Capacity Building for Kids, Adults and Elder in Refugee Camps: Calling on Teachers and Everyone

[Carlos Miranda Levy]

My days procuring stuff in Haiti are about to be over (international
org. are finally moving stuff into Haiti and hopefully out to people)
and I am moving to jumpstart capacity building in creativity,
innovation, problem solving and entrepreneurship through short
workshops in the refugee camps.

There is a camp in Fond Parisien of people who are now homeless and
can definitely benefit from becoming active in productive activities.

There are now 200 people at this camp and they are expected to grow to
2,000.

I think we can generate great value building capacity and engaging in
education activities outside the formal education realm.

Haiti is expected to reopen schools sometime during the following
days, but many kids in the camp will not be able to attend the
schools, as many are wounded and in recovery, or missing parental
figures, and a long list of issues that should be accounted.

My starting proposal is for us to work developing on 15-45 min.
workshops on creativity, innovation, problem solving, entrepreneurship
and social entrepreneurship, story telling (digital or not), for the
people in the camp: children, young boys and girls, adults and the
elder as well.

We need educators to help us put together the content, translators to
help getting the content in creole and local educators willing to work
in the refugee camp at Fond Parisien, initially, and other camps
eventually. We also need blackboards, chalk, whiteboards, crayons,
papers and anything which might be useful.

But that is just my initial proposal or idea, you are all expected to
add ideas and proposals.
I am planning to be in the field making sure the delivery and last
mile part of whatever we do actually generates and impact, taking
notes, generating feedback and evaluating.

We can (and should) of course work with the formal school system and
the universities, I just don't want to get slowed down by
bureaucracies at the moment and I strongly believe that all we do can
and should be able to be used and integrated with and by the
conventional school system.

Who's interested?

Regards,

Carlos Miranda Levy
car...@educar.org
+1-809-857-2164
www.twitter.com/CarlosMiranda
www.socinfo.com/haiti
www.reseauhaitien.com

[ima...@yahoo.com]

Sounds good
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