2008 African Women and Water Training
Building Relationships and Self Reliance to Support Tech Transfer
the African Women and Water Program. This is an annual 5-day gathering that provides thirty African women with the tools to implement a water service project from start to finish. The conference design is holistic, in that women not only share proven and appropriate water technologies, but they share valuable organizational skills and strategies to full ...learn more
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Tricia
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About
Hello active world citizens out there!
A few words to start to introduce myself:
For a number of years i was a home birth midwife in New Zealand; i believe that women and their families can gain great empowerment and personal life learning through their pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenting, and that midwives have a major role to play in promoting that. However spiritual birth and homebirth by choice can be seen as options of privilege and choice for healthy women in wealthy countries. It also matters to me that globally there is such inequality for women; my vision is that women in every country in the world should be able to expect to survive childbirth as a starting minimum! thus i have also studied aid and development issues and worked in a developing country to help in improving women's health.
i currently work as an 'international programmes officer' for a peace, social justice and development NGO. i see my work as acting as a translator between the partner organisation in a developing Asian country who has a dream of social justice, empowerment, human rights, land rights, better health, education for their children, improved food security, whatever ... and my job is to help them by translating that into donor talk, to help them get the funding that they need to work towards that dream.
I also have a growing concern about the necessity for, and the importance of, developing strong sustainable loving infant -parent bonds from birth and in the early days of a childs life. i see this as being vital not just for loving mothers, fathers, and children, but also to growing emerging generations who will love and nurture their communities and the planet.
I would love to talk with other people who share related concerns, to grow ideas and ways of working towards addressing these and other dreams and visions.
Warm regards
Tricia
A few words to start to introduce myself:
For a number of years i was a home birth midwife in New Zealand; i believe that women and their families can gain great empowerment and personal life learning through their pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenting, and that midwives have a major role to play in promoting that. However spiritual birth and homebirth by choice can be seen as options of privilege and choice for healthy women in wealthy countries. It also matters to me that globally there is such inequality for women; my vision is that women in every country in the world should be able to expect to survive childbirth as a starting minimum! thus i have also studied aid and development issues and worked in a developing country to help in improving women's health.
i currently work as an 'international programmes officer' for a peace, social justice and development NGO. i see my work as acting as a translator between the partner organisation in a developing Asian country who has a dream of social justice, empowerment, human rights, land rights, better health, education for their children, improved food security, whatever ... and my job is to help them by translating that into donor talk, to help them get the funding that they need to work towards that dream.
I also have a growing concern about the necessity for, and the importance of, developing strong sustainable loving infant -parent bonds from birth and in the early days of a childs life. i see this as being vital not just for loving mothers, fathers, and children, but also to growing emerging generations who will love and nurture their communities and the planet.
I would love to talk with other people who share related concerns, to grow ideas and ways of working towards addressing these and other dreams and visions.
Warm regards
Tricia
Hi
giving your interests, perhaps you might give me some comments on my book
http://www.i-optic.com/satyagraha.pdf
regards
ROb
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