feeding terminally ill children in hospitals in south america +
Interpreter for Tibetan Community in Paris
Interpreter for Tibetan Refugees in Paris since 2005
Creation of the Association "Interface Culturelle, les Chemins de l'Entente (Thun Drel)" in 2014
Volunteer when and where it is useful for social work +
Volunteering in wildlife conservation for the Mumpalanga district in South Africa. Volunteering for children's school in Sarnath, India.
Volunteering in assistance to lepers, the destitute and dying, in Lakshman Joola and Calcuta, India. +
I’ve cared for friends and relatives who have needed support, including my elderly parents for many years. I have also served as ad hoc and formal volunteer, such as when a director of a local chapter of the Schizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia (now Hope for Mental Health). +
My entire adult career in a professional capacity has been working with people with disabilities in the communities in which I have lived.
In my early teenage years, after a mind-expanding experience, I organized a Walk for Development to help disadvantaged people find housing in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I organized multiple high school districts to work together to combat pollution (air, water, trash) in the Shenandoah Valley. In my home town, I organized a clean-up of a creek that ran through town that was an open-air garbage dump. As a result of my environmental work, I attended the White House Conference on Youth as an Environmental Activist in 1970. I am a vegetarian for most of my adult life and helped to start some of the very first "health food stores" in San Francisco....which evolved from my commune who was part of the Food Conspiracy network of communes in the Bay Area. +
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. +
I worked for 8 moths helping in building the Meditation House as a bricklayer, maintenance, painting and other tasks. +
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In Dag Shang Kagyu I helped for 5 years on kitchen work, laundry, cleaning, gardening, shopping and building big and small stupas, painting frescoes and other religious monuments. +
