Skills Build Workshop A
Ecological Footprinting in Your Classroom: Ecological footprinting is a dramatic way of showing how much nature we need to “fund” our lifestyles. The idea is simple but lends itself to a wealth of ideas that can not only be used in environmental education classes, but also in English-language classes in which teachers may be looking to spice things up a little. Participants will (1) have the opportunity to create materials to suit their own particular teaching situations, (2) find themselves stimulated and shocked in equal measure, and (3) even get to play with bits of string.
Facilitator - Trevor Ballance, Educator and Textbook Developer, Josai International University, Chiba.
Trevor belongs to the department of International Exchange where he teaches courses on NGO activism and the NGO-business relationship. He is also a member of the university's NGO-NPO Support Center, which aims to both support local NGOs and provide opportunities for students to become more fully involved with them. He has been a member of Amnesty International for most of his life, involved in letter writing campaigns and event organizing, as well as, during his time in Japan, doing voluntary work for JUCEE, The Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), Bridge Asia Japan (BAJ), and The Asia Foundation. Trevor has a Masters in TESOL and is currently working on a MA in NGOs and Sustainable Development. He is the author of "It's Your World...Get Involved: Reading and Talking About NGOs". Trevor spends some of his free time in Ho Chi Minh City at a school for blind Vietnamese where he helps students practice their English, joins them in their music making and, (while mangling the Vietnamese language), marvels at the students' enthusiasm for everything in life.
Skills Build Workshop B
Motvating and Retaining Volunteers - After reviewing the volunteer management cycle and problems many groups face we will discuss tips for keeping volunteers involved. Groups will review cases studies of difficult situations and discuss how we can address such problems. Everyone will come away with useful links, worksheets and ideas for things they can start doing right away.
Facilitator - Sarajean Rossitto - PSC Convener, Nonprofit NGO Consultant
http://people-for-social-change-forum.blogspot.com/
Sarajean is an activist committed to progressive social change and is currently a Tokyo-based nonprofit NGO consultant. Her current projects focus on three areas: Skills development (doing courses and trainings for JICA, Temple University Japan, The Japan Foundation, The Japan Foundation for AIDS Prevention) and linking organizations (the Asia Foundation CSR seminar series, Morgan Stanley Community programming development). She is the Tokyo representative for a number of US-Japan nonprofit projects and spent close to 4 years coordinating bilateral exchange of community-based nonprofit professionals between the US and Japan for Japan-US Community Exchange (JUCEE).
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Sept 30 Forum 10 speakers
Panelist and Organization introductions:
Save the Children Japan (SCJ) (社団法人 セーブ・ザ・チルドレン・ジャパン)
http://www.savechildren.or.jp/
Hiroshi joined Save the Children Japan in 2002 and is currently the Director of Resource Management and Emergency Operations after 2 years work in Myanmar. After completing his masters degree in International Politics and Security Studies with a focus on conflict resolution/peace building, he experienced emergency operations in Iraq, Albania, East Timor, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Pakistan.
Save the Children Japan (SCJ) is a member of the International Save the Childen Alliance and was founded in 1986 aiming to create a better world for children. SCJ has development programmes in Nepal, Viet Nam, Myanmer and Afghanistan, etc, helping children in the worldﾕs impoverished communities. SCJ develops practical projects which involve children and their families in improving their day-to-day lives. SCJ is also committed to train local staff so that they will be able to sustain the projects by themselves in the future. SCJ has aslo responded to children in emergencies together with other Alliance members in India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Indonesia (Ache, Nias and Java), Pakistan (earthquake) and is currently responding and developing emergency operations in Pakistan (flood), Nepal, Jordan and Peru.
Prune Helfter (エフテル プリュン)
Medecins du Monde Japon (特定非営利活動法人世界の医療団, メドゥサン・デュ・モンド ジャポン)
http://www.mdm.or.jp/ (Japanese)
http://www.mdm.or.jp/english/ (English)
Prune is the General Manager of the Japanese branch of the international NGO Medecins du Monde. Prune graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Science, Essec Business School and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations. She has a PhD in Economics and is also a former research student at Kyoto University.
Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) is an international NGO whose vocation is to provide medical aid to the most vulnerable populations in the world: victims of natural disasters, famines, epidemics, infectious diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), armed conflicts, political repression, minorities as well as to street children. M仕ecins du Mondeﾕs additional missions include speaking out against those who attempt to be obstacles to the access to healthcare, as well denouncing those who violate human rights and dignity.
Masaharu (Marc) Saito (齋藤 雅治)
Peace Winds Japan (特定非営利活動法人ピース ウィンズ・ジャパン(PWJ)
http://www.peace-winds.org/jp/index.html (Japanese)
http://www.peace-winds.org/en/ (English)
Masaharu joined Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) in 2002. He is currently in charge of the Liberia program, part of the Afghanistan program, and the disaster response program in Japan within the Program Unit, at the PWJ Headquarters in Tokyo. He was engaged in Japanﾕs ODA program for ten years while working with JICA between 1987 and 1997. Masaharu completed a masterﾕs course in international affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in May 1999.
As a staff member of the Program Unit, PWJ, Masuaru has been strenuously engaged in emergency relief and reconstruction assistance activities in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Japan for five years. Based on his experience with PWJ, he would like to explore how we, as members of civil society, can work together with people on the ground, and make a difference in their lives.
Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) is an NGO, dedicated to the support of people in distress, threatened by conflict, poverty, or other turmoil. With its headquarters in Japan, PWJ has been active in various parts of the world. It was founded over 11 years ago, started by offering aid to Iraq in 1996, and has since spread its relief work to 15 countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Kosovo, East Timor and Afghanistan. Support activities of PWJ are roughly two-fold: one is emergency humanitarian relief, aiming to secure the safety of lives and to provide the basic necessities. The other is assistance for restoration and development of ravaged areas, aiming at retrieval of self-sustaining livelihood. Furthermore, in Japan, PWJ is performing advocacy activities which include generating awareness and betterment of understanding among general citizens of the situations in which PWJ works.
Ai Tanaka (田仲 愛)
JEN (特定非営利活動法人 ジェン（ＪＥＮ）
http://www.jen-npo.org (Japanese)
http://www.jen-npo.org/en/index.html (English)
Ai joined JEN in 2005. She is currently in charge of the Pakistan program as well as part of the Sri Lanka and Niigata programs, after one and a half years of working in Sri Lanka for the Tsunami rehabilitation project as a Head of the JEN Colombo Office. Since completing her masterﾕs degree in Educational Administration, she has worked on education projects as well as livelihood support, vocational training, psychosocial support, water and sanitation, and disaster preparedness in disaster/conflict affected countries in JEN.
JEN was established in January 1994. The mission is ﾒpost conflictﾓ assistance, focused on restoring communities affected by disaster by fostering self-support both economically and mentally, while trying to fully utilize local human and material resources. JEN provides goods necessary for survival and the minimum infrastructure for living. JEN also acts as an advocate for the victims by sharing the situation with the world. JEN believes that ﾒevery human being has a precious life of equal valueﾓ and hope to realize a work where people respect, understand and support each other as well as live with self-confidence. Current projects are ongoing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sudan and Niigata Prefecture, Japan. In the past JEN has also worked in former Yugoslav countries, Iran, India, Mongolia, Chechen, Eritrea and Lebanon.
- Hiroshi Miyashita, Save the Children Japan (SCJ)
- Prune Helfter ,Medecins du Monde Japon
- Masaharu (Marc) Saito, Peace Winds Japan (PWJ)
- Ai Tanaka, JEN
Save the Children Japan (SCJ) (社団法人 セーブ・ザ・チルドレン・ジャパン)
http://www.savechildren.or.jp/
Hiroshi joined Save the Children Japan in 2002 and is currently the Director of Resource Management and Emergency Operations after 2 years work in Myanmar. After completing his masters degree in International Politics and Security Studies with a focus on conflict resolution/peace building, he experienced emergency operations in Iraq, Albania, East Timor, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Pakistan.
Save the Children Japan (SCJ) is a member of the International Save the Childen Alliance and was founded in 1986 aiming to create a better world for children. SCJ has development programmes in Nepal, Viet Nam, Myanmer and Afghanistan, etc, helping children in the worldﾕs impoverished communities. SCJ develops practical projects which involve children and their families in improving their day-to-day lives. SCJ is also committed to train local staff so that they will be able to sustain the projects by themselves in the future. SCJ has aslo responded to children in emergencies together with other Alliance members in India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Indonesia (Ache, Nias and Java), Pakistan (earthquake) and is currently responding and developing emergency operations in Pakistan (flood), Nepal, Jordan and Peru.
Prune Helfter (エフテル プリュン)
Medecins du Monde Japon (特定非営利活動法人世界の医療団, メドゥサン・デュ・モンド ジャポン)
http://www.mdm.or.jp/ (Japanese)
http://www.mdm.or.jp/english/ (English)
Prune is the General Manager of the Japanese branch of the international NGO Medecins du Monde. Prune graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Science, Essec Business School and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations. She has a PhD in Economics and is also a former research student at Kyoto University.
Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) is an international NGO whose vocation is to provide medical aid to the most vulnerable populations in the world: victims of natural disasters, famines, epidemics, infectious diseases (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), armed conflicts, political repression, minorities as well as to street children. M仕ecins du Mondeﾕs additional missions include speaking out against those who attempt to be obstacles to the access to healthcare, as well denouncing those who violate human rights and dignity.
Masaharu (Marc) Saito (齋藤 雅治)
Peace Winds Japan (特定非営利活動法人ピース ウィンズ・ジャパン(PWJ)
http://www.peace-winds.org/jp/index.html (Japanese)
http://www.peace-winds.org/en/ (English)
Masaharu joined Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) in 2002. He is currently in charge of the Liberia program, part of the Afghanistan program, and the disaster response program in Japan within the Program Unit, at the PWJ Headquarters in Tokyo. He was engaged in Japanﾕs ODA program for ten years while working with JICA between 1987 and 1997. Masaharu completed a masterﾕs course in international affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in May 1999.
As a staff member of the Program Unit, PWJ, Masuaru has been strenuously engaged in emergency relief and reconstruction assistance activities in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Japan for five years. Based on his experience with PWJ, he would like to explore how we, as members of civil society, can work together with people on the ground, and make a difference in their lives.
Peace Winds Japan (PWJ) is an NGO, dedicated to the support of people in distress, threatened by conflict, poverty, or other turmoil. With its headquarters in Japan, PWJ has been active in various parts of the world. It was founded over 11 years ago, started by offering aid to Iraq in 1996, and has since spread its relief work to 15 countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Kosovo, East Timor and Afghanistan. Support activities of PWJ are roughly two-fold: one is emergency humanitarian relief, aiming to secure the safety of lives and to provide the basic necessities. The other is assistance for restoration and development of ravaged areas, aiming at retrieval of self-sustaining livelihood. Furthermore, in Japan, PWJ is performing advocacy activities which include generating awareness and betterment of understanding among general citizens of the situations in which PWJ works.
Ai Tanaka (田仲 愛)
JEN (特定非営利活動法人 ジェン（ＪＥＮ）
http://www.jen-npo.org (Japanese)
http://www.jen-npo.org/en/index.html (English)
Ai joined JEN in 2005. She is currently in charge of the Pakistan program as well as part of the Sri Lanka and Niigata programs, after one and a half years of working in Sri Lanka for the Tsunami rehabilitation project as a Head of the JEN Colombo Office. Since completing her masterﾕs degree in Educational Administration, she has worked on education projects as well as livelihood support, vocational training, psychosocial support, water and sanitation, and disaster preparedness in disaster/conflict affected countries in JEN.
JEN was established in January 1994. The mission is ﾒpost conflictﾓ assistance, focused on restoring communities affected by disaster by fostering self-support both economically and mentally, while trying to fully utilize local human and material resources. JEN provides goods necessary for survival and the minimum infrastructure for living. JEN also acts as an advocate for the victims by sharing the situation with the world. JEN believes that ﾒevery human being has a precious life of equal valueﾓ and hope to realize a work where people respect, understand and support each other as well as live with self-confidence. Current projects are ongoing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Sudan and Niigata Prefecture, Japan. In the past JEN has also worked in former Yugoslav countries, Iran, India, Mongolia, Chechen, Eritrea and Lebanon.
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