Can (or should) CISV International arrange a fund for the kids who would benefit from this beautiful experience even though their parents cannot afford it? - by Acar Can Akbulut
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The obvious answer is YES YES YES! But I feel that there are many aspects to this question so to narrow my answer I will put on my skeptical spectacles. First of all how do we define what kids would benefit, because in some sense all kids would benefit. Second of all how much are we funding? The whole trip? And what criteria would we use to decide what kids to send?
! Another aspect that might be thought provoking is in our ‘quest’ to create Active Global Citizens I feel we are most successful with the people actually having a ‘CISV career’. I don’t believe that by simply sending an 11 old to a camp we are being effective in this ‘quest’. I am not talking against the impact of attending the village programme but about CISV trying to use this fund in our favour as an organisation. In comparison if we fund delegates to for example a Step Up they will have a higher understanding of the attitudes CISV is trying to promote in them. Also here we create a direct link to JB, which is a branch of the organisation that underprivileged kids can still be an active part of after without further cost.