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UPDATES FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2019

5/12/2019

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Three members of the SELL Resource Team (Hagar, John Mark and Joshua) with five of the trained mentors of the programme were in Kumasi in the Ashanti region of Ghana from the 5th to the 7th of April for the third phase of the Counselling Skills training which started in 2018. The exact venue was the Spiritual Renewal Centre of the Kumasi Archdiocese. They were joined by four other persons from within Kumasi. The training was facilitated by Fr. Peter Laast and another external facilitator. The programme was intense as trainees were engaged in practical counselling sessions to enable them become conversant with the use of the counselling techniques learned in the previous training sessions. At the end of the weekend’s work participants were given assignment to go and conduct recorded counselling sessions and bring them to the final training session scheduled for May 24 for discussions. The participants, despite the demanding nature of the training, enjoyed the experience as it stretched them to rediscover more of themselves and that the skills learned will help them in the field with those they encounter who are troubled.
                     
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On the same weekend there was a workshop on Peace Building at the Bolgatanga Polytechnic in the Upper East region of Ghana. Fr. Leo and Jeremiah were there together with two others of the trainee volunteers – Akwata and Maxwell. They had a good number of the students to work with who were all of the right age group. It is pleasing to the Resource Team to see that the Volunteers are stepping up their efforts to include the tertiary institutions within their catchment areas. It is therefore hoped that as this is properly carried out the Resource Team will have more space to reach out to other communities with the programme. To let you know, Jeremiah is a student of St. Patrick’s Missionary Society (SPMS) and was appointed to the Resource Team for his First Missionary Assignment (FMA). He arrived on the 1st of April and stays with Fr Leo in the Presentation Brothers School community in Logre, where the Resource Room is located. The Team is therefore enjoying the privilege of having Jeremiah who will be around for a year and will be of help to the team in many ways.

On the 10th of the month, the Resource Team in collaboration with Mondo volunteers and the Presentation Brothers organised a clean-up exercise within the Kongo and Logre communities in the Upper East Region to mark the 2019 World Earth Day celebration. Three Junior High Schools participated in the exercise – Presentation JHS, Kongo JHS and Girls Model JHS. The Primary Six pupils of Presentation Primary also joined. This exercise was the maiden edition and it is envisaged to be carried out every year. One of the reasons for the clean-up exercise was also to raise the awareness for the need to care for the environment. It is a step in the right direction in responding to the global call to care for mother earth. A lot of effort was put into the planning and execution of the exercise. There were pens and customised books printed for participants in the exercise. This was but to appreciate them for volunteering to take part in the exercise. It is therefore hoped that this exercise will continue annually and that those who participated will continue to help in practicing and educating others on how to care for mother earth.
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John Mark and Joshua were at Fumbisi a community in the Upper East region of Ghana for a mentoring workshop in the Wisdom of Traditions Unit. The weekend turned out to be the best of its kind in this particular community ever since the programme began. The participants, though not many, were of the target group and they engaged the discussions very well. They expressed the need for some of the sessions to be treated with the larger Christian community. The Team Members present encouraged the young people echoing the words of Mahatma Gandhi to lead the way in “Being the change they want to see in [their communities]”.
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From the 17th to the 24th, the Resource Room was closed for the Easter. Resuming on the 25th, the team travelled to Tamale. Hagar and Fr. Leo represented the team in a meeting with the Zonal leaders of the Tamale zone on the 26th to discuss the integration and sustainability of the programme. It was a fruitful meeting as issues were properly discussed and plans put in place.
Fr. Leo, Jeremiah and Joshua travelled to Damongo in the Savannah region of Ghana for a workshop. The workshop was to select suitable candidates to be trained as volunteer facilitators in that zone. On arrival, the team had the chance to visit the Bishop of the Damongo Diocese. He expressed his interest in the programme explaining how it will be of great help to the young people of his diocese regarding the openness of the programme to promote ecumenism and interfaith relationships. In encountering the youth, the team was able to select some candidates for the training and asked the youth chaplain to look into it and to bring in young people from other churches and the Islamic community to be part of the training. He assured the team that he was going to try and get them to be part of the training. The training of the facilitators in this new area is scheduled for October 9 to 13, 2019.

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On this same weekend, Hagar travelled out of the country to Geneva for a two-week workshop. The workshop was organised by Edmund Rice International (ERI) to train people on Human Rights and Justice issues. The Team is delighted that Hagar had the opportunity to be part of the training and that as she learns she will come back to be of immense support to the work.
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The Resource Team is grateful as always to all who have contributed in many ways in making this month’s activities to come to pass successfully. To the Presentation Brothers, the Volunteers, the Youth leaders, the participants the team encountered at the various places and the benefactors of the programme more especially Misean Cara - Ireland, gratitude is yours immeasurably and it is the prayer of the team that God bless you and keep you; that your cup will overflow with blessings.

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Joshua Anambe
For SELL Resource Team, Ghana
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​MARCH, 2019 UPDATES

5/12/2019

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Dear Readers,

It is much of a pleasure to share with you the training and workshops that were conducted in the month of March, 2019. We trust you are all doing well in your various fields of endeavours.
The second session of the 5th round of trainings of the Volunteer Facilitators took place from the 28th of February to the 3rd of March, 2019 at the Farmer Training Centre in the Navrongo-Bolgatanga zone in the Upper East Region of Ghana. As mentioned in our previous updates, (please insert link to February Updates), the young adult trainee facilitators were taken through all the four sessions of the Wisdom of Traditions Unit and other capacity building materials. After going through all that was in stock for them, the facilitators were enthusiastic as always to go into the field to share their experiences with their peers.
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The trainee facilitators were given certificates of participation during the Saturday social night gathering. Having participated in four units prior to the fifth they were being trained in, the facilitators were due for their certificates of participation. Their certificates of facilitation will be given them after they have successfully gone through all the trainings and have been mentored in their facilitation workshops and are found competent enough to promote and preserve the quality of the programme.
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Resource Team members, Hagar and Leo travelled to Nandom and Piina communities respectively in the Upper West region of Ghana from the 8th to the 10th of March for mentoring workshops. The teams of facilitators were facilitating their first ever workshops since their training in the Self-Awareness Unit in January. Both teams organised properly and had the right age group attending the workshops. A combined total of 62 participants were reached that weekend. The community youth leaders in both places collaborated very well with the facilitating teams thereby making everything successful.
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On the 13th of March the Team had a facilitation workshop with the management staff of Immaculate Conception Clinic at the Presentation Brothers Outreach Centre – the same building in which the SELL Resource Room is located. The manager of the aforementioned clinic, Sr. Bernadette approached the Team earlier in January requesting the possibility of having a workshop for her management team. The focus was a team building in which members will renew their commitments to the vision and mission statements of the health centre. The team designed the process and ran the workshop with them. It was a privilege worth honouring to support the clinic which is located in Kongo community, a community which shares boundaries with Logre where the Resource Room is located. The team provided the service for free. The manager and her staff were all pleased with the work by the team and were grateful to the benefactors of the programme and the team for their immeasurable contribution made toward the well-being of the clinic and to a greater extend the well-being of the people whom the clinic provides with health care.
                       
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From the 22nd to the 24th of the month, Joshua went for monitoring at a workshop in Garu a community in the Upper East region of Ghana. The workshop was on the Wisdom of Traditions Unit. The facilitators did marvellously well from organisation to presentation as facilitators. A total of 26 participants, all of the right age group, were encountered and of whom two-third had participated in at least three of the previous workshops.
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There were three workshops conducted on the last weekend of the month of March. Two of those workshops took place in Tamale in the Northern region of Ghana; one within tamale township and another at Kpandai-Kabonwule located at the north eastern part of the region. The Wisdom of Traditions Unit was explored in both communities. Both teams of facilitators performed very well and won the gratitude and admiration of their colleague young adult participants of the workshops. The Resource Team encouraged both facilitating teams to reach out further to other communities in need of their services through the programme.
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The other workshop took place in Kpassa community in the Oti Region of Ghana. Hagar and Leo travelled there to conduct workshop in the Leadership Unit. That was the second time the team had been there as part of the outreach workshops. The essence of the outreach is to keep contact with the region and be open to receiving invitation to fully commit to having the programme ran there when there is the possibility and the capacity. The organisers did well to gather the people for the workshop. A total of 25 young adults participated. It is therefore hoped by the team that these young adults and those who had participated in the previous workshop in the Self-Awareness Unit will be ambassadors of the programme to their fellow youth in that area of the country.
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The Resource Team is very much grateful to the benefactors of the programme for their continuous benevolence. Many thanks to the Presentation Brothers for the ownership and nurturance of this educative and transformational programme which is helping young adults to take responsibilities for their lives and the lives of the communities. The team is bereft of words to express their gratitude to the volunteer facilitators who continuously sacrifice their time, energy and other resources to ensure that their fellow young adults benefit from the programme. In the words of Oscar Romero, “No statement can express all there is to be said”, we say thank you, but they know and we know the feeling is deeper than the words.

By: Joshua Anambe
For SELL Resource Team.
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