Friday, May 15, 2009

Trip to Skockholm


General Information about Sweden
Sweden is a one of beautiful country in Europe.
Sweden is in northern Europe and the capital is Stockholm. The Population is 9 million and in Stockholm 711,000 .The total area of Sweden is 450,000 sq. km (173,732 sq. mi).

Stockholm is a beautiful city with Lake Mälaren on its West Side and the Baltic Sea on its East Side. Sweden is a member of the European Union (EU). Sweden is called "The land of the midnight sun" or "The land of the Vikings".

Stockholm is surrounded by water and every year a water festival is held in August.
National Day: June 6.

The Swedish flag is based on the Scandinavian Cross design first adopted by Denmark about 800 years ago. The colors were taken from the Swedish coat of arms, which depicts three golden crowns on a blue background. Sweden is a monarchy. King Carl XVI Gustaf, who acceded to the throne in 1973.

Development aspect the country


The Swedish economy is heavily dependent on a highly developed and internationally successful industrial sector, which was established in the early part of the 20th century. There have been several structural reforms since Sweden became a member of the EU such as the deregulation of the telecommunications, energy and air traffic sectors.
Sweden is attracting numerous foreign investors, and Swedish companies are also large investors abroad. Sweden is the 16th largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) worldwide. The main FDI business sectors are pharmaceuticals and chemicals, machinery and equipment, banking and finance, and energy.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Finally we became success



It had been long time we tried to make Bærum Red Cross active Finally we are active
After the long time. It spend lots of effort to make Bærum Red Cross youth active. We arrange many pizza meeting and many social gathering s far as I can remember; we try to find out the possibilities and needs in Bærum and finally all youth agree to work in Hvalsta asylum center . according to plan we arrange combine meeting with asylum coordinater and RC youth together and fixed outdoor and indoor activity for one year.

By this experience i came to know that it is not easy to get volunteer in Red Cross but it is very hard to keep them active for long time,

Red cross day celebration in SKI





150 year Red Cross day in Oslo( seminar about Neutrality)


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The program started with the warm welcome from Norwegian Red cross President Sven Mollekleiv.
The speech for today was “NEUTRALITY” there were many international renowned people in the program, who were giving speech in the topic, Red Cross had also got Novel peace prize three time in its history it was on 1917, 1944 and 1963.
First speaker of the program was MARTTI AHTISAARI, 2008 Novel prize winner..Who gave his speech on, Is Neutrality a tool in Peace negotiation?? it was very importance speech for everyone ,Peace has became really important thing all over the world .he gave some good ideas how can we act together to bring peace in the world,

There were many speakers in the program, Palestinian Red cross president Younis Al-Khatib speak about the problem in Palestine and Red Cross role in the peace making. And how much it is difficult working as a mediator in the period of war.
We heard many things about the legal premise for, and legal benefits of neutrality, which was the speech given by legal Adviser Of ICRC (Anne-Marie de la Rose)
Neutrality and the practicalities of prosecution by Head of chamber ICTR (Chile Eboe-Osuji)

Natural Band-Aid verses political solution by Jan Egeland (NUPI)
In the end of the program there was discussion about the current issue in the world. In the conclusion we came to know that “Nobody can care everybody but somebody can care somebody “so do something important in your life …..