Thanks Vasco for the views, we shall discuss this with team and incorperate the views. I think you have raised pertinent issues.
Christine On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Vasco Oguzua <[email protected]> wrote: > Christine, > > Congratulations for the successful launch of Science Cafe in Maracha. This > is something I was passionate about since the first Science Cafe Launch in > Arua where I personally witnessed how useful Science Cafe can be to > connect, spread and exchange ideas within the community and the outside > world and also to bring the community together with their leaders to view, > evaluate and address some of the issues affecting the community. May be > that way the community members and leaders will begin to have a different > perspective of themselves as shareholders of the issues within their > locale. I would suggest that before the issues of poverty is probably > discussed, they should have a discussion of why there is a lot of hunger > inspite of their hard work in the fields, there is shortage of food which > is the important aspect of their daily survival. Until the community begins > to have a serious perspective of water and food as the necessary > ingredients of human survival and development, it will be difficult to > address poverty. The issues of clean water and food should be seriously > discussed as a pre-requisite to discussing poverty in my view. Although, > the community is the one suggesting the topics of discussion, the > moderators of the discussions should be able to lead the community to view > some of these issues they want addressed from relating the topics to the > central issue of human survival. > > Thank you so much for all your efforts and dedication. > > Vasco > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Christine Munduru <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear all, >> just briefly to let you know that Science Cafe was successfully launched >> in Maracha. Discussions took place in Nyadri market and community >> participation and involvement was high. >> The district leadership was very impressed with the feedback they got >> from community and clearly identified a missing link in the way they have >> been doing health education and are very ready to adopt this model of >> community involvement and empowerement. What was interesting was that even >> before the discussions started, the community came up with the next topic >> for discussion( How to eradicate poverty and hunger in Maracha). >> >> It was very clear that the district had done alot of sensitization on >> Cholera due to the outbreak and so people had the knowledge and these was >> evident by the answers given by the community. Then the community had their >> concerns which they raised openly and later after the discussions they were >> asked to come up with interventions and roles and responsibilities to be >> taken by both the community and the leaders for future which they openly >> didnt. Initially there were complains about closer of other businesses like >> food etc by the authorities which they felt was not fair.But when asked to >> come up with interventions to pevent future cholera outbreak, they >> mentioned things which are not different from the public health >> regulations. But this time round, they felt incharge and involved instead >> of leaders only telling them what to do. The health inspector was happy >> with this arrangement because he will now use that to hold them accountable >> in future. >> >> The community also brought up issues which are to be handled by the >> leaders. For example, they claimed there are some retuarants operating >> without latrines and they wondered why leaders allowed them to do so. They >> raised issues of rubish collection centers which are lacking, water for >> washing hands in the market, they said water in the market is being sold >> and yet some of them cannot afford that water but they need to wash their >> fruits and their hands before they eat. >> >> So this was a two way of holding each other accountable and sharing >> responsibilities. >> >> The team after the discussions came up with both short term and long term >> plans which I cannot share now but plans are underway to make them >> actionable and those interested in wanting to be part of these plans should >> let us know so that they are included in the discussions. Please send a >> private email incase you want to be included in the team for Science cafe >> Maracha branch. >> >> Hon. Lematia is very passionate about making this actionable in Maracha >> and she urges any interested parties to come on board to make this a >> reality in Maracha. Science Cafe Maracha will soon have its own space in >> the science cafe website for you to get the videos and pictures of what >> happened, you will view them afte they are processed. >> >> Thanks >> Christine >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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