Hello Fr Ruffino, I am delighted with your effort. Let us start small and move forward. The idea of using the radio is very good. I Will talk to my fellow West Nileans in USA & Canada.We started an organization called NILE CARE INC.We are at infant stage, with almost no resources. Hopefully ,we can work on the idea of sponsoring talk saw , may be once a month. This is a good idea to gather opinion from people, Come up with strategic planning.
Inviting as many people as possible is very good. The more inclusive we are, the better. No one should feel excluded. This is a problem affecting all of us directly or indirectly. We are starting a process to heal our wound. Diagnose our societal sickness/illness. Like a doctor, if we know the cause of the sickness, we can prescribe the correct medicine. I am confident people will come with a lot of ideas. >From these ideas, we do analysis of the problems. Prioritize the problems. Start strategic planning to fix some of the problems. Thanks to everyone who have bought into the idea. This is a good process of looking at ourselves in the mirror, understand what is hurting us and resolve to address the problems On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Task force (Ruffino Ezama) > 2. Re: Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 72 (Ruffino Ezama) > 3. Re: Students whip, frogmarch headmaster (Ruffino Ezama) > 4. Re: Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 72 (Patrick Oyulu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:13 +0300 > From: Ruffino Ezama <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Task force > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Yes Alaka > Greetings. I went to Kampala last monday and just came back yesterday. I > did > not have enough time on tuesday. > Your suggestion of other names for the Task Force is welcome. I am thinking > in that line already. This afternoon I talked with Ambassador Harold Acemah > who has accepted to be on the Task Force. I am looking forward to bringing > on board the HM of Mvara (with whom I travelled yesterday from Kampala) and > Mr Juruga (HM of Ombaci). As someone stated we need some ladies too. > How many people need to be on the Task Force? > > > -- > Ruffino Ezama,mccj > Comboni Missionaries > P.O Box 3872 > Kampala > Uganda > (+256 77 2 62 42 40) > (+256 75 2 62 42 40) > > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > www.tualu.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090305/766badbe/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:24:56 +0300 > From: Ruffino Ezama <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 72 > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Dear Jackson > Greetings from arua. > I have thought of bringing some people on board and we start. I have been > meditating on the following things in these last few days > > 1) identify a way of reaching more people of the region > I found out that Radio Pacis (from Ediofe hill) covers the whole of West > Nile, part of Congo, Sudan and even can be picked as far as Kitgum or > Hoima. > I already talked to the Director of this Radio (Fr Tonino Pasolini, an > italian Comboni priest). He saw the problem and referred me to the person > in > charge of marketing but I found this option costly since they charge for > talk shows about 200,000 ugx. Instead I approached Fr Matia Miria (the > Education Secretary of Arua Diocese) to permit as use his airtime which is > meant for Education programs. He has accepted and this is free of charge. I > am also approaching Fr George Ezatirale to give us the airtime of Caritas > on > Development. So this will enable us to have 90 mins every week to air our > concerns and get feed back from people all over West Nile. > After gathering the views of people we want to prepare a questionnaire to > be > adminstered to the level of sub counties or villages to assess the > magnitude > of the multiple factors on the performance. This will be in a scientific > approach. > > 2) Those people who intend to have on the various panels whould include > mainly stakehloders > i) Principals on the Primary Teachers Colleges of Erepi (in Moyo), Lodonga > (in Yumbe), Arua PTC (in Arua), Paidah (in Nebbi) to find out why their > teachers are not making impact on the PLE results? > ii) Some parents (whom you could indicate for us) > iii) Some teachers from the schools in central region who hail from West > Nile region > iv) Some of the West Nilers in various educational institutions. I think of > Dr Christine Dranzoa (Deputy Director Post Graduate School of makerere > university), Dr Richard Edema (faculty of agriculture MUK), Mr Asaf Adebua > (Kyambogo University) > v) our business community > vi) some pupils and students to come and share with us their expectations > etc > vii) some politicians to hear what their constituents are thinking of > problems which are biting us seriously > viii) Bishop Drandua and Bishop Obetia who are developmental people so that > their share with us their concerns as spiritual fathers and seeing that > many > of our schools were chuch founded > Other comments, remarks etc are invited and even modifications are welcome. > Even our brothers and sisters of the islamic faith should be brought on > board > God bless > > > -- > Ruffino Ezama,mccj > Comboni Missionaries > P.O Box 3872 > Kampala > Uganda > (+256 77 2 62 42 40) > (+256 75 2 62 42 40) > > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > www.tualu.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090305/bc4070a9/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 19:50:28 +0300 > From: Ruffino Ezama <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Students whip, frogmarch headmaster > To: [email protected], A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Yes Tabu > To add onto what you have said one person from near ombatini told me that > the headmaster there was really arrogant. > > -- > Ruffino Ezama,mccj > Comboni Missionaries > P.O Box 3872 > Kampala > Uganda > (+256 77 2 62 42 40) > (+256 75 2 62 42 40) > > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > www.tualu.org > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090305/2bcbbf99/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:04:19 +0300 > From: Patrick Oyulu <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 72 > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > ...the encouragement of pupils to use native languages in their development > stages as opposed to a rigid sticking to the agreed mode of communication > (english) should be reviewed. > > ...the notion that young pupils should go to school with papyrus reads as a > must to build teachers houses must stop...because teachers are taking > advantage of cheap and free labour like pupils are prisoners on remand. > > ...If the educated of the region can invest in blackboards and avail > constant chalk (instead of using cassava), and negate this native approach > of children writing using sticks on the ground... > > ...Proper advocacy begins at home from the parents in everything from > hygiene, proper homesteads and the notion that...sleeping with goats in > your > hut shows you how backward that can affect that kid. He cant see beyond > that > smell of goats and you expect him to study hard... > > ...Proper utilisation of the norms of education. Students should be > encouraged that yeah...you study for a great future. This is your fees...in > cash, even if it's paid in batches. This thing of students going with sacks > of osubi or tobacco, and hiding them under their beds...that it's their > STIMULUS plan for fees, should stop. > > We should stop being backward by good advocacy, and that education > programme > on Pacis is a good one....but people should be on the ground... > > ....to keep those homesteads in the know. > > It's a tough call that requires all hands on deck to eradicate this low > level of penetration in the educ sphere. > > While at it, think of the plague (i.e. rats) that are on rampage in my > Nebbi > district... > > It's not ALL ABOUT YOU... > > It's all about HYGIENE. > > Caleb and Ezagayo...what do you think? > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Ruffino Ezama <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Dear Jackson > > Greetings from arua. > > I have thought of bringing some people on board and we start. I have been > > meditating on the following things in these last few days > > > > 1) identify a way of reaching more people of the region > > I found out that Radio Pacis (from Ediofe hill) covers the whole of West > > Nile, part of Congo, Sudan and even can be picked as far as Kitgum or > Hoima. > > I already talked to the Director of this Radio (Fr Tonino Pasolini, an > > italian Comboni priest). He saw the problem and referred me to the person > in > > charge of marketing but I found this option costly since they charge for > > talk shows about 200,000 ugx. Instead I approached Fr Matia Miria (the > > Education Secretary of Arua Diocese) to permit as use his airtime which > is > > meant for Education programs. He has accepted and this is free of charge. > I > > am also approaching Fr George Ezatirale to give us the airtime of Caritas > on > > Development. So this will enable us to have 90 mins every week to air our > > concerns and get feed back from people all over West Nile. > > After gathering the views of people we want to prepare a questionnaire to > > be adminstered to the level of sub counties or villages to assess the > > magnitude of the multiple factors on the performance. This will be in a > > scientific approach. > > > > 2) Those people who intend to have on the various panels whould include > > mainly stakehloders > > i) Principals on the Primary Teachers Colleges of Erepi (in Moyo), > Lodonga > > (in Yumbe), Arua PTC (in Arua), Paidah (in Nebbi) to find out why their > > teachers are not making impact on the PLE results? > > ii) Some parents (whom you could indicate for us) > > iii) Some teachers from the schools in central region who hail from West > > Nile region > > iv) Some of the West Nilers in various educational institutions. I think > of > > Dr Christine Dranzoa (Deputy Director Post Graduate School of makerere > > university), Dr Richard Edema (faculty of agriculture MUK), Mr Asaf > Adebua > > (Kyambogo University) > > v) our business community > > vi) some pupils and students to come and share with us their expectations > > etc > > vii) some politicians to hear what their constituents are thinking of > > problems which are biting us seriously > > viii) Bishop Drandua and Bishop Obetia who are developmental people so > that > > their share with us their concerns as spiritual fathers and seeing that > many > > of our schools were chuch founded > > Other comments, remarks etc are invited and even modifications are > welcome. > > Even our brothers and sisters of the islamic faith should be brought on > > board > > God bless > > > > > > -- > > Ruffino Ezama,mccj > > Comboni Missionaries > > P.O Box 3872 > > Kampala > > Uganda > > (+256 77 2 62 42 40) > > (+256 75 2 62 42 40) > > > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > [email protected] > > > > www.tualu.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WestNileNet mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > > % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > > > > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > > attachments if any). 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