{"id":334,"date":"2019-08-03T00:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T04:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/?p=334"},"modified":"2019-08-03T00:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T04:21:52","slug":"excursion-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/08\/03\/excursion-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Excursion Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-217\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/files\/2019\/07\/IMG_0522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" \/>My excursion day was at the Association for International Youth Work VIJ. They are a very small, but interesting organization. They provide resources for immigrants to find jobs and activities that they can engage into within the community. Their facility is very intimate with a room that can be divided into two for separate activities to take place. They have a garden and a small courtyard area where they can throw parties once a year with the individuals that they help. They rely heavily on volunteers with their projects. Their goal is the preservation of human rights and peaceful coexistence in diversity. I found it very impressive that they have been around since 1882.<\/p>\n<p>Although, their contribution to the community is significant, from a human resource perspective I see a few flaws in their setup. Majority of their information is in the German language. If they are immigrants, then they most likely don&#8217;t speak German. After discussing this with my class and Pierre, this may be a way of them trying to introduce the language to these individuals. Also, they do help many people out and have been around for a long time, so somehow they are getting the word across.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Tom Hauber was our guide and the events coordinator for the organization. So his view of the organization was a little bit one sided and my INEMA partners was trying to get the other significant information about VIJ from him. However, they were unsuccessful, because he just didn&#8217;t know. I feel that maybe someone who was familiar with the entire framework of the organization should have set in and gave some background on their operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My excursion day was at the Association for International Youth Work VIJ. They are a very small, but interesting organization. They provide resources for immigrants to find jobs and activities that they can engage into within the community. Their facility is very intimate with a room that can be divided into two for separate activities<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore-p\"><a class=\"readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/2019\/08\/03\/excursion-day-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/edugloballeadership2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}