Jan 25 2015:
Quick Check in as there is a fair amount of progress being made:
Firstly, the communication with the school has remained minimal as their number cannot be found and we are still in the process of re-obtaining it. While the project with the school is at a hold, T-GO is working with the MS students (Ms.Park) session that we have been planning. The session with the MS kids will focus on problems and concerns they have regarding their life and we shall try to assist them and give them "professional" advice since we made it through the treacherous middle school alive. The session is going to take place this wednesday on the 28th of Jan after school.
As march-endomitriosis month draws nearer, i think it is absolutely vital to re-boot the campaign and further raise awareness about it because the first time wasn't quite as effective as hoped. One of the main improvements of the campaign itself would be to advocate the issue to a larger audience, specifically local people as health care options are quite limited in rural Tanzania. In order to reach a larger audience, it would be best to play the stop motion on the local TV station (but translate the video to swahili so that it is appropriate for the audience), I have already contacted ITV-a famous new channel- and am awaiting their reply. Furthermore, while raising advocacy is the first step in any Community Action, it is equally important to take action and attempt to better the situation. For the endometriosis campaign, it would be heavily beneficial to have a diagnosis station set up for women to come and get checked, while this would be a great, the logistics are quite tricky to figure out and require severe organisation. I am currently figuring out the amount of time a specific check up needs, and what clinics/hospitals could potentially offer it.
Personally, I feel like re-booting the campaign is essential for T-GO as a CAS, even if it doesn't involve the entire team because it will allow us to take upon new challenges and go beyond simply raising advocacy. Ever since the beginning of T-GO advocacy has been the main focus, and (in my opinion) limits us to what we can do and creates a somewhat repetitive process in which action isn't really initiated, but rather simply exists in the background. There is a lot of work left to be done, since february is a chopped up month.
Quick Check in as there is a fair amount of progress being made:
Firstly, the communication with the school has remained minimal as their number cannot be found and we are still in the process of re-obtaining it. While the project with the school is at a hold, T-GO is working with the MS students (Ms.Park) session that we have been planning. The session with the MS kids will focus on problems and concerns they have regarding their life and we shall try to assist them and give them "professional" advice since we made it through the treacherous middle school alive. The session is going to take place this wednesday on the 28th of Jan after school.
As march-endomitriosis month draws nearer, i think it is absolutely vital to re-boot the campaign and further raise awareness about it because the first time wasn't quite as effective as hoped. One of the main improvements of the campaign itself would be to advocate the issue to a larger audience, specifically local people as health care options are quite limited in rural Tanzania. In order to reach a larger audience, it would be best to play the stop motion on the local TV station (but translate the video to swahili so that it is appropriate for the audience), I have already contacted ITV-a famous new channel- and am awaiting their reply. Furthermore, while raising advocacy is the first step in any Community Action, it is equally important to take action and attempt to better the situation. For the endometriosis campaign, it would be heavily beneficial to have a diagnosis station set up for women to come and get checked, while this would be a great, the logistics are quite tricky to figure out and require severe organisation. I am currently figuring out the amount of time a specific check up needs, and what clinics/hospitals could potentially offer it.
Personally, I feel like re-booting the campaign is essential for T-GO as a CAS, even if it doesn't involve the entire team because it will allow us to take upon new challenges and go beyond simply raising advocacy. Ever since the beginning of T-GO advocacy has been the main focus, and (in my opinion) limits us to what we can do and creates a somewhat repetitive process in which action isn't really initiated, but rather simply exists in the background. There is a lot of work left to be done, since february is a chopped up month.