NVC Peru submission to the Seniors Forum at the 20th IAVE World Volunteer Conference Panama 2008
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Name: Oscar Bravo Castillo
I Load and Title(Degree): Vice Presidente - Teacher
Institution: Volunteer National Center CENAVOL - Peru, National Representative IAVE
Address: Av. Mello Franco 141 - E - Lima 11 - Peru
Telephone: (00-51-1) 365-4097
e-mail: obc49@yahoo.com iaveperu@yahoo.com
Member IAVE: Skilful Member 2007 - 2009
PROFILE
Oscar Bravo Castillo, is classified(conferred a degree) in education by the second speciality in Social Gerontology, consultant in topics of development, old persons, volunteer and disability, by more than 20 years of experience in direct work by community organizations, and dialogue and action(share) coordinated with local governments and central government, for the establishment of public policies and programs of attention to vulnerable and excluded populations.
It(He,She) has formed a part of Group of Work on Old Persons of the Congress of the Republic, and of Multisectorial Commission for the implementation of public policies on the topic, has been a member of the Official Delegation of Peru, in representation of the civil society in the Second World assembly on Aging, Madrid 2002.
Law of Volunteer has formed a part of the Multisectorial Commission for production(elaboration) of offer of reglamentote the year 2004, as well as to the current group of work entrusted to elaborate offer of regulation for the approved modifications the present year.
It(He,She) takes part and has informed as exhibitor in national and international events on voluntary work, oldness and aging, disability, citizenship, since(as,like) in Barcelona and Pakistan the year 2004, Argentina and Chile 2006 and diverse countries of the region from last decade.
He(She) is A National Representative in Peru of IAVE, Vice-president and founder of the National Center of the Voluntary work, CENAVOL Peru, as well as of the Desk of NGOs and Be precise(Play in tune) on Old Persons, he has been A Vice-president of the National Committee of Celebration of the AIV 2001.
He is an author of diverse publications on civil participation, voluntary work and aging, as well as of investigation(research) on level of development of the organizations of old persons in Peru.
SUMMARIZE
FORUM: VOLUNTEER OLD PERSONS
Title: Voluntary work for the development and the active and worthy aging. Alliances for the promotion of public policies. Experience in Peru.
He(She) presents concepts and aspects that help to overcome stereotypes on the oldness and the aging, showing it as one more stage of the life, with possibilities of personal and social accomplishment, and to the voluntary work in this stage of the life, as a way of exercising active citizenship and of taking part in the development, the overcoming of the poverty and the strengthening of the democracy.
Associations of major adults join networks(nets) and achieve recognition and dialogue with the State and other social actors, generating share capital and affecting in the establishment of public policies that allow them a better quality of life: Limits of Politics(Policy) for the Adult Major Persons the year 2000, National Plan for the Old Persons 2002-2006, 2006 - 2010, Department of the Woman and Social Development - MIMDES, as governing entity, and the Law of the Old Persons 2006.
Two approaches opposite to the voluntary work: a) response to feeling solidarity, to share the need of other one, contributing in the search of attention and solution to the above mentioned situation, without penetrating mainly into the reasons b) as exercise of citizenship, taking part in the search of the common good, which joins the solidary (joint) and humanitarian feeling, to the commitment for the identification of the reasons of the above mentioned situation and seeks to strike on them.
The UNO indicates that the empoderamiento of the poorest and excluded, will allow them to make hear his(her,your) voices and that they are the citizens' organizations those that are going to favor the same one, being constituted in an important way to face the poverty and to strengthen the democracy.
The achievement of the ODM implies commitments of State, but also it(he,she) holds us to take part as citizens and volunteers of all the ages in order that it(he,she) is like that.
Lima, diciembre 2007
