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MARCH, 2018 UPDATES

3/30/2018

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Hello!

With heartfelt gratitude as we bring you this updates, we wish you a happy and grace-filled Easter celebration.

Continuing with the mission to restore, promote and build peace in ourselves, our communities, our relationships and with mother earth, we began the month with the second phase of our training on the Peace Building Unit of our programme, this time around, for our Volunteer Facilitators in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone at Farmer Training Centre – Pusunamongo, in the Upper East Region. A total of 40 young adults were trained - 14 female and 26 male.

Just as we shared in our last updates, trainees were taken through all the sessions of the Peace Building Unit with additional capacity building materials to widen their horizon and to boost their confidence as they go into the field to deliver. The Volunteers were very passionate to learn about peace building and therefore showed a lot of commitment during the training. They pledged with determination and enthusiasm to really be agents of change and peace in their communities and in every sphere of their lives.
The Resource Team were pleased with the participation, interactions, and commitment of the Volunteer Facilitators. We were the more satisfied with the feedback they gave as regards the unit, facilitation and the relationship we had with them. We are confident and hopeful that they will be ‘light and salt’ to their communities, restoring, promoting and building peace.

Following the training, from the 9th to the 11th of the month the team had workshops in two communities. We were at Lamashegu in Tamale for a workshop on the Peace Building Unit. The other community we went to is Kpassa in the Jasikan Diocese in the Volta Region. We were there on an outreach mission and had a workshop on the Self-Awareness Unit. In that workshop we encountered 39 participants which was a good number to start with.

As a team that is always on the road there is the need to find time to reflect and to prepare for the tasks ahead. Hence, the Resource Team had a team building exercise on the 15th of the month.
We were back to Tamale from the 16th to the 18th of the month for workshops still on the Peace Building Unit at OLA Parish and Holy Cross Parish communities.

On March 21, the team after sitting for our usual Tuesday Team Meeting were privileged to have the Diocesan Youth Chaplain by name Fr. Clement Ajongba paying us a visit. He registered his appreciation to the team for helping in diverse ways in his youth ministry. The team in turn thanked him for his support in helping us get to the communities and also for encouraging and supporting our Volunteer Facilitators.
On the final weekend in the field before the Easter break we were at Wiaga, Fumbisi and Tongo communities, all in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone.
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All thanks and praise be to all;
All who support that which is noble and trustworthy
All who contribute towards restoring, promoting and building peace
All who support young people to be agents of change and peace
All who seek to awaken our awareness and responsibility towards mother earth
And all who support SELL in all ways.


Until we come your way again, we pray God’s peace upon you.


SELL RESOURCE TEAM, GHANA










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FEBRUARY, 2018 UPDATES

3/16/2018

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Beloved Friends,

We bring you glad tidings from the Resource Room at Logre, Upper East Region of Ghana in this episode of our monthly updates for the month of February. We trust that all is well with you and it is our hope that you continue to enjoy lasting peace in your milieu.

“Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called sons [and daughters] of God” – (Matthew 5:9). As part of projecting and responding to the clarion call to be peace makers as children of God, we began the month with a training of our Volunteer Facilitators in the Tamale zone –  the Northern Region of Ghana, on the Peace Building Unit of our Programme. A total of 36 young adult Volunteer Facilitators were trained of which 13 were females.

They were equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to the task they have volunteered to undertake; that is, to be agents of change and in this particular situation to be harbingers of peace to all people regardless of ethnic, religious, cultural or gender differences.

The main sessions of the Peace Building Unit that we explored together are Big Jo, Memories, Analysis Tree, Sexual Abuse and Anger/Conflict Management. Other capacity building materials that added gloss to their zest were Hand Massage, Draw Your Fire, All Life is Interconnected, Trauma and Trauma Healing (Capacitar). All these were meticulously and logically facilitated and from the feedback that the trainees gave we are very much confident and hopeful that ‘peace will flow like a river and spread into areas deserted by conflict and set the victims free.’

A week following the training, that is 9/02, the Resource Team had its first official meeting with the Link Brother (a brother linking the Resource team with the Presentation brothers) at the Resource Room. After discussing the way forward of the programme to a successful end, we set-off to the farm of a renowned farmer in the Upper East Region by name Fuseini joined by Edna, a Dutch volunteer working with the Daughters of Charity sisters on their Street Children project in Kumasi, to have an experience of nature restored by the effort of a man and his wife. And on the same weekend we had a workshop on the Leadership Unit at Soe in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone.

We were blessed to have Michael Osei Nkrumah - a Misean Cara mentor, to take us through project reporting and accounting as a capacity building for the team on the 13th and 14th. It was very comprehensive and relevant to our programme so far as project applications and administrations are concerned.

After the encounter with Michael, the team was out for outreach activities on the weekend at University for Development Studies – Navrongo Campus for a workshop on the Peace Building Unit and also at Binduri Rectorate for an overview workshop to choose potential Volunteers to be trained as facilitators to support our work and to reach out to their community.

Having gone through the activities as stated so far, the team decided, and fittingly so, to build their capacity for the work ahead. We travelled to Mole National Park in the Northern Region to interact and have a feel of nature in its pristine state. As advocates of peace and care for the earth, it was necessary to have had that experience at Mole as it was inspiring and awakened new awareness towards all life forms.
Renewed and energized by the foregoing capacity building, the team spent the last weekend of the month still in Tamale for mentoring on the Peace Building on which the Volunteer Facilitators were trained. Saints Peter and Paul, Savelugu, Kamina and Nyankpala are the communities we were at. It was strength renewing to witness participants express their excitement and appreciation having gone through the unit with commitment to contribute towards building of peace in their communities.

As we bring you this update, we will be remiss if we fail to acknowledge and appreciate all those who support our work in diverse ways. We thank our benefactors, the leadership of the programme (the Presentation Brothers), the youth chaplains, the Volunteer Facilitators, our followers and all who work to promote peace in their own special way.

As we look forward to bringing you updates at the end of March, we entreat you to stay tuned to whatever you do that promotes peace.
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“May the Lord bless you and take care of you;
May the Lord be kind and gracious to you;
May the Lord look on you with favour and grant you peace.”  - (Numbers 6:24-26).


SELL RESOURCE TEAM, GHANA




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    Here on the blog we’ll be keeping you up to date with the work we have been doing, particularly the workshops we have been running. We would also like to get comments and feedback from you, particularly if you have attended one of our workshops. 


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