Dear Andrius,Janet and all in the forum,
I must come up today after several travels to meetr
the deaf in the field,my work is still limited becaus
of lack of acomp.
well this time on my food stories is in Ahero
kochogo..here is Adhier born deaf and went to School
in sikri he learn Agricultu he is now producing to
matoes ans sell them in Ahero . Its quite tiresome but
he muct do it since h rents aroom and pay for
electricity. This money has helped him..so much..we ar
trying to keep him awayrom the local btew affecting
his life..He is streesd because he is deaf so he tries
to take this drnk to forget his phisical challenge.

Near the Railway line west of kisumu..is Nyamongo 40
yrs and single he has tried to get married 3times but
they live him because h is deaf howver he is aproducwr
pf onoins he is suplying in kibuye this is abig market
io Eafrica..with this money he rentsaroom..he is
limitd in that he needs abike to supply this proceds
the little can only pay rent..he plants the Grass
onion.

Iam impreesd with afamily of Wachara ..he cant remmber
Exact date of births as he was born hearing but lost
the parents ...he keeps pigs this man is wonderfull he
is also ashoe repairer he laernt in adeaf school..I
hope we shall have him mor e in my food stories.
He only sell pigs that are grown up tp the butchers
recently he enjoyed abig boost sine many peopleDID NOT
TAKE OTHER MEET DUE TO RVF..CAUSED BUT OTHER MEET.
He is maried nad keeps his family.

THANKS
TOM OCHUKA.

--- Andrius Kulikauskas <ms@...> wrote:

> It's late at night but I want to invite us to my
> webinar which I'm
> presenting this Thursday, April 26 , 10:00am-12:30pm
> in Florida (which
> is 3:00pm-5:30pm in London and 5:00pm-7:30pm in
> Lithuania).
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/message/907
>
> I especially invite Fred Kayiwa and all of our
> African participants as I
> will be talking about "Investigations with African
> Independent
> Thinkers". I hope to include you as much as
> possible. You will need to
> download the Elluminate software. You will be able
> to use the chat and
> also we will use our wiki at http://www.worknets.org
> to show our pages,
> and maybe even upload some photos that you may have.
> If you aren't
> able to set up Elluminate on your computer, then
> still join us at our
> lab's chat channel http://www.worknets.org/chat/ and
> we will find a way
> to engage you there as well. Sasha, will you be
> able to help? Thank
> you for manning our chat channel and helping
> Lorraine of Cawd Net to
> learn how to use our wiki!
>
> One of my themes will be linking up our endeavors,
> we're collecting an
> impressive list:
> http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors
> and our resources
> http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Resources
>
> I will be trying to engage us to think how we might
> best pursue our
> endeavors so that we build public assets as we help
> each other grow. I
> encourage us to link our endeavors to our
> investigatory questions and
> our deepest values. Then we can invest in them
> because they are helping
> us to grow. Small projects are good for learning
> how we can impact the
> world. But large endeavors have us remake some
> aspect of our world and
> so they demand accountability from us that we grow
> accordingly. That is
> why I think it is so important that we keep
> grounding our endeavors in
> our investigatory questions and our deepest values.
>
> I have been notified of a final payment of 12,000
> USD underway to our
> Minciu Sodas laboratory from the Una Mesa
> Association for our work on My
> Food Story. This means that our lab's future is
> assured for at least
> six months. My wish now is to learn to slow down my
> pace so that I and
> others can work at a slower, deeper pace. I want to
> give my priority to
> my own investigatory questions, to develop my
> creative work in
> Lithuanian, and to go to bed at a reasonable hour,
> eat healthy, lose
> weight, exercise and get in shape. I hope to buy a
> car and be able to
> find a network of "global villages" throughout
> Lithuania that I might
> work from. (Our headquarters in Pavilnys are being
> renovated and I
> probably can't return to live there in any event.)
> We will also be
> organizing video bridges. And I want to spend the
> next month or two
> developing our websites, especially
> http://www.worknets.org I will also
> be looking for new clients.
>
> On Saturday I sent money to quite a few of our
> participants for future work:
> 100 USD to FredKayiwa in Uganda
> 100 USD to WendiLoshaBernadette (ActwidKongadzem) in
> Cameroon
> 100 USD to SuryaRaoMaturu in India
>
> Earlier I sent
> 100 USD to Helen Mahoo in Tanzania
> 100 USD to Tom Ochuka in Kenya
> who I feel have completed half their work for us and
> can do a bit more.
>
> Pamela McLean also delivered 500 USD to our team in
> Nigeria. We'll be
> focusing there on educational projects.
>
> Also, Ken Owino has cashed the check for 100 USD
> that I sent him for the
> work he has done. And I'm interested to send him
> flash drives and/or
> computer parts. Let's think and write more about
> that.
>
> And Samwel Kongere is I think receiving 1000 USD
> from Chris Macrae for
> their projects, which is wonderful! Samwel and I
> will be looking for
> ways of overlapping our work, so that we can support
> his work (on
> malaria) and he can support our work (on shoe
> stories) and so on.
>
> My basic idea is that instead of just doing work for
> 100 USD our
> researchers can do five bits of work (such as for
> malaria or flu
> pandemic or shoe stories or food stories or solaroof
> or fish ponds) for
> 20 USD each. We have money in different locations
> and we each help with
> each other's projects. This should engage our
> online worldwide
> community and help integrate our projects. We will
> learn how to do
> this. That is why it's important to work slowly.
>
> All of these are resources for future work. We
> should think carefully
> before applying this money. What are the projects
> at our lab that we
> can support? What is the best way for them to
> overlap?
>
> For example, my plan is that Surya Rao Maturu in
> India will take the
> lead to coordinate our work on collecting "shoe
> stories" in Africa and
> to help Christine Ax decide where in our network in
> Africa she might
> best send her shoe production machine. Each of our
> African researchers
> can send as many shoe stories as they think would be
> helpful. But we're
> not paying for them to collect these stories.
> Instead, we will think of
> other projects, or a mixture of projects.
>
> It's very important that these projects relate to
> their personal
> interests. For example, Fred, you wrote wonderfully
> about your
> interests in Internet centers but also beekeeping.
> How would you
> connect that with your deepest value?
> "always thinking of being helpful person to the
> needy and we make a
> better future and better world"
> and your investigatory questions?
> "How one can get success in life and get rid of
> problems that makes him
> have no god future both on earth and heaven?"
> "What should be the right procedures of spreading
> the gospel?"
> What might they have to do with Internet centers and
> beekeeping?
> That is very important for us to "meet you halfway"
> and hold you
> accountable for your growth!
>
> Also, the Internet costs so much in Africa that we
> will learn to get the
> most for our money, for example, we can create ways
> to download all the
> letters from our lab to a flash drive. Let's write
> what would be
> useful. It's not that hard for me to program that.
> Let's make sure that
> we each have our own computers so that we don't have
> to sit too long in
> the Internet cafes. And lets learn to think deeply
> without computers,
> too! And to work on-the-ground but know that we are
> connected.
>
> I also sent
> 400 USD to SashaMrkailo in Serbia
> for his assistance in April and May. Sasha is
> active at our chat
> channel http://www.worknets.org/chat/ and our wiki
> http://www.worknets.org He is so helpful and this
> is a great
> opportunity to learn how to use our websites and to
> get support for our
> work on our pages for our projects. I encourage us
> to ask for his
> help. Let's experiment with what is most useful.
> Meanwhile, Sasha is
>
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Well said Samwel. It's the people who drive change -  without them to
use it, and inspire its use, the technology is a useless tool.
Pam



samuel kongere wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know in Africa we have multi related bad governance problems which
> cut across hills and valleys of minds of people around the globe. I
> will suppose many problems are up and down, while others come in place
> of ignorance. Why do I say this? Bad governance, we live in a time
> where we should have a changed constitution which can help develop the
> grassroot communities than having bureaucratic situations where
> misappropriation of funds starts at the top going down. When the
> Government announce an increase of GPD and this not felt by the local
> man, why?
>
> So, what went wrong in our leadership and our people? The country
> needs to invest is not only technology, but also people. In the past
> buying a machine was the ultimate investment, but now government and
> private organizations, all over the world are putting money on people
> to do cutting- research and come up with innovative.
>
> The third world very competitive and organizations workforce and
> knowledge base are a great asset. If technology has to work for us,
> the people must change their mind sets from a third world mentality to
> that of a first world.
>
> It is said that the problem is 20% technology and 80% cultural change.
> Technology must drive my vision 2014.  It is only then we begin to
> look like community admirals and if life getting better, any name of
> success will do in either 10 or less years.
> Sam.
>
>
>
> Samwel Okech kongere
> Nyamuga primary school
> P.O BOX 191,
> MBITA  040305- KENYA.
> Cell: +254 725 600 439
> FOSS ADMIRER
> Community Development
> UDOGO youth development group-coordinat or
>
>
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> Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.
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>
>

Chris,

 

I have been working with children  for along time and  making them have stories is good and fine. You mentioned a mobile stuff, I don't have the Mobile stuff which you say and if having it can make have a 2-minute story, then I am ready. I believe having  a digital video Camera can help me faster to make a video. Or this is not what is needed. We can get children's stories from child care centers, fish beaches, homes, and cities.

 

Your suggestions makes me eager and wanting to do more of information handling. I love the way you suggest. Tell me what me to do.

Sam

Samwel Okech kongere

Nyamuga primary school

P.O BOX 191,

MBITA  040305-KENYA.

Cell: +254 725 600 439

FOSS ADMIRER

Community Development

UDOGO youth development group-coordinator

I share also with our Minciu Sodas laboratory's new group The Optimal
Life. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theoptimallife/ Andrius
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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Samwel Kongere and I chatted today about his endeavors and how they
relate to his deepest value ("Motivation through sacrifice") and his
investigatory question ("How can i change our people's mind set to
knowledge based approach?"). He is working on five endeavors and, in
order of his personal interest, they are Literacy, ICT, Africa regional
network, Malaria prevention, Community websites. So in our work with him
we will try to focus especially on literacy and learning and see how the
others can flow from that.

Asif, I confirm that we will present a webinar on June 7th. Samwel will
try to lead this from Tanzania and if he succeeds then I imagine this
would be a great chance to meet our Tanzanian team. The subject will be
what role literacy and learning might have in all of our many projects.
I will help him structure it as a "meeting" like we did last time.

Asif Daya, Jenny Watt, yes, thank you for organizing the webinars.
Please know that I and our Minciu Sodas laboratory would be glad to
organize one webinar per month. The dates can be fluid as far as we are
concerned, but if you like July 19th (Pamela McLean), August 30th (if
available), November 1st, December 13th. We will try to find an African
leader for each one (such as Fred Kayiwa in Uganda, or Ken Owino or Tom
Ochuka in Kenya, or Wendi Losha Bernadette in Cameroon, and others as
available). And we will proceed with my help (or Pam's or Sasha's...)
much as we did last time. And please be sure to organize these so that
the content is in the Public Domain because that is essential for our
lab's participation. Let's think how we might make these materials
available in a wide variety of formats so they are reused.

Pamela McLean, Yes, let us do weekly Skype calls and chat sessions.
Fridays are a fine day for me, but I can only until just before 4:00 pm
London time this Friday. So why don't we try it from 3:00pm to 4:00pm
this Friday and others might stay longer if they like? Our chat website
is: http://www.worknets.org/chat/ We've had quite a few wonderful chats
already. I encourage us to enter any time and you can see at all of our
websites http://www.ms.lt http://www.worknets.org
http://www.myfoodstory.info the most recent line from the chat room.

Chris Macrae, thank you for your wonderful letter on your investigations
and endeavors!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/learningfromeachother/message/520 You can
see that you are quite prominent at our Endeavor page:
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors So far you have 10 endeavors!
but Franz Nahrada has the most (15!), and Samwel Kongere has 6, Marcin
Jakubowski 5, Ken Owino 3, Tom Ochuka 3, Fred Kayiwa 2, Fred Obala 2,
Jeff Buderer 2, Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz 2, Roy Lent 2. It is good for
a person to have many endeavors because it means that they are
"working-in-parallel" with themselves and others, and likewise
"learning-in-parallel", and they are integrating themselves in a
well-rounded way, and are open to getting help from a wide variety of
people and are relevant to them. Such people are also able to work at a
more steady pace because they are able to look for solutions that are
deeper and they are making progress on many levels.

I will engage each of us to make sure that our endeavors are linked to
our own personal accountability for our personal growth as centered in
our own deepest values and our own investigatory questions. My chat with
Samwel shows what I mean. It's rather simple but insists on clarity of
purpose. Sasha Mrkailo and I are garnering our endeavors from our
archive of letters and we're tagging them, too, as we go along. This
helps us not forget our newcomers. But I want to make sure to chat with
all of our leaders, including Markus Petz, Janet Feldman, Pamela McLean,
Maria Agnese Giraudo, John Rogers, Benoit Couture, Jeff Buderer, Joy
Tang, Steve Bosserman, James Ferguson, Greg Wolff, Tom Wayburn, Eluned
Hurn, Richard Nelson, George Christian Jeyaraj, Christine Ax, Synnove
Mathe, Shahrez Khan, Awne Abozant and to connect with potential leaders
such as Marcin Jakubowski, Nancy Glock-Gruenich, Edward Cherlin, Terry
Mace, Steve Bonzak. Please write about your endeavors - what you would
like to accomplish or work on in the coming year? and how that relates
to your deepest value in life, and to your investigatory questions (what
you don't know but would like to know?)

This will let us know how we might effectively apply our resources. We
have participants with our money (typically 100 USD) on-the-ground
awaiting instructions in Nigeria, Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda,
India, Palestine, Serbia and Lithuania. We will be able to have many
people work in small ways to help us on many projects. I want us to be
serving our laboratory's most mature thinkers because later when we find
new clients we will know what we care about and so will be able to meet
them halfway regarding that. Otherwise we are lost!

Oh yes, I will write about my own endeavors. And I encourage us to think
about God's endeavors, too. How do we imagine them?

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...


20120 Andrius: Good morning! I am around and will be working on my
philosophy and then on the recent changes in our wiki and our endeavors.
28448 [System]: arsc_user_enter~~Samwel~~Free For All
28459 Samwel: Hi Andrius
28516 Samwel: i have been offline and trying to catch up with the dicussion
30594 [System]: arsc_user_enter~~Andrius~~Free For All
30609 [Andrius]: Hi Samwel I am showing my father how we use this chat
30856 Samwel: I will be back in minutes
32970 Andrius: Hi Samwel
32987 Andrius: Here is my message: Excellent letters!
32990 Samwel: You are with your Dad still great!
32999 Andrius: And I have a lot of thoughts for coordinating our work.
33006 Andrius: Also, I should be able to provide a video camera for use
by those in your regional network.
33012 Andrius: I imagine two months or so at a time in Rusinga Island,
Nairobi, Kisumu and so on.
33019 Andrius: Maybe we can have Agnese bring it to you.
33025 Andrius: I can use the money that I need to spend on Video Bridges
33032 Samwel: I see
33037 Andrius: I need to think more about this but it is an idea I am
thinking about.
33045 Samwel: You think as me
33047 Andrius: I need to spend 4000 euros for the Video Bridge project
33056 Andrius: and I think that the video camera would cost 400 euros
33057 Samwel: You can make Mari abring it
33077 Andrius: and also good digital cameras that do short videos would
cost 200 euros
33088 Samwel: Oh it is cheap their then
33096 Andrius: The video cameras for 400 euros can record directly onto
DVD disks
33105 Andrius: and so the disks can be easily copied with computers
33106 Samwel: Here about 1000$
33108 Andrius: and mailed
33115 Samwel: yes
33123 Andrius: Yes it would be good to think what you could do.
33135 Andrius: For example, I could provide your network with a video
camera
33145 Andrius: and then you could all agree to help us with some kind of
work
33146 Samwel: Idid one for a center here and it was good
33152 Andrius: good!
33170 Andrius: Yes please keep us posted on how you plan to spend your
money
33181 Samwel: I think we were trying to bring our mind to shoe stories
33183 Andrius: And then we can contribute our ideas how we might coordinate
33199 Andrius: yes but first I want to make a plan for our endeavors
overall
33207 Andrius: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors
33208 Samwel: ok
33214 Andrius: perhaps you can write about all of your endeavors
33218 Andrius: and also other people in Kenya
33229 Andrius: including your colleagues on Rusinga Island
33232 Samwel: Like the porjects and alleh
33240 Andrius: If we list all the endeavors then we can overlap them all.
33248 Andrius: And be very effective.
33259 Samwel: i see
33263 Andrius: Also it is very important to keep thinking about our
Investigatory Questions
33273 Andrius: because that is how we know which Endeavors are very
important.
33279 Andrius: And our Deepest Values too.
33296 Andrius: Because it is very easy for people to make a lot of noise
about projects
33296 Samwel: I can see your undersatnding
33305 Samwel: yes
33310 Andrius: but not connect that with what we can learn
33313 Andrius: or what we care about.
33326 Andrius: Maybe there is some of this problem in the earlier
Malaria project
33331 Andrius: and we want to avoid this you know.
33331 Samwel: how do you see my hopefulfs?
33345 Andrius: What do you mean?
33356 Samwel: What I hope to do
33370 Andrius: I think you are a brilliant leader
33378 Andrius: and so it is very important that you focus deeply
33380 Samwel: I m doing afocus tech, Malaria and school
33386 Andrius: on what you think is important in life.
33391 Andrius: yes your letter was excellent
33401 Samwel: which one
33401 Andrius: and I think very important to share with the group
33404 Andrius: today's
33412 Samwel: ok
33437 Andrius: for our culture it is very important that we keep writing
openly through the groups
33441 Andrius: so that we think openly
33446 Andrius: and people can join us in their thinking
33452 Andrius: and we design for that possibility.
33516 Samwel: yes you have used this to bring me up I thank you
33561 Samwel: on the Webinar you looked great with your presentation
33572 Samwel: you only got my breath
33596 Samwel: What do you want us to present on Seventh
33607 Andrius: Yes you should lead the webinar on the sevent
33621 Andrius: and I think it should be a "meeting" to coordinate activity
33626 Andrius: on some subject that you care about.
33644 Andrius: So your deepest value is still, the same, yes?
33661 Andrius: And what are the questions that you are currently
exploring or want to explore?
33663 Samwel: yes I have not cahnged yet
33757 Andrius: and your questions?
33772 Andrius: that is very important for you to be an effective leader
33784 Andrius: what is it that you want to learn? and how do you want to
grow?
33828 Samwel: Yes I want to lear some business mangement and project
writing
33877 Samwel: And content mangement are the two topics but you positio
makes me rethink who you are?
33885 Andrius: what do you not know about these things? why do you want
to learn these things?
33929 Samwel: The way you manage the lab is fantastic, what do i need to
know to work like that or some what ?
33997 Samwel: How can I become a technology expert when using WiFi and
Wi-Max
34010 Andrius: and what would you like to manage?
34029 Samwel: The started projects here
34086 Andrius: why are business management, project writing, content
management important to you?
34089 Samwel: Technology net work, school and Data analysis
34125 Samwel: yes, These are the components to change my life
34137 Andrius: how would you like to change your life?
34171 Samwel: in knowledge based as I am sending a letter our cause of
problems
34199 Samwel: Contributing as achnge agent
34244 Andrius: what kind of change would you like to make?
34323 Samwel: we must change our mind based on being in the third world
but upgrade our life to first world , eh?
34373 Samwel: because the world is becoming very competitive
34408 Samwel: ...and if you don,t compete with knowledge based then you
are left aside
34482 Andrius: yes but some few people in the first world are wondering
how to make the world less competitive and include everybody without
competition, or with a friendly competition
34523 Andrius: so it's important that you have a very clear and precise
question about this!
34528 Samwel: yes friendly competion is good if there is sahring
34543 Samwel: like/
34586 Samwel: How can i change our people mind set to knowledge based?
34612 Andrius: yes and what do you mean by that? why is that important
to you?
34671 Samwel: It motivates me and keep wanting to do more to improve the
situatoin
34694 Andrius: how do you think knowledge helps people?
34702 Andrius: or a knowledge based approach?
34757 Samwel: it brings change as you will phsychological understanding
and say that I cannot study and live the same live
34793 Samwel: i mean life
34806 Andrius: so a knowledge based approach encourages people to ever
change their lives?
34824 Samwel: Knowledge expands thinking and capacity to build
34831 Andrius: very good idea
34870 Andrius: So how would you state your question, what are you asking
yourself and trying to learn?
34881 Samwel: Even when our fish catch goes low here the learned have
taken some activities to support not fishing alone
34901 Andrius: yes they adapt
34916 Andrius: and even think ahead and keep growing
34923 Samwel: do you think i can still cahnge this VHow can i change our
people mind set to knowledge based
34940 Andrius: I think it would help if you made it more clear what you
mean
34946 Andrius: and why it is important to you
34955 Andrius: because then we can work effectively with you.
34967 Andrius: Your ideas above are very helpful.
34978 Samwel: for now I have been thinking baout it but can cahnge it later
34980 Andrius: But how can you state that so people at our lab can
understand what you mean
34993 Andrius: ok we can write that as you like
35040 Samwel: Let me put it this way! How can i change our people's mind
set to knowledge based approach?
35047 Andrius: yes
35060 Samwel: use this for now
35092 Samwel: I ma also making a mail concerning this
35093 Andrius: yes and I have now put it here:
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?SamwelKongere
35100 Andrius: and I think I understand what you mean
35103 Samwel: ok
35118 Andrius: And now if you have time it would be good to make a list
of your "endeavors"
35122 Andrius: what are you trying to accomplish?
35149 Samwel: do get me right?
35177 Andrius: I think so
35279 Samwel: ok Andrius i think you will buy the vedeo camera and
digital camera, and do you think a microphone and headphone can be possible
35311 Samwel: for your suggestion?
35313 Andrius: do you need those or can you buy them locally?
35347 Andrius: and also I need to calculate your bonus (for My Food
Story) and send that to you
35351 Samwel: no here everything is damn expensive
35355 Andrius: ok!
35387 Samwel: You can do your work, I don't have to push you
35390 Andrius: ok so let's have that in mind and make a plan what kind
of work you and your team could do
35413 Samwel: in several areas
35416 Andrius: but I want to ask because you are here, about your
endeavors, what do you wish to accomplish? can we chat about that?
35449 Andrius: Also, can I send you a personal check in US dollars for
you to cash at your bank, that would be best
35504 Samwel: yes it will do can you send before I leave home on 25th May
35547 Andrius: ok
35569 Andrius: I will send later this week and I will use the address on
your emails
35579 Samwel: yes
35591 Samwel: that will be the bonus?
35596 Andrius: yes
35610 Andrius: but I forget how much I have already sent so I need to
calculate the amount and let you know
35625 Samwel: ok
35660 Andrius: so lets consider different areas where you want to
accomplish something
35662 Andrius: and make a list
35682 Andrius: and then connect it with helping change people's minds
for a knowledge based approach
35738 Andrius: for example, what would you like to accomplish regarding
malaria?
35764 Samwel: Kenya has had a history of marginalization of tribes and
communities and the situation has not greatly improved since. Much of
Nyanza province remains poor and many live below the one-dollar and
famine that usually threatens lives year by year.
35797 Samwel: Majority of Kenyans poor are faced with many constraints
such as lack of knowledge and skills, lack of credit, lack of
information and knowledge about what to produce and how to produce to
earn more money, HIV/Aids, Malaria, insecurity and poor yields, this is
also an attribute to illiteracy. This has resulted into lack of food,
few productive assets and low yields, lack of essential services, la
35856 Andrius: this kind of information is very helpful
35883 Samwel: You see I would want Malaria intervention and actual
control of Larvae at the breeding sites
35890 Andrius: how would you like to respond?
35942 Samwel: We had came to a situation where the MST are convasant
with Mosquitoes and breeding sites
36003 Andrius: oh that is good
36007 Samwel: so the response is to get help of scientists to get
harmless chemicals which can destroy larvaes and leave other insects
36007 Andrius: and what are the next steps?
36017 Andrius: do you know what such chemicals are?
36022 Andrius: or do you need to find out?
36045 Andrius: can you do experiments on this?
36105 Samwel: the resource people are trained to handle sprays in houses
as PSC pyrethrum spray catch
36112 Andrius: also are there ways that you can use the breedings sites
so that they are no longer attractive to mosquitoes, perhaps grow fish?
36143 Samwel: yes the information can be got from ICIPe
36150 Andrius: what is the website?
36215 Samwel: yes that is the next option and all time, most of the
breeding sites are artificial about 80%
36238 Andrius: that is interesting
36257 Samwel: You know does many activitivies and we only posted at the
Malaria journal
36262 Samwel: before
36282 Andrius: So let us formulate this as an endeavor for Malaria
36291 Samwel: yes
36307 Andrius: and how does a knowledge based approach relate here?
36311 Samwel: if it can be understood if you tuned it
36318 Andrius: and changing people's mindsets?
36382 Samwel: Having a framework for strategies designed to take action
and to meet the specific needs of under served community members, which
can become the backbone of a new model framework of international
education liberation on a global sharing through information advocacy.
36458 Samwel: By giving the people knowledge they will first understand
their situation and find a better way to cahnge
36494 Andrius: yes and for malaria?
36498 Andrius: malaria prevention?
36505 Samwel: Literacy and practical knowledge are the action tools
needed to break the cycle of neglect of education for our girl/child and
women adults, using flash cards to carry information. The education of
today’s youth especially the girl in the developing world will
additionally benefit the nation
36545 Samwel: you have train thosewho are trainable
36590 Samwel: like the statistics put it at 66% are illiterate
36672 Samwel: But meaning training the trainables is having semi
literates to expand like put more efforts on adults contuing education
36772 Andrius: So our education projects are important here, yes?
Including the flash cards so people can teach themselves to read?
36817 Samwel: I developed that idea for you information on Flash cards
and still can work
36975 Samwel: If somebody cannot understand oneself then he/she is lost
in though but knowledge based can help improve
37050 Andrius: So I am making a list at
http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors including the following
endeavors from you:
37056 Samwel: If you don't train people on knowledge then the work force
is not there
37153 Andrius: Literacy/Learning, ICT center and network, Malaria
prevention, African/Kenyan regional network
37156 Andrius: anything else?
37164 Samwel: technology cannot solve all educational problems of
learning but what is relevant to thesis of this paper is that technology
is vital and can achieve the following goals.Make learning more
interactive and thus allowing for action steps to take place.Make
learning more interactive and thus allowing for action steps to take place.
37211 Samwel: Farming websites where to access local and international
reading materials inform of virtual library and online aids prevention
programmes through network laboratory and finally artsnet edulitnet
Agrifishnet an online marketing grid for our peasant farmers and fisherman.
37273 Samwel: so my endeavors are based on children going to school,
adult contnuing education thro ICT and Malaria control
37276 Samwel: no more
37310 Andrius: How do you understand AIDS prevention, what makes sense?
37359 Samwel: Yes of late here there is improment
37379 Andrius: that is good
37383 Andrius: what is working?
37416 Samwel: The IMC international stated Door to door testing which
enabled more to accept their status
37452 Samwel: There is an organization taking care of patients and we
can councel people freely
37478 Samwel: people can only now die due to shy or want to die
37542 Samwel: at stages, I know there are four window periods and people
start taking ARVs at the second or third satge not fourth
37550 Samwel: great improvement
37595 Andrius: That is good news.
37607 Andrius: What would you like to do with video
37625 Samwel: So Family Aids care and Education Services ( FACES) is the
people's hopes
37683 Samwel: I will take more scripts from children and What they do at
school, Home nad at leisure.
37722 Samwel: Commercial activities f women and men, touts
37755 Samwel: There is no restriction here you can capture anything of
value
37763 Samwel: Variaty
37846 Andrius: yes this is like our story collections?
37867 Samwel: yes
37991 Andrius: What is most interesting to you personally: Literacy,
ICT, Malaria prevention, Africa regional network, Websites for farmers,
or AIDS prevention?
38002 Andrius: How would you rank them in terms of your personal interest?
38109 Samwel: Literacy, ICT, Africa regional network, Malaria
prevention, community websites
38127 Andrius: ok so I will put them in that order
38136 Andrius: and so we will focus with you on Literacy and Learning
38145 Andrius: and everything will flow out of that, yes?
38154 Samwel: ok
38168 Andrius: and I encourage you to study all of our endeavors
38178 Andrius: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Endeavors
38190 Samwel: i am their
38193 Andrius: and especially Chris Macrae's because he is many and he
is supporting you
38203 Andrius: and see how your endeavors can support his endeavors
38203 Samwel: yes
38212 Andrius: be careful I will be editing the page
38269 Samwel: ok
38323 Andrius: You can see there is a lot to organize but the result
will be very impressive I think.
38338 Samwel: wonderful
38359 Andrius: For example, Pamela is very interested in education in
Nigeria, and Agnese is interested in local publishing and Fred Kayiwa
cares about education in his home village.
38367 Andrius: So we can help each other with experiments.
38379 Samwel: yes
38383 Andrius: Also, we have people who want to know how we can impacdt
people's minds
38401 Andrius: for example, Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz want people to
think about preparing for pandemic flu
38425 Andrius: so we can help on this as we experiment with learning and
literacy strategies
38433 Andrius: how to make these things "viral"
38440 Andrius: so they spread by themselves as much as possible.
38634 Andrius: And please think in your area if you might collect such
endeavors from your people, what do they want to accomplish?
38647 Andrius: And their deepest values and investigatory questions? (We
have some of these already).
38655 Andrius: Then we could help your region even more I think.
38805 Samwel: many people are letting me tired but would do this in
another approach you remember David Orato, he is not taking much
resposiblity after the food stories but some older men can accept but
not youths. How can we help David he is a n active member my Malaria
team but eak in communication
38890 Andrius: Yes this is a good think for us to explore together is
how to include people on the ground for whom it is harder to communicate
but would like to participate?
38995 Samwel: ok Andrius, I wish to leave and attend a women's meeting
39003 Andrius: yes it was great chatting
39036 Andrius: and let's focus your webinar on the role of Literacy on
all of our projects
39043 Andrius: or please think about it
39114 Samwel: yes the overall view ends in literacy make a topic from that
39140 Samwel: is it on July seventh?
39362 Samwel: I am closing down anything?
39459 Andrius: June 7th!
39714 Samwel: oh june seventh we will be together with Maria in Tanzania
and don't know if we can access!
39739 Samwel: I will find the possiblity for my particpation
39746 Andrius: ok
39753 Andrius: that would be good to try if you can
39758 Andrius: or otherwise I will take charge
39906 Samwel: oh bye dear director next time or tomorrow, ok

 

Hi All,

 

I know in Africa we have multi related bad governance problems which cut across hills and valleys of minds of people around the globe. I will suppose many problems are up and down, while others come in place of ignorance. Why do I say this? Bad governance, we live in a time where we should have a changed constitution which can help develop the grassroot communities than having bureaucratic situations where misappropriation of funds starts at the top going down. When the Government announce an increase of GPD and this not felt by the local man, why?

So, what went wrong in our leadership and our people? The country needs to invest is not only technology, but also people. In the past buying a machine was the ultimate investment, but now government and private organizations, all over the world are putting money on people to do cutting- research and come up with innovative.

The third world very competitive and organizations workforce and knowledge base are a great asset. If technology has to work for us, the people must change their mind sets from a third world mentality to that of a first world.

It is said that the problem is 20% technology and 80% cultural change. Technology must drive my vision 2014.  It is only then we begin to look like community admirals and if life getting better, any name of success will do in either 10 or less years.

Sam.

Samwel Okech kongere

Nyamuga primary school

P.O BOX 191,

MBITA  040305-KENYA.

Cell: +254 725 600 439

FOSS ADMIRER

Community Development

UDOGO youth development group-coordinator

 

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Hi Asif, Please let's clarify that we don't know yet which of our
laboratory's African leaders will be able to lead sessions and when.
Also, let's please not commit them unnecessarily, it can be burdensome
for the speakers. It's very important not to place any unnecessary
burdens on the poor especially. Please feel free to say that Andrius
Kulikauskas of the Minciu Sodas laboratory will be hosting African
independent thinkers. Thank you for your webinars! Andrius Kulikauskas

asif.daya@... wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Here are some dates that are taken – so you can mark your calendars
> for those Webinars – and dates that are available, if you would like
> to speak at a Webinar:
>
> The dates that are taken for sure are – please try to attend:
>
> May 3rd – Richard Heller and John Dada (on Peoples University &
> Healthcare) 11 – 1 EST/DST
>
> May 24th Imran Mirza (Canadian Gov – on Security) 11 – 1 EST/DST
>
> June 7th Andrius/Samwel? 10:30 – 12:30 EST/DST
>
> June 28th Karim Kassam (e-medicine) 11 – 1 EST/DST
>
> JULY 19th Pamela McLean / Andrius 10:30 – 12:30 EST/DST
>
> Aug 30th Andrius / Fred Kayiwa 10:30 – 12:30 EST/DST
>
> Sept 20t Janet Salmons (Communication) 11 – 1 EST/DST
>
> Oct 11th Janet Salmons (Communication) 11 – 1 EST/DST
>
> NOV 1st – Andrius/Ken Owino/Tom Ochuko 10:30 – 12:30 EST/DST
>
> NOV 22nd Pamela McLean /Andrius 10:30 – 12:30 EST/DST
>
> DEC 13th Andrius/Wendi Losha Bernadette 10:30 – 12:30 EST/DST
>
> Date(s) that are available -
>
> AUG 9th available - waiting for confirmation from Yvonne Marie Andres
> 11 – 1 EST/DST
>
> Andrius: Please forward to your colleagues that will be moderating
> with you – I do not have all their e-mails. Thanks.
>
> Asif.
>
>

Andrius:

I suppose I misunderstood your e-mail as the dates were in order and then
the names followed - so I assumed the names went with the dates. I'll let
you organize and tell your colleagues when they are speaking. I need to post
this in our newsletter and at Elluminate so the sooner that I can get the
corresponding names and Titles of the talk I would appreciate it a lot.
Thank you for your contribution.

Asif.

-----Original Message-----
From: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Andrius
Kulikauskas
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:59 PM
To: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Re: DATES FOR WEBINARS VIA ELLUMINATE

Hi Asif, Please let's clarify that we don't know yet which of our
laboratory's African leaders will be able to lead sessions and when.
Also, let's please not commit them unnecessarily, it can be burdensome
for the speakers. It's very important not to place any unnecessary
burdens on the poor especially. Please feel free to say that Andrius
Kulikauskas of the Minciu Sodas laboratory will be hosting African
independent thinkers. Thank you for your webinars! Andrius Kulikauskas

asif.daya@... wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Here are some dates that are taken - so you can mark your calendars
> for those Webinars - and dates that are available, if you would like
> to speak at a Webinar:
>
> The dates that are taken for sure are - please try to attend:
>
> May 3rd - Richard Heller and John Dada (on Peoples University &
> Healthcare) 11 - 1 EST/DST
>
> May 24th Imran Mirza (Canadian Gov - on Security) 11 - 1 EST/DST
>
> June 7th Andrius/Samwel? 10:30 - 12:30 EST/DST
>
> June 28th Karim Kassam (e-medicine) 11 - 1 EST/DST
>
> JULY 19th Pamela McLean / Andrius 10:30 - 12:30 EST/DST
>
> Aug 30th Andrius / Fred Kayiwa 10:30 - 12:30 EST/DST
>
> Sept 20t Janet Salmons (Communication) 11 - 1 EST/DST
>
> Oct 11th Janet Salmons (Communication) 11 - 1 EST/DST
>
> NOV 1st - Andrius/Ken Owino/Tom Ochuko 10:30 - 12:30 EST/DST
>
> NOV 22nd Pamela McLean /Andrius 10:30 - 12:30 EST/DST
>
> DEC 13th Andrius/Wendi Losha Bernadette 10:30 - 12:30 EST/DST
>
> Date(s) that are available -
>
> AUG 9th available - waiting for confirmation from Yvonne Marie Andres
> 11 - 1 EST/DST
>
> Andrius: Please forward to your colleagues that will be moderating
> with you - I do not have all their e-mails. Thanks.
>
> Asif.
>
>



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(was Re: [mendenyo] which of clintons hundreds of African Initiatives
are best at empowering up?) -

Hi Peter - this reply was written some time back but vanished into my
drafts folder - it was intended for the list - it is too late for that
now - but I do want you to join the Webinars so am just sending it
personally, slightly updated.

You have been in my thoughts recently - but my actions are lagging way
behind my thoughts. Your posting mentioning that you are "aiming to
build a solid portfolio of community initiatives around Africa" has
triggered a little action ;-)

I have been meaning to put you in touch with Caroline Ifeka and her NGO
"REIWA" - Rural Empowerment Initiative In West Africa. www.reiwa-ng.org
I was with her recently in River State where she is doing a project
funded by the Australian High Commission.  She made some passing comment
about the funders positive response at discovering how far she made the
money stretch. Given your interest in budgets and accountability I
thought you might like more details and told her so. She's happy to give
you more information.

As well as financial accountability I have been thinking of you in
connection with malaria - which has been mentioned on mendenyo and which
I know is another strong interest of yours.

I  want  to  invite/persuade you to share your interests more widely
through one or more Webinars using Elluminate.  Asif Daya from
Trainerspod has offered us the opportunity to invite people we know to
present Webinars and I am hoping you might be interested (Please see
Google for more info on Elluminate and Trainerspod and/or contact me on
or offlist and I'll explain more). John Dada is already involved, and
Prof Dick Heller, who is leader of our Health group.

I'm involved too and have had a couple of goes at Webinars. I am
enthusiastic about the potential of the technology and its ease of use.
Trainerspod takes care of the techie admin side of things - and you can
join in from home/work with your normal laptop or whatever.  The
participants can be anyone anywhere who has an Internet connection (with
sound card) - even if its just a dial up connection. Asif gives the
leader(s) a practice session first to get used to the feel of the things
- and there are some good demos on the Elluminate site as well. You
might like to  check it out  on  May 3rd when Dick Hellar  will  be
giving one (from the UK)  - with contributions from John Dada at Fantsuam.

Andrius is going to "chair" a number of Webinars - which is a way to get
involved without having to lead a session and prepare a full
presentation. These Webinars will be lively and interactive - inclusive,
reaching across normal cultural barriers  As we get increasingly
competent regarding the dynamics of this kind of presentation/meeting we
will become more confident at inviting distinguished guests to attend.
Ultimately I think top policy makers and funding agencies etc should be
coming to our Webinars to discover what is really  the  situation in
rural Africa and elsewhere. I see it as a real chance to link top down
and bottom up and to get more transparency and effective well informed
action. (No more excuses for "top people" to stay in their little
cliques / big conferences / city compounds failing to communicate with
the people who are at the grassroots). Webinars can enable decision
makers to learn about issues from the people who are experts because
they are living the reality of the problems. That's my vision for it
anyhow.  I hope you will be able to get involved.

Pam




Peter Burgess wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> It is human nature to climb in any organizational structure ... and as
> there is success, it appears that the successful naturally move UP in
> the hierarchy.
>
> But if you are trying to build something that is going to have some
> durability, it is probably best to start from the bottom and let
> things grow organically. The Community Centric Sustainable Development
> (CCSD) paradigm is based on this.
>
> The well known big organizations have strong headquarters operations
> ... well known brand names, etc. To the extent that they do good work
> it is usually in cooperation with local operations that know the local
> conditions and make success in spite of the strategy coming from the top.
>
> It is interesting to note how little information about the local
> connections of the bigger well known organizations is is easily
> accessible ... or accessible at all. I have had several cycles of
> trying to get some easy cooperation with big organizations to learn
> about the local partners, and to say the least, I have not been
> encouraged. There are several reasons for this ... none of them good.
>
> I would imagine that the large number of Clinton Global Initiative
> connections is to do with the work that has been done in getting low
> cost AIDS drugs into Africa ... I don't know for sure, but it fits
> what I know.
>
> I am still aiming to build a solid portfolio of community initiatives
> around Africa ... any help with this will be very much appreciated.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On 4/19/07, *christopher macrae* <chris.macrae@ yahoo.co. uk
> <mailto:chris.macrae@...>> wrote:
>
>     I expect some of you have already done this but may I just check?
>
>     if you go to this bookmark and search a particular country it
>     returns many intiatives funding specific types of projects that
>     appear to have connected around Clinton - eg 50+ in Kenya and 30+
>     in Tanzania
>
>     http://www.clintong lobalinitiative. org/NETCOMMUNITY
>     /Page.aspx?&pid=513&srcid=395
>    
<http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=513&srcid=39\
5>
>
>     Do any of these initiatives actually connect with projects of
>     peoples on these lists; if so which of the cliton foundations and
>     project iniatives  provide grassroots collaboration models that we
>     would most like to see more of
>
>     I am not sure what language you all use but I am particularly
>     interested in classifying funders into 2 lists:
>     the same old global aid down
>
>     versus the list I particularly want to monitor which involves
>     funders that are empowering local people to do the projects. If
>     you do look at a list relevant to your country just hearing one or
>     two examples that you feel are trying hardest for empowerment
>     would help me to search more and try and understand some of the
>     networking connections between american and other opinion leaders
>     of all of the above
>
>     chris macrae
>     my facebook http://www.facebook .com/profile. php?id=670257246
>     <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670257246>
>     which online videos are doing most good for africa http://up200.
>     tv/_wsn/page12. html <http://up200.tv/_wsn/page12.html>
>
>     Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the
>     answer. Try it now
>    
<http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21ha\
WwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU>.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> ____________
> Peter Burgess
> The Transparency and Accountability Network: Tr-Ac-Net in New York
> www.tr-ac-net. org <http://www.tr-ac-net.org>
> IMMC - The Integrated Malaria Management Consortium Inc.
> www.IMMConsortium. org <http://www.IMMConsortium.org>
> 212 772 6918  peterbnyc@gmail. com <mailto:peterbnyc@...>
> Print on demand books: http://www.lulu. com <http://www.lulu.com>
> Search: Peter Burgess
> "Hundreds of Issues that Impact Relief and Development Performance"
> "Revolutionary Change for Relief and Development"
> "Iraq - A New Direction – A Strategy for Peace"
>

Pamela:

As you may know my interest in the health care division is Malaria - so if
you have any information on the ground about this esp. in Kenya, I would
appreciate it. I know Samwel works in that area and I will involve him in
the Malaria grant I am applying for.

You indicated below "top policy makers and funding agencies etc should be
coming to our Webinars to discover what is really  the  situation in rural
Africa and elsewhere." - I totally agree with you on this. This is one of
the key ways we will get exposure and hopefully get funded. I don't think
our work is recognized beyond our circles as much as it should be. Andrius
has a useful network of people and the things that they do and that should
be commended. You have your network of people and have worked a lot locally
and through the webinar there. That should be recognized as very relevant
work. So, I am hoping we can get the right people to visit the Webinars and
learn what is it that we are doing or plan to do.

Asif.

-----Original Message-----
From: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McLean
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:01 PM
To: mendenyo@yahoogroups.com; learningfromeachother
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Peter Burgess - meet REIWA and also Asif

(was Re: [mendenyo] which of clintons hundreds of African Initiatives
are best at empowering up?) -

Hi Peter - this reply was written some time back but vanished into my
drafts folder - it was intended for the list - it is too late for that
now - but I do want you to join the Webinars so am just sending it
personally, slightly updated.

You have been in my thoughts recently - but my actions are lagging way
behind my thoughts. Your posting mentioning that you are "aiming to
build a solid portfolio of community initiatives around Africa" has
triggered a little action ;-)

I have been meaning to put you in touch with Caroline Ifeka and her NGO
"REIWA" - Rural Empowerment Initiative In West Africa. www.reiwa-ng.org
I was with her recently in River State where she is doing a project
funded by the Australian High Commission.  She made some passing comment
about the funders positive response at discovering how far she made the
money stretch. Given your interest in budgets and accountability I
thought you might like more details and told her so. She's happy to give
you more information.

As well as financial accountability I have been thinking of you in
connection with malaria - which has been mentioned on mendenyo and which
I know is another strong interest of yours.

I  want  to  invite/persuade you to share your interests more widely
through one or more Webinars using Elluminate.  Asif Daya from
Trainerspod has offered us the opportunity to invite people we know to
present Webinars and I am hoping you might be interested (Please see
Google for more info on Elluminate and Trainerspod and/or contact me on
or offlist and I'll explain more). John Dada is already involved, and
Prof Dick Heller, who is leader of our Health group.

I'm involved too and have had a couple of goes at Webinars. I am
enthusiastic about the potential of the technology and its ease of use.
Trainerspod takes care of the techie admin side of things - and you can
join in from home/work with your normal laptop or whatever.  The
participants can be anyone anywhere who has an Internet connection (with
sound card) - even if its just a dial up connection. Asif gives the
leader(s) a practice session first to get used to the feel of the things
- and there are some good demos on the Elluminate site as well. You
might like to  check it out  on  May 3rd when Dick Hellar  will  be
giving one (from the UK)  - with contributions from John Dada at Fantsuam.

Andrius is going to "chair" a number of Webinars - which is a way to get
involved without having to lead a session and prepare a full
presentation. These Webinars will be lively and interactive - inclusive,
reaching across normal cultural barriers  As we get increasingly
competent regarding the dynamics of this kind of presentation/meeting we
will become more confident at inviting distinguished guests to attend.
Ultimately I think top policy makers and funding agencies etc should be
coming to our Webinars to discover what is really  the  situation in
rural Africa and elsewhere. I see it as a real chance to link top down
and bottom up and to get more transparency and effective well informed
action. (No more excuses for "top people" to stay in their little
cliques / big conferences / city compounds failing to communicate with
the people who are at the grassroots). Webinars can enable decision
makers to learn about issues from the people who are experts because
they are living the reality of the problems. That's my vision for it
anyhow.  I hope you will be able to get involved.

Pam




Peter Burgess wrote:
> Dear Colleagues
>
> It is human nature to climb in any organizational structure ... and as
> there is success, it appears that the successful naturally move UP in
> the hierarchy.
>
> But if you are trying to build something that is going to have some
> durability, it is probably best to start from the bottom and let
> things grow organically. The Community Centric Sustainable Development
> (CCSD) paradigm is based on this.
>
> The well known big organizations have strong headquarters operations
> ... well known brand names, etc. To the extent that they do good work
> it is usually in cooperation with local operations that know the local
> conditions and make success in spite of the strategy coming from the top.
>
> It is interesting to note how little information about the local
> connections of the bigger well known organizations is is easily
> accessible ... or accessible at all. I have had several cycles of
> trying to get some easy cooperation with big organizations to learn
> about the local partners, and to say the least, I have not been
> encouraged. There are several reasons for this ... none of them good.
>
> I would imagine that the large number of Clinton Global Initiative
> connections is to do with the work that has been done in getting low
> cost AIDS drugs into Africa ... I don't know for sure, but it fits
> what I know.
>
> I am still aiming to build a solid portfolio of community initiatives
> around Africa ... any help with this will be very much appreciated.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On 4/19/07, *christopher macrae* <chris.macrae@ yahoo.co. uk
> <mailto:chris.macrae@...>> wrote:
>
>     I expect some of you have already done this but may I just check?
>
>     if you go to this bookmark and search a particular country it
>     returns many intiatives funding specific types of projects that
>     appear to have connected around Clinton - eg 50+ in Kenya and 30+
>     in Tanzania
>
>     http://www.clintong lobalinitiative. org/NETCOMMUNITY
>     /Page.aspx?&pid=513&srcid=395
>
<http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=513&srci
d=395>
>
>     Do any of these initiatives actually connect with projects of
>     peoples on these lists; if so which of the cliton foundations and
>     project iniatives  provide grassroots collaboration models that we
>     would most like to see more of
>
>     I am not sure what language you all use but I am particularly
>     interested in classifying funders into 2 lists:
>     the same old global aid down
>
>     versus the list I particularly want to monitor which involves
>     funders that are empowering local people to do the projects. If
>     you do look at a list relevant to your country just hearing one or
>     two examples that you feel are trying hardest for empowerment
>     would help me to search more and try and understand some of the
>     networking connections between american and other opinion leaders
>     of all of the above
>
>     chris macrae
>     my facebook http://www.facebook .com/profile. php?id=670257246
>     <http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670257246>
>     which online videos are doing most good for africa http://up200.
>     tv/_wsn/page12. html <http://up200.tv/_wsn/page12.html>
>
>     Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the
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Dear Janet,Sam,Pam,Andrius and ALL,
   The deaf as athematic group have no Acess to.
1 Education or trainning,with many kept by families
and hidden this is acondition of bondage.
2 Employment Salaried opr self is not there even when
one is qualified and interview posted..they are
usually last to be considered and first to be
retrenched.
So they are denied the rights to live for
oportunities,
  1 The economic empowerment being only entrusted to
theABLE PEOPLE MANY ORGS FEAR THAT IF THEY are loaned
to start up bussiness they will not pay back.
so they can only be at home consuming but not
producing..so let develope them.
  2 Many are belived to be unable even to mary and find
families..its nit easy to see many of them wedding in
a church...so they are the poores of the majority.
The deafimpact ministry has aclear vision of making
the deaf fraternity  Generators of wealth very soon
and so soon.
For this tpo happen you must join us...as we look for
micro economic networks that will give revolving funds
to our members to build,strenthen and broaden their
capacity..so that they can live to be self surportive.
  One can surport financially..by making us develop our
credit schemes to meet the needs of the deaf as we ask
the gorvmnt to waive tax for this group..to surport
our innitiatives we the group met in Eldoret and
decided to
1 Produce our own monthly news letter for development
among the deaf.
2 PRODUCE tSHIRTS WITH SIGHN PRINTED ON IE alphabet to
educate theb community.
3 Posters,baskets and head scafs for women in
signlaguage to be put in public places.
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costings with us.
Thanks
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Dear Janet,Sam,Pam,Andrius and ALL,
   The deaf as athematic group have no Acess to.
1 Education or trainning,with many kept by families
and hidden this is acondition of bondage.
2 Employment Salaried opr self is not there even when
one is qualified and interview posted..they are
usually last to be considered and first to be
retrenched.
So they are denied the rights to live for
oportunities,
  1 The economic empowerment being only entrusted to
theABLE PEOPLE MANY ORGS FEAR THAT IF THEY are loaned
to start up bussiness they will not pay back.
so they can only be at home consuming but not
producing..so let develope them.
  2 Many are belived to be unable even to mary and find
families..its nit easy to see many of them wedding in
a church...so they are the poores of the majority.
The deafimpact ministry has aclear vision of making
the deaf fraternity  Generators of wealth very soon
and so soon.
For this tpo happen you must join us...as we look for
micro economic networks that will give revolving funds
to our members to build,strenthen and broaden their
capacity..so that they can live to be self surportive.
  One can surport financially..by making us develop our
credit schemes to meet the needs of the deaf as we ask
the gorvmnt to waive tax for this group..to surport
our innitiatives we the group met in Eldoret and
decided to
1 Produce our own monthly news letter for development
among the deaf.
2 PRODUCE tSHIRTS WITH SIGHN PRINTED ON IE alphabet to
educate theb community.
3 Posters,baskets and head scafs for women in
signlaguage to be put in public places.
  We need your ideas on this we alrady have the
costings with us.
Thanks
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KISUMU
KENYA
TEL +254725678641
















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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Well said Samwel. It's the people who drive change - without them to
use it, and inspire its use, the technology is a useless tool.
Pam

samuel kongere wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know in Africa we have multi related bad governance problems which
> cut across hills and valleys of minds of people around the globe. I
> will suppose many problems are up and down, while others come in place
> of ignorance. Why do I say this? Bad governance, we live in a time
> where we should have a changed constitution which can help develop the
> grassroot communities than having bureaucratic situations where
> misappropriation of funds starts at the top going down. When the
> Government announce an increase of GPD and this not felt by the local
> man, why?
>
> So, what went wrong in our leadership and our people? The country
> needs to invest is not only technology, but also people. In the past
> buying a machine was the ultimate investment, but now government and
> private organizations, all over the world are putting money on people
> to do cutting- research and come up with innovative.
>
> The third world very competitive and organizations workforce and
> knowledge base are a great asset. If technology has to work for us,
> the people must change their mind sets from a third world mentality to
> that of a first world.
>
> It is said that the problem is 20% technology and 80% cultural change.
> Technology must drive my vision 2014. It is only then we begin to
> look like community admirals and if life getting better, any name of
> success will do in either 10 or less years.
> Sam.
>
>
>
> Samwel Okech kongere
> Nyamuga primary school
> P.O BOX 191,
> MBITA 040305- KENYA.
> Cell: +254 725 600 439
> FOSS ADMIRER
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> UDOGO youth development group-coordinat or
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>

Chris and David I think you should know each other better.

Chris I have mentioned David to you offlist. He is a member of this
group but not able to read all the emails because funds are limited and
therefore time online is similarly limited. However I think it would be
useful for you two to chat a bit to  discover overlapping interests -
and for other people to get to know David better as well.

David I encourage you to write something here of what you are trying to
do - and who else you link with in this network.
People here are interested in what is happening in Kenya - and here in
Andrius' lab people care about what you are trying to do and how they
can help and encourage you.  Please use this space to "think out loud" .

Pam

Thanks Pam'

Dear Chris,
I am Kenyan by birth, living in Nairobi but with a
passion of making a difference in the rural areas, may
be its because have spent some years there, I was born
in Nairobi but later moved to a rural community where
i schooled from primary upto secondary level thus
12yrs.

My passsion is how ICT's can be a tool to make life in
the rural communities better through access to
sustainable and globally competitve human capacity
building initiatives (access to quality education and
training), timely and relevant information and
economic empowernment projects.

I also have interest in volunteering for development..

Pam and I met several years ago in Nigeria when i had
just been recruited as a VSO volunteer placed at the
local organisation that she was supporting, since then
we have worked together in different projects in
Nigeria and now are working on replicating some of
these in Kenya.

It will be my pleasure to know you better and your
interests..

Regards,

David

--- Pamela McLean <pam@...> wrote:

> Chris and David I think you should know each other
> better.
>
> Chris I have mentioned David to you offlist. He is a
> member of this
> group but not able to read all the emails because
> funds are limited and
> therefore time online is similarly limited. However
> I think it would be
> useful for you two to chat a bit to  discover
> overlapping interests -
> and for other people to get to know David better as
> well.
>
> David I encourage you to write something here of
> what you are trying to
> do - and who else you link with in this network.
> People here are interested in what is happening in
> Kenya - and here in
> Andrius' lab people care about what you are trying
> to do and how they
> can help and encourage you.  Please use this space
> to "think out loud" .
>
> Pam
>
>


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Hi David:

I too was born in Kenya as was my father. He was born in Eldoret and I in Nairobi where I grew up. We are Indians in ancestry. I have spent most of my adult life outside Kenya – visiting every 2-3 years or so. I now live in the USA.

We have a train dedicated to our services that we use to go to the rural areas and we provide Health Education (it’s done yearly by the local hospitals) and general education (provided by UoN). We are interested in Malaria studies and Health Care. We would also like to set up internet services to hubs that are not more than 300 Kms away. This will be part of a grant. The grant will also set up telemedicine centers and improve local hospitals to have e-medicine capabilities. This is a multi-year project. Right now the grant is with UoN waiting for completion – I completed my part and the budget. (UoN – University of Nairobi – School of Medicine). – waiting for their section to be completed – and yes – they are slow. We already got the Provosts approval letter. They just need to add their section. I am hoping we can exchange some practical ideas and get this to fruition.

 

Take Care.

 

Asif

 

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From: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com [mailto:learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David mutua
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:23 AM
To: Pamela McLean; learningfromeachother
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Re: Chris Macrae meet David Mutua

 

Thanks Pam'

Dear Chris,
I am Kenyan by birth, living in Nairobi but with a
passion of making a difference in the rural areas, may
be its because have spent some years there, I was born
in Nairobi but later moved to a rural community where
i schooled from primary upto secondary level thus
12yrs.

My passsion is how ICT's can be a tool to make life in
the rural communities better through access to
sustainable and globally competitve human capacity
building initiatives (access to quality education and
training), timely and relevant information and
economic empowernment projects.

I also have interest in volunteering for development..

Pam and I met several years ago in Nigeria when i had
just been recruited as a VSO volunteer placed at the
local organisation that she was supporting, since then
we have worked together in different projects in
Nigeria and now are working on replicating some of
these in Kenya.

It will be my pleasure to know you better and your
interests..

Regards,

David

--- Pamela McLean <pam@...> wrote:

> Chris and David I think you should know each other
> better.
>
> Chris I have mentioned David to you offlist. He is a
> member of this
> group but not able to read all the emails because
> funds are limited and
> therefore time online is similarly limited. However
> I think it would be
> useful for you two to chat a bit to discover
> overlapping interests -
> and for other people to get to know David better as
> well.
>
> David I encourage you to write something here of
> what you are trying to
> do - and who else you link with in this network.
> People here are interested in what is happening in
> Kenya - and here in
> Andrius' lab people care about what you are trying
> to do and how they
> can help and encourage you. Please use this space
> to "think out loud" .
>
> Pam
>
>

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Hi David:

I too was born in Kenya as was my father. He was born in Eldoret and I in Nairobi where I grew up. We are Indians in ancestry. I have spent most of my adult life outside Kenya – visiting every 2-3 years or so. I now live in the USA.

We have a train dedicated to our services that we use to go to the rural areas and we provide Health Education (it’s done yearly by the local hospitals) and general education (provided by UoN). We are interested in Malaria studies and Health Care. We would also like to set up internet services to hubs that are not more than 300 Kms away. This will be part of a grant. The grant will also set up telemedicine centers and improve local hospitals to have e-medicine capabilities. This is a multi-year project. Right now the grant is with UoN waiting for completion – I completed my part and the budget. (UoN – University of Nairobi – School of Medicine). – waiting for their section to be completed – and yes – they are slow. We already got the Provosts approval letter. They just need to add their section. I am hoping we can exchange some practical ideas and get this to fruition.

Take Care.

Asif

http://www.trainerspod.com/CMS

http://www.trainerspod.com/community

http://www.trainerspod.com/info

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From: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com [mailto:learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David mutua
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:23 AM
To: Pamela McLean; learningfromeachother
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Re: Chris Macrae meet David Mutua

Thanks Pam'

Dear Chris,
I am Kenyan by birth, living in Nairobi but with a
passion of making a difference in the rural areas, may
be its because have spent some years there, I was born
in Nairobi but later moved to a rural community where
i schooled from primary upto secondary level thus
12yrs.

My passsion is how ICT's can be a tool to make life in
the rural communities better through access to
sustainable and globally competitve human capacity
building initiatives (access to quality education and
training), timely and relevant information and
economic empowernment projects.

I also have interest in volunteering for development..

Pam and I met several years ago in Nigeria when i had
just been recruited as a VSO volunteer placed at the
local organisation that she was supporting, since then
we have worked together in different projects in
Nigeria and now are working on replicating some of
these in Kenya.

It will be my pleasure to know you better and your
interests..

Regards,

David

--- Pamela McLean <pam@...> wrote:

> Chris and David I think you should know each other
> better.
>
> Chris I have mentioned David to you offlist. He is a
> member of this
> group but not able to read all the emails because
> funds are limited and
> therefore time online is similarly limited. However
> I think it would be
> useful for you two to chat a bit to discover
> overlapping interests -
> and for other people to get to know David better as
> well.
>
> David I encourage you to write something here of
> what you are trying to
> do - and who else you link with in this network.
> People here are interested in what is happening in
> Kenya - and here in
> Andrius' lab people care about what you are trying
> to do and how they
> can help and encourage you. Please use this space
> to "think out loud" .
>
> Pam
>
>

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Asif

 

I still admire your interests and hope you keep us Up dated. I know David Mutua as a friend and partner in ICT. I met them with Derrick Odemba at the Africa source II In Uganda and since then we are having the same focus in using Information Communication Technology for Development (CT4D) our focus is the rural Kenya and internet connection can eanhance telemedicine reporting.

 

I can share my technology hub reference to adventure.The only practical solution to Kenya’s Economic, social and rural technology is improving education structure and elevate it to one that shall impart practical, research based survival skills which may not be provided by the government, but a role to be played by NGOs and CBOS.  This project aims to form a resource center server/terminal for marginalized communities living in Lake Victoria region of Nyanza Province, and involve in coordinating the services of Udogo to various parts of the country as a gateway to the planned resource centers in the other regions in the country.  Some of the projects already in operation include PLWHAS inventory cataloging, community empowerment in malaria control through Christian children Fund Rusinga Island (Kenya) community Malaria Surveillance Team (MSTs), Arts and crafts production and community literacy knowledge finding.  The challenge faced in these programmes is that of implementing ICT component a way to bridge the digital divides.  Udogo is extending the ICT aided education to all and across borders of our district Suba.  A central resource centers can be in Mbita.  This centre will take the role of coordinating all resource centers , through this innovative.

 

 I hope it will of interset to you and if you succeed in getting the fund, we can explore the focus together.

Sam.

Hi David:

I too was born in Kenya as was my father. He was born in Eldoret and I in Nairobi where I grew up. We are Indians in ancestry. I have spent most of my adult life outside Kenya – visiting every 2-3 years or so. I now live in the USA.

We have a train dedicated to our services that we use to go to the rural areas and we provide Health Education (it’s done yearly by the local hospitals) and general education (provided by UoN). We are interested in Malaria studies and Health Care. We would also like to set up internet services to hubs that are not more than 300 Kms away. This will be part of a grant. The grant will also set up telemedicine centers and improve local hospitals to have e-medicine capabilities. This is a multi-year project. Right now the grant is with UoN waiting for completion – I completed my part and the budget. (UoN – University of Nairobi – School of Medicine). – waiting for their section to be completed – and yes – they are slow. We already got the Provosts approval letter. They just need to add their section. I am hoping we can exchange some practical ideas and get this to fruition.

Take Care.

Asif

http://www.trainerspod.com/CMS

http://www.trainerspod.com/community

http://www.trainerspod.com/info

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From: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com [mailto:learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of David mutua
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:23 AM
To: Pamela McLean; learningfromeachother
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Re: Chris Macrae meet David Mutua

Thanks Pam'

Dear Chris,
I am Kenyan by birth, living in Nairobi but with a
passion of making a difference in the rural areas, may
be its because have spent some years there, I was born
in Nairobi but later moved to a rural community where
i schooled from primary upto secondary level thus
12yrs.

My passsion is how ICT's can be a tool to make life in
the rural communities better through access to
sustainable and globally competitve human capacity
building initiatives (access to quality education and
training), timely and relevant information and
economic empowernment projects.

I also have interest in volunteering for development..

Pam and I met several years ago in Nigeria when i had
just been recruited as a VSO volunteer placed at the
local organisation that she was supporting, since then
we have worked together in different projects in
Nigeria and now are working on replicating some of
these in Kenya.

It will be my pleasure to know you better and your
interests..

Regards,

David

--- Pamela McLean <pam@...> wrote:

> Chris and David I think you should know each other
> better.
>
> Chris I have mentioned David to you offlist. He is a
> member of this
> group but not able to read all the emails because
> funds are limited and
> therefore time online is similarly limited. However
> I think it would be
> useful for you two to chat a bit to discover
> overlapping interests -
> and for other people to get to know David better as
> well.
>
> David I encourage you to write something here of
> what you are trying to
> do - and who else you link with in this network.
> People here are interested in what is happening in
> Kenya - and here in
> Andrius' lab people care about what you are trying
> to do and how they
> can help and encourage you. Please use this space
> to "think out loud" .
>
> Pam
>
>

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Samwel Okech kongere

Nyamuga primary school

P.O BOX 191,

MBITA  040305-KENYA.

Cell: +254 725 600 439

FOSS ADMIRER

Community Development

UDOGO youth development group-coordinator

 

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