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http://rapidshare.com/files/175036866/From_Africa_Central_America_2008.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/175034852/Newsletter_july_7__2008.pdf.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/175035753/From_Teams.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/175036001/From_CCTG_2007.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/175036332/From_Africa_Central_America_2007.zip.html

You can download other publications, too (it's a guide about Africa And other subjects related with the program):

http://rapidshare.com/files/175037725/Media_OtherPublications.zip.html

Researchs and reports:

http://rapidshare.com/files/175038212/Extracts_from_the_Midway_and_Conclusion_Reports_of_the_1st_period.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/175038425/Reports_and_e-mails_from_the_DI_s_at_the_projects_-_from_the_2nd_period.zip.html


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Project (Africa)

Africa

Malawi

Malawi is a landlocked country slightly smaller than Pennsylvania and has a population of 13 million. Roughly 1/6 the size of Namibia with a 6 times greater population. It gained independence peacefully from Britain in 1964. With no wars, domestic or otherwise, to speak of ever since.

Malawi ranks among the world's least developed countries. The economy is predominately agricultural, with about 85% of the population living in rural areas. The economy depends on substantial inflows of economic assistance from the IMF, the World Bank, and individual donor nations. In 2006, Malawi was approved for relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. The government and people of Malawi faces many challenges, including developing a market economy, improving educational facilities, dealing with environmental problems, and with the rapidly growing problem of HIV/AIDS.

Humana People to People has been working in Malawi since 1995. DAPP Malawi runs16 projects.

2007 is the first year that CCTG has sent volunteers to Malawi - our DI's were working with the Farmers' Club and TCE projects.

The current Development Projects of DAPP MalawiThe strategy of development of DAPP Malawi includes establishing projects covering a wide range of activities such as:
The DAPP Teacher’s Training College, Chilangoma in Blantyre Rural District
The DAPP Teacher Training College, Amalika in Shire Highlands district
Vocational Training School in Mikolongwe, Chiradzulu District
Child Aid in Lilongwe
The HOPE Humana project in Blantyre District
The Farmers Clubs project mobilizing 12.000 farmers into Farmers’ Clubs in Zomba, Chiradzulu and Lilongwe
Total Control of the Epidemic
DAPP Clothes and Shoes Sales in the Northern, Central & Southern region of Malawi

Mozambique

The Mozambique program at CCTG offers you the chance to spend 6 or 12 months in Mozambique volunteering at one of the projects run by ADPP Mozambique (part of Humana People to People).
Mozambique, unlike Angola, has been at peace since 1992. Mozambique is still however, one of the poorest countries in the world. Affected by frequent natural disasters – flooding in particular – which rarely receive attention in the western media, but affect thousands of Mozambiquans every year.
Approximately one in six adults are HIV+ in Mozambique. One shocking consequence of this is that more Mozambiquan teachers die of opportunistic infections due to AIDS than are being trained each year. Some CCTG volunteers work (and have worked) at teacher training colleges run by ADPP - these colleges enroll 60-70 students a year on a two and a half year program. Typically a few of these students (who are aged in their mid-twenties) die of AIDS before they complete their training – a human tragedy! Therefore, HIV/AIDS education is a crucial part of the work at all of the projects of ADPP in Mozambique.
The people of Mozambique are eager and motivated to take part in development. The first president of independent Mozambique, Samora Michel, spent two years traveling throughout the country talking to the people and making clear his expectations that the people themselves are responsible for their own development – outside agencies can only participate and assist. You can be part of that process!
CCTG volunteers currently work at the projects in Nacala in North East Mozambique (where there is a Child Aid project, a teacher-training college, and a vocational school). We also have some volunteers with a teacher training college in Maputo, HOPE Maputo and Itoculo Cashew Plantation and Training Center and Child Aid project.

The Activities of ADPP – Mozambique
Child Aid Nhamatanda
Child Aid Nacala
Child Aid Gaza
Child Aid Inhambane
ADPP Polytechnic College
The Vocational School Nhamatanda
The Vocational School Nacala
The Agricultural School Bilibiza
The Teacher Training College Maputo
The Teacher Training College Nhamatanda
The Teacher Training College Nacala
The Teacher Training College Chimoio
The Teacher Training College Niassa
The Teacher Training College Cabo Delgado
The Teacher Training College Macuse, Zambezia
The Teacher Training College Gaza
The Teacher Training College Inhambane
The Teacher Training College Tete
The Teacher Training College Nampula
One World University
HOPE Humana Beira
HOPE Humana Maputo
Children's Town Maputo
Sports School Xipamanine
Sports School Patrice Lumumba
ADPP Secondary School No Caminho da Vitoria
Street Children School Nacala
Street Children School Chimoio
Farmers Club Mozambique
Farmers Club Itoculo
TCE - Total Control of the Epidemic, Mozambique
ADPP Clothes Sales in Mozambique
The Development Instructor Program
The Scholarship Program

Namibia

Namibia was taken by Germany when the European powers divided Africa among them at the Berlin Conference in the 1880-ties. When Germany was busy in Europe during the First World War, South Africa occupied Namibia in 1915 and did not leave before 1990, when the Cold War was over and Apartheid in South Africa came to an end.

Namibia is a large country with just 2 million people, more than half of them living in the North. Although the mining sector is the most important income for Namibia it employs just 3% of the work force. The majority of people are small farmers, who struggle to live from the land, that is increasingly deteriorating. 56% of the population live on less than 2 $ a day.

Humana People to People has been working in Namibia since 1990. DAPP Namibia runs 12 development projects.

CCTG has been sending volunteers to TCE project in Namibia since the project started in 2006. In 2007 we also received positions with the Child Aid and Environmental project and the Vocational Training School.

List of projects in 2008
Child Aid and environment Project in Omusati
Child Aid Oshikoto
Child Aid Ohangwena
Child Aid Kavango
Vocational Training School Onambelela
DAPP Private School Onambelela
HOPE Namibia
12 TCE Areas
South Africa

South Africa is the richest and most developed country in the Southern African Development Community. The country could not achieve its full potential because of the rift created during the apartheid era.
South Africa is located on the southern cape of Africa. It shares its borders with Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mozambique, and Lesotho is situated within South Africa. South Africa has nine provinces: Gauteng, Western Cape, Kwazulu Natal, Eastern Cape, North Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State and the North West. The capital city is Pretoria, and there are other major cities like Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizaberth, Bloemfontein and East London.
South Africa has the largest economy in the southern African region. Service industry, mining, manufacturing and agriculture contribute to the economy of South Africa. Globally South Africa is recognised as a mineral supplier. It exports minerals to 87 countries, with approximately 55 different minerals produced from more than 700 mining facilities. The country’s industrial and financial infrastructures are well developed and have the potential to grow.
Over 50% of the population in South Africa live in urban areas. The wealth in the country is not equally distributed as a result of the relicts of the apartheid era. South Africa held its first multiracial and democratic elections in 1994. The country was under the racial segregative rule of the white minority with legislative clauses making the white minority race more superior and favouring them.
Nelson Mandela was the first president of democratic South Africa. He negotiated with the National Party government and this culminated in the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. The ANC won the elections under the leadership of Mandela marking an end to the apartheid era in South Africa. The ANC government started building on reconciliation policies.
Humana People to People in South Africa is a section 21 non profit company, registered in 1995 in order to respond to the socio-economic needs of underprivileged South Africans. DAPP runs social development projects which focuses on children's welfare, HIV and AIDS and Human Resources Capacity building.
An overview of the Projects
TCE - Total Control of the Epidemic
Child Aid in Doornkop, Bakenberg and Tubatse
HOPE Humana Mopane and Bushbuckridge


CCTG has started to send Development Instructors to the TCE project in South Africa

Zambia

Northern Rhodesia gained independence from Britain in 1964 and changed its name to Zambia. Zambia is a land locked country with 11 million inhabitants. Copper is Zambia’s main export earning covering over 90% of the country’s income. The dependency on a single export product and with falling prices on the world market and increased prices for import products has broken Zambia’s economy. The country has a huge debt, 50% unemployment and around 85% of the population live below the poverty line. Furthermore the AIDS epidemic has hit the people hard. 85% of the people live in rural areas as small scale farmers.

Humana People to People has been working in Zambia since 1986. DAPP Zambia runs 16 development projects.

Currently our DI's work with the Child Aid projects in Mazabuka, Chimombo and Samfya, there has also been DI's in the Children's Town project.
The Projects DAPP in Zambia is running development projects, which are very comprehensive and cost effective. The programs deals with some of the major social and economic issues in Zambia such as HIV and AIDS, Community Development, Agriculture, Environment, Education and Water and Sanitation.

DAPP in Zambia is currently running the following projects
Child Aid Chibombo
Child Aid Samfya
Child Aid Central Province with the entities
Child Aid Mkushi
Child Aid Serenje
Child Aid Kapiri Mposhi
Child Aid and Environment Southern Province with the entities
Child Aid and Environment Monze
Child Aid and Environment Gwembe
Child Aid and Environment Mazabuka
Child Aid and Environment Kalomo
Child Aid and Environment Choma and Sinazonge
Child Aid Luapula Province with the entities
Child Aid Mpika/Mporokoso
Child Aid Nchelenge
HOPE Humana Center in Ndola with the Hope Projects
Hope Kitwe
Hope Kabwe
Hope Livingstone
Hope Lusaka
Hope Kaoma / Mongu
DAPP Children' Town in Malambanyama
Total Control of the Epidemic - TCE in Mazabuka
DAPP Clothes and Shoes Sales.

Humana People to People

Humana People to People is a movement that focuses its attention on creating answers to some of the main questions facing humanity.
It does not compare itself to anything or to anybody but itself.
Luckily this places the organization completely outside any sort of competition - left or right. It has done its own things - and still does.
The inspiration to start what is today Humana People to People back in 1977, came from years of travel done by teachers and participants at the first "Traveling Folk High School" - meeting people around the world in their often horrible conditions. This first meeting inspired action - and ever since the first actions, it has been the reality facing fellow human beings that have inspired to fierce competition - to do more, to become better, to raise the quality, to reach more people ...... And that is still where the inspiration comes from.
Ideas for projects and actions are provokingly simple and uncomplicated to understand and take their point of departure in the fundamental issue of bringing about humanizing conditions for people in need. These needs are often very basic, and it is not lack of know-how or technology that prevents them from being met. We know how to drill a bore hole, how to prevent and treat diseases, how to grow nutritious food, how to build schools, etc. So somehow it is a matter of just doing it - placing the needs of fellow human beings at the center - building capacity - and mobilizing as many people as possible to become active creators in their own development.
Today, there are 32 national associations connected to the Humana People to People Movement. The associations are working in 40 countries around the world. Humana People to People members presently operate more than 225 development projects reaching out to more than 7.5 million people on a yearly basis within the areas of basic health, HIV & AIDS, education, agriculture, environment, relief aid and community development. Furthermore, about 4.5 million people are reached annually through the secondhand clothes sales and distribution system.
In brief the activities cover:
- 17 teacher training colleges in Angola, Mozambique and Malawi educate every year more than 1,000 primary school teachers for the rural areas.
More than 4,000 teachers have been trained so far.
- 24 schools for children and vocational schools provide education to street children, orphans and other children from grade 1 to grade 9 and vocational training
of youth.
- 500,000 people are reached by Child Aid Projects, which is a variety of activities aimed at improving living conditions for the whole family and for the children
in particular.
- HOPE centers in 8 countries have over the past 10 years played an active role in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Through mobilizing the communities around education,
information, counseling, testing and care, tens of thousand of people have got new hope in countries where the HIV prevalence sometimes is 30%.
- Since the year 2000, the TCE Program - Total Control of the Epidemic - has been involved the fight against AIDS on a larger scale and with a radical approach that
mobilizes each and every person in the community to do their part. TCE is implemented in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Angola
and South Africa.
- In emergency situations Humana People to People has given relief aid to refugees from wars in Africa and Europe, to people hit by drought or floods in Malawi,
Mozambique, India and Sri Lanka.

Projects (Central America and Latin America)

Central & Latin America


Belize

Under the shadow of its forests blooms Belize. Although better known for its diving paradises and the second longest coral barrier in the world, Belize has extensive forests, mountain chains and wet lands. Occupied and robbed for years mainly by British settlers, Belize was a source of wood for Europe; and Maya farmers, native to the land, were forced out of the country, few remaining on the very countryside. Also colonized by refugees from Civil War in the United States and later African slaves, the country shows its diversity in race and culture, and the many social divisions, results of the divide and rule principle of colonialist.
Today, the society still tries to overcome the underdevelopment patterns introduced by colonialism and exploitation. Agriculture became the main economy. Education receives investments, but the population still faces poverty, unsustainable foreign debts, and increasing urban problems, and HIV/AIDS rates.
Humana People to People runs a Child Aid project in the North and another one in the South, also it has a Clothes Sale with 3 shops generating funds for the Child Aid projects.

Costa Rica

Although explored by the Spanish early in the 16th century, initial attempts at colonizing Costa Rica proved unsuccessful. In 1563 a permanent settlement of Cartago was established in the cooler, fertile central highlands. In 1821, Costa Rica became one of several Central American provinces that jointly declared their independence from Spain. Costa Rica’s stable economy depends on tourism, agriculture, and electronics exports. Poverty has remained at roughly 20% for nearly 20 years, and the strong social safety net that had been put into place by the government has eroded due to increased financial constraints. Immigration from Nicaragua has increasingly become a concern for the government. The 300,000-500,000 Nicaraguans estimated to be in Costa Rica legally and illegally are an important source of (mostly unskilled) labor.
Our last stop before flying to Ecuador is Costa Rica.

Ecuador

Ecuador has a history of turbulence and political instability. Since 1979, it has been under civilian rule. Ecuador has substantial petroleum resources, which have accounted for 40% of the country’s export earnings. Since 1968, the country received huge loans for engineering, construction, and infrastructure projects that basically benefited the richest families. Over the following three decades Ecuador’s debt increased from 240 mill $ to 16 billion $ and poverty level rose from 50% to 70%, bringing the country on the brink of collapse in 1999. Since then some improvements have taken place, but Ecuador still has huge poverty problems.
Humana People to People runs a Child Aid project in Ecuador with the Village Action Groups.

El Salvador

El Salvador is a tiny and densely populated country struggling to find its way in a post-guerrilla war era. It is a fertile and beautiful land with lush valleys and low lying mountains covered with plantations growing coffee, corn, and sugar cane. The possession and power over this valuable land has sprung countless insurrections and a twelve-year civil war. The war ended in 1992 with peace accords signed and promises made. Though the country is at peace, the struggle continues to create a strong economy and to improve living conditions for all the people of El Salvador.
We travel through El Salvador during our investigation period.

Guatemala

Guatemala has been called the “Land of Fire” for the blazing reds, blues and yellows of its hand-woven clothing, the searing heat of its lowlands, and the fiery blood of over 200,000 people killed during its 36 year civil war. The year 1996 marked the end of the war as a newly elected government took power and a peace agreement was signed. The struggle for justice and an equal share in the country’s wealth, however, continue. Most effected by poverty and prejudice is the indigenous population, the largest in all of the Central American countries.
Humana People to People is planning to start a Child Aid project in Guatemala in 2009.

Honduras

Honduras is known as the “Banana Republic” because of the major role foreign industry has played in the both economic and political affairs of the country. While its neighbors were mired in civil war, Honduras has seen relative peace in recent decades. Peace did not mean prosperity, however, as outside influences and a succession of military rulers have kept power, money, and access to resources in the hands of a few. Estimates indicate that the devastation to infrastructure, homes, and agricultural lands brought by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 will set the country’s development efforts back several years. It is the poorest populations who will feel the greatest impact of these setbacks.
Our investigation period takes us through Honduras.

Mexico

The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. Mexico has a free market economy that recently entered the trillion dollar class. It contains a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture. Per capita income is one-fourth that of the US; income distribution remains highly unequal.
Humana People to People is planning to start a Child Aid project in South of Mexico in 2009.

Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes, characterized by beauty that stands in sharp contrast to the poverty and struggles of its people. It is a country still recovering from a decade of civil war in the 1980’s and the repercussions of economic “shock therapy” during the 1990’s. Nicaragua is among the poorest countries in the Americas. Most rural areas and many urban neighborhoods are deeply impoverished making illiteracy, malnutrition, illness and unemployment widespread.
Humana People to People is planning to start a Child Aid project in Nicaragua in 2010.