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Living in Norway with a teammate from Nepal

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Living with someone you have never lived with before is hard and also is very easy, Its hard because you do not know the real behaviour of that person but it will still be hard even after knowing a person, find out you two do not have things in common and failed to accept the way she/he is. Its very easy if you get to know a person  respect, being honest to each other and accept the way she/ he is. I thought that it will be hard to live with a person from different culture but when i started living with a girl from Nepal and after knowing her well and accepting her in every thing make things easy for me. We all human beings we are not perfect, we have our weakness but if we accept and respect each other its will make life ea
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VOLUNTEER WORK IN NORWAY

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                                                                                                                                                                                Four months of  living in Norway I've experienced and learned many new things especially in my working places. I got the opportunity to work as a volunteer in four different places which are two churches, klub 83, totalen cafe and one learning area which is red cross. In churches I work with children, where by i play different games with them, teach them how to make different things like  cultural bracelets, and helping with kitchen tasks. Also i joined in krik ( christian youth sports) we played different sports like basketball, volleyball,badminton, As we know sports is very important for our health especially when you live in new culture sports helps to socialise with different people and making new friends.     Totalen cafe is a cafe  sponsored by a church that helps young pe
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MY ARTICLE

IT IS A TIME TO CARE AND BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PEOPLE                             WITH MENTAL HANDICAP.                                                                        By Alepane Mahenge         Coming from Tanzania attending Stromme Foundation exchange program, Act Now, has exposed me to different social work here in Norway. What I have found special motivating is the care given to people with mental handicap. Volunteering at “Klubb 83”, I have learned and seen things I would like to share in this article. KLUBB 83 Klubb 83 are run by the local church called Udland church. The idea of starting the klubb 83 came from the father of a boy with mental handicap in early  1980s. With this idea klubb 83 established in  the small town of Haugesund with the aim of connect different people who are mental handicap from different place to make them comforted and happy through various social programmes. There are 110 members in klubb 83, and they receive handicapped peo
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LIFE IN A NEW ENVIRONMENT

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LIFE IN A NEW ENVIRONMENT. L ife is everywhere, changing the environment does not make someone unable to live in happy and peacefully life. Although there are challenges to live in a place with a different life style that you used to, ( as is often the case with challenges there must be a way out and a benefit to it as well, But only if you have goals and  you decide to win the challenges you will live happily and you will achieve your goals.) By sticking to the goals and objectives you want to achieve, you have to transform the challenges to become a winning situation. By respecting the values, norms and rules of the indigenous that will make a person to adjust easier in a foreign situation, learn what they do and what they don’t.   “I am in Norway as an ACT NOW Student, representing Stromme Foundation and Sustainable Environment Management Action (SEMA)-Tanzania, through youth exchange program.” The key aim of being in Norway is to build youth
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