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TEAM-BUILDING, END OF YEAR EVALUATION AND PLAN FOR 2013

11/16/2012

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It is always very interesting to have Rita around at our office; her presence brings clarity and focus to our team. This time around, her presence brought us vision and mission for our work with young adults.

Sister Rita Schwarzenberger, is a woman despite her advanced age, still works for long period of hours like a young adult and has great experience in groups facilitation. For some years now, the SELL Foundation has invited Rita to facilitate her team building, strategizing and planning for the future of the SELL Programme. She has always honoured our invitation and has worked with us gracefully; her reason she says, is her love in supporting enthusiastic groups like ours.

We are grateful for the time we spent with her from Monday 12th – Wednesday 14th November 2012. We informed you in our last blog that the team building would be for the two teams currently working at the Youth Formation Centre, Bauchi i.e (Resource Team to all the SELL Area Teams) and the Youth Formation Centre team (who takes care of the SELL Programme in Bauchi and Gombe States, Nigeria). After a general bonding exercise with both teams, the two teams were separated and worked with one at a time at different periods. 

Our time together was very interactive and busy with to-dos. On relationship with one another, she came up with a process that helped us to feel comfortable to be open and to share with one another about ourselves and how we relate and see other members of our team.

We reflected on a strategy for contacting and working with groups and partners. At the end of this reflection, we developed an approach that helped us to prioritise the way we will work with groups. 

Planning into the future was a great part of our work too. One of the significant areas addressed was the mapping of a more vision and mission statement for the SELL Foundation. I feel pleased to share these statements with you; 

Our VISION: “Young People with compassionate hearts building peaceful community”

Our MISSION: “As a team of equals, we at the SELL Foundation build families and communities of Justice, Freedom and Peace through shared experienced of young people as agents of change.    

Our earnest prayer is to actualize the vision and mission of the Foundation with the young people we encounter.

One of the SELL Foundation’s Resource persons Tommy Hayden, who has always given us moral support and ideas for the programme, was together with us during the work particularly during the evaluation and planning period.

Our deepest thanks goes to Sister Rita for her support for us even in her busy schedule, our Foundation remain one of her priorities.

A member of the SELL Resource Team attended a training workshop on Project Cycle Management and Proposal Development. The training was under the auspices of Misean Cara, our funding partner in Ireland and was delivered by staff of the Kimmage Development Studies Centre also from Ireland.

We are also pleased to inform you that Jonathan our Team member, who took part in the training, said that it was a very insightful training on the requirements for putting together a good funding proposal to donor agencies. He said learning from the training will be very useful in the programming of SELL Foundation now and into the future. He will be sharing insights from the training with other members of the Team next week.




Members of the Kumasi SELL Team in Ghana also had a Team Building and Reflection on Saturday 10th November 2012 at Adukrom Area of Kumasi. According to John Evans the team leader of the Kumasi Team, he said their moment together was very refreshing as it helped them to reflect on team work and team spirit. The reflection was coordinated by Bernice and Eugene both members of the team, the duo, use the longest line exercise to help the team explore more about team relationship and support. At the course of the work, all those present saw the need to bring in their individual gifts to make it a collective strength, so as to better their cause.

The SELL Resource Team congratulate members of the Kumasi Team for taking this bold step of doing a teambuilding.

UPCOMING PROGRAMMES

This coming weekend, 23rd- 25th November 2012, the SELL Resource would be to splitting into three teams to run the following programmes with three different groups of young adults:

  • A team of Leo and Jonathan are going to deliver the Self Awareness Unit of the SELL Programme in the central area of Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. The facilitators will work with a group of young Muslim men and women over the weekend, Umar of the Resource Team will go with the duo to Jos and that will be his first experience of the units of the SELL Programme. We wish Umar our colleague and the other young men and women a stupendous weekend as the experience the SELL Programme.
  • Another team (Moses a member of the SELL Resource and Theophilus who was among the first set of trainees of the SELL Programme) will be running the SELL Programme with a group of young adults in Ungwan Boro area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Isaac of the Resource team will be with Moses and Theophilus to experience the programme and support them in the facilitation. The unit they shall share with young people there is the Community Building unit of the SELL Programme.
  • Thirdly, Tommy, one of the Resource Persons of the SELL Foundation and I will also be in Kaduna to run the SELL Programme with a group of young people. We got an invitation to work with this group by an NGO in Kaduna called ‘Hope for the Village Child Foundation (HVCF)’. We are happy to do this work because it will be a way of saying thank you to sister Rita who facilitates our team building,  she is the founder of HVCF and also because it is a group of young Muslims and Christians living together in the same community. We shall be delivering the Community Building Unit of the SELL Programme there. 
We will bring you details of these workshops in our next blog, thank you for staying with us this week, have a blessed weekend.

Maria DAGOGOT,

Communication Desk, SELL Foundation




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THE FIRST SHARING EDUCATION AND LEARNING FOR LIFE (SELL) FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING HELD

11/12/2012

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Last Saturday, 3rd November 2012, the first Board of Trustee (BOT) meeting of the SELL foundation held in our office at the Youth Formation Centre, Bauchi, Bauchi State, Nigeria.

A member of the SELL Resource Team who is also the Director of the SELL Foundation; Mr. Jonathan Ekhator, and a Resource Person to the Foundation; Leo Traynor, being members of the BOT attended the meeting. Other members of the BOT present were Mrs. Kundera Antonia and Mr. Victor Kamai. 

Since it was the first meeting it was more of basic introductions to the present scenarios of the Foundation and information sharing. Other matters discussed at the meeting were on how to further the course of the foundation. We hope that all the issues discussed will yield good fruits.

TEAM BUILDING FOR SELL FOUNDATION AND YOUTH FORMATION CENTRE TEAMS 

The two teams currently working at the Youth Formation Centre in Bauchi; the SELL Foundation i.e  (Resource Team to all the SELL Area Teams) and the Youth Formation Centre team (who takes care of the SELL Programme in Bauchi and Gombe States, Nigeria) are going to have a Team Building, end of year evaluation and planning for the coming year on Monday 12th – Wednesday 14th November 2012. The team building, end of year Evaluation and Planning for 2013 is going to be guided by Sister Rita Shwarzenberger. Sister Rita is a very renowned facilitator blessed with immense skills on such issues.  Also to be present for the end of year evaluation and planning for 2013 will be Tommy Hayden one of the resource persons to the SELL Foundation. We will bring to you photos and report of this programme in our next blog update.

Thank you for staying with us, have a beautiful and peaceful week.

Maria Dagogot,

For the SELL Foundation

  

  

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A NEW TEAM MEMBER JOINS THE SELL FOUNDATION

11/3/2012

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In our last edition of the blog, I informed you that Umar Tijjani a young Muslim man has joined the Sharing Education and Learning for Life (SELL) Resource Team. This week, Isaac Oni Gbenga a young Man from the Christ Apostolic Church was invited to join the SELL Resource Team. Isaac started work with the SELL Foundation on Monday 29th October 2012. For now; his role in the Team is to support Foundation’s Programme Coordinator. We Wish Isaac and Umar a wonderful working experience with the other members of the SELL Foundation.
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JONATHAN A MEMBER OF THE SELL RESOURCE TEAM FACILITATES A RENEWAL MEETING OF THE ST. PATRICK MISSIONARY SOCIETY (SPMS)

This year’s Annual Regional Renewal Meeting of the SPMS West African Region held at the SPMS Regional House in Lagos. The Catholic Clergies invited Jonathan, a member of the Resource Team to facilitate at the meeting. The feedback we got from the clergies showed the outstanding work Jonathan did that aided in achieving the aim of their renewal meeting and they were grateful.

STUDENTS IN BILLIRI, GOMBE STATE TOOK PART IN THE LIFE CHOICE PROGRAMME OF SELL

Mary a member of the Bauchi SELL team worked together with Moses of the SELL Resource Team in delivering the SELL Programme at All Saint Secondary School Billiri. The programme was long scheduled to hold on Thursday 25th October, 2012. With the announcement of the National public holiday for the Eid –El – kabir celebration on Thursday and Friday (25th – 26thOctober 2012), there was apprehension among facilitators that the workshop might not hold however the students who were a mixture of Muslims and Christians were eager to experience the SELL programme and insisted that the Programme should hold. Since it was a day work and it was not the main Sallah  day, the Facilitators gave it a try and worked with the students from 8am to 3pm. 29 young students and two staff members  participated (11 female and 20 male)

The students were very happy they participated; some said they have acquired skills on how to give feedback and choose trustworthy friends but their challenges was how to accept feedback from others. In the end, they thanked the facilitators and requested that the team should come again and share the programme with more students in the area.


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SELL PROGRAMME TOOK PLACE IN A CENTRAL AREA IN GOMBE TOWN.

On the 26th – 27th October 2012, Mary after working with the students in Billiri, joined Felicia and James; members of the Gombe Team to run a SELL Programme at the central area of Gombe town. The Peace Building Unit of the SELL Programme was explored during the workshop, where 26 young adults actively participated. 6 among them were ladies. 

At the workshop in Gombe, the participants said Peace building is vital and they promise to put more effort in being peace makers in all of lives situations.

EID – KABIR

The entire SELL family rejoices with the Muslim Ummah especially our allies in the SELL Programme, on the occasion of this year’s Eid- Kabir Celebration. As we celebrate, may Allah answer all our prayers for peace in Nigeria and the world.

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

  • The First Board of Trustee meeting of the SELL Foundation is slated for Saturday, 3rd November 2012 at the Youth Formation Centre, where the SELL Foundation office is and run the SELL Programme from. We wish the SELL Foundation board members good luck in all the deliberations towards furthering the course of the SELL Foundation.
  • Still on our upcoming activities, an end of year evaluation and team building for the SELL Foundation Team and Youth Formation Centre Team is scheduled to take place from the 12th – 14th November 2012. Our Facilitator for the Team Building and Evaluation is Reverend Sister Rita Schwarzenberger of the religious congregation of the Dominican Sisters.
We will feed you with reports of these events once they happen. For now, thank you for staying with us on the blog.

Maria Dagogot,

Communications Desk, SELL Foundation 



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