BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Larry and Aziz have fixed the schedule for two day training for 24 UNAIDS staff
on 2-3 April 2008. Based on discussion with Maguires and Aziz, the progra was
designed for two levels, now merged into one customizing their need. Aziz and
Costa had a meeting on 19 January to discuss about the first site visit for the
Sidr aid from Japan through Wayne. ICA Bangladesh will implement the amount of
6000 to support 100 parentless chidlren focusing their educational needs. They
are planning to go to two most affected districts-Bagerhat and Barguna in the
last week of this month. They also met on 13 January and reviewed the Sidr
proposal.
Alamgir, Naimul and Aziz had a management meeting on 13 January and
organized some office papers for the monthly taskforce meeting. The first
meeting of 2008 is scheduled to be held on 24 January thursday at 5-8pm at
Hunger Free World Office meeting room. All members, advisers, faculties,
associates, volunteers and steering coomiittee members are expected to join the
monthly meeting.
Naimul and Naznin are going to Ghoramara project area on the
ocassion of the first community meeting on 25 January. Naznin expects to do a
topographic survey in the comunity.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
CANADA:
Location: Youth as Facilitative Leaders
YFL held its first public course of 2008, Tools for Teamwork, on January 12th
with 16 participants aged 17 to 28. This was the launch of the new Tools for
Teamwork which has been revised according to the curriculum review sessions held
with youth in the fall of 2007. The participants were an enthusiastic and
insightful group. We learned as much from them as they did from us!
Leah ltaylor@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location:
John Miller taught another Facilitation Basics course to members of the Ontario
Public Service. We have a standing offer with the Ontario Government to do
several training courses in facilitation and conflict resolution. The conflict
resolution courses are taught by one of our associates, Janine Higgins. She's a
lawyer who focuses on dispute resloution and uses ToP methods in her practice.
She's a ToP Trainer.
Bill Staples facilitated workshops with the Mississauga
Halton Community Care Access Centre and Access Aliance - both heath care
organizations. He is teaching a series of community developmeent modules with
community and United Way agency leaders in a series of neighbourhoods targeted
by the city as in the greatest need for intensified social programming.
Jo Nelson
taught Meetings that Work and Group Facilitation in Toronto. She aslo
facilitated another meeting of the Malton community development initiative. She
is guiding a group working in a multicultural industrial neighborhood near the
airport.
Wayne Nelson is working on an inital draft of a ToP Facilitation
website. It will be ready for your feedback near the end of January. If you have
suggestions about a global ToP facilitation website, please contact me. This
first draft will be somewhat minimal, so please be thinking of what we really
need to include in a site that will promote ToP as a major approach to
facilitation and be a place ToP facilitators can learn, share resources and
continue to build this body of knowledge and practice.
Wayne also began teaching
the yearly facilitation course in the Community Outreach and Development Worker
program at Sheridan College.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
JAPAN:
Location: Peru and Mexico and Japan
ICA Japan with ICA Peru
In collaboration with ICA Peru, ICA Japan is continuing
the community building through the construction of the temporal houses in
Chincha Alta district in the coastal Peru. Five months have passed since the
August 15th earthquake, but many people are still living in miserable condition.
By the middle of March we are planning to finish 1,800 temporal houses made of
bamboo mats. Through the project we expect not only to improve their living
condition, but also fortify the sense of neighborhood.
Last week all the local
leaders selected for this project finished their leadership school in ICA Peru's
training center. Now it's time for them to facilitate their community members to
construct the houses in a cooperative way. Meanwhile, our task is to motivate
them and provide the material in a timely manner.
ICA Japan in Mexico
Visits to
recipients households continue to suprise and please us with the extent of what
they have learned, the volume of what they are putting to use, and the
generosity of their sharing their newly acquiried skills with their neighbors.
Their self esteem is blossoming, their income continues to rise, and their
families have abundantly supported these developing women.
ICA Staff staff@icajapan.org
PERU:
Location: Chincha Alta
The earthquake relief project in Chincha Alta was such a huge success in late
2007 that the Japanese government released, through ICA-Japan, another 250,000
dollars of emergency aid to build 1,800 more temporary homes by March 15th. As
of this week, Jesusa Aburto and Gloria Santos have completed the training of all
60 of the new Promoters, and once again it was amazing to experiece the
transformation of the people after 5 days of comprehensive leadership training
in the ICA residential Training Center in Azpitia. Now half of the model homes
are already built, with full-scale construction getting under way next week.
This project is name Project of Rebirth and it is certianly looking like it will
live up to the promise of that name.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
