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Resource Type: Magazine
How to support people with addictions and raise awareness of drug abuse
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by Veronika Scherbaum. Certain subjects, such as diarrhoea, AIDS and family planning, can cause embarrassment both for trainers and learners. Trainers need to develop a good group atmosphere so that these subjects can be talked about openly and without prejudice. Audience participation is a major goal.
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When Drs Rajanikant and Mabelle Arole graduated from medical school they were both concerned about the medical care of the rural population of India. They went to work in a rural hospital. After five years they realised that despite all their hard work in caring for hospital patients, the general health of the community around had not improved. They realised their need for training in public health and returned to college for further study.
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The Animato needs to understand how people in the community see their problems. Here is a very simple exercise which helps participants to appreciate that we all see and interpret things differently.
Resource Type: Bible studies
The story of Elisha and Naaman. The animator is the person in the middle – God’s go-between. Here is an example of some of the people God has used in the past as go-betweens.
Resource Type: Case studies
The AAILD approach. THE AAILD (Association for the Support of Local Development Initiatives) is a non-profit making organisation in Burkina Faso, West Africa, with over 200 members. AAILD works to encourage and support local initiatives in development.
Resource Type: Articles
We can all remember times when we were taught skills. Sometimes a difficult skill was made easy with clear training, and has remained with us ever since. At other times training was confused; an easy skill was made difficult and we still cannot do that skill.
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I’ve just returned from two conferences on solar cooking. People in Kenya were saying that people would never give up their fires for solar cookers, because in the evenings they like to sit and watch the flames.
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As the members of a newly formed community group – the Kyanja Chicken Project – met together in a village near Kampala, Uganda, a visitor showed them a simple picture. ‘What is happening here?’ he asked.
Resource Type: Articles
The valuable Bamboo plant has many uses. It can be used to carry water, as building material, for making furniture, craft work and to control erosion on riverbanks. But bamboo is always in short supply because it is not usually cultivated by farmers. It just grows wild. Most types of bamboo grow shoots from underground stems called rhizomes. These shoots grow into tall above-ground stems.
