Thanks for sharing information about your project. It sounds like you've found a valuable income generating activity for your participants. I just have a couple of questions that came up as I was reading. First of all, it sounds like your organization has already been training quilters for a number of years and has even expanded to Rwanda. Why then do you say the project is in the "Idea Phase"?
I'm also interested in your comment that in order for the project to continue to succeed in the future, you must turn over its management to the project participants. How do you envision that process of capacity building and handing over management of the organization happening?
Thanks for your entry!
Stephanie
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Stephanie Marienau
Ashoka Africa Team Associate
Featured Commentator
In the 17 years that I have lived here in South Africa I have seen many programs to attack the ills of this society...basically poverty and all that poverty breeds. The programs were initiated by various organizations and the government and usually heralded with great fanfare; only never to be heard of again.
I have found that programs such as mine depend on a constant supervision and attention to stand a chance of succeeding. The ladies that quilt with me are not educated, and none have been employed except as a domestic. They have manual talents and there definitely are some leaders among them; but management and marketing is a bit beyond them. So I am operating a short term program that does well, and puts water and electricity into the home, and food on the table.
I now have a woman living in my home that has a great deal of common sense, leadership qualities, ambition, and the potential. She has been here over a year and I have been teaching her the booking keeping, and marketing. Currently she has the title of manager. She just spent six weeks in Canada with two quilters, learning advanced quilting. However the major thrust of her visit was to learn to speak to audiences and meet white people outside of her own culture. I am placing a great deal of hope on her. We also have a quilter of great honesty, and another who is a leader and very astute about handling money. The three may eventually replace members of the trust, but there is still a great deal of "capacity building" taking place. I mentioned that one of the greatest attributes one needs here to operate a program is patience.
I went to Kigali at the request of an American who had started older orphans quilting at the El Shaddai Orphanage in Kigali. I trained for two weeks and it was successful. For how long? .Elisabeth
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Hi Elisabeth!
Thanks for sharing information about your project. It sounds like you've found a valuable income generating activity for your participants. I just have a couple of questions that came up as I was reading. First of all, it sounds like your organization has already been training quilters for a number of years and has even expanded to Rwanda. Why then do you say the project is in the "Idea Phase"?
I'm also interested in your comment that in order for the project to continue to succeed in the future, you must turn over its management to the project participants. How do you envision that process of capacity building and handing over management of the organization happening?
Thanks for your entry!
Stephanie
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Stephanie Marienau
Ashoka Africa Team Associate
Featured Commentator
Hi Stephanie,
Thank you for your comments and questions.
In the 17 years that I have lived here in South Africa I have seen many programs to attack the ills of this society...basically poverty and all that poverty breeds. The programs were initiated by various organizations and the government and usually heralded with great fanfare; only never to be heard of again.
I have found that programs such as mine depend on a constant supervision and attention to stand a chance of succeeding. The ladies that quilt with me are not educated, and none have been employed except as a domestic. They have manual talents and there definitely are some leaders among them; but management and marketing is a bit beyond them. So I am operating a short term program that does well, and puts water and electricity into the home, and food on the table.
I now have a woman living in my home that has a great deal of common sense, leadership qualities, ambition, and the potential. She has been here over a year and I have been teaching her the booking keeping, and marketing. Currently she has the title of manager. She just spent six weeks in Canada with two quilters, learning advanced quilting. However the major thrust of her visit was to learn to speak to audiences and meet white people outside of her own culture. I am placing a great deal of hope on her. We also have a quilter of great honesty, and another who is a leader and very astute about handling money. The three may eventually replace members of the trust, but there is still a great deal of "capacity building" taking place. I mentioned that one of the greatest attributes one needs here to operate a program is patience.
I went to Kigali at the request of an American who had started older orphans quilting at the El Shaddai Orphanage in Kigali. I trained for two weeks and it was successful. For how long? .Elisabeth
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