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Lastest News Flash for 23rd July, 2008
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 Wing’s team) provided feed back of her experience there and was surprised to find people answering the DVD questions incorrectly or being divided as to what the right answer was. 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.
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.
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This month has seen a steady increase in the number of translations and recordings of our DVD lessons
Oscar gains work experience for TME!
African adventure
Exciting news from Cambodia!
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.
Steve on sabbatical!
tme India created!
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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 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’.
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
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.
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."
The picture on the left is of Patricia Sidwell presenting the DVDs and discs to the Head Mistress (centre) Mrs Phama and Deputy Head (right) and the picture on the left is of pupils eager to see the new lessons.
The trustees have agreed a 3 month sabbatical for Steve Clarke during June, July and August. This means capacity will be reduced but the focus will be on obtaining more sound recordings for scripts which have already been translated.
The father of our Associate Jyotsna Chadrani has fulfilled his offer to create an Indian branch of tme and register it as a charity there. This foundation also called tme is registered in Calcutta and is able to raise money tax effectively within India as well as implement projects. This could have huge implications for the future and we look forward to working with Mr. Chadrani to set it up as an effective partner.
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| Country | Language |
|---|---|
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Lingala |
| Uganda | Runyankole, Lugisu |
| India | Marathi, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese |
| Zambia | Chin’yanja |
| Nigeria | Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo |
| South Africa | Setswana, Zulu |
If you speak any of the above languages, please contact Bev Pettle on (01926) 422711 or email Bev Click Here.
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