21st September - UN International Day of Peace

To mark the UN International Day of Peace this year Harambee with the Emmanuel United Reform Church held an event on Monday 21st featuring a workshop by Theodore Menelik of Menelik Education talking about the Democratic Republic of Congo, its history, and the history of its recent conflict and the peace of the last half decade and its benefits. There is a small art exhibition titled "The World In Your Face", on the responses of women to the conflict in Iraq composed by artists Nora al-Ani and Kay Goodridge -  open until Friday 25th September in the main hall of the Emmanuel United Reform Church.

The UN International Day of Peace is on 21 September every year and was created as a fixed calendar date for showing concrete expressions of nonviolence and ceasefire and for promoting a culture of peace. So far ceasefires held to mark the International Day of Peace have allowed vaccinations of millions of children in Afghanisation and benefited hundreds of thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo by allowing a variety of medical help to reach them including vaccination and mosquito nets. To read more about the day from the man & the organisation who pushed for the UN to mark this day in the calendar see the Peace One Day site.

For further details contact us

Harambee's November 08 e-newsletter

FROM PUBLICATIONS:

October’s Citizenship News has a pull-out on the US historic Presidential Election.  This could be useful teaching material for pupils working in groups. 

Likewise the Black History posters in The Guardian (October 13th-17th).  These can be ordered - on fine paper – for £15: apply to http://www.guardian.co.uk/readeroffers/blackhistory  or call 0870 836 0924.  

The Guardian – in its G2 for Tuesday, 28/10/08 – has an article on the Maya and their decline which is timely in its parallels on ecological and economic crisis. 

November’s New Internationalist is largely devoted to Afghanistan.  The range of articles could serve as a starting point for further study: A brief history…, for example. 

School and Further Education Partnerships feature in British Council’s Learning World for September.

EVENTS

LOCAL

Cambridge Council for Voluntary Services Events:

 November 26th – Making an Application to Awards for All (Big Lottery funds)
-    Morning Training, Llandaff Chambers  9.30 am – 12.30 pm  Ring (01223) 464696 or e-mail enquiries@cambridgeccvs.org.uk 

OTHER LOCAL EVENTS

December 6th - Mill Road Winter Fair see www.mill-road.com/winterfair.aspx    10.30 (Opening by Mayor) until 4.30

Damaris - ‘President for a Day’ Experience – 6th Form Conferences – cost £550.  Call Damaris office 023 8031 5319 or see www.damaris.org/schools

HUMANITARIAN CENTRE CALENDAR OF EVENTS

November 22nd – ‘So you think you want to be a relief worker?’  - course run for those interested in disaster relief as a career. 

December 6th – International Development Course – One Day Course -

More info on H.C. training programme visit:  www.humcentre.org/hubypublicEventning.htm
And on humanitarian events in Cambridge visit: www.humcentre.org/webcalendar/month/php 

Szeged Week – 15-23 November Week of Events to celebrate twinned cities  www.cambridge-szeged-society.org.uk

ACTIVITIES

Dig for Sustainability – for those between 13 and 20.  This project teaches new skills like growing your own food, woodwork, garden design, woodwork, garden design, and wildlife conservation.  It draws on World War Two practices: rationing, ‘Make Do and Mend’ and ‘Dig for Victory’. 

Contact Clayton Lavallin, Global Youth Action, Coordinator, Harambee Centre. email:  Clayton.lavallin at harambeecentre.org.uk or (01223) 358116

HARAMBEE RECOMMENDS: SO FAR AND YET SO NEAR

There's another edition of the Cambridge radio show, So Far and Yet So Near, ready for your listening enjoyment. It's only 30 mins long and in that time you'll get:

- a full preview of the upcoming Cambridge African Film Festival, which features everything from documentary, to romantic comedy, to animation
- an Iranian wildlife documentary maker discusses his work
- information on a seminar being organised by Cambridge to Africa
 
The show is available here:
http://www.209radio.co.uk/shows/profile.php?show=sofar
and the mp3 itself can be downloaded with this link:
http://www.209radio.co.uk/mp3archive/sofar061108.mp3

Also, you can get the show automatically delivered to your computer through podcasting; here's the link you need to put into your podcasting programme (eg itunes).
http://podcast.209radio.co.uk/?show=sofar
 
Quick guide to podcasting:
It's an easy way of getting audio programmes delivered to your computer every time they come out on the internet. Your computer needs to be on the internet, and you need a podcasting programme of some sort - itunes is free and very popular but there are other free ones too. Once you've got the programme, you can subscribe to any podcast by copying and pasting the 'podcast feed' into the programme. This is a line of text that looks like a web address. Our feed is above. In itunes, you need to go to the 'Advanced' menu, and then 'subscribe to podcast'. It gives you a box to paste the feed into. After that, as long as you start up itunes regularly on your computer it will automatically scan for new editions of the programme and download them!

Cambridge's community radio station has some problems with funding.  If you'd like to help keep 209radio going, feel free to make a donation at http://www.justgiving.com/209radio, and please tell everyone you know how great and important this radio station is! 
Anyway, to remind yourself of 209radio's wonderful programming, check out So Far this time round:
The show is available here: http://www.209radio.co.uk/shows/profile.php?show=sofar
and the mp3 itself can be downloaded with this link: http://www.209radio.co.uk/mp3archive/sofar110908.mp3

Also, you can get the show automatically delivered to your computer through podcasting; here's the link you need to put into your podcasting programme (eg itunes): http://podcast.209radio.co.uk/?show=sofar

July 08 News

Harambee runs activities at this year's Secret Garden Party

On a wonderfully sunny weekend Harambee ran arts and environmental activities with a global twist at the 2008 Secret Garden Party in Abbots Ripton. This festival has an environmental theme and this year the theme was titled "Come the Revolutions".

Harambee's environmental activities focused on the familiar three Rs of Reduce Reuse and Recycle - but within a global context. Ingenious ways of reusing common materials at home were shown - for instance, participants were shown how to make durable wallets for coins out of Tetrapaks - that ubiquitous but hard to recycle food container. But as well as learning how they could take charge of the environmental impact of their own lives festival goers also learned of how people in other parts of the world practiced reuse and recycling - the picture on the right shows a staff member and a member of the public making cloth out of scrap materials in the style of cloth produced in the slums of Ghana.

The culture of Ghana in particular and West Africa in general was also seen in games of Oware (a board game from Ghana) that provided entertainment and diversion and in the art activities with printing of Adinkra symbols (originating in West Africa) being done on cloth and paper.

If you are a teacher interested in exploring recycling or the culture of West Africa in your classroom then Harambee has resource boxes on both recycling & Ghana that are available for loan. These boxes bring aim to bring subjects to life with a variety of hands on learning for pupils through the use of artefacts and activities - for more details see our loan resources page

June 08

Global Voices workshops at Hills Road Sixth Form College

On Monday 30 June Jackson Nazombe, a volunteer on our Global Voices programme delivered two workshops to Politics students at Hills Road Sixth Form College. The visit was organized by Chris Welander at the college and was part of a wider Citizenship week at the college. Jackson talked to students about the history of Zimbabwe and the different influences on it, colonialism and life as Rhodesia, the current political situation and life under Mugabe. Part of the talk looked at how people cope under the current regime and how they carry on in everyday life. Jackson was an entertaining and well-informed speaker and students were engaged by his talk asking lots of pertinent questions as a follow-up.

The aim of the Global Voices programme is to increase understanding of cultural diversity and break down racial stereotypes. Talk can be general by focusing on country and culture or can be tailored to meet specific needs of students and teachers. For more info contact Jane Carpenter at Harambee.