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The topics covered in this week’s UK-Nigeria meeting ranged from solar power to maize with a bit of microfinance and minority languages thrown in for good measure! Following on from last week’s update about the visit from the Minnesota team (MRES) John Dada was able to give us the exciting news that some of the participants attending the solar workshop decided they would start a Kafanchan Solar Club, KSC. John will be helping the temporary officials of the KSC (Naomi ,Gabriel ) together with Kasang to send Dadamac UK a few sentences about and photos of the newly formed club...

The Dadamac Meetups (face-to-face meetings) happen in London. The focus of our meeupts is our rapidly changing world (especially, but not only, the world of work). The emphasis is on being "stronger together" as we face an uncertain future. The connection between the London group and other Dadamac initiatives will become clear with time. I won't explainin it now. I will simply introduce the meetups and some of the people. New members are welcome. Most of the information below - and much more - can be found at Dadamac Meetups but I'm pulling some out to give you a flavour...

In the coming weeks and months we will be developing a wider view of Dadamac here at Dadamac.net, building on our experience so far. We started to experiment with this www.dadamac.net online space about three years ago. Our experimenting is best understood from an integrated ICT4Ed&D viewpoint (ICT4Ed&D = Information and Communication Technology for Education and Development) Information From an "Information" viewpoint, we wanted to provide online information about the initiatives and people that we value. We were especially concerned to raise the visibility of John Dada's work at Fantsuam in Nigeria. That is where our initial focus has been...

Wednesday’s UK-Nigeria meeting proved as varied as ever. John Dada explained that Fantsuam Foundation’s Community Health Centres projects, called PATH2 will take off this month as soon as FF have been able negotiate the contributions to FF's administrative costs. John also updated about NEWSAN, the Network for Water and Sanitation, Nigeria. FF is a zonal head quarters and Emma with Ayuba will be attending an advocacy training next week in Abuja. John went on to inform us that It is being hosted by WaterAid to assist Community Based Organisations (CBOs) to negotiate effectively with Government on implementation of Water Policies...

This week’s UK-Nigeria meeting was a chance for Emmanuel Waje (Emma), to give us an update about the clinic at Fantsuam . Emma explained that he would be leaving the following day to go to the American Embassy in Abuja in order to collect the first 50% of the grant which will allow a clinic extension to be built. He explained that there was an urgent need for a new delivery room. It is believed by the Fantsuam staff that the old hut discourages pregnant mothers from patronizing the clinic. The Clinic currently has four staff who work shifts on...