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Why our Wednesday meetings work!

Submitted by nikki on 15 May 2010 - 12:25pm
The weekly Wednesday online meetings are important to the UK and Nigerian teams, providing a quick and easy way to exchange and update information. And this week's proved no exception. Despite many of the usual team members being absent due to other pressing commitments, the week's past and future business was successfully addressed. Although it is not unusual for eight people to attend these sessions (sometimes many more!) we can invariably expect a successful outcome - as long as those online include a representative from both the UK and Nigeria who are in possession of the relevant information. At this...

Sickle Cell Disease-a quick update and recap!

Submitted by nikki on 13 May 2010 - 12:52pm
Meeting of Sickle Cell Disease Members Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community At the end of 2009 I became aware of John Dada's tremendous determination to tackle the scourge of Sickle Cell Disease in rural Nigeria, where he attends the needs of a community numbering more than 100,000. For those unfamiliar with this disease, it takes the form of an inherited blood disorder. It is incurable but, with good resources, can be successfully managed and controlled. Basically the condition affects red blood cells to the extent where they adopt a sickle shape - giving this nasty disease its name. The main...

Good news really does come in threes!

Submitted by nikki on 7 May 2010 - 11:28pm
There was a lively and informative skype (typed) chat this week at the Wednesday's weekly online meeting between the Nigerian and the UK Team. There was indeed triple good news this week The UK were delighted to learn that the JAWS training at Fantsuam Academy is provisionally scheduled to start 28 June. Cecily, a VSO at Fantsuam Foundation also kindly emailed the UK the article written by Reuben Buhari, a reporter for This Day. Fantsuam Foundation had received a full page and with a photo! (If I can find an online link to the article from THISDAY's website I will...

Following the Wednesday Agenda!

Submitted by nikki on 1 May 2010 - 12:11pm
Wednesday's weekly UK-Nigeria online meeting proved markedly different from many of our recent conferences - as we were finally able to follow our stated agenda! For all the right reasons, the majority of our latest sessions have been diverted off course as our friends at Fantsuam Foundation announced a string of new initiatives and successes. Please See recent blogs All of that has been extremely welcome, of course, and we look forward to many more developments. But on this occasion we were able to complete our affairs in a timely and efficient manner with a return to what might be...

A Community Pulling Together

Submitted by nikki on 23 April 2010 - 9:48pm
John Dada gave the UK team a huge boost at the latest online meeting with our Nigerian counterparts when he spoke of the generosity being displayed by local Zenith bank workers. Fantsuam Foundation banks with Zenith and John had earlier been asked to speak to their staff about the enterprising and vital work undertaken by our sister organisation. Members of the bank's staff were kindly able to pledge their support this month to 10 grandmothers on the Foundation's The Kakas Programme (Kakas translates as ‘grandmothers’ in Hausa). My understanding of this vital programme is that it serves grandmothers who have...

News update from the Wednesday Meeting

Submitted by nikki on 16 April 2010 - 10:13pm
This week's online UK-Nigeria meeting include the welcome news from John that Fantsuam Foundation (FF) has been nominated by the World Bank, through USAID, to be a food distribution centre for supplementary nutrion for children under age of 10 in Kafanchan. John went on to explain that FF will be distributing the food to other NGOs to send to their communities. USAID will provide the food and FF will monitor its effect on the children. The UK eagerly awaits seeing the photos of the food being delivered. Feedback from the various special interest groups (SIGs) was also given: Sickle Cell...

Support for the visually impaired in rural Nigeria

Submitted by nikki on 12 April 2010 - 9:31am
Here is some additional information about Fantsuam Academy and its initiative to use JAWS for the blind and visually impaired in its community.(As promised in my previous blog ) This email update was sent to Dadamac UK from Cicely, a VSO at Fantsuam Foundation (FF), and has been edited to remove names. For photos click here . "Our JAWS experts, are safely back in Jos. I have thanked them for the time they have given introducing Fantsuam and its instructors to JAWS as part of the programme to make Fantsuam Academy courses available to the sight-impaired with suport from VSO...

At the forefront of Education for Children and the Visually Impaired

Submitted by nikki on 10 April 2010 - 4:40pm
This week's UK-Nigeria meeting on Wednesday proved so informative that I have had to briefly summarise the topics that were covered with the intention of writing additional blogs giving more detail. The Nigerian team was reduced in numbers as two exciting developments were underway. Firstly , there was the anticipated arrival of Reuben Buhari, a journalist with This Day newspaper. Reuben plans to do an update about the work of Fantsuam Foundation (FF) , in particular looking at the overall impact of FF on its host communities. Secondly , there some of the Nigerian team were involved in a JAWS...

New Arrivals at Fantsuam!

Submitted by nikki on 2 April 2010 - 9:25pm
Regular followers of our Wednesday meetings will realise that we can never predict exactly what will unfold. Predictably, this week was no exception. Despite travelling, John was fully apprised of events at Fantsuam Foundation and joined the Skype meeting to fill us in. His first input was to let the UK team know that no-one else from Fantsuam would be online - because they were in the middle of some exciting developments. These centred around a huge effort to get their new Community Communication Centre up and running. New equipment ordered from the US had just arrived, so workers were...

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