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youth & development
Related to country: Malawi

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it is always refreshing when you meet work mates who share the same passion with u. i recently had a talk with a fellow youth who is based in Zambia and is trying his best to contribute however little to the development of his community. he is one of a couple of youths with no money or experience to implement any expensive project. what they do is to go every weekend to their surrounding orphan centers and play with the children!!!! he says he believes most street children ran away from the centers because they are bored. and if they ran away they miss education, socialization and result into uneducated, unempolyed citizens. and they believe if they are to enjoy their life at the center they can be retained and in the long run benefit everybody. and this colleague talked about this project with such passion that i was encouraged. working with the youth or in development is a job that requires such passion and the rewards are usually that obvious that sometimes u question yourself whether you are making progress at all. u look at your work and look at how great we want to achieve and you sometimes question whether we will get there at all. whether you are doing enough and whether you are doing it right at all???? but when you finally meet people with the same passion as you, with as little resources as you and trying as much as they can just like you, its something to appreciate. i was encouraged that there are some youths out there who are trying their best to work in various development projects to eradicate poverty in their communities. i believe that when this micro-projects eventually meet, MDGs will be achieved!

November 21, 2008 | 5:41 AM Comments  0 comments

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TFD and communication
Related to country: Malawi

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i have been using theater for development in my work for the past six years and i have always been overwhelmed by the response we achieve in mobilizing communities to start development work. however during a recent workshop i attended i was able to refresh my knowledge on tfd and explore ways we can improve it. TFD was discussed in context with culture, and other methods of theater like play back and story telling. to me it was a very good exploration because sometimes in development we begin to lose the people. we start to look at them in a uniform way. for instance a project that was successful in the southern part of Malawi is Transferred wholesale to the northern part of Malawi. in this case disregarding the differences in pace of progress, stage of development, culture, literacy and economic levels. and though TFD might be the best approach in development i came to appreciate that it can work even more better if issues of culture and literacy levels are taken into consideration when working with the communities. i got interested in communication studies. i have come to realize that most development issues or misunderstandings can be sorted out if there is use of proper communication channels. for instance, most development messages are brought to the people through a channel that they have no say, or idea. it is mostly chosen with the developers away from the community. and mostly these channels are unpopular and strange to the people. yet they are expected to embrace the message as gospel truth. i suppose if the people has a say in how, when and why development agendas are presented to them there is no way they can resist development. the projects will be successful and the people will happily participate, and development will be manifested. still, i think communication is an integral part in development

November 21, 2008 | 5:16 AM Comments  0 comments

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international theatre
Related to country: Malawi

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am currently in Zambia for an international conference on theatre for development and it is interesting!! there are members from Zambia, Malawi and Finland. and it is quite interesting how theatre crosses all the boundaries to work for us! some things are so alike and some so different. and it is all amazing how however culturally different we are we find a common ground to work together. i think culture is an interesting topic to study. the workshop will be going on for a couple of weeks so i will write more.

October 24, 2008 | 5:03 AM Comments  1 comments

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youth in development
Related to country: Malawi

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i ha ve been in the field for the past three weeks and as usual am more encouraged than discouraged by the enthusiasm i find in the youth in development. the youth especially in our developing countries try hard to participate in whatever ideas we propose to them. they may not have the resources, capacity and the avenues to practice what ever bright ideas we are proposing to them but they are willing to try. and this in it self gives me confidence that however long it may take, somehow we will develop. because we are willing to try! and sometimes it gets quite depressing to see so much talent being wasted on being idle out of having nothing to do when there is so much to do! but some how it is also comforting to know that when the opportunities arrive we have a youth force that is available to risk their time and resources to participate in development agendas. so after three week of working exclusively and intensively with the youth am still confident that the through the youth africa will develop!

October 3, 2008 | 7:17 AM Comments  0 comments

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capacity building?
Related to country: Malawi

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recently i had a discussion with a fellow youth worker on capacity building. she is planning on establishing a local youth based group which is aimed at looking at their immediate needs and facilitating the stakeholders to be accountable to their responsibilities. so she was saying what she needs most is capacity building for her group. and the discussion was centered on capacity building on what? i mean when you are developing a group among almost semi-literate youths in a developing country, they need capacity building on what? on group management? on conflict management? on stakeholder analysis? on what? or on all of the above? and taking into consideration on their literacy levels, how far can they take their role ? with the language barrier and large gap in education levels should they be taught to approach as high stakeholders as cabinet ministers? we end up more confused than when we were beginning the discussion.

August 21, 2008 | 1:48 AM Comments  0 comments

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