Australia The office is reviewing policies and procedures for an application for full accreditation soon. We require a marketing & fundraising person.
Timor-Leste Training delayed “in Timor we are currently at the wet season so farmer busy with their farm. They need to grow vegetables, corn…. Ect”
India A team is assisting those affected by cyclone ‘Thane’. (AAP has sent some money) The office is preparing for the visit by AAP CEO David in late Feb.
Maldives Staff will assist the upcoming visit to India.
Cambodia Cambodia team, have been learning a lot from India. (The sharing between countries is encouraged by AAP)
Sri Lanka The visit to Asia will include information gathering on the disadvantaged here.
"Thane" cyclonic storm, which crossed the Tamil Nadu-Pondicherry coast on December 30, has left many jobless. The team joint venture with Social Work Department of Holy Cross College planned for 10 days intensive work in the affected areas. The team inclusive of 30 members is selected for the Special work. The work scheduled from 21st to 31st of January 2012. Initially the team members are given two days of Intensive training on Psychosocial Care by resource team from LINZE at Holy Cross College Venue. After the training the members will be taken to the field for the special work.
Extracts from some recent reports Children parliament group from 14 villages cleaned the villages and the streets look clean 15 Committee members from 15 villages gained knowledge on various disaster and on preparedness. Also they learend to identify vunerable places from their respective villages 74 families were motivated to form kitchen gardens and thy began to use the vegetables for cooking<br />49 women are attending the tailoring training10 women are ready to join together to work. As the women started the 100 days work and they found it is not feasible for the women to come together to work there is no comon place available to work together. To support to function the library regularly, and collect the funds to buy the books. To organise the youth members to take the full resposnsibility to function the library. Our staffs help the youth people to raise the funds, and buy the books in the library..one shg awarness meeting organised, at the time two masons were using plastic bottles, our staff explains the defects of the body to reuse the plastic bottle, symptoms of cancer are explained.The persons are realised and they promise that we cannt use this bottle many more times. 21 Tution clasess are functioned well. Kitchen gardens are maintained well. Vegetables likeLadies fingure, brinjal, cucumber, pumkins, chillies and tomaoto are cultivated in the kitchen gardens. During this period a village was affected with lot of diseases. The cause of the spreading of the disease was of mixing of drainge water with drinking water. Many people and children got affected. Realizing the situation Animators with the help of Model groups and local government hospital team created awarness in all over village. They had instructed people to take boiled water and motivated people to mix clorin in drinking water bodies. Also they had distributed tablets with priscription of governement doctors. The proactive nature of Animaotrs and the group helped affected people to get imediate cure also it prevented remaining people from the diseases. Snippets from reports uploaded 22/01/2012 #We are an aid organisation that prides itself on delivering effective projects.#Our aim is for our projects to provide the greatest value for dollars contributed while also keeping overheads to a minimum. Our focus is training
Assisi's projects focus on women.
Women are the most vulnerable people in poor Indian communities. When a husband dies or is unable to earn a wage, women are left to rely on the goodwill of relatives or others to provide sustenance for their families...
Self Help Groups (SHGs) are formal networks which enable members to access information and new ideas. They also provide training and assistance in the skills required to eventually run their own businesses.
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Women are the most vulnerable people in poor Indian communities. When a husband dies or is unable to earn a wage, women are left to rely on the goodwill of relatives or others to provide sustenance for their families...
Self Help Groups (SHGs) are formal networks which enable members to access information and new ideas. They also provide training and assistance in the skills required to eventually run their own businesses.
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