Descrição da organização

Our aim is: Trough cross cultural experience and training we want to equip youth for involvement and responsibility in our organisations and in society locally and globally.

We have received two volunteers every year for five years now and our goal is to continue with this. We find it motivating and inspiring to receive volunteers and enjoy having them as a european part of our staff.

Hald Internasjonale Senter is a meeting place for cross-cultural understanding and international work, with common goals within the fields of development, mission and leadership. We are recognized by the departement of education (Kunnskapsdepartementet) as a school in practical skills and training (Fagskole)
Hald Internasjonale Senter is owned by the Strømme Foundation (www.strommestiftelsen.no), the Norwegian Mission Society (www.nms.no) and Laget (www.nkss.no). Those three organizations are NGO’s focusing on development, poverty reduction, mission, leadership and youth work. We offer a course in cross-cultural understanding and international work. Each of the three organizations run an exchange program of ten months. The ten months is a good mixture of theory and practice, where all the participants have a 6-7 months placement in a different culture.

One of our distinguishments is the international setting at the school. We have participants from a total of 13-14 different countries in Asia, Africa, South-America and Europe (Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Etiophia, South-Africa, Brazil, Nepal, China and Norway). Approximately 70 youths participate in the program each year. Cross cultural learning thus happens both at the centre in Norway and abroad in the places of internship!