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Pam - we want street lights!

Submitted by Pamela on 15 October 2009 - 11:42am

Today, bloggers world wide are thinking about climate change as part of blog action day - and I am reminded of a conversation I had with a security man one dark night on a compound in rural Nigeria. I was admiring the stars. He was surprised. I explained that here in the UK I live on a main road; I need thick curtains in the bedroom to keep out the street lighting; light pollution hides all but the brightest of stars. He said he had previously met an American woman, also admiring the stars. She had said something similar but...

Going to School in India

Submitted by vijay on 8 October 2009 - 3:54pm

Hi Pam, Thanks for forwarding Sam's views about fish farming. I agree with him that sustainability can come through empowerment and lasting peace. But creating that peace is not easy, in places which are threatened by violence and unrest. And empowerment can happen only when people are ready for change to happen. It has been a busy week for me so far. But it also became an interesting week, thanks to my meetings with people like Lisa Heydlauff, who has been living in New Delhi for many years now. Lisa heads a non-profit trust called Going to School , an...

Sam, Fishing and more

Submitted by Pamela on 2 October 2009 - 12:12am

Hi Vijay. Welcome back and thanks for sharing interesting news about your trip. I feel I know you better since that letter. You mention fishing, and that prompts me to introduce you to my friend Samwel who lives near Lake Victoria and is also concerned about declining fish stocks. Sam was at First Thursday today, and his concerns featured strongly in our chat. You can see the full chat here in the worknets archive. However is it quite hard work to read all through a two hour chat, so I have also saved it as a google doc here, and...

A Clearer Picture

Submitted by vijay on 20 September 2009 - 5:11pm

My reply to Pam . Hi Pam Thanks for the long reply and please convey my thanks to Andy for his thoughts on how the open letter section should look and feel. Over the past five hours, I have not been able to open the site. So I had no other choice but to take a look at the cached versions of the site (which takes time to download). Anyway, to move on with things, I decided to keep hustling into the site through the cache versions and read whatever I could lay my eyes on. The silver lining in...

Some First Answers

Submitted by Pamela on 19 September 2009 - 12:47pm

My reply to Vijay's last letter. Hi Vijay I'm glad you like the idea of the website as our "reception area", and the fact that it will link through to the "back offices". I can understand your confusion about Dadamac. I believe that as the reception area begins to link up better with the "back offices" things will become clearer. Meanwhile your questions will help me to know what I should try to collect from the "back offices" for people to see when they first "arrive here". Your questions and observations are all very useful. Thanks too for mentioning that...

Open Letter - Vijay and Pam

Submitted by vijay on 1 September 2009 - 10:30pm

This is the start of a Dadamac Learners LearnByDoing project which Vijay and Pam are going to do by writing open letters ~~~~~~ Hi Pam, It's been only three days since I got in touch with you (courtesy www.km4dev.org ) and have already exchanged more than three long mails with you, and become a member of the Dadamac community. I am a journalist and communications professional based in Delhi. I have worked for top-of-the-line Indian publications (such as India Today and BusinessWorld); researched and covered news /features for television; implemented communication strategies for an international environmental NGO (the World Wide...

Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited - the Connection

Submitted by dadamac on 11 August 2009 - 8:38pm

We have been asked to explain the relationship between Dadamac Foundation and Dadamac Limited. It is causing some confusion for people who think it must be like the relationship between, for instance, Ford and the Ford Foundation or Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (i.e step one: become a great commercial success; step two: share the resulting financial wealth through philanthropy). Dadamac is very different. We didn't start on the commercial side and then create the foundation. We started with our voluntary work and are now at the start of building our commercial operation (Dadamac Limited). We don't...

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