JAMBO-SANA
I can’t believe how fast time has been moving here. We have gone past our halfway point and it’s amazing to see how much we have already accomplished.
The Meheba Tigers Role Model Program is developing well. I have been so impressed with how serious the players have been with the commitment to the program. We have been training every other day in one end of the zone or the other. The first day of the program is a week and a half away and I am very hopeful they will be ready by then.
We have found a building for our HIV/AIDS community center. After running a focus group at one of the basic schools we found a need for a center in the community to provide a safe and comfortable place to seek HIV/AIDS education and supplies. We are going to totally refurbish the building, which is nicely placed right in the middle of the largest market in Meheba, and then it would also provide an income generation for the Tiger’s program. We have got donations from IOM for dartboards, draft boards and a pool table. We would be able to charge for pool and mange sales of soft drinks and take away by working with our FORGE micro-finance program. The hope for this would be to create a successful center for HIV/AIDS but also create a fully sustainable business for not only the center but for the continuation of the Tiger’ s program.
The human powered generator project has just been getting started. I have been working with a carpenter to make our first stand and we have ideas to use it as a battery charging business in the settlement and then build two more in places for public use in the community.
The group has been doing incredible all around and I am so impressed with everyone’s success. From when we started to now, we have made of initiated:
• A preschool in the vulnerable’s part of the settlement
• A music program that has already had two live performances
• A micro loan office and a fully operational micro-finance education program for men and women throughout the settlement
• A refugee run film documentary
• A vegetable crop management for a new farm in the vulnerable’s part of the settlement
Everyone has been working so hard for the success of their programs and I am amazed to see the outcome so far.
So now I am back to work for time is ticking and I look to make the most of my time while I am here. I will be sure to post again in a week but until then take and thanks again for everyone that has supported.
The Meheba Tigers Role Model Program is developing well. I have been so impressed with how serious the players have been with the commitment to the program. We have been training every other day in one end of the zone or the other. The first day of the program is a week and a half away and I am very hopeful they will be ready by then.
We have found a building for our HIV/AIDS community center. After running a focus group at one of the basic schools we found a need for a center in the community to provide a safe and comfortable place to seek HIV/AIDS education and supplies. We are going to totally refurbish the building, which is nicely placed right in the middle of the largest market in Meheba, and then it would also provide an income generation for the Tiger’s program. We have got donations from IOM for dartboards, draft boards and a pool table. We would be able to charge for pool and mange sales of soft drinks and take away by working with our FORGE micro-finance program. The hope for this would be to create a successful center for HIV/AIDS but also create a fully sustainable business for not only the center but for the continuation of the Tiger’ s program.
The human powered generator project has just been getting started. I have been working with a carpenter to make our first stand and we have ideas to use it as a battery charging business in the settlement and then build two more in places for public use in the community.
The group has been doing incredible all around and I am so impressed with everyone’s success. From when we started to now, we have made of initiated:
• A preschool in the vulnerable’s part of the settlement
• A music program that has already had two live performances
• A micro loan office and a fully operational micro-finance education program for men and women throughout the settlement
• A refugee run film documentary
• A vegetable crop management for a new farm in the vulnerable’s part of the settlement
Everyone has been working so hard for the success of their programs and I am amazed to see the outcome so far.
So now I am back to work for time is ticking and I look to make the most of my time while I am here. I will be sure to post again in a week but until then take and thanks again for everyone that has supported.
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