BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Habib, Naimul and Manik visited the ICA Ghoramara Human Development Project site
this week. They talked to beneficiaries of Rickshaw for employment generation by
the unemployed men and ICA Ghoramary Primary School teachers.
ICA Nepal is
organizing a Social Artistry Leadership training in Nepal and 6-8 ICA Bangladesh
members are planning to join the event in July. Janet and Richard are planning
to facilitate the training.
Mehdi, Naimul and Aziz are working for organizing a
training program with Larry in October. The courses proposed are PSP, GFM,
Leadership Development, and Teambuilding.
We submitted a proposal to Wayne for
street children project for TUC funding for 2008.
Aziz has finished 4 weeks of
ICAI Staff Training Program. Next week will focus on proposal development and
organizational management issues.
Naimul
Location: Canada
I am finishing 4 weeks in Canada today 20 June, 2nd week in Montreal starts on
21st June following 3 weeks in rural New
Brunswick spending very productive time having experience of practice of ORID and Consensus Workshop and
sustainability tools while practical work in organic farming, solar energy,
forest stewardship and community development and partnership building with Falls
Brook Center, in addition to learning organizational management, fundraising and
communication strategies.
From 5th week, I am going to be working in
universities in Canada - McGill, Concordia, Ottawa and Toronto meeting people
working in development sector, sociology, criminology and policy faculties. On
23rd June I was given appointment with Professor in the Institute for Prevention
of Crime, Department of Criminology in the University of Ottawa with cooperation
of Michael, Katie and Sarah.
My focus of meetings will be relating to development
issues so that it helps me in working with ICA.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
BENIN:
Location: Charm El Cheick
From 17 to 20 June, 2008, Lambassa ICA Benin was represented in a continental
meeting in Egypt-Charm EL cheick.This meeting was the pre-summit for African
Union annual Summit scheduled from 30 June in the same Town.
As the topic of the
Summit is Water and Sanitation in Africa, at least 75 NGOs havve been invited to
get their say on it.Two NGOs attended on behalf of Benin, ICA Benin for water
and sanitation and REDAD as representative of ECOSOC..
Issotina Kassimou lambassaica@yahoo.f
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
This has been a week of team facilitation for us.
John Miller, Jo Nelson, Leah
Taylor and Christine Pinto facilitated a workshop with a group of organizations
in Peel Region - Toronto Suburbs - who are focused on youth programming.
John
Miller, Duncan Holmes and Jo Nelson facilitated another workshop with the Ont.
Clean Water Agency.
Bill Staples taught Group Facilitation to a group from the
Quinte Health Department.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
JAPAN:
Location: ICA Japan
2008 Global Conference
Recently we have had strong support from our chairman,
Senator Mr. Iwao Matsuda. He assigned his secretary to contact Hida Takamaya
City Office and Gifu Prefectural Governor.
Mr. Matsuda already met Gifu Governor
Hajime Furuta last week to explain about the 2008 conference, and to set in
motion people to gather broad support and participation from local citizens.
This week his Secretary Mr. Komiyama, will visit the local government and
NGOs. We are going to ask the local government to send 100 translators!
This
global conference is the first time for Takayama city to have many international
people come for a fantastic event. Participants are going to make a new history
for Japan and give wonderful memory and dream to the Takamaya people and all of
Japan. Thank you for your cooperation to come to Japan. We are heartfully
waiting to see you in Japan.
Shizuyo SatoHanoi Vietnam Waste Water Treatment
Project
The population in Hanoi has grown rapidly in recent years, and
infrastructure such as sewerage systems has not kept up with the speed of
urbanisation. There are no local decentralised water treatment plants in the
city, so most waste waters from residential areas are poured straight into the
canals and rivers. Residents also dispose of their waste into these waters.
Blue-green algae, a poisonous plankton, can be seen growing in many lakes around
Hanoi. This plankton causes a lack of oxygen in the water, resulting in many
organisms dying. The algae is not seen in waters when pollution levels are low,
but in Hanoi it is rampant, due to urban waste water pouring into the waterways,
resulting in eutrophication.This project is to be a model case, so that the
local residents can participate in environmental protection and implement
similar projects around Hanoi.
The ultimate long-term aim of this project is to
prevent highly polluted urban waste water runoff into the water system so as to
prevent eutrophication in lakes. A more direct aim is to increase residents
awareness of water resources and the importance of keeping the lakes and
environment clean and hygienic.
Eiki Kubokawa staff@icajapan.org
PERU:
Location: Chincha Earthquake Recovery
The first 30 Promoters returned from their training in Azpitia and began work
with a complete census of the Community Kithens in thier Sectors. Meanwhile the
second school of 30 finished up an exciting week of training and returned home
very excited and ready to go to work with their census next week.
In Chincha the
18 members of the construction team perfected the construction of the
advanced-design smokeless stoves, and completed the construction of the first
30. These stoves take 4 people a day to build, but the results are dramatic,
saving about half of the firewood while cooking much faster and with no smoke in
the eyes of lungs of the women cooking. There is a lot excitement in the
community about the Project now.
Now we have to build 300 in the next ten weeks
-- plus a lot more activities as well. And the miracle of it is that ALL of the
work is being done by the people themselves.
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Katie and Lambert travelled to New Brunswick this week to join the training program participants for the final days at the Falls Brook Centre. Lambert spent Friday morning talking to the group about ICAI and its roles and responsibilities, how we relate to the national ICAs, where we’re coming from and where we hope to go. Sarah took over for the afternoon to discuss project reporting, and the group helped develop a report on the Falls Brook portion of the training program. Some memorable words from this exercise: mosquitos, compost toilet, sustainability, relationship-building.
We’re gearing up now for the last 2 weeks of the program in Montréal, and expecting the change in setting to bring about new perspective and energy.
Anticipation is building for the office launch and speaker series event Wednesday evening. We’re looking forward to celebrating our inauguration with friends, family and colleagues.
The 2007 ICAI Annual report is now ready and available from our ICAI website and also for download here http://ica-international.org/pdf/2007-annual-report.pdf (4.9MB)
Katie
