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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  1 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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