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As neigbours, I am sure we like to hear news of our neighbours so please use this part of the site as the garden fence. :o)
Also, if you feel to converse about anything to do with the village or slightly unrelated issues at leisure a little more informally, this is also the place for that.
Yes, this is the place for people to talk in a relaxed way about anything at all on your minds as friends, villagers, neighbours.
General advice about receiving news direct to your email inboxes:
Please, if you wish, tick -the notify me box- below the posting area if you wish to receive posts made here direct to your email. Doing so helps to keep you up to date. Also, please subscribe to the Garden Newsletter, to receive update when progress has been made and new actions are issued on the website here, or we have special news of some kind.
Looking forward to all your posts, here and elsewhere, neighbours and friends,
Rubyana Arendn
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As neigbours, I am sure we like to hear news of our neighbours so please use this part of the site as the garden fence. :o)
Also, if you feel to converse about anything to do with the village or slightly unrelated issues at leisure a little more informally, this is also the place for that.
Yes, this is the place for people to talk in a relaxed way about anything at all on your minds as friends, villagers, neighbours.
General advice about receiving news direct to your email inboxes:
Please, if you wish, tick -the notify me box- below the posting area if you wish to receive posts made here direct to your email. Doing so helps to keep you up to date. Also, please subscribe to the Garden Newsletter, to receive update when progress has been made and new actions are issued on the website here, or we have special news of some kind.
Looking forward to all your posts, here and elsewhere, neighbours and friends,
Rubyana Arendn
Facilitator
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[body] => :lol: Mundawanga ia the largest Botanical Garden and Wildlife Conservation Sanctuary in Zambia. Mundawanga is a local word used to express ownership. It simply says "My Field." The majority of our community members do just hear about itn though it located within Lusaka. They are unable to go there because they are financilly handicapped. However, it only takes you 15 minutes to drive south of Lusaka City. There are a variety of animal; lions, zebras, populay Phoenix elephant, An American Bear just to mention a few. Many children hear about them from school, films and friends. These animals are conserved for tourism and education.
Last weekend that is where we went to take a brief break from the loud music played around our compound's tarvens and bars.
we had some games and later on let our boys and girls enjoy the swimming pool to the fullest with the popular sliding supertube. Thereafter, we were taken on a tour around the park. Our team had the clearest opportunity to see almost all the animals at close range.
As an observer and participant 'am sure they did not only enjoy but also learnt one or two things. This can be confirmed from the narrations they make to those who remaine behind especially their parents and guardians. If you want to have prior informattion about popular Mundawanga, where we even have an American black bear when you happen to visit Zambia, just visit us and ask one of the children we went with and they will give it to you.
For me it gives me joy :-D to see these disadvantaged children and youths enjoy and learn from our natural resources. Moreover to have access to the nriches of our country. We hope to have another trip of this wonderful resort.
We are also hoping that all things be equal to take a few children to this weekend's Agricultural and commercial show, which believe it or not is just a walking distance from our residence but because of the cost, these children just hear about it from friends or radio. To children and youths, going there means so much for them.
This has been our joy for the past weekend. :-D :lol:
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:lol: Mundawanga ia the largest Botanical Garden and Wildlife Conservation Sanctuary in Zambia. Mundawanga is a local word used to express ownership. It simply says "My Field." The majority of our community members do just hear about itn though it located within Lusaka. They are unable to go there because they are financilly handicapped. However, it only takes you 15 minutes to drive south of Lusaka City. There are a variety of animal; lions, zebras, populay Phoenix elephant, An American Bear just to mention a few. Many children hear about them from school, films and friends. These animals are conserved for tourism and education.
Last weekend that is where we went to take a brief break from the loud music played around our compound's tarvens and bars.
we had some games and later on let our boys and girls enjoy the swimming pool to the fullest with the popular sliding supertube. Thereafter, we were taken on a tour around the park. Our team had the clearest opportunity to see almost all the animals at close range.
As an observer and participant 'am sure they did not only enjoy but also learnt one or two things. This can be confirmed from the narrations they make to those who remaine behind especially their parents and guardians. If you want to have prior informattion about popular Mundawanga, where we even have an American black bear when you happen to visit Zambia, just visit us and ask one of the children we went with and they will give it to you.
For me it gives me joy :-D to see these disadvantaged children and youths enjoy and learn from our natural resources. Moreover to have access to the nriches of our country. We hope to have another trip of this wonderful resort.
We are also hoping that all things be equal to take a few children to this weekend's Agricultural and commercial show, which believe it or not is just a walking distance from our residence but because of the cost, these children just hear about it from friends or radio. To children and youths, going there means so much for them.
This has been our joy for the past weekend. :-D :lol:
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We involved some of our members deliberately so that at the end of it all, they can learn and share the information with others. From our side, all those who attended this workshop are non-school going children and youths ranging from 10 years to 20 years old. They do not go to school for various reasons among them of which are lack of school fees, books and uniforms; need to do house chores due to sickness of either parents or guardians. Having heard from their friends, the school going children and youths requested that this kind of workshop should be arranged for them as well. During this holiday, which lasts for 3 weeks, if things go well, we hope to arrange for the same.
Over and above, as a community we were happy for them. Seeing our children learn new and unexpected things gives us enough energy to keep us going on.
The organization, YOFOSO, used the local personel to provide support services to the running of this workshop so as to enable them earn some income which in turn was used to buy food for the children who came to their centre. Also during the 10 days made a provision to feed the other children, at least 30, not attending the workshop.
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We had a workshop for 10 days which was aimed at preventing our children from going onto the streets. it also tackled the issue of HIV/AIDS pandemic and its scourge. This workshop was held at our humble centre and it attracted 20 participants; half of them came directly from the streets while the other from among our own audience. All financial logistics were made by Project Concern International (PCI). Our place, which is run by Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, being in the heart of this 'confused' area was chosen to be the venue.
We involved some of our members deliberately so that at the end of it all, they can learn and share the information with others. From our side, all those who attended this workshop are non-school going children and youths ranging from 10 years to 20 years old. They do not go to school for various reasons among them of which are lack of school fees, books and uniforms; need to do house chores due to sickness of either parents or guardians. Having heard from their friends, the school going children and youths requested that this kind of workshop should be arranged for them as well. During this holiday, which lasts for 3 weeks, if things go well, we hope to arrange for the same.
Over and above, as a community we were happy for them. Seeing our children learn new and unexpected things gives us enough energy to keep us going on.
The organization, YOFOSO, used the local personel to provide support services to the running of this workshop so as to enable them earn some income which in turn was used to buy food for the children who came to their centre. Also during the 10 days made a provision to feed the other children, at least 30, not attending the workshop.
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[body] => :-( Our target group as all neighbours may know, encomposses the ages from 4 years to 24 years. As already stated, all of them are capable of going to school but most of them fail to pay school fees and the like. As at now, schools have closed and when they re-open in 3 weeks' time, we wil face the school fees problem. Of course we struggle within the little resources we have. In this case 'am refering to Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, an organization I work for as a volunteer. However, the number keeps on growing and thus it 'll just be too high in the near future for us to meet. :-o Suggestions from neighbours on how we can get over such a challenge are most welcome as it is a right for every child to have education irrespective of his/her status.
It is very disheartening :-( and demoralizing for these children to report to school when it re-opens only to be sent back a few days later, hence the need of your suggestions.
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:-( Our target group as all neighbours may know, encomposses the ages from 4 years to 24 years. As already stated, all of them are capable of going to school but most of them fail to pay school fees and the like. As at now, schools have closed and when they re-open in 3 weeks' time, we wil face the school fees problem. Of course we struggle within the little resources we have. In this case 'am refering to Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, an organization I work for as a volunteer. However, the number keeps on growing and thus it 'll just be too high in the near future for us to meet. :-o Suggestions from neighbours on how we can get over such a challenge are most welcome as it is a right for every child to have education irrespective of his/her status.
It is very disheartening :-( and demoralizing for these children to report to school when it re-opens only to be sent back a few days later, hence the need of your suggestions.
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[title] => SOCCER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
[body] => Sports is one of the most unifying activities and if used well it has the potential of helping the participants realise their potential. The self-esteem can make a difference in what kind of an individual a child will become in the future.
The organisation I work for, Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, YOFOSO in short, has the following as its core values;
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-Government Policy
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Here in Zambia, just like many other African countries, soccer is life or may be even food. in this regard, with the assistance from YOFOSO, last week was the busiest for our boys and girls. We have just formed the Under 10 and 12 years football teams and joined a local league called "League Yathu." Our aim is to keep our boys and girls doing something valuable rather than enganging in bad vices such as drug abuse and beer drinking which is at rampart in the neighbourhood.
By and large, it is our intention to promote and encourage those with this talent to develop it further; at the same time identifying the potential this sport has.
We hope to keep the neighbours posted with 'Young Gunners' progress in this league.
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Sports is one of the most unifying activities and if used well it has the potential of helping the participants realise their potential. The self-esteem can make a difference in what kind of an individual a child will become in the future.
The organisation I work for, Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, YOFOSO in short, has the following as its core values;
-Train them young
-Proper sporting environment
-Government Policy
-Responsible Parenting
-Sporting Information and Infrastructure
-Good Morals and Cultural Values.
Here in Zambia, just like many other African countries, soccer is life or may be even food. in this regard, with the assistance from YOFOSO, last week was the busiest for our boys and girls. We have just formed the Under 10 and 12 years football teams and joined a local league called "League Yathu." Our aim is to keep our boys and girls doing something valuable rather than enganging in bad vices such as drug abuse and beer drinking which is at rampart in the neighbourhood.
By and large, it is our intention to promote and encourage those with this talent to develop it further; at the same time identifying the potential this sport has.
We hope to keep the neighbours posted with 'Young Gunners' progress in this league.
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[title] => SMALL POX AND BILHARZIA INFEST GARDEN
[body] => In the recent past, Garden Village was greeted with a grin smile by small pox and bilharzia. However, this is not the first time such an epidemic has rocked Garden. Over half of the children involved in our programmes at YOFOSO had reported cases of small pox. Besides that, almost a quarter of them had cases related to bilharzia. For small pox, we tried to approach the necessary authorities but this proved futile. AS for bilharzia, the team from KIDSAFE project visited us and gave the first dosages to some of our children. they promised to get back to us after a month but since September we have not yet seen them.
The agony we have in Garden is that despite being a highly densely populated compound, it has no single government clinic or hospital. Imagine 70,000 people without a clinic!!! :-? The only clinics we have around are the private ones who have also in turn taken advantage of the situation to hike the fees and prices of the medicatiuons. Currently, we are struggling through YOFOSO, which has meagre resources to let this situation come under control..
Even though we go to these private clinics, it seems they don't get to the root cause of the pandemic for their interest is to make money as their business thrills. One may wonder why we haven't been to government hospitals or clinics? Well the agony is that after you walk to the nearest clinic which is located over 12 km from Garden, you end up being given a prescription of medicines you should buy hence you walk back to the drug shops in Garden. The cost of these drugs in most cases is beyond the reach of an average family in this area.
It is so disheartening to see small pox doing its rounds in the compound and be so hopeless in terms of helping fight the outbreak.
We thought of sharing this challenge with the neighbours in case one happens to share the same burden before and thence be able to offer the practical solution.
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In the recent past, Garden Village was greeted with a grin smile by small pox and bilharzia. However, this is not the first time such an epidemic has rocked Garden. Over half of the children involved in our programmes at YOFOSO had reported cases of small pox. Besides that, almost a quarter of them had cases related to bilharzia. For small pox, we tried to approach the necessary authorities but this proved futile. AS for bilharzia, the team from KIDSAFE project visited us and gave the first dosages to some of our children. they promised to get back to us after a month but since September we have not yet seen them.
The agony we have in Garden is that despite being a highly densely populated compound, it has no single government clinic or hospital. Imagine 70,000 people without a clinic!!! :-? The only clinics we have around are the private ones who have also in turn taken advantage of the situation to hike the fees and prices of the medicatiuons. Currently, we are struggling through YOFOSO, which has meagre resources to let this situation come under control..
Even though we go to these private clinics, it seems they don't get to the root cause of the pandemic for their interest is to make money as their business thrills. One may wonder why we haven't been to government hospitals or clinics? Well the agony is that after you walk to the nearest clinic which is located over 12 km from Garden, you end up being given a prescription of medicines you should buy hence you walk back to the drug shops in Garden. The cost of these drugs in most cases is beyond the reach of an average family in this area.
It is so disheartening to see small pox doing its rounds in the compound and be so hopeless in terms of helping fight the outbreak.
We thought of sharing this challenge with the neighbours in case one happens to share the same burden before and thence be able to offer the practical solution.
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[title] => Meet the neighbours
[body] => A week day at the Garden Centre in the making,called Yofoso centre, starts quite early.
No children stay at the centre,children from the neighbourhood come to the centre for the four programmes offered here and these are Playtherapy,Sport,Literacy Development and Pyscho-social life skills enpowerment.
Under the Literacy Development programme,in which our Library project falls,has in the last two years seen a number of children develop any interest in going to school and only the economic status of their families makes most of them just end up with this desire.with the limited resources we manage to raise,only fifteen of these children are able to realise this desire to go to school.
It it the elderly of these children who come the earliest at the centre to come and prepare food the group will take to school,for they all go to the same community school.Their classes start at 08:00hours and go on to 16:00hrs,Monday to Thursday and upto 12:00hrs every Friday.Hence everyMonday morning to Thursday morning they come to prepare their food.
When this group has left,it is playtime as the other children,both those who do not go to school and those who go later in the day,come to play.Their number is limited only by the space andpersonnel to be with them.We have been encouraging the children to return home during the lunch hour ans as a result during this period only about 5 or 6 remain and these are usually those whose parents or relatives can not manage to feeg three time a day.
After 14:00hours the children enage in creative arts and currently this is mostly drawing,resources are a factor,upto around 15:30hours when it is time for Sport.Under Sport we currently have only Chess,Table Tennis,Basketball-though we only have a ball with no court,and Football.Football or soccer is the most popular sport in our country and to this end children who come to our centre have formed a team called Young Gunners.Believe or no we have three teams,one for Girls,one for boys below 12 years and the other for those over 12 years.
At 18:00hours it is back to Literacy development and our read and write programme which is conducted by the children themselves start and end at 19:30hours.These days however becausewe have awaken the children's reading potential we have a number of children who come through requesting for books to read hence the need for that library facility.
One would think that 19:30 hours would signal the end of the day,but it is the beginingof another busy 2 and half hours.This time around the children come to watch TV while others do there homeworks and the children we sponsor to school prepare part of there food.Watching T.V because if they are asked to go home they would end up in wrong places and only go home when it is time to sleep, which is usually not earlier than 22:00hours.
This iis then a weekday at Yofoso centre.And as can be seen we still have a lot to do in terms of our programme and to the centre as a whole.Please visit our photo gallery.
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A week day at the Garden Centre in the making,called Yofoso centre, starts quite early.
No children stay at the centre,children from the neighbourhood come to the centre for the four programmes offered here and these are Playtherapy,Sport,Literacy Development and Pyscho-social life skills enpowerment.
Under the Literacy Development programme,in which our Library project falls,has in the last two years seen a number of children develop any interest in going to school and only the economic status of their families makes most of them just end up with this desire.with the limited resources we manage to raise,only fifteen of these children are able to realise this desire to go to school.
It it the elderly of these children who come the earliest at the centre to come and prepare food the group will take to school,for they all go to the same community school.Their classes start at 08:00hours and go on to 16:00hrs,Monday to Thursday and upto 12:00hrs every Friday.Hence everyMonday morning to Thursday morning they come to prepare their food.
When this group has left,it is playtime as the other children,both those who do not go to school and those who go later in the day,come to play.Their number is limited only by the space andpersonnel to be with them.We have been encouraging the children to return home during the lunch hour ans as a result during this period only about 5 or 6 remain and these are usually those whose parents or relatives can not manage to feeg three time a day.
After 14:00hours the children enage in creative arts and currently this is mostly drawing,resources are a factor,upto around 15:30hours when it is time for Sport.Under Sport we currently have only Chess,Table Tennis,Basketball-though we only have a ball with no court,and Football.Football or soccer is the most popular sport in our country and to this end children who come to our centre have formed a team called Young Gunners.Believe or no we have three teams,one for Girls,one for boys below 12 years and the other for those over 12 years.
At 18:00hours it is back to Literacy development and our read and write programme which is conducted by the children themselves start and end at 19:30hours.These days however becausewe have awaken the children's reading potential we have a number of children who come through requesting for books to read hence the need for that library facility.
One would think that 19:30 hours would signal the end of the day,but it is the beginingof another busy 2 and half hours.This time around the children come to watch TV while others do there homeworks and the children we sponsor to school prepare part of there food.Watching T.V because if they are asked to go home they would end up in wrong places and only go home when it is time to sleep, which is usually not earlier than 22:00hours.
This iis then a weekday at Yofoso centre.And as can be seen we still have a lot to do in terms of our programme and to the centre as a whole.Please visit our photo gallery.
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I am very happy to advise you all that I will double as the Local Representative and Facilitator while A Facilitator is being sort.
One of the first things I will do is come up with a newsletter and to this end I am asking for suggestions from you all as to what should be included in the newsletter which I am sure will be sent to you all by the end of next week.So please try to send your suggestions by at least nex week Tuesday the 31st July,2007.
Looking forward to your favourable response.
Mulenga Mulenga
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I am very happy to advise you all that I will double as the Local Representative and Facilitator while A Facilitator is being sort.
One of the first things I will do is come up with a newsletter and to this end I am asking for suggestions from you all as to what should be included in the newsletter which I am sure will be sent to you all by the end of next week.So please try to send your suggestions by at least nex week Tuesday the 31st July,2007.
Looking forward to your favourable response.
Mulenga Mulenga
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I have another small box with more supplies that I would also like to donate to your library but would like to make sure my first shipment arrived safely.
I spoke to the post office (here in Australia) and they said it could take up to 3 months for a box to arrive, but I am being optimistic!
If someone could let me know whether or not the boxes have arrived yet, that would be great!
Thank you so much and take care,
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Hello, back on the 23rd of April I mailed two boxes with school and library supplies to Mr. Mulenga's attention and since it is almost Aug and I haven't received any notice, I'm wondering if they arrived safely.
I have another small box with more supplies that I would also like to donate to your library but would like to make sure my first shipment arrived safely.
I spoke to the post office (here in Australia) and they said it could take up to 3 months for a box to arrive, but I am being optimistic!
If someone could let me know whether or not the boxes have arrived yet, that would be great!
Thank you so much and take care,
Patricia
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It is nice to hear from you after a long while.
I have sent you some mail using the nabuur short message but did not get any feedback as well.
I have not recieved anything from you. Would you please send me the details of the reciept no. you used so that I can make a follow up.
For the parcel you have please send it as a registered mail then e-mail the details of the reciept so that I follow up the same from here.The address is G 22 Garden,Lusaka.
You will be happy to learn that we have so far sourced 160 books for our Library.
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It is nice to hear from you after a long while.
I have sent you some mail using the nabuur short message but did not get any feedback as well.
I have not recieved anything from you. Would you please send me the details of the reciept no. you used so that I can make a follow up.
For the parcel you have please send it as a registered mail then e-mail the details of the reciept so that I follow up the same from here.The address is G 22 Garden,Lusaka.
You will be happy to learn that we have so far sourced 160 books for our Library.
Mulenga LR/Assoc.Facilitator
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This is T.J. (short for Tjeerd), and I'm now the facilitator for the Garden Project. Mulenga and I had a long chat this week about the current situation. There is much positive energy and Mulenga, our local rep, is a good communicator,which is most important for our projects.
There will be much activity on the this site so: Watch this space!
For now I'd like all neighbors to get back on their keyboards and move this project forward.
Warm greetings from a cold New Zealand
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Hello everyone,
This is T.J. (short for Tjeerd), and I'm now the facilitator for the Garden Project. Mulenga and I had a long chat this week about the current situation. There is much positive energy and Mulenga, our local rep, is a good communicator,which is most important for our projects.
There will be much activity on the this site so: Watch this space!
For now I'd like all neighbors to get back on their keyboards and move this project forward.
Warm greetings from a cold New Zealand
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At this time I am collectig material that will be helpful for the project.
Mulenga, is there anything specific that you need for educating?
Warm greetings.
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Hello everybody, I'm Yvonne, a special needs educator in Auckland. I 'd be keen to help Mulenga with his project and support him with challenges in educating these students.
At this time I am collectig material that will be helpful for the project.
Mulenga, is there anything specific that you need for educating?
Warm greetings.
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Yes, no coincidence, Yvonne is my much better half.I'm sure we can use her experience in education.
Just a short update and stock taking. Garden project has been marked as Pioneer Village. This village has great potential, and enjoys great support from our local rep Mulenga and from Nabuur.
It means that this village is a great opportunity for neighbours who really want to kick ass.
There will be new tasks and and we'll be looking for busy people, as they usually get things done. At this time I'd be most interested in people with experience in education, research and contacting local organizations, shipping issues and 2 people willing to become task owner to manage the task.
Even if you think that this project is not suitable for you, you may have people in mind , in or outside Nabuur. I'd like to be in contact with these people.
I'd like to say Hi to our existing neighbors, please let me know if and how you'd like to be involved.
Cheers to all,
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Hi Guys,
Yes, no coincidence, Yvonne is my much better half.I'm sure we can use her experience in education.
Just a short update and stock taking. Garden project has been marked as Pioneer Village. This village has great potential, and enjoys great support from our local rep Mulenga and from Nabuur.
It means that this village is a great opportunity for neighbours who really want to kick ass.
There will be new tasks and and we'll be looking for busy people, as they usually get things done. At this time I'd be most interested in people with experience in education, research and contacting local organizations, shipping issues and 2 people willing to become task owner to manage the task.
Even if you think that this project is not suitable for you, you may have people in mind , in or outside Nabuur. I'd like to be in contact with these people.
I'd like to say Hi to our existing neighbors, please let me know if and how you'd like to be involved.
Cheers to all,
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[body] => FIGHTING MALARIA
In Africa Malaria is one of the major Killer diseases.While elsewhere people seem to have managed to overcome it, a lot needs to be done.Mosquitoes,the insect responisble for the spreading of the disease are at home in stagnant water and the rain season is just around the corner in our country.
It is with the above background that the families in our neighbourhood had cause to be happy as our centre recieved 100 mosquitoe nets to be given to the children who come to our centre.Although the number of nets was just a drop in the Ocean,at least we managed, especially through the Children,to educate the community on the need to use the nets in our fight to rid off malaria.
Still talking about Health our centre has managed to get our neighbourhood to be part of a pilot scheme in which an international organisation is trying to see how effecctive a mobil clinic can be in our highly populated compounds which no Government clinics within them.This mobil clinic comes to our centre every Tuesday afternoon.
Indeed these development may seem to be a drop in the ocean but show how as a community and neighbours working together a lot of challenges can be overcomed.
Mulenga
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In Africa Malaria is one of the major Killer diseases.While elsewhere people seem to have managed to overcome it, a lot needs to be done.Mosquitoes,the insect responisble for the spreading of the disease are at home in stagnant water and the rain season is just around the corner in our country.
It is with the above background that the families in our neighbourhood had cause to be happy as our centre recieved 100 mosquitoe nets to be given to the children who come to our centre.Although the number of nets was just a drop in the Ocean,at least we managed, especially through the Children,to educate the community on the need to use the nets in our fight to rid off malaria.
Still talking about Health our centre has managed to get our neighbourhood to be part of a pilot scheme in which an international organisation is trying to see how effecctive a mobil clinic can be in our highly populated compounds which no Government clinics within them.This mobil clinic comes to our centre every Tuesday afternoon.
Indeed these development may seem to be a drop in the ocean but show how as a community and neighbours working together a lot of challenges can be overcomed.
Mulenga
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I'm glad there will be a molibe health clinic in Garden soon. I've found two organisatons that offer healthcare books for free or at a very low cost to communities.
The Hesperian foundation www.hesperian.org
Teaching aids at lowcost www.talcuk.org
They offer books such as Where there is no doctor free of charge. there are also accessories for teaching about health.
I hope these websites help. Let me know if you could use anything from them in the library.
Sinead
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hi Mulenga,
I'm glad there will be a molibe health clinic in Garden soon. I've found two organisatons that offer healthcare books for free or at a very low cost to communities.
The Hesperian foundation www.hesperian.org
Teaching aids at lowcost www.talcuk.org
They offer books such as Where there is no doctor free of charge. there are also accessories for teaching about health.
I hope these websites help. Let me know if you could use anything from them in the library.
Sinead
Hi There All and Welcome,
As neigbours, I am sure we like to hear news of our neighbours so please use this part of the site as the garden fence. :o)
Also, if you feel to converse about anything to do with the village or slightly unrelated issues at leisure a little more informally, this is also the place for that.
Yes, this is the place for people to talk in a relaxed way about anything at all on your minds as friends, villagers, neighbours.
General advice about receiving news direct to your email inboxes:
Please, if you wish, tick -the notify me box- below the posting area if you wish to receive posts made here direct to your email. Doing so helps to keep you up to date. Also, please subscribe to the Garden Newsletter, to receive update when progress has been made and new actions are issued on the website here, or we have special news of some kind.
Looking forward to all your posts, here and elsewhere, neighbours and friends,
Rubyana Arendn
Facilitator
:lol: Mundawanga ia the largest Botanical Garden and Wildlife Conservation Sanctuary in Zambia. Mundawanga is a local word used to express ownership. It simply says "My Field." The majority of our community members do just hear about itn though it located within Lusaka. They are unable to go there because they are financilly handicapped. However, it only takes you 15 minutes to drive south of Lusaka City. There are a variety of animal; lions, zebras, populay Phoenix elephant, An American Bear just to mention a few. Many children hear about them from school, films and friends. These animals are conserved for tourism and education.
Last weekend that is where we went to take a brief break from the loud music played around our compound's tarvens and bars.
we had some games and later on let our boys and girls enjoy the swimming pool to the fullest with the popular sliding supertube. Thereafter, we were taken on a tour around the park. Our team had the clearest opportunity to see almost all the animals at close range.
As an observer and participant 'am sure they did not only enjoy but also learnt one or two things. This can be confirmed from the narrations they make to those who remaine behind especially their parents and guardians. If you want to have prior informattion about popular Mundawanga, where we even have an American black bear when you happen to visit Zambia, just visit us and ask one of the children we went with and they will give it to you.
For me it gives me joy :-D to see these disadvantaged children and youths enjoy and learn from our natural resources. Moreover to have access to the nriches of our country. We hope to have another trip of this wonderful resort.
We are also hoping that all things be equal to take a few children to this weekend's Agricultural and commercial show, which believe it or not is just a walking distance from our residence but because of the cost, these children just hear about it from friends or radio. To children and youths, going there means so much for them.
This has been our joy for the past weekend. :-D :lol:
We had a workshop for 10 days which was aimed at preventing our children from going onto the streets. it also tackled the issue of HIV/AIDS pandemic and its scourge. This workshop was held at our humble centre and it attracted 20 participants; half of them came directly from the streets while the other from among our own audience. All financial logistics were made by Project Concern International (PCI). Our place, which is run by Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, being in the heart of this 'confused' area was chosen to be the venue.
We involved some of our members deliberately so that at the end of it all, they can learn and share the information with others. From our side, all those who attended this workshop are non-school going children and youths ranging from 10 years to 20 years old. They do not go to school for various reasons among them of which are lack of school fees, books and uniforms; need to do house chores due to sickness of either parents or guardians. Having heard from their friends, the school going children and youths requested that this kind of workshop should be arranged for them as well. During this holiday, which lasts for 3 weeks, if things go well, we hope to arrange for the same.
Over and above, as a community we were happy for them. Seeing our children learn new and unexpected things gives us enough energy to keep us going on.
The organization, YOFOSO, used the local personel to provide support services to the running of this workshop so as to enable them earn some income which in turn was used to buy food for the children who came to their centre. Also during the 10 days made a provision to feed the other children, at least 30, not attending the workshop.
:-( Our target group as all neighbours may know, encomposses the ages from 4 years to 24 years. As already stated, all of them are capable of going to school but most of them fail to pay school fees and the like. As at now, schools have closed and when they re-open in 3 weeks' time, we wil face the school fees problem. Of course we struggle within the little resources we have. In this case 'am refering to Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, an organization I work for as a volunteer. However, the number keeps on growing and thus it 'll just be too high in the near future for us to meet. :-o Suggestions from neighbours on how we can get over such a challenge are most welcome as it is a right for every child to have education irrespective of his/her status.
It is very disheartening :-( and demoralizing for these children to report to school when it re-opens only to be sent back a few days later, hence the need of your suggestions.
Sports is one of the most unifying activities and if used well it has the potential of helping the participants realise their potential. The self-esteem can make a difference in what kind of an individual a child will become in the future.
The organisation I work for, Youth for Sport, Rehabilitation and Restoration, YOFOSO in short, has the following as its core values;
-Train them young
-Proper sporting environment
-Government Policy
-Responsible Parenting
-Sporting Information and Infrastructure
-Good Morals and Cultural Values.
Here in Zambia, just like many other African countries, soccer is life or may be even food. in this regard, with the assistance from YOFOSO, last week was the busiest for our boys and girls. We have just formed the Under 10 and 12 years football teams and joined a local league called "League Yathu." Our aim is to keep our boys and girls doing something valuable rather than enganging in bad vices such as drug abuse and beer drinking which is at rampart in the neighbourhood.
By and large, it is our intention to promote and encourage those with this talent to develop it further; at the same time identifying the potential this sport has.
We hope to keep the neighbours posted with 'Young Gunners' progress in this league.
In the recent past, Garden Village was greeted with a grin smile by small pox and bilharzia. However, this is not the first time such an epidemic has rocked Garden. Over half of the children involved in our programmes at YOFOSO had reported cases of small pox. Besides that, almost a quarter of them had cases related to bilharzia. For small pox, we tried to approach the necessary authorities but this proved futile. AS for bilharzia, the team from KIDSAFE project visited us and gave the first dosages to some of our children. they promised to get back to us after a month but since September we have not yet seen them.
The agony we have in Garden is that despite being a highly densely populated compound, it has no single government clinic or hospital. Imagine 70,000 people without a clinic!!! :-? The only clinics we have around are the private ones who have also in turn taken advantage of the situation to hike the fees and prices of the medicatiuons. Currently, we are struggling through YOFOSO, which has meagre resources to let this situation come under control..
Even though we go to these private clinics, it seems they don't get to the root cause of the pandemic for their interest is to make money as their business thrills. One may wonder why we haven't been to government hospitals or clinics? Well the agony is that after you walk to the nearest clinic which is located over 12 km from Garden, you end up being given a prescription of medicines you should buy hence you walk back to the drug shops in Garden. The cost of these drugs in most cases is beyond the reach of an average family in this area.
It is so disheartening to see small pox doing its rounds in the compound and be so hopeless in terms of helping fight the outbreak.
We thought of sharing this challenge with the neighbours in case one happens to share the same burden before and thence be able to offer the practical solution.
A week day at the Garden Centre in the making,called Yofoso centre, starts quite early.
No children stay at the centre,children from the neighbourhood come to the centre for the four programmes offered here and these are Playtherapy,Sport,Literacy Development and Pyscho-social life skills enpowerment.
Under the Literacy Development programme,in which our Library project falls,has in the last two years seen a number of children develop any interest in going to school and only the economic status of their families makes most of them just end up with this desire.with the limited resources we manage to raise,only fifteen of these children are able to realise this desire to go to school.
It it the elderly of these children who come the earliest at the centre to come and prepare food the group will take to school,for they all go to the same community school.Their classes start at 08:00hours and go on to 16:00hrs,Monday to Thursday and upto 12:00hrs every Friday.Hence everyMonday morning to Thursday morning they come to prepare their food.
When this group has left,it is playtime as the other children,both those who do not go to school and those who go later in the day,come to play.Their number is limited only by the space andpersonnel to be with them.We have been encouraging the children to return home during the lunch hour ans as a result during this period only about 5 or 6 remain and these are usually those whose parents or relatives can not manage to feeg three time a day.
After 14:00hours the children enage in creative arts and currently this is mostly drawing,resources are a factor,upto around 15:30hours when it is time for Sport.Under Sport we currently have only Chess,Table Tennis,Basketball-though we only have a ball with no court,and Football.Football or soccer is the most popular sport in our country and to this end children who come to our centre have formed a team called Young Gunners.Believe or no we have three teams,one for Girls,one for boys below 12 years and the other for those over 12 years.
At 18:00hours it is back to Literacy development and our read and write programme which is conducted by the children themselves start and end at 19:30hours.These days however becausewe have awaken the children's reading potential we have a number of children who come through requesting for books to read hence the need for that library facility.
One would think that 19:30 hours would signal the end of the day,but it is the beginingof another busy 2 and half hours.This time around the children come to watch TV while others do there homeworks and the children we sponsor to school prepare part of there food.Watching T.V because if they are asked to go home they would end up in wrong places and only go home when it is time to sleep, which is usually not earlier than 22:00hours.
This iis then a weekday at Yofoso centre.And as can be seen we still have a lot to do in terms of our programme and to the centre as a whole.Please visit our photo gallery.
MULENGA MULENGA CLIFF-LR GARDEN[img align=right hspace=15]http://www.nabuur.com/uploads/img_4687a6a8b7388.jpg[/img]
Hello everyone,
I am very happy to advise you all that I will double as the Local Representative and Facilitator while A Facilitator is being sort.
One of the first things I will do is come up with a newsletter and to this end I am asking for suggestions from you all as to what should be included in the newsletter which I am sure will be sent to you all by the end of next week.So please try to send your suggestions by at least nex week Tuesday the 31st July,2007.
Looking forward to your favourable response.
Mulenga Mulenga
Hello, back on the 23rd of April I mailed two boxes with school and library supplies to Mr. Mulenga's attention and since it is almost Aug and I haven't received any notice, I'm wondering if they arrived safely.
I have another small box with more supplies that I would also like to donate to your library but would like to make sure my first shipment arrived safely.
I spoke to the post office (here in Australia) and they said it could take up to 3 months for a box to arrive, but I am being optimistic!
If someone could let me know whether or not the boxes have arrived yet, that would be great!
Thank you so much and take care,
Patricia
Hello Patricia,
It is nice to hear from you after a long while.
I have sent you some mail using the nabuur short message but did not get any feedback as well.
I have not recieved anything from you. Would you please send me the details of the reciept no. you used so that I can make a follow up.
For the parcel you have please send it as a registered mail then e-mail the details of the reciept so that I follow up the same from here.The address is G 22 Garden,Lusaka.
You will be happy to learn that we have so far sourced 160 books for our Library.
Mulenga LR/Assoc.Facilitator
Hello everyone,
This is T.J. (short for Tjeerd), and I'm now the facilitator for the Garden Project. Mulenga and I had a long chat this week about the current situation. There is much positive energy and Mulenga, our local rep, is a good communicator,which is most important for our projects.
There will be much activity on the this site so: Watch this space!
For now I'd like all neighbors to get back on their keyboards and move this project forward.
Warm greetings from a cold New Zealand
Hello everybody, I'm Yvonne, a special needs educator in Auckland. I 'd be keen to help Mulenga with his project and support him with challenges in educating these students.
At this time I am collectig material that will be helpful for the project.
Mulenga, is there anything specific that you need for educating?
Warm greetings.
Hi Guys,
Yes, no coincidence, Yvonne is my much better half.I'm sure we can use her experience in education.
Just a short update and stock taking. Garden project has been marked as Pioneer Village. This village has great potential, and enjoys great support from our local rep Mulenga and from Nabuur.
It means that this village is a great opportunity for neighbours who really want to kick ass.
There will be new tasks and and we'll be looking for busy people, as they usually get things done. At this time I'd be most interested in people with experience in education, research and contacting local organizations, shipping issues and 2 people willing to become task owner to manage the task.
Even if you think that this project is not suitable for you, you may have people in mind , in or outside Nabuur. I'd like to be in contact with these people.
I'd like to say Hi to our existing neighbors, please let me know if and how you'd like to be involved.
Cheers to all,
FIGHTING MALARIA
In Africa Malaria is one of the major Killer diseases.While elsewhere people seem to have managed to overcome it, a lot needs to be done.Mosquitoes,the insect responisble for the spreading of the disease are at home in stagnant water and the rain season is just around the corner in our country.
It is with the above background that the families in our neighbourhood had cause to be happy as our centre recieved 100 mosquitoe nets to be given to the children who come to our centre.Although the number of nets was just a drop in the Ocean,at least we managed, especially through the Children,to educate the community on the need to use the nets in our fight to rid off malaria.
Still talking about Health our centre has managed to get our neighbourhood to be part of a pilot scheme in which an international organisation is trying to see how effecctive a mobil clinic can be in our highly populated compounds which no Government clinics within them.This mobil clinic comes to our centre every Tuesday afternoon.
Indeed these development may seem to be a drop in the ocean but show how as a community and neighbours working together a lot of challenges can be overcomed.
Mulenga
hi Mulenga,
I'm glad there will be a molibe health clinic in Garden soon. I've found two organisatons that offer healthcare books for free or at a very low cost to communities.
The Hesperian foundation www.hesperian.org
Teaching aids at lowcost www.talcuk.org
They offer books such as Where there is no doctor free of charge. there are also accessories for teaching about health.
I hope these websites help. Let me know if you could use anything from them in the library.
Sinead