CANADA:
Location: Toronto
This past week, has been very exciting. John Patterson returned from his travels
in Kenya. His return was filled with stories about the HIV initiative of the Il
Ngwesi community, that our volunteers have been supporting. The results from
this project are just amazing. Last week community members, our volunteers, and
Bruce Williams were conducted a training for Kenyan government officials.
Here
in Canada, we have been working hard to support projects like Il Ngwesi,
recruiting runners for our marathon fundraising event, and searching for venues
for our annual speaking event.
Eowynne Feeney efeeney@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Bill Staples returned from a trip to China. It was a vacation, but Bill and our
colleagues in Taiwan and Shanghai managed to run 4 courses for ToP
facilitators.
Jo and Wayne Nelson completed the CD with over 70 new conversations
and templates for the second edition of Art of Focused Conversation for
Schools.
Jo Nelson completed the Cree School Board consultation. It involved 780
community residents. Jo will be monitoring the work over the next year and
helping in specific areas.
We held fully subscribed Group Facilitation and
Meetings That Work courses this week. The courses were taught by John Miller and
Jo Nelson with the assistance of 3 new ToP trainers who are independant
consultants with whom we collaborate on a regular basis.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
NEPAL:
Location: Changunarayan
ICA Nepal opened up an extension office in the city centre. It will be the contact
point for ICA Nepal since our main office is located on the outskirts.
Through our extension office, we will also organise public courses on ToP and
others particularly for recent graduates and jobseekers.
This week we
organised two different interaction programmes on constituent assembly. Nepal is
now in transition stage and we will have constituent assembly on Nov. 22 this
year. ICA will be organising interactions on constituent assmbly throughout the
country.
On Saturday, ICA Nepal organised interaction programme inviting representatives
of 8 political parties and other local people to discuss about drinking water
project. With the help of Japanese Embassy and ICA Japan, ICA Nepal completed a
drinking water project which had been damaged in some parts. All the
representatives requested ICA to expand its avctivities covering all the three
Village Development Committees.
After the interaction, ICA also organised
workshop on Constituent Assembly which was participated by more than 85 people
mostly rural women and local politicians.
Tatwa P. Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
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ITERLENG ICA South Africa:
Location: Johannesburg South Africa
We truly enjoyed hosting Mary and Paul from the US during the past week. We had
such a splendid time with the team and we are looking forward to hosting them
again as we feel there is a lot we can learn from them especially in regards to
Funding.
Sfiso our YFL volunteer delivered an HIVAIDS talk to KLM empowerment a
coporate company in South Africa. His talk was well received and we are looking
forward to partnering with the company in the near future through their Coporate
Social Responsibility projects.
We have received a donation of 100 books from
Exclusive books, the titles range from enviroment, youth, history and childrens
books.
Muzi Mbonani mbonanim.ica@telkomsa.net
UNITED KINGDOM:
Location: UK Israel and Palestine
Jonathan was in Jerusalem with Jim Wiegel, working with other methods people to
develop an approach which combines conflict tranformation and community
development.
Jonathan, Clare, Amelia and Martin all met in Manchester for our
quarterly staff meeting.
Martin has been facilitating for various clients and
securing further work over the summer.
Amelia continues to work with the
organisations involved in the Baring and v funded programmes, and has managed to
secure some new funding for the Youth programme.
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org.uk
