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Bala was not at the latest UK-Nigeria online meeting - but he had an excellent excuse! For rather than joining this week’s online sesson, he was busy setting up the new antenna which will allow Fantsuam Foundation’s Academy to receive free bandwidth for the next five years. Followers of this blog may recall that FF’s Community Communication Centre (CCC) was funded by the Nigerian Government and it was part of their commitment at that time to also provide this free bandwidth. The UK team were delighted to learn that they are now ready to fulfil that promise. John Dada explained:...

This week’s online meeting between the UK and Fantsuam in rural Nigeria was as dynamic and wide ranging as ever. We discussed practical ways of helping Fola , a trusted individual in the Dadamac network who hopes to get his community at Ago-Are online. Last week we told how within a week we had devised a way to help him achieve his vision - not only had he received his money but he had brought his laptop and had already sent us photos. It was agreed during the meeting that John Dada would arranged to advance Fola additional funds, via...

This week’s online meeting between the UK and Nigeria teams marked another step forward because it drew upon additional technology. As well as our usual Skyped/typed conversation we used sms/phone messages to check the situation at FF in the light of John’s uncharacteristic absence. The fact John had not sent us an explanatory email as is his custom had caused us to speculate as to whether there was a problem. However, the team in the UK (based in London and Leeds) were able to contact Comfort at Fantsuam (rural Nigeria) and she reassured us that all was OK, aside from...

This week’s online meeting between UK-Nigeria was in three parts: 1. The first part took the format of a series of emails from John Dada which contained staff member updates and the latest information about the Kafanchan Peace Market - together with photos. The photo show the market which was razed to the ground in April during the post-election violence and the emergence of the new market. The team were sad to learn that a senior trainer had decided to relocate to Abuja but wish him every success in his new job and studies. It was felt by the team...

The weekly online UK-Nigeria meetings have been established in their present format for more than three years. However, following Nigeria’s terrible post-election violence, John this week identified a new and unexpected benefit of our regular sessions - explaining that the Dadamac meetings are “evolving into a balm, a tonic, a forum where Fantsuam Foundation can unburden ... a psycho-social element of our weekly meeting”. The rural community has been badly shaken by the attacks and, although the news reporters appear to have moved on, the real story is still unfolding. For example, how people from both sides of the religious...