Having had the pleasure of seeing Sawa in action I can tell you that the heroes have already proven themselves as capable social changers. And being a business owner I am amazed at the lessons to be learned about productivity and moral building in watching the videos.
Yes, you are right the SAWA Heroes provide an incredible level of leadership to the rest of us. The SAWA Team is finding the "missing" world leaders in the most remote and poverty stricken corners of the world and empowers them to use new media to share their lessons and awe-inspiring leadership with the rest of the world.
Daphne Nederhorst
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Founder
SAWA Global
A Global Voice for Local Heroes
Virtual Global Mentorship allows anybody anywhere in the world to become a SAWA Mentor and share their specific skills and ideas directly, using web 2.0 communication tools, with extraordinary grassroots leaders (SAWA Heroes) from the world's poorest countries that are showcased on our website. The SAWA Heroes also have the same chance to share their knowledge and become Mentors for people around the world.
Here are some of our current SAWA Mentors:
(1) A business advisor from the United States can give strategic direction to young teenagers that where orphaned during the Rwanda genocide and started a vocational training for former child soldiers in an abandoned building. They succcefully trained 300 youth with job skills and need guidance to grow their organization to the next level.
(2) A professional biologist from Canada can share his or her expertise in forest conservation methods with a community-based group in the remote corners of the Solomon Islands to help protect an additional 10,000 hectares of tropical forest.
(3) United Nations staff can connect with local grassroots leaders in the slums of Nairobi to learn how to solve extreme poverty in these communities, and then replicate these success models to UN-based projects to help reduce the dire situation of over 1 billion people living in extreme poverty around the world.
(4) High school student from the Netherlands can start a letter writing campaign to exchange leadership practices with Congolese youth refugees in Tanzania that established a community group to empower the most vulnerable in the camp with education.
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Founder
SAWA Global
A Global Voice for Local Heroes
SAWA Global has over 200 local videographers,mainly youth, in the 50 focus countries that work together with the SAWA Heroes to document their success projects.
SAWA Global also conducts local workshops in the 50 countries and train both amateur and professional video journalists on impactful video production and new media technology. These workshops also invited potential SAWA Heroes and other local NGOs. At this workshop simple video technology is reviewed, post production tools provided and the SAWA web portal explored. The local video journalists are partnered with the SAWA Hero to collaboratively document their projects.
SAWA also recruit at least one Country Representative in each of the 50 countries to support the SAWA Heroes on an ongoing basic and provide access to new media when needed.
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Founder
SAWA Global
A Global Voice for Local Heroes
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This is an incredible idea. Something the world needs NOW!
Can you give me an example of what you mean by "virtual mentorship" for your SAWA Heroes
Thank you
Having had the pleasure of seeing Sawa in action I can tell you that the heroes have already proven themselves as capable social changers. And being a business owner I am amazed at the lessons to be learned about productivity and moral building in watching the videos.
Thank you Perafig,
Yes, you are right the SAWA Heroes provide an incredible level of leadership to the rest of us. The SAWA Team is finding the "missing" world leaders in the most remote and poverty stricken corners of the world and empowers them to use new media to share their lessons and awe-inspiring leadership with the rest of the world.
Daphne Nederhorst
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Founder
SAWA Global
A Global Voice for Local Heroes
Hello Impact44,
Thank you for your positive feedback.
Virtual Global Mentorship allows anybody anywhere in the world to become a SAWA Mentor and share their specific skills and ideas directly, using web 2.0 communication tools, with extraordinary grassroots leaders (SAWA Heroes) from the world's poorest countries that are showcased on our website. The SAWA Heroes also have the same chance to share their knowledge and become Mentors for people around the world.
Here are some of our current SAWA Mentors:
(1) A business advisor from the United States can give strategic direction to young teenagers that where orphaned during the Rwanda genocide and started a vocational training for former child soldiers in an abandoned building. They succcefully trained 300 youth with job skills and need guidance to grow their organization to the next level.
(2) A professional biologist from Canada can share his or her expertise in forest conservation methods with a community-based group in the remote corners of the Solomon Islands to help protect an additional 10,000 hectares of tropical forest.
(3) United Nations staff can connect with local grassroots leaders in the slums of Nairobi to learn how to solve extreme poverty in these communities, and then replicate these success models to UN-based projects to help reduce the dire situation of over 1 billion people living in extreme poverty around the world.
(4) High school student from the Netherlands can start a letter writing campaign to exchange leadership practices with Congolese youth refugees in Tanzania that established a community group to empower the most vulnerable in the camp with education.
----------
Founder
SAWA Global
A Global Voice for Local Heroes
SAWA Global has over 200 local videographers,mainly youth, in the 50 focus countries that work together with the SAWA Heroes to document their success projects.
SAWA Global also conducts local workshops in the 50 countries and train both amateur and professional video journalists on impactful video production and new media technology. These workshops also invited potential SAWA Heroes and other local NGOs. At this workshop simple video technology is reviewed, post production tools provided and the SAWA web portal explored. The local video journalists are partnered with the SAWA Hero to collaboratively document their projects.
SAWA also recruit at least one Country Representative in each of the 50 countries to support the SAWA Heroes on an ongoing basic and provide access to new media when needed.
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Founder
SAWA Global
A Global Voice for Local Heroes
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