CANADA:
The Listen to the Drumming program has been very busy preparing for the 'HIV/AIDS
- Stories from the Field' fundraising event with Stephanie Nolen, Globe and Mail
Africa correspondent as the keynote speaker. This very exciting event will be
taking place next Tuesday the 13th. Additionally, the Youth as Facilitative
Leaders programme held a day-long curriculum development session this week to
revise our introductory course, Tools for Teamwork, with a creative group of
volunteers. We are looking forward to delivering the completed course in the new
year.
Leah Taylor ltaylor@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Our work with United Way of Greater Toronto continues. Bill Staples, Jo Nelson
and Duncan Holmes all facilitated workshops and training modules. Conversations
are beginning related to another initiative for next year.
Jo Nelson began a
series of facilitated events for the community of Malton. She will work with the
group at least a day per month of the next 6 - 9 months.
Jo was called by Regina
Public Schools to design a public consultation over a hot topic in a tense
environment.
Bill Staples facilitated training events for the Ontario Ministry of
Training and Higher Education, the Mississauga Community Care Access Centre and
the Durham Region Health Department.
John Miller is in British Colombia teaching a
group facilitation course for the BC Ministry of Health, holding a meeting at
Royal Roads University and attending the C2D2 conference.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
GHANA:
Location: Accra
Jan Sanders, one of the finest and seasoned facilitators the network can boast
of flew in to Ghana after attending the African ICAs Directors meeting in nearby
Lome, Togo. She arrived on Sunday 4th November. From Monday 5th up to Thursday,
8th November, 2007 she took eight members of staff of ICA-Ghana through the
Group Facilitation Methods GFM course.
She covered the Basic Discussion Method,
Workshop Method, and Action Planning, She also introduced the participants to
Self Awareness and Coaching and Image Change.
Jan Sanders, whose trip was
sponsored by ICA Canada, flew back to Canada on Friday the 9th
November.
Jennifer icagh@africaonline.com.gh
JAPAN:
Location: Japan and around the world
Wedding Bells Ring Again!
Naomi Sato and Edwin -Eric- announced their forthcoming
marriage on November 23rd, and reception party on November 24th, in Shinjuku,
Tokyo, Japan. One week later the newlyweds will be dispatched again to Kenya
for three months to continue the JICA project with the Masaai people, and to
launch another two or three projects in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Training, Training,
Training
Shizuyo, Wayne, and Yuka facilitated the third GFM this year at
Shukutoku University. The highlight came when the action plans were for live
cases for the participants, and Shizuyo remarked that this was the best and
easiest GFM in three years, three times per year! Wayne returned from Kenya
after accomplishing monitoring and advanced staff training.
Three staff leave
for Nigeria in December to complete monitoring of construction of a school
building extension project, and to work with NIRADO to do community forums to
stimulate community involvement in the school.Environmental Research
Grant.
Shizuyo announced that the Toyota Foundation grant for Research for Lake
Water Purification was awarded to ICA Japan to find a great way to clean up the
polluted lakes in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Wayne Ellsworth staff@icajapan.org
NEPAL:
This week Madan facilitated a five day session for Health Department staff in
Pokhara on leadership and management issues. Tatwa facilitated a three day
session on 'PSP' in Dhaka for Concern Worldwide staff. There were 26
participants in both the programme.
On Nov. 4-5, Gloria, Atma and Madan
facilitated GFM in Kathmandu at ICA Nepal training centre. Some ICa staff are
fully busy on developing case studies and preparing for the district training
and National workshop on forestry issues.
This weekend we are celebrating
'deepawali' festival with great joy and spirit.
Tatwa ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
PERU:
Location: Chincha Earthquake Relief
Another week and another 315 homes were built with the total completed now over
1000. At a spirited meeting of the 60 Promotorers they reported that the total
of 1650 homes could well be completed in three weeks, putting the Project about
4 weeks ahead of schedule. This gave the staff the courage to write the
proposal for facilitating the buiding another 1,800 homes beginning in January,
however this time there will only be 10 weeks permitted for that Project. The
Promotores as a group also decided to assist three of the neighborhoods which
had many more homes to build, so that all 30 sectors can finish together.
Our
ICA staff is still watching all of this with some amazement to see how our 5
days of ICA community leadership training awakened these giants to lead their
neighborhoods to such rapid results. At the next meeting in two weeks we will
all turn our attention to a grand celebration to signal the completion of the
Project.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
TANZANIA:
Location: Handeni
This week a team of ICA Tanzania staff, Digna, Barie and Benson in Handeni
field office conducted an exercise of formation of children's rights protection
committees in 20 villages.Tthe main tasks were to form the committees, give the
brief of UN children rights convention and prepare the work plan for the
commitees in their villages.
Charles Luoga cluoga@yahoo.co.uk
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Lambert met with representatives from CIVICUS and board members from Itereleng
ICA in South Africa, and made the return trip to Montréal.
Sarah Miller completed
further documentation for charitable status and prepared communication for the
Working Gifts program, the 2008 Conference and fundraising for ICAI.
Katie sent a
symbolic item celebrating membership in the ICA network to national ICAs.
Sarah
Farina announced the National ICA Staff Training Program to commence in Montréal
during the summer of 2008. Applications for participants and volunteer faculty
were sent to colleagues in the ICA network. If you would like to support the
National ICA Staff Training Program, scholarships will be available through the
Working Gifts website being launched on November 15th.
Mike visited ICA Benin and
returned to Montréal before making his way to Toronto to represent ICAs at the
World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations conference.
Sarah Miller and
Sarah Farina participated in the European Interchange meeting via the
internet.
Sarah Miller and Katie will be attending the Stephanie Nolen HIV and
AIDS awareness event organized by ICA Canada in Toronto.
Sarah Farina sfarina@ica-international.org
