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African Great Lakes Initiative Opportunities
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Written by Dawn Rubbert
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 The African Great Lakes Initiative of Friends Peace Teams has announced workcamps for the summer of 2011 in Burundi and Rwanda. Both workcamps will run from June 25 to July 30, 2011. The Burundi work camp will involve construction improving the facilities of a clinic run by our partner, the Friends Womens' Association. In Rwanda, Gisenyi Friends Church will continue work on a conference center begun during the 2010 workcamp. For more information, click "read more", or contact Dawn Rubbert, Program Manager, African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI). |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 21 August 2010 )
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African Great Lakes Initiative News
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Written by David Zarembka
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by Jared Ouma Jomo - age 10 years AIDS! AIDS! Who are you?
Are you a bird?
Are you an insect?
Are you a big squary animal?
What do you want from us?
AIDS OH AIDS! Leave us alone
AIDS! AIDS! Who are you?
Do you have ears and hear us cry?
Do you have a head or a heart?
Where are you coming from?
What colour are you?
AIDS OH AIDS! Leave us alone.
Double Joy is an orphanage in Nyanza Province on the shore of Lake Victoria. It was founded and is run by a retired English woman named, Mary Hinde. Her daughter, Crissie Hinde, is a Friend from Sheffield, England. The orphanage is "double" because it means that both parents must have died, many I suspect of AIDS. There are 90 orphans living there. Their latest newsletter included this poem, written by one of the orphans.
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Peacebuilding en las Américas News
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Written by Val Liveoak
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This month has been less busy and I have had some time to think. This entry is a response to an ongoing conversation with Dave Zarembka, the coordinator of the African Great Lakes Initiative of Friends Peace Teams.
In Central America the issue of security comes up mainly for me in regard to travel between sites or workshops.
Options for travel range from air, private (taxi), semiprivate (shared taxi or shuttle) and public bus -- first class or common. So far I have considered air travel between sites in Central America to be privilege, a privilege I have not felt a need to exercise. With concerns about carbon footprints not to mention frugal use of FPT or my own money for travel, the first-class public bus has won out so far, even for trips of up to 20 hours. But many people, not only foreigners, say, "I can't stand to ride the bus that long, I have to fly."
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Last Updated ( Monday, 26 July 2010 )
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Peacebuilding en las Américas News
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Written by Val Liveoak
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June was a very full month of work. During the second week, I returned to San Pedro Sula to co-facilitate a Training for Facilitators (T4F) workshop with 10 members of the Women’s Dreamweavers group. They have already had 3 previous AVP workshops. Her co-facilitator was Lilian Vega who is currently in the US speaking about AVP work in Central America.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 08 July 2010 )
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African Great Lakes Initiative News
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Written by David Zarembka,
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The Healing and Rebuilding
Our Communities program (HROC - pronounced HE-rock) in Burundi is in
the midst of an Election Violence Prevention Program for the five
elections
between May 21 and September 7. As part of a grant from the United
States
Institute of Peace, HROC has formed Democracy and Peace groups in nine
volatile
communities in four provinces of Burundi. Each group has 80
participants who have received the basic HROC workshop and follow-up
training to
unite disparate people into cohesive groups that will work together to
prevent
violence during the elections in their community. We have finished this
training
process and the participants are enthusiastic about working together,
even
perhaps at risk to themselves.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 25 March 2010 )
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