Dear Wondewosen, You are doing a wonderful job. You can work closely with some human rights lawyers for your protection. That is what I did in Cameroon to avoid harrassment from the government. I wish all the best in your work. Dr. Elizabeth Tamajong Director National Centre for Education. BP 1466 Yaounde, Cameroon On 8 December 2006, Wondewosen Angagaw wrote: Dear Chris and Sande, I am a human rights educator in Ethiopia and currently working in an NGO, Action Professionals' Association for the People (APAP). I am currently giving human rights and basic legal training for the inmates of the prison of Harar City, Ethiopia, so that the inmates serve their fellow inmates in giving free legal aid and educate them. I am realy impresed about what you said about involving the governement. becouse whenever we do that in Ethiopia, the government becomes positive and cooperative and it opens many of its doors.thanks continue the good work. Wondewosen Angagaw On 6 December 2006, Sande Olocho wrote: 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 RightsOrganization, an NGO based in Aba (Nigeria), has started infusing human rights education into the Abia State school system. Theexecution 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 nationalinstitutions 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 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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