CANADA:
Eowynne followed up on a new potential initiative with the City
of
Mississauga. They are looking at creating youth engagement
strategies.
Shelley identified the last two youth trainers needed to
proceed with the
Georgina project.
Fred returned from a whirlwind tour
of Europe and got his feet securely sunk
back in ICA business.
Liz
also came back from her fabulous African experience with stories,
materials
and lots of ideas.
Cara Naiman cnaiman@icacan.ca
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Duncan taught several courses and facilitated a community planning
session in British Columbia near the site for the 2008 Olympics.
Bill worked
with Deb Ackley on creating Professional Learning Communities for agencies
funded by United Way, and taught a course in Waterloo, Ontario.
Jo taught
Meetings that Work to Ojibway people in Kenora, Ontario.
John facilitated a
session for a health organization in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Wayne visited his
mother in hospital in South Dakota, and
Christine organized future courses and
clients.
Jo Nelson jnelson@ica-associates.ca
JAPAN:
Location: Japan and Worldwide
In Mexico, Paulo, Kayo, Kaoru, and Wayne converged there to do business
training, ToP PSP, community forums, and monitoring of the womens self esteem
and community leadership. The Business Training went extremely well, and all
are really excited.
Mamiko Tanaka arrived in Vietnam to lead a project for
tree nursery, reforestation, and community leader training. She had the first
meeting with Hao and Thau on Saturday.
In our now empty feeling office,
Shizuyo began concentrating on 2008 site confirmation, the Peace Links Gala
Party, and going to Vietnam with Chisso Corporation, International Division, the
first week of December.
The 2008 conference committee put the English and
Japanese Interim brochure and information on the website www.2008.icajapan.org, and set January 8
to 12 for a week long focused planning and visiting for the 7th Global
Conference on Human Development Unlocking the Potential to Create a New World,
Together.
We received the first email interest registration today from
Nepal. Please go to the website and try the interest registration today. Use the
tab named Inquiries. Its easy.
Wayne Ellsworth wayne@icajapan.org
PERU:
Location: 100 Valleys
Gloria Santos and Esaud Caycho orchestrated appointments with 7 mining
companies this week and it appears that the first three week AVANZA PERU program
is sold out for 21 Jan, so we opened a second one for 18 Feb. which puts us on a
solid financial footing again. In the process of this national marketing
campaign we have discovered several great new colleagues, and also gained
confidence in the preparation and acceptance of the ICA methods and staff for
tackling the huge 10-year 100 Valleys Project.
Ken Hamje kenh@ica-peru.org
ITERLENG ICA South Africa:
We conducted training of 19 young people around gender, sexual rights,
financial management and advocacy in preparation for the Campaign known as '16
Days of Activism against Violence against Women and Children'. These young
people are all members of the YFL programme and will be implementing various
activities, such as Community Dialogues and Community Theatre, in their
communities over the next 2 weeks as part of the campaign.
A Board meeting took
place on Wednesday and board members also had the opportunity to meet the young
people who are involved in this campaign.
Susan Mogari, a Board member and volunteer, and John Cornwell, HR
co-ordinator, attended a Personal development training weekend called 'More To
Life' being run by Kairos Foundation, with whom we are collaborating to develop
this training with members of the YFL programme.
John Cornwell and Fisser Mupuka icaadmin@telkomsa.net
TANZANIA:
Location: Monduli and Longido-Arusha region.
Charles Luoga of ICA-Tanzania is attending a one month training on water
management at Watershed Organisation Trust -WOTR in India, from 20th November
to 19th December 2006
Our sincere thanks goes to Thea and John Patterson for
their continued support to strengthen ICA-Tanzania capacity.
Jacob E.Girista icatz@kicheko.com
UNITED KINGDOM:
Location: UK, Africa and Jerusalem
Jonathan returned from Jerusalem and discussions on how to incorporate
ToP in a conflict transformation approach.
Proposals were received from African
ICAs to build into a submission to the Big Lottery Fund for HIV/AIDS..
A new Youth
Programme Coordinator was selected.
Martin did more in-house work and attended
the inaugural meeting of the UK IAF network with Julie, and delivered a PSP
course in Manchester.
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org.uk