Activities
Community Education
Plans for community education by promoters have been
elaborated after interviews and community meetings. They
also reflect, in a general way, topics of interest to other
organizations.
Sheaf/Espiga will begin
with training of “rural promoters”. A “rural promoter” is a
community member who has received practical training in
issues of importance to communities, for example: in animal
science, human health promotion, or literacy. This training
will be based on the ‘chain-link’ method, that is, the
passing on of training and information from experienced
workers to those who live and work in the field.
The plan involves raising the level of consciousness of the
rural promoters in the local communities through a series of
practical workshops. Those trained will, in turn, become
community educators. Thus, these rural promoters will
disseminate to their friends and neighbours the educational
materials and information given them.
It must be emphasized that the training modules as envisioned
will touch the most important themes for rural development in
Nicaragua.
Objectives for the Year 2008
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100% of the rural promoters will be trained in the
practice of agricultural production.
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100% of these promoters will be able to manage a
statistical system in order to promote preventative
health care and the use of alternative medicine.
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90% will be trained to contribute to community
development and to strengthen community organizations to
promote local development.
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100% of promoters will have a clear vision of gender
issues and the role of women and men in leadership
training.
COMMUNITY HEALTH |
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
| INTERPRETATION
WORK
We hope that you will join us in our passionate love of
the people of Nicaragua, of Central America more broadly,
and, indeed, the people of the two-thirds world. We hope
that you will entrust Sheaf/Espiga
with financial support, but, even more importantly, we hope
that you will find your own ways – study, prayer, visits,
engagement in your own local community – to let your own
passion show.
We look forward to working with you in any way we can.
Please contact us!
It really is the “right” thing to do!
And the wonderful surprise is that those who serve receive
both joy and fulfillment.
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