Chris, The work you are doing is wonderful as it is powerful. In an African country any trainings about human rights are always misconstrued to mean political interference, which should not be the case. It is important for you to have the government agencies onboard right from the start. After all if you don't it is easy for them to frustrate youir work and we have seen that elsewhere in Africa. It is my prayer that as you undertake this noble task, you will consider the education rights with a powerful evaluation and testing component that ensures fairness in examination systems. That would be realistic and a start from the known. Am community development and education rights activist based in Kenya and I wish you all the very best in your endeavours. There is alot we can learn from each other. Kind regards. Sande F. Olocho EPADA - Kenya --- Chris Nwadigo wrote: Dearest Human Rights Educators, Pursuant to the World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-2007), the People's Rights Organization, an NGO based in Aba (Nigeria), has started infusing human rights education into the Abia State school system. The execution of the project, which has reached the advanced stage, entails advocacy visits to major stakeholders in the educational sector in Abia State, Nigeria; conducting of baseline research to determine the human rights temperature of the school environment (i.e. taking stock of the existing Human Rights Programme in the school system); and holding Focused Group Discussion, FGD with some teachers and pupils; training of trainers workshop for teachers from selected schools and development of a toolkit; establishment of Human Rights Clubs in schools; and publication of human rights text books for teaching of human rights in primary and secondaryschools in Nigeria (with practical activities). We have done our advocacy visits in September 2006 and the project was embraced with enthusiasm by all stakeholders in the Abia State school system. In October 2006, we conducted the baseline survey in selected 55 schools and will soon publish our findings. On the 28-29 November 2006, we shall hold the TOT for sixty teachers selected from various primary and secondary schools in Abia State. We shall later publish a textbook, which will serve as a Manual for Teaching of Human Rights Education in Nigeria, even as we intend to establish Human Rights Clubs in some selected schools in Abia State. We appreciate the support of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and other United Nations agencies and national institutions for this project. We shall welcome any input or contribution or reference materials that would add colour to the completion of this project. Thanks. Yours faithfully, Rev. (Bar) Chris C. Nwadigo People's RightsOrganization, PRO 137 Clifford Road, Aba - Abia State. 08033537909 E-mail: < > http://www.proactionplan.hre.4t.com ======== Global Human Rights Education listserv ======= Send mail intended for the list to < >. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education/ **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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