July 2008 News

• Two talks took place in the Nutley area on Wednesday 16th July

John Hacker (one of our trustees) and Bev Pettle spoke at a Rotary Club function about the work of TME, particularly focusing on extending our work in Uganda and our plans to buy 300 exhibition TV/DVD sets to send out there.
Meanwhile, at Nutley Church, Jack Griffiths was entertaining people with tales of his 5-month trip to Africa - including the things he was able to do for TME during his travels.




• Exciting news from Zambia

Jane Kaye-Bailey, one of our supporters, has just updated us on her recent trip to Zambia. In this, she said:
"I managed to distribute all of the DVDs, many of the malaria ones I gave to Stain, one of my committee members who chairs Livingstone’s malaria board. Some went to the district health office and Care International were very happy to have the HIV/AIDS, malaria and safe water. The rest I distributed amongst local schools and the community, the response is excellent and the head teacher at Mukuni said that there has been less teenage pregnancies this year!"
Thank you to Jane Kaye-Bailey for her continued support in the field.




• Eagles Wings fly the TME flag in Uganda!

Between the 4th and 18th June Eagles Wings spent time in Uganda teaching local people about topics such as health and life skills. These lessons were backed up by the use of our DVD lessons, which were played to large groups using a portable projector. Over the two week period Eagles Wings managed to show our lessons on basic hygiene, safe water, HIV/AIDS, and healthy eating to two groups; one in Nsambya, Kampala and the other in Nebbi, north west of Uganda.
Lucy Oliver (one of the Eagles Wings team) provided feedback of her experience there and was surprised to find people answering the DVD questions incorrectly or being divided as to what was the right answer. One example Lucy gave was on the simple principle of washing your hands before you cook or eat in order to prevent sickness. Many of the women clearly didn’t see the importance of this, and it generated a great discussion!


• Here are a couple of photos sent from one of our partners in Uganda - Global Care - and they show children in Abeko using the DVD lessons




• Lesson feedback from Gulu!

Rev. John Olanya from our partner group in Gulu, Northern Uganda has just sent us a report on the use of the DVD lessons in their war-ravaged area.
John and his colleagues are one of our most active overseas partners and have, to date, translated 15 of our lessons into the local language, Acholi, as well as helping with recording the lessons.
We recently provided John and his team with a projector, so that the lessons could be shown to larger groups.
In his report, John says:-
"I have enclosed some photos which shows some background information of the people to whom we use the teaching acquired from the Education Initiative UK.
I am quite impressed by the tremendous change which is being realised in the life of those who have received lessons we show them. Some people who were HIV would be willing to come out positively as a result of the teaching aid. Ways of people living in their environment is being changed as a result of the teaching (detailed testimony is yet being compiled)
You will see that I have taken photos of children and the young mothers living in the villages who apparently are young though they are already mothers. This means that they did not have education or in another word did not go to school and therefore very little knowledge about health. The teaching Aids in this case would meet the needs of such people living in such an environment."