I love having the opportunity to teach my project’s social workers. I love being able to build their professional capacity and change the way they work with people in our community. It’s simply exciting to me. Yesterday I had the opportunity to teach again, this time we focused on review of past sessions, empowerment, strengths and developing resiliency in children. I’m not sure if you are familiar with the word empowerment, but this word encompasses what it is all about: giving power, confidence and strength to people. I love the idea of it and it is exciting to be apart of the empowering process for the social workers and indirectly for the community. The social workers were great- participating, doing little dramas and of course joking as much as possible-but in the end I believe that they found the training helpful for their work and even their personal lives.
January 2009
January 29, 2009
January 29, 2009
I love having the opportunity to teach my project’s social workers. I love being able to build their professional capacity and change the way they work with people in our community. It’s simply exciting to me. Yesterday I had the opportunity to teach again, this time we focused on review of past sessions, empowerment, strengths and developing resiliency in children. I’m not sure if you are familiar with the word empowerment, but this word encompasses what it is all about: giving power, confidence and strength to people. I love the idea of it and it is exciting to be apart of the empowering process for the social workers and indirectly for the community. The social workers were great- participating, doing little dramas and of course joking as much as possible-but in the end I believe that they found the training helpful for their work and even their personal lives.
January 29, 2009
I feel like one of the luckiest people in the world because I had a FRIEND come a visit me. It’s hard to believe that just a week ago Melissa was here sharing in and experiencing my life. We visited friends, experienced the chaos of an Ethopian Orthodox holiday during our bus ride to Zeway and listened to the rain pound my tin roof. I feel so lucky because I am one of the few foreigners living here who actually got to host a friend- not a family member but a friend. I think one of the greatest gifts I could ever receive is the gift of a visit, because now I have one more person who can understand and visualize what I’m talking about when I talk about being emotionally exhausted walking from my house to my office or that I didn’t feel like going to the market because it is a lot of work. Thanks for the gift Melissa!!
January 5, 2009
Sherri and I overlooking the roofs of Stone Town
Sunrise….
So I think I’ve put enough pictures for the time being…. Zanzibar was fabulous. Really a great time to relax and get rejuvinated. Sorry, I don’t really have too many pictures of me… as I was mostly sleeping on the beach… but here are a few. My friend Sherri and I spent a 8 days at this lovely paradise. We stayed at two different beach hotels and one night in the old town of Stone Town. Stone town is lovely with narrow winding alleyways and what seems like a million mosques.
The beaches were white or full of old coral depending on the part of the island. we spent a day snorkeling off an island near Matwme Beach as well as a day on another remote sand bar island… with a lunch of lobster and fish! It was simply fabulous!
