1. Meeting
ONE MORE STEPS
Erasmus Mundus Action 2
GRUPPO TRENTINO DI VOLONTARIATO – ITALIA
TRENTO’S VOLUNTARY GROUP – ITALY
Guangzhou, September 30th - October 1st

2. FEATURES
Gruppo Trentino Volontariato (GTV) is a:
Non-profit Organization of Social Utility
and
* takes the form of an association, founded in Trento (Italy)
* is active since 1999

4. FEATURES
Vision
in South East Asia in order to build a
Bridge from East to West toward a
new tomorrow.

5. FEATURES
Mission
GTV is an NGO that works in the international solidarity and
education for development. It's mission is to put in relation the
Trentino community with South East Asia in order to develop
capabilities and exchange experiences with focus on vulnerable
people rights like children, women and minorities. GTV
intends selfdevelopment as an antidote for the exploitation.

6. FEATURES
Values
- Relation: with and between people in the projects.
- Responsibility: towards resources and donors, toward
contexts where we work and respect for the time we live.
- Democracy: in the group that give value to it.

7. FEATURES
GTV currently operates in South East Asia and
collaborates with other associations:
* Amici della Neonatologia di Trento (ANT)
* Associazione San Prospero
* Associazione Santi Martiri Anauniensi

8. FEATURES
GTV is funded:
* by Private Enterprises
* by Public Bodies (in particular Autonome Province of Trento,
Trentino – Sued Tyrol Region and municipalities)
* by Private Donors

10. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
In ten years 1999 – 2009 GTV
has worked in:
➔
Vocation Training
➔
Rural development
➔
Hygyene
➔
Edcation
➔
Human Traffiking
“A social commitment to individual liberty must be that it
attaches importance to be objective of increasing the capacity
that many people actually possess”
Amartya Sen

11. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
In ten years 1999 – 2009 GTV
has worked in: Envolving this people
➔
Vocation Training ➔
1.815 people
➔
Rural development ➔
11.256 people
➔
Hygyene ➔
2.676 people
➔
Education ➔
1.818 people
➔
Human Traffiking ➔
13.840 people
In Cao Bang, Bac Giang, Bac Ninh, Nghe An provinces
In Vietnam

12. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Rural Development
The ecotourism project is
integrated with handicraft
and agricoltural production
in the perspective of
territorial development

13. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Rural Development
Not only tourism, but also other
sectors interconnected
Not only services for tourists,
but also services to rise the
popolation’s living standard

14. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Rural Development
Involvement of all local
stakeholders (Representatives of
homestays, of tourist guides, of
incence and of honey producers,
the commune authorities) and
some external stakeholders, like a
national tour operator and two
researchers of the National
Economic University to survey the
tourist demand in the Khe Ro
primitive forest

15. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Vocational Development
Reintegration of victims of Traffiking
throught an handicracft cooperative in
Hai Duong, Vietnam

16. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Vocational Development
Objectives:
Reinforcing professional skills,
give a work opportunity and
give psicological support to
young girls being trafficked
trought the creation of a
cooperative

17. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Vocational Development
Objectives:
Let people of the
community being aware of
problem of traffiking both
in order to prevent new
rapes, both in order to
reinforce that process of
integration of victims who
came back.

18. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Education in Bangladesh
Objectives:
The project aims to insert in scholastic
curriculum a formulation courses on
disaster risk management and impact
mitigation. Those activities would involve
not only schools’ class rooms but also the
whole community through socio-
recreational activities, like concert in
schools’ with the participation of parents,
local authorities and different
organizations of the civil society.

19. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Neonatal Health
In the sanitary sector, in collaboration
with Amici della Neonatologia di
Trento, GTV has intervened through
* health sector personel training
activities
* equipment of medical instruments
* rehabilitation of sanitary
infrastructures in particular in the
obstetric-gynecologic and in the
pediatric-neonatologic area.

20. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Neonatal Health
In all projects, a special attention is
paid to women’s and children’s well-
being, because of their fundamental
role played in the society and
economy and because they usually
represent the less-protected subjects
in developing countries.

21. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Rural Development
Food Security in Atauro – Timor Leste
In collaboration with Santi Martiri Anauniensi Association
The general objective of this project is to
contribute to improve the poverty with the
guarantee of food security and water access
for the population of two Atauro island's
villages (Beloi and Manumeta) in Timor
Est.
Integrating three areas:
1-agricultural and reforestation's
development
2-fishing's development
3-water access

22. SECTORS OF INTERVENTION
NOW
Sponsorship Program
80 Italian families
sponsor
80 children in Son Dong, Bac
Giang Province
Providing rise, educational
material, school fees and
exchange communication

23. THE APPROACH
The projects are planned and implemented through
* partecipative methodologies, involving the beneficiary
population in all phases of the project,
- from the identification of the needs
- to the realization of each activity and
- to the the final evaluation

24. Thank you
Onorio Clauser
President of GTV
onorio.clauser@gtvonline.org