Crosspoint Volunteer Forum

01/12/2015

Hej hej!
As most of you have probably witnessed, we are confronted with an increasing extent of (public) discourses about conflicts / peace, immigration / integration and security / intervention due to a diversity of erupting or ongoing conflicts, tensions and instabilities in various regions and countries in the world. To integrate peaceful solutions in such complex and violent environments, it requires promoting fields of dialogues, sustainability, situational awareness and in-depth local knowledge (to name just a few aspects).

We want to introduce you to the concept of »Safer Yemen«.
Beside the fact that "Safer Yemen" is not a NGO or volunteer organization, as it is the focus of this forum, it is interesting to put an eye on the approaches and strategies of the solutions for sustainable security, which this company suggests and implements:

"Our approach to security is based upon sustainability and combines situational awareness and pro-active risk management with capacity building to enable organizations and companies to effectively mitigate security risks." - Safer Yemen

Innovation and creativity are crucial and necessary in relation to peace-building processes in a constantly changing world. Visit the website of "Safer Yemen" and read about their projects, ethics and strategies.

Link to website: http://saferyemen.com/home/

Keep it up!

Welcome to Safer Yemen We provide sustainable security solutions that allow our clients to work in a complex and constantly changing security environment. We work with development, governmental and commercial actors operating in Yemen and provide a wide range of services under four key areas: Traini…

13/10/2015

Good day! It has been a while since the last post and a lot of things have happened in the world, which concern(ed) our work and intentions here at the Crosspoint Volunteer Forum. Especially now, it is time to discuss, talk, exchange, network and get ENGAGED!!!

Reminder:
As the Crosspoint Volunteer Forum is a platform focusing on volunteering and NGOs, and how they can contribute to international understanding and sustainable peace-building, it is our intention to promote humanitarian values and social inclusion & inspire people to take action: “Lack of knowledge is not as much of a problem in our society as passivity”.

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression!" – This quote has a great meaning/background regarding various political and social -events, -movements and environments on a global and local scale, the so called Refugee Crisis, as one current example.

One can observe the rise of opinions and public demands, which fall under the category of nationalist, racist, xenophobic bodies of thoughts, as an reaction on certain politics, migration, security-issues, conflicts and many more factors (as we see many movements, such as PEGIDA in Germany).

In a forum, as the Crosspoint Volunteer Forum, we promote to approach such problems and conflicts from a certain distance, by understanding the global/international relation and circumstances to receive a bigger image of the causes, which facilitates the counteractions of the root problems – causal research – cause study!
As the name of this Forum contains “Crosspoint”, it is to emphasize the focus on a multilayered or global understanding, which crosses and includes every possible factor causing certain conflicts.
There are plenty of NGO’s, other organizations or projects, which are directly concerned with such efforts to gain publicity and attention to focus on sustainability, inclusion, innovation and creativity in regard to counteract the root-problems of conflicts and promote peace-building:

RISE - Research for Inclusive and Sustainable Education

TFF-Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research

To be continued…

Coming up: More Examples, Details / Elaborations and Experiences, concerning Crosspoint’s purpose + other organizations /projects

Stay active and take care,
Lucas from the Crosspoint team

09/05/2015

Today our PR-Manager Lucas visited and volunteered together for/with Toplum Gönüllüleri Vakfı (Community Volunteers Foundation) (TOG) in Istanbul, Turkey and also represented and informed about the Crosspoint Volunteer Forum 2015 . The theme of the day was "Learning about European Opportunities". The Community Volunteers Foundation was founded in Turkey and contributes to the personal development of young people through encouraging young people to participate in social responsibility projects as volunteers.
Crosspoint shares the principles of social participation, networking and creative/sustainable projects in the volunteering sector.
Check out their projects (over 980 a year) and work (implemented by about 40,000 young people in over 120 university clubs) on their:

website:
http://www.tog.org.tr/EN/
or
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/Toplum.Gonulluleri.Vakfi?ref=ts&fref=ts

26/04/2015

Appeal to everyone, friends from Sweden! If you are willing to help Nepal Earthquake Victims in some way. Please Help Us as much as you can. At this moment of catastrophe, my country is in desperate need of HELP. Your every Krona can contribute to the life of someone in Nepal.
The money you donate in Red Cross as donors are approved for tax deductions. You may deduct 25 percent, which means that you can donate more, paying less. For instance, if you make donation of 200 SEK, you will only be charged 150 SEK.
Please spread the word !

Stöd de drabbade i Nepals jordbävning.

13/04/2015

Are you willing to donate some of your time? Here is your chance to help in Malmö!

Vi är i stort behov av volontärer till Crossroads! Hjälp oss gärna att sprida!
Kontakta Crossroads direkt om du är intresserad:
[email protected]
Vi behöver hjälp med:
- frukosten som serveras alla dagar i veckan.
- klädsortering på eftermiddagen, tisdag och fredag.

27/02/2015

Read about Crosspoint Volunteer Forum in the newest issue of Mahskara. The magazine is out today!

19/02/2015

Crosspoint is expanding in 2015! If you are interested in working with our team in Malmö or elsewhere, be sure to contact us by email and tell us how you want to be a part of the Crosspoint community. Right now we are especially keen on finding people with a heart for volunteering and webdesign.

Happy Thursday everyone! :)

11/02/2015

We are now on Twitter! For more frequent updates follow us there . Let's make 2015 the Year of Volunteering!

21/01/2015

Today our event manager Sara is giving a presentation about the process where we took the idea about a networking forum to reality in only two months.

For inquiries, ideas and feedback you can still reach us on [email protected]

Also, we want to remind you to stay tuned, we have smaller events coming up during the year!

14/01/2015

THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who came to our event yesterday and made it successful.

Thank you to our fantastic speakers Soulaima Gourani, Isaac Henrich and Nader G. Attar.

Thank you to our sponsors and partners.

And thank you to the amazing Crosspoint Team who has put in their heart and soul into this event. You are gold.

12/01/2015

Today you can find an interview with Sara, one of our team members, in CITY Malmö. Don't miss it!
/The Crosspoint Team