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- Traci's Fenton's Organisational Democracy summit DC300 was an opportunity for two hours one to one with Deep Democracy's heroine Myrna Lewis. Her passions led to co-creating world citizen's micropublishing house and guiding to world's hubs for good news flows:
- Questioning slums like Kibera and media policy like African Idol
- Trust mapping the world's leading collaboration entrepreneurs in education: Yunus, Blecher (CIDA meta-hub: first virtually free university) both inspired by Mandela inspired by Gandhi (grandad mentored for 25 years in system crisis triangle EPM (Education*Professions*Media) = 1= Yunus ERworld of Social ABC (Action*Business*Capitalism ChangeWorld) & Montessori 1 2 3 -also updating links to other Global Uni of Poverty including : CGI, stars
- Trac-netting S.Africa -examples:
Medical
Research Council, South Africa The Medical Research Council in South Africa
is probably the premier scientific council in Africa 1612, Drill down ... www.tr-ac-net.org/DBadmin/DBorgs004.php?vv1=4&vv2=SAF&vv3=1&vv4=1&vv5=7&vv6=1&vv7... - 26k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this |
TR-AC-NET Transparency and Accountability Network
Right now,
the departments of health in South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, ... South Africa
managed to reduce the incidence of malaria in northern KwaZulu ... www.tr-ac-net.org/DBtext/DBshowtext001prn.php?vtext=textaaaa/aaaa028420051019.txt - 12k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this |
Up200 searches of deep local heroines
| Veronica Khosa, Tateni, South Africa : ashoka fellow, Bornstein change world chapter | |
 In another world, Veronica Khosa a dignified fifty-four year old black lady in Pretoria South Africa could have been celebrating the release on Mandela in 1991. But Veronica who had been a nurse for 37 years was being inundated with HIV cases. Within a few years incidence in South Africa reached the world’s highest HIV infection rate, probably as high as 25%. “Nobody was prepared for this”.
Veronica’s wonderful communal idea evolved like this. As she was labouring across her district to offer home-care services to the terminally ill, she bumped into a group of young prostitutes who she had previously counselled on the risk of AIDS. The youngest said “Our friends are getting infected with Aids. We want to stop. But if you are telling me I most stop standing there and getting this guy to give me 15 rand, what are you going to give me instead- so that I can earn some money and get some food”. Just as this conversation happened a very sick man came into the AIDS centre, and Veronica immediately asked the girls to start helping out. The idea was born that she could train these girls to be home care attendants to the terminally ill. It turned out that no simple course existed, so she streamlined the full nursing course into a 6 months degree of practice, as well as finding placements for her first “graduates” with administrators of homes. This involved 27 student girls including the former prostitutes. Within very little time she had cashed out her safe job and pension with the state and set up Tateni Home care services as both a training space and a home care agency. For 2 years the authorities dismissed her work as not fitting a pattern that could be funded. Then the World Health Organisation and UNAids happened to visit the region and declared it the most dedicated model they had come across. It achieved an unique combination of 4 dynamics backed up by an unmatchable spirit of humanism: -Its work was run by people from the community making it cost-effective and locally accepted -It was professional with elderly nurses overseeing the training and monitoring the caregivers -Training was practice-based with students acquiring skills by working directly with patients -The program brought in young unskilled people and turned out graduates with the ability to pursue careers in healthcare By 2001, the Tatem programme had multiplied into 57 branches.. | |
As American idol goes to Africa part 2, they are at risk of rainge 10 to I00 times less cost-effective than what YUnUS, MY ABC and TheGreenChildren achieve. I wonder if the Simon Cowells and Richard Curtis's of this world have heard of Dr Yunus and TheGreenChildren. If they have, why dont they invite them to share their stage in celebrating humanity Add a comment