Joomla! site syndication http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:24:49 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ Joomla! site syndication http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=181&Itemid=58 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). (index.php?option=com_contact task=view contact_id=5 Itemid=) African Great Lakes Initiative - AGLI Opportunities Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:22:06 +0100 http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=180&Itemid=51 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. African Great Lakes Initiative - AGLI News Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:51:58 +0100 http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=9 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. Peacebuilding en las Américas - Peacebuilding en las Américas News Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:52:22 +0100 http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=178&Itemid=9 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. Peacebuilding en las Américas - Peacebuilding en las Américas News Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:16:26 +0100 http://friendspeaceteams.org/FPTJ/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=177&Itemid=51 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. African Great Lakes Initiative - AGLI News Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:48:13 +0100