CAPD News 2007
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CAPD News 2007
[email protected] Canadian Association for Participatory Development Volume 1, Issue 10 January 2008 BEST WISHES FOR 2008! “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it!” Goethe. Inside this issue: The dreams of CAPD and our partners are becoming a reality. This newsletter presents pictures related to those dreams in 2007. For a more complete account of the projects presented, please go to our web page www.globalsteps.org, click on „News‟ and look for „Picture Diaries‟. Health Project with ASODISPIE 1 HEALTH PROJECT WITH ASODISPIE Update on FANDIC 2 Volunteer Profile 3 The self care health project has professionals training people with disability and their family members on issues the disability groups identified as important. Left picture shows a doctor teaching about epilepsy to the cerebral palsy group. Centre: A child with Down syndrome receives exercises from his brother to improve speech during a training session with a Speech Therapist. Right: a man with spinal cord injury practices a chair to floor transfer during a session with physiotherapy. Appropriate Technology 4 Workshop CAPD’s Vision & Mission A participatory evaluation to gauge change in behaviour was conducted in November. Left: Two members of the spinal cord injury group lead mothers of the cerebral palsy group in an exercise of analysis. Centre: Two group leaders present a skit that tells a story of change as per the evaluation information. Right: Henry, President of ASODISPIE, presents Chantal Camden, CAPD volunteer, with a gift of appreciation for her involvement in the evaluation. All roads led to Rome where Rocio, facilitator in the project, and Marlene presented the results of our project. Six other projects from five countries also presented their results. The meeting was organized by AIFO, an Italian organization and director of the project, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Disabled People International. 4 Global Steps Together A Publication of the Canadian Association for Participatory Development Editor: Marlene Wiens 44 Scanlon Place Calgary, AB T3L 1V8 Phone: 403 202 0673 Fax: 403 202 8486 Email: [email protected] www.capdcalgary.org CAPD is a registered Canadian charitable organization. [email protected] Page 2 UPDATE ON FANDIC FANDIC is going from strength to strength as demonstrated by these pictures. Far Left: Yamit, mother of a disabled child, is in charge of the education program and doing an amazing job. She also helps out in other activities such as sewing straps and upholstery for the appropriate technology workshop held in November. One recipient of this workshop is the boy in the picture on the left who can not sit without assistance. His stroller was adapted so that he can sit up straight and interact with the people around him. The constructors of the equipment included university students, FANDIC workers and Canadian volunteers, Myra Donnelly-Gay and Chantal Camden. The community kitchen is busier than ever! The mothers have taken over that space for activities that include preparing daily snacks for the children and putting on the occasional bazaar. This November they organized a bazaar to raise funds to purchase 31 uniforms for the children as modeled by the boy on the far right. They contributed to the purchase of a special oven with funds earned in last year‟s bazaar and are now learning to bake bread. They plan to start a bakery. The dance group featured above is becoming famous! Their presence has been requested at many events including competitions. In one such competition they won third prize! Above Right: Eddy, coordinator of programs in FANDIC, holds the trophy for all to see before getting down to the business of talking about FANDIC‟s future. Canadian volunteers Myra and Chantal led this discussion using a mapping exercise. Right: This picture shows the number of people who may be in FANDIC at any given time. FANDIC is bursting at the seams and looking at options. Volume 1, Issue 10 Page 3 Volunteer Profile Have you wondered how you could help the charity of your choice? Eva Logan from Calgary (left) is a perfect example of how a person can use creativity in the workplace for the benefit of others. Here are some examples of what she does to raise money for CAPD: Eva on the annual Calgary River Pathway Clean, a fundraiser organized by Eva and her husband Craig, which raises $500— $700 annually. The “honour” box of snacks. Note the recycle hole in the box. Eva created an “honour” box for her office (picture bottom left). She purchases snack food and soft drinks at the lowest possible cost and places them in the box for her office mates to purchase on the honour system. Eva recycles (note the hole in the bottom of the honour box) from her colleagues in the office and her workplace and exchanges the recycled items for cash. Her colleagues, admiring her efforts, slip her some extra cash now and again. Eva has entered into an agreement with the vending contractor to receive a percentage of the pop machine sales. She certainly has the soft drink market sewn up at Instabox, her place of work! Every 3 months a coffee jar full of Eva‟s profits are delivered to CAPD to be counted and deposited. These coffee jars contain about $300.00. Think of how much she has raised in the 3 years she has been fundraising! Eva has seen the impact of her fundraising on the lives of others. In 2005 while on vacation in Mexico, Eva and her husband visited a remote Mexican village to learn about the work of Caminamos Juntos and the projects involving CAPD. They saw the construction of dry toilets and met with community health care workers being trained to work with Eva learns the basics of basket weaving from a community health people with disability. worker. When asked why she does what she does, Eva replies “Because I am inspired by the contributions of the CAPD board members to help improve the lot of others. I admire the work that they do and appreciate the fact that every dollar donated to CAPD is used to support a project”. Eva is a perfect example of the CAPD spirit where a few people‟s efforts can have a huge impact on many others! Appropriate Technology Workshop Nilima Parikh and Marlene Wiens gave a week-long workshop to the physiotherapy students at the University of Costa Rica in the design and construction of custom equipment for children with disability. The students built an item for the home or modified an existing piece of equipment for five needy children. Items designed and built by the students are featured below. The workshop was a win-win for children, mothers and students. The children and mothers received a piece of equipment that would advance the development of their children in the home. The students learned that they could have a significant impact by combining knowledge with low cost, readily available materials. Canadian Association for Participatory Development Our Vision The vision of CAPD is to facilitate the integration of people with disabilities as contributing members of their communities and society through the building of individual and organizational capacities internationally. Our Mission CAPD builds long-term relationship of trust and respect with our partners in developing countries through a process of „accompaniment‟ in which there is reciprocal learning and understanding. We value authentic participation of partners by affirming abilities, promoting local leadership and enhancing opportunities for self-actualization. We develop and assist with educational activities, financial support, technical support, networking and research Our Activities We promote and support: Awareness about disability and disability policy Participation of people with disability in projects that enhance accessibility Visionary leadership in organizations promoting disability issues Educational opportunities for people with disabilities Networking and information sharing on a local and international basis CAPD relies on volunteers. We do not have overhead expenses such as rental of office space or salaries. Our Board members are actively involved in running the organization and some of them have traveled to meet and work with our partners.
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