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YOLA TRAINING AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

6/23/2015

It feels good to welcome you into another wonderful week. Yes I said wonderful, because a lot is happening in SELL. Read through the lines to have a clue of what I mean by that. But before then, here is a review of the recent past programs of SELL.

YOLA TRAINING:

Members of the SELL Community Team in Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, had the SELL Training of Facilitators in the Peace Building unit of the programme. The training recorded 16 participants and the two facilitators from the SELL Resource Team were Berlyn Boniface and Moses Alokpa. I said in one of the previous blogs, that Adamawa State has had ugly experiences of incessant attack by the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram. As a result, the need for a peace building Programme like SELL for young adults cannot be overemphasized.

After the training on Peace Building Unit of SELL, the trainees were all happy that they were able to experience 4 out of the 6 units of the programme. Of course the peculiarity of the Yola trainees is that of group dynamics which they consider very essential and each time training holds the facilitators have to pay attention to that special need of theirs. Yola’s next training is slated to hold in August, hoping that it will be the last training for them because two units will be done at that training.

WORKSHOPS

On workshops; two workshops held since after the last blog, below are the short stories of those workshops;

Congratulations to the SELL Community team in Shendam for the workshop they had with Youths of Kwalla Town in Qua’an Pan Local Government Area, Plateau State. The workshop held on the 5th – 6th June and had 13 participants in attendance.

A big shout out too to Ezekiel and other members of the Jalingo Team for the Success they recorded last two weeks when they delivered the SELL Programme with students of St. Monica’s School Mayo Dasa, Jalingo Town in Taraba State, Nigeria. 19 female and 38 male students were present.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

The annual SELL programme at the St. Patrick’s Formation House in Ijebu – Ode, Town Ogun State, South –West Nigeria on the 20th – 28th June. During this Programme three units of SELL will be explored. It is usually very interactive; youth of Ijebu-ode town are usually invited to take part in this interactive forum.

Jos Community Team will be holding another facilitators training on the 23rd -28th June 2015. They shall be exploring 2 units of the programme.

Please join us again next time for details of these Programmes yet to be reported and other stories from SELL.

Enjoy your week!

Maria Dagogot,

Communication Desk, SELL

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SHARING EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR LIFE (SELL) FACILITATORS’ TRAINING AND WORKSHOP IN KABBA, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA.

6/19/2015

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Greetings to you our esteem reader, it feels great to be with you again this week with so many stories to share from SELL, I am going to take each story at a time. So for this blog, you will be reading the story from Kabba.

Yes I remember so well that in my last blog, I reported that a SELL training took place in Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria. Kabba has a wonderful history with SELL, the long and short of this history is that the well Known SELL programme started in Kabba with Frs. Leo Traynor and Noel McGeeney authoring and piloting it and shortly after joined by Jonathan Ekhartor and Moses Alokpa. It will amaze you to know that it was two of the pioneers of the programme Moses and Jonathan who went back to Kabba to deliver the training even though Jonathan works with a different organization now.

The training started on the 31st May – 5th June, 2015 at the former Centre for human development, now Diocesan Pastoral Centre. Two units of the SELL Programme where explored; the Self Awareness and Leadership units.

Moses, a member of the SELL Resource Team and one of the facilitators said the training was worthwhile and the young people who were 18 in number were very intelligent and they made the process very engaging. The challenging part of the training were the issues that came up during the sexual health session; these include the trend of Incest in Nigeria, Homosexuality, pornography, lack of proper education around sexuality etc. The participants shared their dismay on how their society is nonchalant about such vital topics. Action plans were drawn on steps to take that may curtail such ignorance and create awareness on the importance to talk about the human sexuality at all strata of the society.

Moses and Jonathan both confessed that working in Kabba again was nostalgic to them. Of course I cannot end this update without showering accolade to Taiye Mofolorunsho who is a Facilitator of the SELL Programme from Kabba and works as the Programmes Coordinator of the Centre for human development. In the same vein, the Director of the Centre Fr Donatus Ogunleye was wonderful too. The duo planned the logistics of the training and made sure it happened. James Olorunmolu who was trained as SELL Facilitation with Taiye back then was also at this training to give moral support to the trainees

Still at Kabba, the leaders of the Catholic Women Organisation (CWO), Lokoja Diocese came together and asked to utilize the opportunity of the presence of the facilitators and take a unit of the SELL Programme. As a result, the day the facilitators training ended, the women who were 42 in number, came together and took the Leadership unit of SELL. After exploring the sessions of the units, the facilitators used great wisdom and came up with some of the key issues on sexuality that were shared by the youths during the training and the women agreed that, less information on sexuality was a challenge to them in their community. They were also assisted to come up with an action plan as mothers that will help members of their families to become aware and properly deal with the challenges around sexuality and sexual health.

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog, please stay with us, because you are soon to hear about two members of the SELL Resource team who went for studies at South Africa and are back, and also the facilitators training in Yola and other SELL community workshops that took place during the week gone by.

Maria Dagogot.

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SELL HAUSA TRAINING OF FACILITATORS, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND.

6/10/2015

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Months back you were informed that the SELL Hausa facilitator’s manual was produced. In November 2014, a Hausa coordinator; John Jiddere was invited to join the SELL Resource Team and implement the Hausa Project of SELL.

The need for Hausa component of the programme came after the SELL’S major evaluation in February 2014, External Evaluators were invited to perform the task. Most Respondents who were interviewed by the External Evaluators said the programme needs to get to the people in the grassroots in the language they will understand better. Here in the North-East of Nigeria where we work, one of the major languages spoken in the grassroots is the Hausa language. Responding to this major need, the Hausa facilitators training took place.

On the 3rd – 7th June 2015 fifteen young people came to the Youth Formation Centre Bauchi, Nigeria to experience the first training of SELL in Hausa. These young People came from Taraba, Adamawa, Bauchi and Gombe States, three of the fifteen Participants came from Kebbi State, Nigeria

The training was on the Self Awareness unit of SELL and was co-facilitated by John Jiddere and Mr. Clement Mallam who came from Niger State, Nigeria. John, said the participant put in their best and responded well to the training. An action plan on how to step down the workshop was done by the trainees. We wish them every blessing as they prepare to deliver the programme in their various communities.

Still on training, a SELL training held in Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria. The next blog you will read will be on the Kabba training. Kabba has a wonderful history with SELL which l also want to share with you.

Thanks for staying with us on this page see you again soon.

Maria Dagogot,

Communication Desk, SELL.

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SECOND MENTORING TRAINING OF SELL FACILITATORS HELD LAST WEEK

6/3/2015

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On the 14th - 17th May 2015 some selected young facilitators of the SELL Programme converged at the Youth Formation Centre (YFC), Bauchi, for SELL training of mentors. The role of mentors of the SELL Programme is to accompany facilitators in training and offer them support when they go to deliver SELL workshops in their communities. This is to ensure that the quality of the SELL programme is maintained. The mentors are also facilitators of SELL and have completed the facilitators training and also met the criteria of selection to be mentors of the programme.

In the Course of the training, visitors from World Learning, a United State Based Organization came around for Advocacy Visit to SELL Foundation. It was indeed and an educative moment for both organizations.

Still on workshops, we say a big well done to the Kabba SELL Team for the good work. They had a SELL workshop in Asaya National Youth Service Corp Orientation Camp, Kogi State, Nigeria. National Association of Catholic Corp member were the beneficiaries of the Leadership and Community Building Units of SELL. The workshop held on 16th and 17th May 2015 and recorded 42 (19 female and 23 male) Participants.

In the Course of the training, visitors from World Learning, a United State Based Organization came around for Advocacy Visit to SELL Foundation. It was indeed and an educative moment for both organizations.

Still on workshops, we say a big well done to the Kabba SELL Team for the good work. They had a SELL workshop in Asaya National Youth Service Corp Orientation Camp, Kogi State, Nigeria. National Association of Catholic Corp member were the beneficiaries of the Leadership and Community Building Units of SELL. The workshop held on 16th and 17th May 2015 and recorded 42 (19 female and 23 male) Participants.

Another set of twins have been born to John Jiddere and his wife Happiness. The couple’s first children are twins and two weeks ago they were blessed with another twin. Hmmmm! Congrats John and Happiness. SELL wishes all the children long life and sound health.

See you again soon with reports of SELL training in Kabba on 31st May to 7th June 2015 and the first Hausa Facilitators training of SELL on 2nd – 7th June 2015. Maria Dagogot,

Communication Desk, SELL

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YOLA TRAINING AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

SHARING EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR LIFE (SELL) FACILITATORS’ TRAINING AND WORKSHOP IN KABBA, KOGI STATE, NIGERIA.

SELL HAUSA TRAINING OF FACILITATORS, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND.

SECOND MENTORING TRAINING OF SELL FACILITATORS HELD LAST WEEK

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