Thanks so much for the good work you have done since from the beginning of this Zabef village to Nabuur.com up to now you have been a blessing and great adviser in all areas of the developments of this village to the time of getting facilitator Brother Ray, and on behalf of Zabef Village Widows and orphans and Gidcco Ministry as large in Uganda we welcome once more brother Ray to take on the office of facilitator of our village , all nabuur Members brother and sisters feel free to welcome Ray and your advices and help means a lot in Jesus name.
Let me hear from you if possible.
God bless
Local representative Zabef village
Pastor Fred Mwanje www.gidcco.co.nr
Hi everyone, I'm Ray from Hong Kong. I've been talking to Romina and Pastor Fred for some time and I basically understand the basic situation that the village faces. I hope that we could all go along well together. Let me talk a bit more about myself. I did my degree in International Studies focusing in the East Asian area. During my years in university, I've volunteered for some time in UNHCR Hong Kong Sub-office and Caritas Hong Kong serving some refugees and asylum seekers. I enjoy a lot in helping people that are in need and therefore, I've changed to do more social work related work and now working in New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association which aims to help mental illness clients to lead a better life. I think that's what I've been doing in recent years, and I hope I could contribute something here to improve the lives of the children and widows in our village.
Hi Ray good to have you on board at Zabef! I'm Carolyn and I live in Sydney Australia. I currently work in the healthcare sector but am a jack of all trades!
Thank you so much for welcoming brother Ray and I am happy that you’re the people who have the Zeal of helping other I mean making change, Impact in the lives of Children and widows thank you so much and let as come to the area of advising and getting the ways of helping children of Zabef with scholastic Material in the school Like books, pens, pencils and other. If you have any advices please your most welcome and don’t forget to have a look at our website www.gidcco.co.nr
Pastor Fred.
I recently joined an organisation called Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) at my university: www.sife.vu.nl.
In a nutshell, the aim of the organisation is for students to identify needs in society, educate people in enterprenueship and get results from it. I thought of Zabef immediately because I have a bit of knowledge about how people are affected and how we may be of help.
I am thinking of a 1 or 2 year project workng with HIV positive widows, or if discrimination is an issue, we can just work with widows. Because we have to come up with a budget and a proper proposal to get funding there are quite a number of questions I need answered but this is the approach I intend to follow:
1. People, people, people. To know who they are, what they are passionate about, what they dream about, what they are capable of and if they are aware of the huge potential that lies in them.
2. What they want: Pastor Fred has talked at length about the needs that exist there, but because I am making people my primary concern, I would like to know, all things being equal, what they want to do to help themselves and their families.
3. What they need: this is not always the same as what they want. My theory is that once you understand more about people and their culture, get insight into what they want, your perception of their needs might actually be different from what it would have been if you had not sought out the first 2.
4. Aligning needs and wants to educate and empower people to do projects that they will be able to sustain and have a sense of ownership over. Such projects should have a much greater chance of continued existence and success long after we are gone.
This is all still in its preliminary stages, and I cannot make any promises but I am keen to push through and get the results that I want. If successful, I'll be working with a team of 4 other students from my university and we will have to split tasks and nag a few people every once in a while. Also note that SIFE does not offer funding for charity, but does help in as far as creating opportunities for people is concerned. We can partner with other organisations along the way though, so limitless possibilites exist.
My most pressing questions right now are:
- Would this be a welcome project in Zabef if we did manage to get funding for the research?
- What channel of communication are we supposed to follow especailly during the early stages when we need to get a lot of information? (We'll be all over the place and will probably need to talk to EVERYONE)
- Would it be possible for me to establish relationships with a few women in the village? This is particularly important for me in terms of getting to understand these women better.
I am currently busy with exams but in a week I will have my freedom again and perhaps we can talk about it at length then and maybe then I can give something more concrete if none of this is making sense.
Kind Regards,
Nonhlanhla
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'If you are willing to change the world, let love be your energy.' Robbie Williams
I am Vineeth from Philadelphia USA and will be the new facilitator for Zabef. I moved to the USA 3 years back from Bangalore India where I was born and raised. I currently work as a Technology consultant in the philadelphia area.
I look forward to working with you all while making an impact and adding value to the wonderful work being done by Pastor Fred.
Maybe we can all meet online at a convenient time and talk about our plans for Zabef. Let me know your thoughts.
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Vineeth Gururaj
I want to introduce to you our new facilitator for Zabef village officially called Vineeth Gururaj from USA very humble, kind, development and available, let us welcome Vineeth in special ways you feel like we say thank you Ray for the good work you have done us facilitator in our village ,hope let’s join together and make great impact and adding value to our village in Uganda Africa.
Feel free to share what’s on your heart for the development of Zabef village.
Dear all,
We're happy to announce that Zabef has a new Facilitator, Ray!
Welcome Ray, thanks for joining the community and best of luck as you undertake this project.
the NABUUR Team
Dear Romina ,
Thanks so much for the good work you have done since from the beginning of this Zabef village to Nabuur.com up to now you have been a blessing and great adviser in all areas of the developments of this village to the time of getting facilitator Brother Ray, and on behalf of Zabef Village Widows and orphans and Gidcco Ministry as large in Uganda we welcome once more brother Ray to take on the office of facilitator of our village , all nabuur Members brother and sisters feel free to welcome Ray and your advices and help means a lot in Jesus name.
Let me hear from you if possible.
God bless
Local representative Zabef village
Pastor Fred Mwanje
www.gidcco.co.nr
Hi everyone, I'm Ray from Hong Kong. I've been talking to Romina and Pastor Fred for some time and I basically understand the basic situation that the village faces. I hope that we could all go along well together. Let me talk a bit more about myself. I did my degree in International Studies focusing in the East Asian area. During my years in university, I've volunteered for some time in UNHCR Hong Kong Sub-office and Caritas Hong Kong serving some refugees and asylum seekers. I enjoy a lot in helping people that are in need and therefore, I've changed to do more social work related work and now working in New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association which aims to help mental illness clients to lead a better life. I think that's what I've been doing in recent years, and I hope I could contribute something here to improve the lives of the children and widows in our village.
Hi Ray,
Welcome! I'm Jen from the US. I live just outside of Chicago, Illinois.
Hi Ray good to have you on board at Zabef! I'm Carolyn and I live in Sydney Australia. I currently work in the healthcare sector but am a jack of all trades!
Ray, Carolyn DV, Jennifer Jenkins,
Thank you so much for welcoming brother Ray and I am happy that you’re the people who have the Zeal of helping other I mean making change, Impact in the lives of Children and widows thank you so much and let as come to the area of advising and getting the ways of helping children of Zabef with scholastic Material in the school Like books, pens, pencils and other. If you have any advices please your most welcome and don’t forget to have a look at our website www.gidcco.co.nr
Pastor Fred.
Hi Ray,
Welcome to Zabef, very kind of you to take on the task of facilitator.
All the best in the tasks that lie ahead, and of course, we will continue to support the casue of Zabef.
Nonhlanhla
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'If you are willing to change the world, let love be your energy.' Robbie Williams
Dear Pastor Fred, Ray, and Everyone :)
I recently joined an organisation called Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) at my university: www.sife.vu.nl.
In a nutshell, the aim of the organisation is for students to identify needs in society, educate people in enterprenueship and get results from it. I thought of Zabef immediately because I have a bit of knowledge about how people are affected and how we may be of help.
I am thinking of a 1 or 2 year project workng with HIV positive widows, or if discrimination is an issue, we can just work with widows. Because we have to come up with a budget and a proper proposal to get funding there are quite a number of questions I need answered but this is the approach I intend to follow:
1. People, people, people. To know who they are, what they are passionate about, what they dream about, what they are capable of and if they are aware of the huge potential that lies in them.
2. What they want: Pastor Fred has talked at length about the needs that exist there, but because I am making people my primary concern, I would like to know, all things being equal, what they want to do to help themselves and their families.
3. What they need: this is not always the same as what they want. My theory is that once you understand more about people and their culture, get insight into what they want, your perception of their needs might actually be different from what it would have been if you had not sought out the first 2.
4. Aligning needs and wants to educate and empower people to do projects that they will be able to sustain and have a sense of ownership over. Such projects should have a much greater chance of continued existence and success long after we are gone.
This is all still in its preliminary stages, and I cannot make any promises but I am keen to push through and get the results that I want. If successful, I'll be working with a team of 4 other students from my university and we will have to split tasks and nag a few people every once in a while. Also note that SIFE does not offer funding for charity, but does help in as far as creating opportunities for people is concerned. We can partner with other organisations along the way though, so limitless possibilites exist.
My most pressing questions right now are:
- Would this be a welcome project in Zabef if we did manage to get funding for the research?
- What channel of communication are we supposed to follow especailly during the early stages when we need to get a lot of information? (We'll be all over the place and will probably need to talk to EVERYONE)
- Would it be possible for me to establish relationships with a few women in the village? This is particularly important for me in terms of getting to understand these women better.
I am currently busy with exams but in a week I will have my freedom again and perhaps we can talk about it at length then and maybe then I can give something more concrete if none of this is making sense.
Kind Regards,
Nonhlanhla
-
--
'If you are willing to change the world, let love be your energy.' Robbie Williams
Hi All,
I am Vineeth from Philadelphia USA and will be the new facilitator for Zabef. I moved to the USA 3 years back from Bangalore India where I was born and raised. I currently work as a Technology consultant in the philadelphia area.
I look forward to working with you all while making an impact and adding value to the wonderful work being done by Pastor Fred.
Maybe we can all meet online at a convenient time and talk about our plans for Zabef. Let me know your thoughts.
--
Vineeth Gururaj
Hey all sweet friends,
I want to introduce to you our new facilitator for Zabef village officially called Vineeth Gururaj from USA very humble, kind, development and available, let us welcome Vineeth in special ways you feel like we say thank you Ray for the good work you have done us facilitator in our village ,hope let’s join together and make great impact and adding value to our village in Uganda Africa.
Feel free to share what’s on your heart for the development of Zabef village.
Let me hear more from you sweet friends.
God bless
Pastor Fred
www.gidcco.co.nr
Hi Vineeth,
Welcome to nabuur and we wish u the very best.
Moses
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Thank you and may the almight bless you!
Dear Vineeth,
Welcome to Zabef and thank you for taking on this huge responsibility. I look forward to working with you too.
I wish you all the best and hope that this will be a fulfilling time for you!
Have a good day.
Kind Regards,
Nonhlanhla
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'If you are willing to change the world, let love be your energy.' Robbie Williams