International Leadership Conference 2005 Held In Ghana
by Fred Ayifli
The International Leadership Conference 2005 was held in Ghana
from 1 to 7 August. Young people involved in various initiatives
from different parts of the world came together for the conference.
The theme of the Conference was: When African Tradition Meets
the Global Future.
Participants and facilitators came from Peru, Japan, Austria,
Liberia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Australia and USA.
Harriett Nettles, Program Director of the
Apeadu Peace Centre
, assisted RESPECT Ghana with
facilitating the participation of three young refugee students.
The students from the Buduburam Refugee Camp, were selected as
representatives of their respective schools which are involved in
the RESPECT Global Letter Exchange.
Conference
Computers For Democratic Republic of the Congo Refugees
by Dr. M. Ashaq Raza
In an interview with RESPECT International, Dieudonne A.
Mutambala, National Co-ordinator of
RESPECT International in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),
and Founder and Director of
‘Artists for Humanity (ArtHum)’, who is actively involved for the welfare of
refugees/internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Kivu Province,
speaks about the computers he recently received from
‘Computers for Schools’ - Manitoba
(Canada) to set up a mobile computer training center for refugees and
IDPs, and overall problems of refugee population in DRC. Here are the
excerpts of the interview:
RESPECT: Recently you have received four laptops,
who donated the computers and for what purpose?
Dieudonne: The computers were donated by the organization
‘Computers for Schools’ from Manitoba (Canada). The purpose
of this donation, as requested by the International Coordination of RESPECT,
is to set up a mobile computer training center.
Computers
Front view of trainee farmers working on their various assignments during the two day
intensive on-farm training in survival gardening and drip irrigation technology. The
training was conducted by Anthony Macedo Barlee, Agricultural Program Director, RESPECT Ghana.
