Postal address
5, rue Munchen-Tesch
L-2173 Luxembourg
Website
ongd-lgs.luContact
ESD contact person
Viktoria Szombathy
Phone number
26 94 84 23/26
Contact email
viktoria.szombathy@ongd-lgs.luOrganization visions
A world where all children have access to a
quality education in an environment
and participation.
ONGD committed to a fairer world
and values of scouting through education
young people to build a world
better.
NGDO Guiden a Scouten fir ENG Welt believes
education as a lever for development.
It is a Scout-type NGO based
on the values and principles of scouting,
to support its education and training
development awareness in the North
as in the South.
Promote sustainable development by facilitating access to education and vocational training in our partner countries, and by raising young people's awareness in Luxembourg of the problem of North-South inequalities in the world.
Experiences
Since its inception, ONG-D has regularly organized workcamps in partner countries to raise awareness among young LGS staff of the realities of the South and the management of a cooperation project.
In 2010, a group of young volunteers from ONG-D created an educational binder entitled «Zesumme fir ENG Welt», containing educational games aimed at young LGS leaders.
Since 2010, ONG-D has been offering several modules in the basic training of non-formal education leaders within the LGS youth movement (on average some 120 young people).
take part in these training courses each year).
Finally, ONG-D is regularly involved in information and awareness-raising workshops in primary and secondary schools.
At the scouts' request.
Some are in the Spillclasseur, a pedagogical tool.
proposing development themes
and activities.
Workcamps
Older Scouts can take part in
work camps. The aim is to exchange
between young people from different cultures and sharing
of local daily life.
ONGD often helps prepare these camps
and sometimes accompanies them.
The schools
The NGDO can propose activities on the
sustainable development to schools.
Network / partnership
National partners: Les Lëtzebuerger Guiden
a Scouten
International partners: Les Eclaireurs and
Eclaireuses du Sénégal, EEDS with their NGO
JED, Les Scouts du Niger with their NGO Gakassiney,
Cristo Vive Bolivia Foundation
National networks: Cercle de Coopération
Luxembourg des ONG du Luxembourg And
Groupe ONG éducation au développement
Organization objectives
The activities offered by our NGO to primary and secondary schools are designed to help young people understand the problems of social, economic, cultural and ecological inequalities in the North and South, by showing them concrete possibilities for commitment and action.
Within the «Letzebuerger Guiden a Scouten» scout movement, the aim is to sensitize and train volunteer scout-guide leaders and equip them with practical activities to implement as
multipliers with the children and young people they supervise.
Respect for human rights, commitment to the environment
in both North and South, the development
sustainable.
These major areas represent our
convictions and main objectives that we
we are trying to put into practice with «learning
by doing», an idea dear to the founder of
scouting, Lord R.Baden Powell, enabling
workshops and educational games that reflect
experiences with our partners
to the south.
Remarks
The scouting movement is based on a value system that integrates a responsible attitude, social commitment and solidarity, important pillars of education for sustainable development. ONG-D, founded in 1989, is an offshoot of the LGS movement and provides education for sustainable development within the framework of non-formal education as an expert and manager of development cooperation projects.
while the LGS movement focuses on environmental education activities.
Their priority themes:
- Education and vocational training
- Literacy
- Poverty
- Children's rights
- Cultural diversity
- Fair trade