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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...

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...

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...

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...

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