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OBAMA'S FASHION in Kenya!



Barack Obama's new fashion has arrived in the whole world.The BBC news reported this morning that more than half of the babies born in a Kisumu Hospital on the day after the election were named either Barack or Michelle Obama.

Apparently Kisumu is close to the village where Mr Obama's father was born and raised and Mr Obama is a local hero.

The region erupted in celebration after he won the race for the White House.

Out of 15 babies born in the New Nyanza Provincial Hospital in the western city of Kisumu on Wednesday, five boys were named Barack Obama and three girls were called Michelle.

Pamela Adhiambo, who gave birth to twins – a boy and a girl - on the night after the elections, named them Barack and Michelle Obama.

"I made up my mind to name them long before the elections, and even if Obama had not won, I would still have done the same," she said.

Hopefully, the names will inspire them to become great human beings willing making a change in their communities for the best.

I wouldn't be surprised if that happened in my country, Mexico, too.



More information....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7712560.stm


November 14, 2008 | 10:11 AM Comments  0 comments

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Inspiring story from India....

Bringing "Colorss" to the world...



Hello! I would like to share with you an interview with an amazing person and co-worker, Anand, who is an indian advocate ready to change the world, bringing "colorss" into people's lives! To know more about him...keep on reading! xx

Andie




1. Name : Anand Koti
2. Age : 30
3. Country : India

4. Tell us a little bio. A bit about who you were until today.:
Anand Koti is a graduate in Industrial Psychology (H), PG in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, PG in Hospital and Health Management (H) and has done his foundation course in Education with special needs children (Rehabilitation Council of India). He is a 2nd Dan Black Belt in Karate. He has an expertise in rehabilitation and vocational training. He is presently writing a couple of articles on mental health and a book on mental health and martial arts. He is based in India. You can get more information about my work, my experience and me as a person from below url's
http://www.takingitglobal.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=7016 http://www.changemakers.net/node/2798 http://www.comminit.com/en/node/278924


5. Tell us about your project/organization


Founder of Colorss Foundation: The Foundation works towards the mainstream integration of the marginalized population through psychological, social and professional training and rehabilitation. Through the broad spectrum of its goal, the foundation handles various disability issues involving physical and mental handicap.


6. Do you have any dream/goal in life!?
Colorss is my dream and I wish to give the best to the humanity.


November 5, 2008 | 11:11 AM Comments  0 comments

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Day of the Death in MEXICO

Halloween????
No..... Day of the Death in MEXICO.

I would like to share a bit about my culture in this special days. We are used to celebrate Halloween around the world, dress with funny and scary costumes, go to parties and ask for trick or treat on the streets. In Mexico, we have a shock of cultures when it comes with the Day of the Death, from our prehispanic culture, and Halloween, from the American Influence. I would like to tell you more about our national celebration, in order to keep it alive! xx

More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they encountered natives practicing a ritual that seemed to mock death.

It was a ritual the indigenous people had been practicing at least 3,000 years. A ritual the Spaniards would try unsuccessfully to eradicate.

Unlike the Spaniards, who viewed death as the end of life, the natives viewed it as the continuation of life. Instead of fearing death, they embraced it. To them, life was a dream and only in death did they become truly awake.

However, the Spaniards considered the ritual to be sacrilegious. They perceived the indigenous people to be barbaric and pagan. In their attempts to convert them to Catholicism, the Spaniards tried to kill the ritual. But like the old Aztec spirits, the ritual refused to die.

To make the ritual more Christian, the Spaniards moved it so it coincided with All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day (Nov. 1 and 2), which is when it is celebrated today.

In rural Mexico, people visit the cemetery where their loved ones are buried. They decorate gravesites with marigold flowers and candles. They bring toys for dead children and bottles of tequila to adults. They sit on picnic blankets next to gravesites and eat the favorite food of their loved ones.

In the United States and in Mexico's larger cities, families build altars in their homes, dedicating them to the dead. They surround these altars with flowers, food and pictures of the deceased. They light candles and place them next to the altar.


The altar includes four main elements of nature — earth, wind, water, and fire.

Earth is represented by crop: The Mexicans believe the souls are fed by the aroma of food.

Wind is represented by a moving object: Tissue paper is commonly used to represent wind.

Water is placed in a container for the soul to quench its thirst after the long journey to the altar.

Fire is represented by a wax candle: Each lit candle represents a soul, and an extra one is placed for the forgotten soul.



Information taken from:
Altar Information:
http://www.dayofthedead.com/TraditionAltars.html

Day of the Dead history:
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/articles/dead-history.html

Picture taken from:
jornada.unam.mx
dayofthedead.com
hispanopolis.biz




November 2, 2008 | 1:11 AM Comments  0 comments

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Planning Challenges from Our Projects!
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

I think that there are two main aspects in the challenges when planning new projects. First of all is the excitement and all the ideas that come into youth minds, which are sometimes forgotten or sometimes too hard to achieve. I am not saying that dreaming high is a bad thing, but I believe that the lack of experience and of information might affect the development of the project. Sometimes we do not know who to go with in order to start or continue with our ideas.rnrnSecond, apathy and dissapointment. Sometimes it is hard to find people who are really commited to the same cause that you are working on, and you end up finishing almost by yourself. We need to be sure of what we want to do and to be aware that this type of situations might occur.rnrnI think that one of the most difficult stages to go throught is the development of the project, because sometimes we are not prepared of things that happen without our control For example, the fact that we cannot fundraise enough money, or that we have no support from people we used to have.rnrnIt is important to receive education and be aware of what planning a project is. It is so much easier to go step by step tham trying to do everything at the same time without a structure to follow.

November 2, 2008 | 12:08 AM Comments  0 comments

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Needs Assesment and Social Media!!
Related to country: Mexico

Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

- Which cultural norms and barriers might I face when conducting a needs assessment in my community? and how might these be addressed?rnI believe that the most important cultural barrier that my project might face would be the fact that most of the indigenous languages are only spoken but not written. And if they are there are a lot of ways of writing them since there is not "an unique way".rnThis might be helped by getting people that know about the subject to get to read the texts and check that everything is correct in order to avoid any problems with the language.rnrn How can social media be used to conduct a needs assessment?rnSocial media is very important because it might help by the use of below the line media, such as internet, blogs, chat, online surveys, etc. This reaches people from everywhere, so it might be easier to get different opinions , points of view from people that might be hard to reach.

October 26, 2008 | 10:33 AM Comments  1 comments

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