BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
ICA members are preparing for Japan Conference. Farhad applied for visa on
thursday. Mahbub, Nasrin and Aziz submitted on Sunday. Naimul, Alamgir and Fuad
are furnishing new office and working on Decemeber and January ToP training and
facilitation servicec. Khair and Manik visited ICA Ghoramara project and found
the site for Sign for the community developed by themselves while ICA Bangladesh
organized a community action and visioning workshop in last December with Maria
and Richard.
Naimul admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Bill Staples facilitated a group from the Regional Municipality of Durham in a
strtegic planning process. He also trained staff from Ontarion Public Service in
Meetings That Work.
John Miller taught Group Facilitation to a group from the city
of Mississauga.
Wayne Nelson completed the new ToP Facilitation website. It is
now live!!!!!! Go to http://topfacilitation.net
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
PERU:
Location: Lima and Chincha
The 30 new Promoters in the Chincha small business project received their
backpacks and caps this week, and Gloria Santos reported that the team in
Chincha was excited about the work they have underway with the small
businesses. Three donated used computers showed up in our office this week to
assist with this work.
As the staff is intensively preparing for a three week
leadership school for 30 participants in November, we received approval this
week for another school for 30 participants for December. Altogether these 5
weeks of programming will have participants from 4 of the 26 Departments in
Peru. We also added a major new Implementation Program to follow each school to
give 3 months of follow-up with the new Promoters in the field. This is an
exciting addition to our programming and we had an immediate client to follow up
on the December school.
We made an informal presentation of our new Single Mother
project this week to the Inter-American Foundation and received an invitation to
submit a three year proposal in November for quick approval. This project would
enable 900 young single mothers to work in circles of ten women to dramatically
improve their self esteem and the practical economic and social situations of
their lives, as well as those of their children. There are hundreds of
thousands of single mothers in Peru who can be benefitted with this
program.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
As many of you are well aware, the 7th Global Conference in Human Development is now only 2 weeks away. Conference organizers at ICA Japan and ICAI are working around the clock to bring all final elements of this event together, dedicating much of their time to assisting international delegates with visa applications. A comprehensive information package was sent out electronically to all registrants, detailing important instructions on travel and accommodation arrangements, as well as what to expect in Japan. To be re-sent this document or to register for the conference now, please email Michael Watson at mwatson@ica-international.org
Sarah Farina is currently in Bosnia & Herzegovina on a capacity building visit with ICA BOSPO, and will be travelling to Tajikistan to visit ICA EHIO this week.
Katie is loving our amazing volunteers more than ever.
