Be Inspired! Shirley Ayres Consulting

Refugee Week takes place from the 16th – 22nd June. It will be celebrated by a UK wide programme of events which celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK.

During Refugee Week hundreds of events exploring refugee experiences take place across the UK. These range from small community and school activities to art exhibitions, political debates, film screenings, conferences, big music festivals, sports events etc…Find out what is happening in your area.

Anyone can get involved in Refugee Week either by organising or visiting an event or by just spreading the word!

I love the idea of Small Actions and the Refugee Week UK team are looking for ideas for ‘small actions’ that could help change the way British born people and refugees see ach other. A small action could be anything from inviting a refugee friend to share a cup of tea with your grandpa to learning to say hello in a different language. Any action that, when performed by lots of people, can lead to big changes. Refugee week are collecting as many serious, silly and simple actions as they can. I like the idea of being able to say hello in at least 20 languages! Check out Small Action for inspiration and add your own!

Social work has always championed social justice and should be at the forefront of challenging the same old myths and scare stories which are constantly being given airspace and by extension credibility. The truth is in short supply. This leaflet, produced by the Refugee Council, lists these facts and figures that you can rely on.more information

Tags: challenge stereotypes, inspired, refugee week, say hello on 20 languages, small actions, social justice, Social Work

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 Thare Machi Education (TME) is a UK-registered charity working with community-based partners in the developing world, helping to give women and children trapped in poverty more knowledge and more choice. The Starfish project develops cheap and reliable DVD technology in the users’ own language, and connects with community groups at a grassroots level, TME is working with Eurotalk Interactive to produce one hundred audiovisual lessons on key topics in the languages of the world’s poor.

ALISON, the world’s leading free online learning resource is working with TME to bring many of their educational programmes onto the ALISON free learning platform. This will allow TME to make their content accessible to a massive new online audience worldwide, thus creating another distribution channel to engage with their target audience. In addition, using ALISON’s extensive education and NGO network, it is hoped and expected that TME can greatly extend the reach of its courses.

Commenting on the alliance, Steve Clark, CEO of TME said “ALISON is a terrific opportunity for TME to extend the reach of our educational content far beyond our current distribution network. Mike Feerick, CEO of ALISON stated that ALISON was delighted to welcome TME as a free publisher on ALISON: “We had heard of the effectiveness of the TME videos in the developing world. What surprises most people today is just how much of the world actually enjoys Internet access. The addition of the TME courses is the beginning of our campaign to extend our health literacy portfolio which we intend to make very comprehensive and of course, free to access, over the coming year.”

Both TME and ALISON agree that the need for education in these areas is tremendous. For example, life expectancy in Malawi in 2000 was only 37 years compared with 77 within the UK. Twelve million children in Africa have been made orphans by the AIDS pandemic, and in some communities women in particular have never even heard of AIDS, let alone know how to avoid it. So far, more than 15 million people in Africa are estimated to have died from AIDS – more than the highest estimates of the Iraq war, the Rwandan genocide, the Khmer Rouge regime and the Holocaust combined. TME has active programmes in India, Kenya, South Africa, Cambodia, Uganda, Malawi, Nepal, Zambia, Bulgaria and Romania.

ALISON is committed to extending its free learning offerings, and is interested in hearing from organizations similar to TME about how global health problems can be addressed through the power of the internet.

http://alison.com/  http://www.tme.org.uk/

Tags: alison, charity, developing countries, elearning, free on line learning, inspired, new technology, ngo, power of the internet, thare machi education, the world's leading free online learning resource, third world, tme, unique

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