June 2008 News

This month has seen a steady increase in the number of translations and recordings of our DVD lessons

We were very excited to receive 6 Kannada translations from our partners at the Sumanahalli Leprosy centre in Bangalore. We've also received a further 12 translations so far this month - literally in languages from A-Z (Afrikaans to Zulu!)
One of our Associates, Rajeev Naik, sent us a translation of our Breast feeding lesson in the Indian language Marathi - bringing the amount of lessons translated in Marathi to a grand total of 10. We've also managed to get our first ever Marathi recording done this month. Several people have kindly given their time to help facilitate recordings, but special mention must go to Associate Rick Wood who travelled to Hertfordshire one Saturday to get 2 Lugisu (a language of Uganda) recordings and to Birmingham one evening to get 2 Kannada lessons recorded. Thank you Rick!
If you or anyone you know speaks Bengali, Urdu or Kannada and would be willing to help us translate or record lessons, please contact Bev on 01926 422711.

Oscar gains work experience for TME!

Oscar Prentice-Middleton, the son of one of our supporters, spent a very productive week working for TME. Not only did Oscar get some valuable work experience, but he was also able to do some really useful tasks for TME. This involved a number of recordings, including recording the sound track for our English disc on ‘Becoming a man’.

African adventure

Jack Griffiths and Nigel Feaver have returned safely from their Africa trip, during which they were looking out for ways of helping tme.
To read Jack's report, Click Here

Exciting news from Cambodia!

The Girl Guides Association in Cambodia have reported that they are putting our educational DVDs to good use. This is a great new partnership for tme and hopefully will provide a helpful resource to future girl guide leaders.
To read the letter, click on the picture below.

One of our trusted supporters, Patricia Sidwell, travels to Botswana for a tme Launch Ceremony held at Old Naledi Adult Education Centre and Nursery School.

The launch was attended by the district MP, the Matron of the mother and child clinic (next door) and other dignitaries. Six portable DVD players, which had been generously donated by the East Grinstead Meridian Rotary Club and DVDs donated by tme, were the hot topic of the day. The DVD lessons included such topics as HIV/AIDS, Say No to Glue and Drugs, Basic Hygiene, etc, which, as Patricia said, are all very relevant to that area.
She told us: "As you can imagine, the school was overjoyed to receive such a gift–especially as it is the first of its kind in Botswana. This gave moral a great boost."

Patricia discovered the village whilst living in Gaborone in the late 1990s and has since then, strived to improve the quality of life for those who live there.