September News

REACH news!

The volunteer agency, REACH, with which we registered last summer have, over the course of the past year, put us in touch with several people willing to help with translation/recording; two of these volunteers have since signed up as Associates, having done 9 translations each! Recent feedback to REACH has resulted in a good splash about TME on their website: Click Here

New partnership development

TME has entered into a partnership with Project Africa - a not for profit Organisation established in Sweden with a vision to empower African women with skills and resources to change and improve their lives.
In this partnership, TME has received two translated scripts in Swahili. Project Africa are in receipt of a full set of English DVDs plus Safe Water and Basic Hygiene in Swahili, along with a portable DVD player, despatched just recently.
This is how we like our partnerships to work; it is a real collaboration of two not for profit organisations.

Development in Uganda

One of our Associates, Dr Jeanette Meadway, recently went on a trip to Uganda - kindly taking with her numerous packages of DVD lessons for various TME partners in different parts of the country. All packages were delivered safely into the hands of our grassroots partners and we’ve started to hear that the lessons are being very well received.

New partnership development

TME has entered into a partnership with Project Africa - a not for profit Organisation established in Sweden with a vision to empower African women with skills and resources to change and improve their lives. In this partnership, TME has received two translated scripts in Swahili. Project Africa are in receipt of a full set of English DVDs plus Safe Water and Basic Hygiene in Swahili, along with a portable DVD player, despatched just recently. This is how we like our partnerships to work; it is a real collaboration of two not for profit organisations.

Jyotsna Chandrani completed the Nike 10k run

The Nike 10k run took place on the 31st August 2008, starting from Wembley and going across London. Jyotsna completed the run in 1 hour 11 minutes and is estimated to have raised approximately £500 for TME.
This is an amazing result, so well done to Jyotsna!
To see more details about the global Nike challenge, Click Here

Jyotsna Chandrani

More Feedback for TME

Julia Brooks, a new supporter of TME, has just returned to the UK after spending 6 weeks working with the charity ‘Right to Dream’ as a Science Teacher in Ghana. The charity ‘Right to Dream’ focuses on offering children from a background of extreme poverty the opportunity to fulfil their potential in life through sport and education. During Julia’s visit, she managed to get some feedback on our DVDs.
Here in her own words she explains:
"When I asked the academy captain (Joshua Yaro 15years) what he thought of the Basic Hygiene DVD he wrote ‘I think if some of these DVDs were got in most Ghanaian schools, it would have prevented most children from having diarrhoea and other sickness. It would also helped students to keep their surroundings clean.’ It was really nice to be able to combine both the remedial class with the upper class and do the same activity, and know that even if the remedial class hadn’t followed all of the discussion, they would get the key messages rein enforced through the DVDs."
This is great news for TME, keep up the good work Julia!

Steve and Bev attended (as last minute invitees!) Coventry University Students’ Union Fair at the end of September.

TME already has good links with Warwick University’s Volunteers Office, so it’s great to be exploring another local source of international student volunteers. An interesting feature of the Fair was how many African students there were - several of whom are hopefully going to help us with translating and recording more lesson scripts.

New links with Kenya!

Steve travelled up to Liverpool with one of our local Kenyan Associates to meet the Archbishop and his wife from Eldoret (one of the main areas of rioting during the recent troubles in Kenya). Also present at the meeting were a couple of other visiting dignitaries, one of whom is a senior representative of the Mothers’ Union in Kenya. They could all see many uses for our educational DVDs in the context of rebuilding and educating the community in the aftermath of the violence and upheaval.

TME welcome new Trustee

At our latest Board meeting Simon Mabley was welcomed as a new trustee.

Exciting News from Cambodia received in the last week of September

Paige Okun, a Chief Operating Officer, working for ‘Caring for Cambodia ’ has given us a remarkable insight into the way TME’s lessons are currently being used in Cambodia! In this, she said:
"In our five schools in Siem Reap, we have started parents night at the schools with new school term. Parents are invited to come to school to view a movie (regular feature film). However, there is a teaching session before hand. They are shown one of the DVDs and participate interactively then there is a brief discussion about the content. We’ve held two so far and it’s working very well! We are showing the DVDs in our classrooms from Kindergarten to grade six. And, the teachers tell us the children really understand them and seem to be learning the information and putting it into practice. In addition to our schools, we have given copies of the DVDs to an orphanage two hours outside Siem Reap. This orphanage has 115 children and is in an extremely rural poverty stricken area. A friend of mine, a Norwegian doctor, has taken the DVDs to use as instructional materials for the caregivers and children. These people had no clue about water safety, germs, or hand washing. There are also older children at the orphanage, so the "glue" DVDs are useful to her. She is also very interested in the "becoming a man/woman" DVDs. Your DVDs really are remarkable and you are doing so much for so many people. You’ve found an incredibly useful way to reach across borders and help people around the world. Thank you for supporting Caring for Cambodia with your materials."