Workshops Facilitators:
Trevor Balance, 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.
Under the Skin: Bringing Human Rights Awareness into the Classroom
In this workshop we will look at ways we, as activists interested in education, can raise the understanding of human rights among our students. Through a variety of stimulating activities the workshop will show that human rights issues can be introduced simply and effectively into most classroom situations. At the close of the workshop, participants will take away several lesson plans made during the session that they will be ready to try out at the next opportunity!
Sarajean Rossitto, Nonprofit NGO Program and Organization Development Consultant
An activist committed to progressive social change, Sarajean is currently a Tokyo-based NGO and nonprofit 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). In 2007, Sarajean aims to do more working connecting international corporations to local Japanese nonprofit NGOs and developing more skills training modules in both English and Japanese, while also doing more writing on the nonprofit NGO sector and advocacy in Japan. She founded the PSC in spring 2005 with the aim of getting more individuals involved locally to affect change from the grassroots up.
Creating Effective Letter writing campaigns
In this workshop we will discuss the basics of letter writing campaign development and then go through the development process in a step-by-step manner. Participants will have time to develop a letter-writing plan, after we review some good practices and common mistakes.
Panel Discussion Speakers:
Nozomi Bando, The International Movement Against all forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) http://www.imadr.org/
Nozomi is a Program Officer at The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR). She joined IMADR originally as a volunteer in 2000 and participated in UN conferences related to human rights and racial discrimination later as an IMADR intern. She started working with IMADR as an administrative assistant in 2002. Nozomi is originally from Wakayama and graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
The International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) is an international non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization devoted to eliminating discrimination and racism, forging international solidarity among discriminated minorities and advancing the inter- national human rights system. Founded in 1988 by one of Japan's largest minorities, the Buraku people, IMADR has grown to be a global network of concerned individuals and minority groups with regional committees and partners in Asia, Europe, North America and Latin America. IMADR's International Secretariat is based in Japan and maintains a UN liaison office in Geneva. IMADR is in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Nozomi (IMADR) will focus on Buraku discrimination and the Sayama Case as one of the cases of racial discrimination in Japan, exploring prospects of what both domestic and international solidarity can bring to the movement.
About The Sayama Case
On May 23, 1963, Kazuo Ishikawa, a man of Buraku origin from the town of Sayama, north of Tokyo, was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.
The sentence was later commuted to life with hard labor, and confirmed by the Supreme Court in 1977. After 32 years in prison, Ishikawa was released on probation in 1994. Since his conviction, three appeals for retrial have been submitted in an effort to clear his name. The latest, filed on May 23, 2006, offers a rich body of new evidence supporting Ishikawa’s innocence. His defenders remain optimistic that, this time, the courts will deliver Ishikawa a fair and just trial.
Chris Pitts, Amnesty International Japan http://www.aig78.org/,
http://www.amnesty.or.jp/
Chris is a volunteer and member of Amnesty International Japan (AIJ) working full-time job as an English "professor" at a women's junior college. He has been organiser of Group 78, Tokyo's English-speaking Amnesty group, for about ten years. Chris joined AIJ as a way of being active in Japan without needing to speak or read Japanese. He found that his previous experience of involvement in trade union work and single-issue campaigns (e.g. against British military action in Ireland, cruise missiles, the Malvinas War) was relevant and transferable to building an active and diverse AIJ group.
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights. Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. Our mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of our work to promote all human rights. Amnesty International has more than a million members and supporters in over 140 countries and territories.
Amnesty International's nerve centre is the International Secretariat in London, with more than 350 staff members and over 100 volunteers from more than 50 countries around the world. The Japanese section of AI was established in 1971, and as of 2005 had more than 6,500 members in about 110 groups nationwide. Group 78 is one of two English-language AI groups (there are also 22 Japanese-language groups) in Tokyo.
Chris will talk about the AIJ and human rights as a growth industry. Human rights abuses occur as a result of war between and within nations, as a result of the scramble for profits internationally (globalisation), as a result of the drive to control and suppress working people's attempts to organise, and as a result of poverty and despair. When Amnesty International was founded over 45 years ago, its work focused on individual cases -- the so-called prisoners of conscience. AI still deals with individual cases, over 45,000 and counting, but nowadays our work is more and more focused on campaigning on issues.
Chris will review both individual cases, and campaigns in his talk:
- Cases: Gen. Gallardo (Mexico), Amina Lawal (Nigeria), Menda Sakae (Japan).
- Campaigns: Stop Violence against Women; Control Arms; Political Killings in Philippines.
How can you get involved? Join, donate, organise and/or publicize events, administer the website, write letters, join Urgent Actions.
Yukiko Kaname & Akie Takeda , Non-Japanese Sex-workers Research Project/SWASH
http://swash.sakura.ne.jp/
Akie participated in an international meeting against commercial sexual exploitation of children in 1999 and then worked on HIV prevention awareness-raising for Japanese youth. She feels it is very important to link services and people. This year she started doing outreach for a group called Mittkusu, which does HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness projects in Tokyo. The research she is currently doing is also related to her outreach work.
Yukiko has been concerned with the right movement for sex-workers since 1997 and became a SWASH(Sex Work And Sexual Health) member in 1999. From 1999 to 2003, She was involved in various research projects, including a study on the work habits of women in the sex industry, and the awareness and practices related to HIV/STI prevention. Since 2004, she has focused on activities aiming to developing the community and services for people in the sex industry. Yukiko’s main publications include: "Uru urunai ha watashi ga kimeru"(2000, joint worked, Potto Publications) "Sei wo rikangaeru"(2003, joint work, Seikyu Publications) "Fuuzokujyo ishikichousa" (2005, joint worked, Potto Publications).
In 2006 SWASH started research aiming to support Non-Japanese sex workers who work in Japan. The people involved in this project include activists, researchers, NGO members involved in HIV/STI prevention, and writers, all of whom tackle issues related to the sex industry and sex-workers. SWASH is also working in cooperation with overseas organizations that support sex-workers. Besides this project, they are also planning to provide services such as distributing HIV/STI prevention information, teaching Japanese and massage as well as other skills for people working in the sex industry.
TOKYO AMAZONS is a new bilingual (Japanese/English) group aimed at lesbian women, which welcomes women of all sexual orientations and backgrounds to meet together in a fun and safe environment. Our focus is to encourage women to work towards locating and enhancing their inner strength and to develop further skills for supporting themselves and others in their quest to become true warrior women in their daily lives. We meet once monthly usually on the first Sunday, and aim also to serve as a networking service for women's communities within and eventually outside Tokyo.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Sept 23 Speaker introductions
Morning Panelists:
Masaki Inaba, Africa Japan Forum (AJF)
Noriko Takasaki, Association for Aid and Relief (AAR)
Atsuhiro Oguri, African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO)
Jane Best, Refugees International Japan (RIJ)
Moderator:
Sarajean Rossitto, PSC Convener
Masaki Inaba, Africa Japan Forum
Masaki Inaba has been working in Japanese civil society since 1990, first in the poor district of day workers in Yokohama as the director of medical team of day-workers labor union, and second in gay and lesbian communities in Japan to advocate rights of LGBTs. As the program director for global health, he has been working in Africa Japan Forum since 2002 to connect global communities and Japanese civil society working on HIV/AIDS. Also, he has been working with African civil society working on HIV/AIDS to scale up contribution of Japanese aid with better quality.
Masaki will talk about two HIV/AIDS programs of Africa Japan Forum. The first one is capacity building of Japanese NGOs on infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa and other developing countries. The second one is supporting African migrants living with HIV/AIDS in Japan. When these migrants return to their mother countries, it's necessary to ensure continuity of access to treatment between Japan and these countries. AJF has been working to realize the cross-border continuity of access to treatment between Japan and African countries.
Africa Japan Forum, founded in 1994, is a coordination mechanism of Japanese NGOs working on African issues. It has been working to promote activities of Japanese NGOs working on Africa by information exchange, setting lobbying and advocacy activities for Japanese government and aid agencies, and organizing opportunities of capacity building. Also, it has been working for promoting better understanding of Africa in Japanese civil society by seminars and telephone counselling, and supporting African migrant communities in Japan especially in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Jane Best, Refugees International Japan
Jane lived in Zambia for over three years in the 1970s working as a British Volunteer. She has been in Japan for 22 years and worked with several NGOs during that time. For the last seven years she has been Grant Director for Refugees International Japan, monitoring the programmes to be funded. She visits project areas every year and has been to West, East and Southern Africa on RIJ business. She has just been appointed President and CEO of RIJ, while continuing her responsibilities with the programmes.
Jane's talk will look at the work that RIJ funds in Africa with particular emphasis on capacity building and repatriation. RIJ is currently funding twelve projects in Africa. I will highlight two projects: a youth project for Angolan refugees and an income generation project for female returnees to Eritrea. The youth project began in a refugee camp in Namibia and was so successful that the implementing organisation requested funds to continue a similar scheme in Angola to help youth re-integrate upon repatriation. The Eritrean programme offers training in business management for female-headed households in areas where refugees have returned. Both programmes have been successful but have different problems which present useful comparisons.
Refugees International Japan is a volunteer, independent, nonprofit organisation that raises funds to assist refugees around the world. RIJ also raises public awareness of refugee issues, regularly involving the local community in many of its fundraising activities. RIJ is staffed entirely by volunteers from the Japanese and foreign communities in and around Tokyo and to date has distributed over US$7 million to more than 500 refugee projects in over 40 countries worldwide.
Atsuhiro Oguri, African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO)
Atsuhiro is a Senior at Tokyo University majoring in Social Sciences. He originally joined as an ADEO intern in Kenya 2003~2004. He has worked as Documentation Trainee Officer, coordinating HIV/AIDS youth programs, and writing proposals for VCT projects. He also helped establish ADEO Japan in Japan in Oct. 2003. since joining ADEO Japan he started up the HIV/AIDS projects targeting Japanese youth, has worked to send Japanese students to ADEO-Africa and has been the Tokyo Representative since April 2006. He also is a Board member of YDP Japan Network, a network of more than 60 Japanese youth organizations.
In his presentation today, Atsuhiro will introduce two of ADEO Japan's key programs. The first will be about the exchange work they do with youth in Japan and several African nations. He will also introduce the HIV/AIDS project targeting Youth in Japan.
African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO) is an African non-religious, non-sectarian, non-political and gender sensitive NGO, operating in Africa. ADEO was established in 1998 by African professionals with substantial experience in both relief and development in the Eastern Horn of African region. To provide primary Health Care including HIV/AIDS and Education services in relief and development to the disadvantaged populations in Africa. ADEO Japan aims to contribute to the development of Japanese and African society through the stimulation of people's understanding and behavior change towards global and cross-cutting social problems.
Noriko Takasaki, Association for Aid and Relief
Noriko currently serves as a Programme Coordinator at the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR JAPAN). She has a BA in both Management Studies and Psychology from Leeds University. Noriko joined AAR JAPAN in October 2004, and currently in charge of programmes in Sudan and Zambia and she is based at the Tokyo Headquarters. She previously worked in Burkina Faso for 18 months assisting in the development of HIV/AIDS programmes for Africare, a US-based NGO.
(talk details forthcoming)
Association for Aid and Relief, Japan(AAR Japan) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) aiming to provide emergency assistance, assistance to people with disabilities, and mine action, among other operations. It was established in 1979 as an organization with no political, ideological, or religious affiliation. AAR currently has offices in eight countries and works in 10 countries worldwide.
Moderator: Sarajean Rossitto, PSC Convener, founded the PSC in February 2005 with the goal of getting more people involved in NGO and community based work through network and skill development.
http://sarajean-r.blogspot.com/ (Full bio below.)
Concurrent Skills Building Workshops
For students, nonprofit NGO staff, volunteers and anyone interested in getting involved.
Workshop A: Managing volunteers and interns
Workshop B: Effective PR and outreach for nonprofits and NGOs
Workshop C: Creative fundraising
Workshop A: Managing volunteers and interns
Objective:
Review of the cycle for coordinating interns and volunteers, sharing of key strategies for proactive mgt.
Facilitator: Sarajean Rossitto, nonprofit NGO consultant
Sarajean Rossitto, an activist committed to progressive social change, is currently a Tokyo-based NGO and nonprofit consultant. She is the Tokyo representative for a number of US-Japan nonprofit projects including International Global Internships and the Japan Women’s Leadership Initiative. She has volunteered with groups including JVC, TELL, PARC and IMADR. She spent 3 1/2 years coordinating bilateral exchange of community-based activists between the US and Japan for Nichibei Community Exchange (JUCEE). Sarajean holds a Masters of International Affairs degree with a focus on Human Rights in East Asia. Prior to this, she spent 6 years coordinating programs at the Tokyo YMCA. In her first job as a student organizer, she traveled the state of NY organizing lobby visits, issue education workshops, and grassroots trainings. Sarajean founded the PSC with the aim of getting more people involved locally to affect borad based change.
Workshop B: Communicating Strategically, Hints from the Advertising Industry:
Effective PR and outreach for nonprofits and NGOs
Objective: Improve your communications strategy for outreach to diverse audiences
Facilitator: John McCreery, the Word Works
John McCreery is an anthropologist, adman, writer, author of Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers (U. of Hawaii Press, 2000), regular contributor to Bestoftheblogs (http://bestoftheblogs.com), formerly International Vice Chair, Democrats Abroad. He has lived and worked in Japan since September, 1980. Was employed as an English-language copywriter and creative director by Hakuhodo, Japan's 2nd largest advertising agency, from 1983-1996. John is currently one of the two principals (the other being Ruth McCreery) who own and operate The Word Works, Ltd., a supplier of consulting, copywriting and fine translation services.
Workshop C Creative fundraising skills
Objective: Learn and share innnovative techniques for raising funds
Facilitator: Daniela Papi, PEPY Ride
As an American teaching English in Shizuoka-ken, Daniela Papi found herself with the time and motivation to work on a variety of NGO projects. Over the past three years, she has fundraised for organizations in Uganda, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Nepal, Cambodia, inner city USA, and of course Japan. Her current project is called The PEPY Ride which she co-founded. The first ride brought together five women and educational resources to schools across Cambodia and raised $35,000 dollars for the NGO Japan Relief for Cambodia. In less than two years PEPY has raised over $100,000 in support of Cambodian education projects. They have also assisted with Hurricane Katrina relief.
Masaki Inaba, Africa Japan Forum (AJF)
Noriko Takasaki, Association for Aid and Relief (AAR)
Atsuhiro Oguri, African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO)
Jane Best, Refugees International Japan (RIJ)
Moderator:
Sarajean Rossitto, PSC Convener
Masaki Inaba, Africa Japan Forum
Masaki Inaba has been working in Japanese civil society since 1990, first in the poor district of day workers in Yokohama as the director of medical team of day-workers labor union, and second in gay and lesbian communities in Japan to advocate rights of LGBTs. As the program director for global health, he has been working in Africa Japan Forum since 2002 to connect global communities and Japanese civil society working on HIV/AIDS. Also, he has been working with African civil society working on HIV/AIDS to scale up contribution of Japanese aid with better quality.
Masaki will talk about two HIV/AIDS programs of Africa Japan Forum. The first one is capacity building of Japanese NGOs on infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa and other developing countries. The second one is supporting African migrants living with HIV/AIDS in Japan. When these migrants return to their mother countries, it's necessary to ensure continuity of access to treatment between Japan and these countries. AJF has been working to realize the cross-border continuity of access to treatment between Japan and African countries.
Africa Japan Forum, founded in 1994, is a coordination mechanism of Japanese NGOs working on African issues. It has been working to promote activities of Japanese NGOs working on Africa by information exchange, setting lobbying and advocacy activities for Japanese government and aid agencies, and organizing opportunities of capacity building. Also, it has been working for promoting better understanding of Africa in Japanese civil society by seminars and telephone counselling, and supporting African migrant communities in Japan especially in the field of HIV/AIDS.
Jane Best, Refugees International Japan
Jane lived in Zambia for over three years in the 1970s working as a British Volunteer. She has been in Japan for 22 years and worked with several NGOs during that time. For the last seven years she has been Grant Director for Refugees International Japan, monitoring the programmes to be funded. She visits project areas every year and has been to West, East and Southern Africa on RIJ business. She has just been appointed President and CEO of RIJ, while continuing her responsibilities with the programmes.
Jane's talk will look at the work that RIJ funds in Africa with particular emphasis on capacity building and repatriation. RIJ is currently funding twelve projects in Africa. I will highlight two projects: a youth project for Angolan refugees and an income generation project for female returnees to Eritrea. The youth project began in a refugee camp in Namibia and was so successful that the implementing organisation requested funds to continue a similar scheme in Angola to help youth re-integrate upon repatriation. The Eritrean programme offers training in business management for female-headed households in areas where refugees have returned. Both programmes have been successful but have different problems which present useful comparisons.
Refugees International Japan is a volunteer, independent, nonprofit organisation that raises funds to assist refugees around the world. RIJ also raises public awareness of refugee issues, regularly involving the local community in many of its fundraising activities. RIJ is staffed entirely by volunteers from the Japanese and foreign communities in and around Tokyo and to date has distributed over US$7 million to more than 500 refugee projects in over 40 countries worldwide.
Atsuhiro Oguri, African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO)
Atsuhiro is a Senior at Tokyo University majoring in Social Sciences. He originally joined as an ADEO intern in Kenya 2003~2004. He has worked as Documentation Trainee Officer, coordinating HIV/AIDS youth programs, and writing proposals for VCT projects. He also helped establish ADEO Japan in Japan in Oct. 2003. since joining ADEO Japan he started up the HIV/AIDS projects targeting Japanese youth, has worked to send Japanese students to ADEO-Africa and has been the Tokyo Representative since April 2006. He also is a Board member of YDP Japan Network, a network of more than 60 Japanese youth organizations.
In his presentation today, Atsuhiro will introduce two of ADEO Japan's key programs. The first will be about the exchange work they do with youth in Japan and several African nations. He will also introduce the HIV/AIDS project targeting Youth in Japan.
African Development and Emergency Organisation (ADEO) is an African non-religious, non-sectarian, non-political and gender sensitive NGO, operating in Africa. ADEO was established in 1998 by African professionals with substantial experience in both relief and development in the Eastern Horn of African region. To provide primary Health Care including HIV/AIDS and Education services in relief and development to the disadvantaged populations in Africa. ADEO Japan aims to contribute to the development of Japanese and African society through the stimulation of people's understanding and behavior change towards global and cross-cutting social problems.
Noriko Takasaki, Association for Aid and Relief
Noriko currently serves as a Programme Coordinator at the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR JAPAN). She has a BA in both Management Studies and Psychology from Leeds University. Noriko joined AAR JAPAN in October 2004, and currently in charge of programmes in Sudan and Zambia and she is based at the Tokyo Headquarters. She previously worked in Burkina Faso for 18 months assisting in the development of HIV/AIDS programmes for Africare, a US-based NGO.
(talk details forthcoming)
Association for Aid and Relief, Japan(AAR Japan) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) aiming to provide emergency assistance, assistance to people with disabilities, and mine action, among other operations. It was established in 1979 as an organization with no political, ideological, or religious affiliation. AAR currently has offices in eight countries and works in 10 countries worldwide.
Moderator: Sarajean Rossitto, PSC Convener, founded the PSC in February 2005 with the goal of getting more people involved in NGO and community based work through network and skill development.
http://sarajean-r.blogspot.com/ (Full bio below.)
Concurrent Skills Building Workshops
For students, nonprofit NGO staff, volunteers and anyone interested in getting involved.
Workshop A: Managing volunteers and interns
Workshop B: Effective PR and outreach for nonprofits and NGOs
Workshop C: Creative fundraising
Workshop A: Managing volunteers and interns
Objective:
Review of the cycle for coordinating interns and volunteers, sharing of key strategies for proactive mgt.
Facilitator: Sarajean Rossitto, nonprofit NGO consultant
Sarajean Rossitto, an activist committed to progressive social change, is currently a Tokyo-based NGO and nonprofit consultant. She is the Tokyo representative for a number of US-Japan nonprofit projects including International Global Internships and the Japan Women’s Leadership Initiative. She has volunteered with groups including JVC, TELL, PARC and IMADR. She spent 3 1/2 years coordinating bilateral exchange of community-based activists between the US and Japan for Nichibei Community Exchange (JUCEE). Sarajean holds a Masters of International Affairs degree with a focus on Human Rights in East Asia. Prior to this, she spent 6 years coordinating programs at the Tokyo YMCA. In her first job as a student organizer, she traveled the state of NY organizing lobby visits, issue education workshops, and grassroots trainings. Sarajean founded the PSC with the aim of getting more people involved locally to affect borad based change.
Workshop B: Communicating Strategically, Hints from the Advertising Industry:
Effective PR and outreach for nonprofits and NGOs
Objective: Improve your communications strategy for outreach to diverse audiences
Facilitator: John McCreery, the Word Works
John McCreery is an anthropologist, adman, writer, author of Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers (U. of Hawaii Press, 2000), regular contributor to Bestoftheblogs (http://bestoftheblogs.com), formerly International Vice Chair, Democrats Abroad. He has lived and worked in Japan since September, 1980. Was employed as an English-language copywriter and creative director by Hakuhodo, Japan's 2nd largest advertising agency, from 1983-1996. John is currently one of the two principals (the other being Ruth McCreery) who own and operate The Word Works, Ltd., a supplier of consulting, copywriting and fine translation services.
Workshop C Creative fundraising skills
Objective: Learn and share innnovative techniques for raising funds
Facilitator: Daniela Papi, PEPY Ride
As an American teaching English in Shizuoka-ken, Daniela Papi found herself with the time and motivation to work on a variety of NGO projects. Over the past three years, she has fundraised for organizations in Uganda, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Nepal, Cambodia, inner city USA, and of course Japan. Her current project is called The PEPY Ride which she co-founded. The first ride brought together five women and educational resources to schools across Cambodia and raised $35,000 dollars for the NGO Japan Relief for Cambodia. In less than two years PEPY has raised over $100,000 in support of Cambodian education projects. They have also assisted with Hurricane Katrina relief.
Saturday, June 17, 2006
June 24 speaker introductions
10:30 ~ 12:20 Panel Discussion
Making the world a healthier place
Speakers:
Prune Helfter, Medecins du Monde
Makiko Hara, Run for the Cure Foundation
Damion Mannings, PEPY Ride
Nobuhiro Kadoi, JOICFP, Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning
Moderator:
Sarajean Rossitto, PSC Convener, NGO & Nonprofit Consultant
Objective: Representatives from nonprofits and NGOs tackling health issues at home and abroad, introduce their groups, programs, and how to get involved to make a difference. Issues will vary from sexual health to health education issues.
Prune Helfter has been working for Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) since September 2005. A graduated from Paris Institute of Political Science, she spent 2 years as a researcher at Kyoto University. After taking an MBA at Essec, she worked at an IT company, in charge of the Marketing Department. She spent 2 years at the French Services of Tourism before joining Medecins du Monde as General Manager
Médecins du Monde is an international humanitarian organization. For the last twenty-five years, its vocation has been to provide counseling, care and support to the most vulnerable populations in the world. The first mission of Médecins du Monde is to provide medical aid to the victims of natural disasters, famines, epidemics, infectious diseases outbreaks (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), armed conflicts, political repression, minorities as well as to street children. Speaking out against those who attempt to be obstacles to the access to healthcare, as well denouncing those who violate human rights and dignity are also missions of Médecins du Monde’s. Médecins du Monde condemns all forms of injustice, whatever their origin .
Before working at Run for the Cure Foundation this year, Makiko Hara was based in Osaka. There she devoted herself to a youth education NGO which she helped start up in 2001. She also worked for 2 years in Zimbabawe coordinating activities in her position as Sports Officer with Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers.
The Run for the Cure Foundation is a Nonprofit Organization that funds Breast Cancer education and awareness programs for throughout Japan. Our mission is to increase awareness of the importance of a positive breast health regimen, to strengthen support groups for women in Japan who suffer from breast cancer, and to raise funds to support and encourage the advancement of breast cancer research. We organize 2 events every year in October, the Run for the Cure and Pink Ball, a formal gala event. Money raised goes to organizations such as Japan Society of Breast Health and Akebonokai for educational and service programs. We need help from caring individuals who believe strongly in our cause. It's our goal to provide a meaningful and fun chance for you to be involved. We appreciate your precious time - currently, we are looking for people who are interested in volunteering on the Race day volunteer for Run for the Cure 2006.
Damion Mannings worked in publishing in Manhattan for six years before teaching English in Japan. He's volunteered extensively in Tokyo, completed the NGO Skills Development program at Temple University Japan. Damion is committed to enhancing children’s literacy, health and nutrition. He’s the current health coordinator of The PEPY Ride’s Chanleas Dia School, a sustainable development project focusing on education, health and environmental issues in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Protect Earth, Protect Yourself: PEPY Ride supports educational projects in developing countries and disaster relief areas with a focus on the relationship between the environment and our health. PEPY encourages adventure travel, which emphasizes social action, responsibility and accountability. We organize volunteer and adventure travel in developing countries and redevelopment areas suffering from natural disasters. The PEPY Ride emphasizes education through action, where participants both learn from and give back to the communities they visit. Daniela Papi and Greta Arnquist founded PEPY in 2005. Health, environment, and education are urgent issues in Cambodia. PEPY was founded to take action to improve these situations.
Nobuhiro Kadoi is currently a Senior Program Officer in the International Program Division at Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP). He has been working for and inchrage of Africa programs for JOICFP since 1996. Nobuhiro manages projects promoting integration of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS at country and regional levels. He studied health education at the School of Public Health of the University of Hawaii and obtained Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in December 1995. He also has seven years of experience in teaching health education in a high school and two year in a university in Japan. He served as an intern for the Waikiki Health Centre in Hawaii in 1995 for the HIV/AIDS program and the Youth Outreach Program. Nobuhiro was a JOCV volunteer in Kenya serving as a Judo instructor in the Kenya Police College from 1983 to 1986.
JOICFP, a Japan-based NGO, is active in the field of population and reproductive health and rights (RH/R) where it works to improve the health status of men, women and young people in developing countries. JOICFP was established in 1968 and grew out of a desire to share lessons of family planning and maternal and child health that flourished in Japan as a community-based movement oriented toward preventive health. JOICFP has activities in over 30 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America where community people remain central to all efforts. JOICFP envisions a world where the basic human needs of individuals and families are met, where people are free of poverty and enjoy good health and welfare. JOICFP sees its mission as enabling individuals to make their own choices regarding reproductive health and rights while ensuring access to quality services and appropriate information. JOICFP enjoys UN/ECOSOC consultative status and works closely with the Japanese government, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). JOICFP received a UN Population Award in 2001.
Workshop facilitator introductions:
Presentation skills:
Dawn Tattersall completed a Masters of Sciences degree in Legal and Forensic Psychology in 2002. She is interested in Human Trafficking and the abuse of human rights that this crime represents, particularly against young people. She has spent a significant part of her professional life in Japan teaching English and Business skills to professionals as well as teaching English for Academic Purposes at various universities. Dawn joined three of the Skills Build Forums run by People for Social Change in 2005 and has been an active member ever since.
Introduction to Advocacy:
Sarajean Rossitto, an activist committed to progressive social change, is currently a Tokyo-based NGO and nonprofit consultant. She is the Tokyo representative for a number of US-Japan nonprofit projects including International Global Internships and the Japan Women’s leadership Initiative. She has volunteered with many different groups including JVC, TELL, PARC and IMADR. She spent 3 1/2 years coordinating bilateral exchange of community-based activists between the US and Japan for Nichibei Community Exchange (JUCEE). Sarajean holds a Masters of International Affairs degree with a focus on human rights in East Asia. Prior to this, she spent 6 years coordinating programs at the Tokyo YMCA. In her first job as a student organizer, she traveled the state of NY organizing lobby visits, issue education workshops, and grassroots trainings.
Making the world a healthier place
Speakers:
Prune Helfter, Medecins du Monde
Makiko Hara, Run for the Cure Foundation
Damion Mannings, PEPY Ride
Nobuhiro Kadoi, JOICFP, Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning
Moderator:
Sarajean Rossitto, PSC Convener, NGO & Nonprofit Consultant
Objective: Representatives from nonprofits and NGOs tackling health issues at home and abroad, introduce their groups, programs, and how to get involved to make a difference. Issues will vary from sexual health to health education issues.
Prune Helfter has been working for Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World) since September 2005. A graduated from Paris Institute of Political Science, she spent 2 years as a researcher at Kyoto University. After taking an MBA at Essec, she worked at an IT company, in charge of the Marketing Department. She spent 2 years at the French Services of Tourism before joining Medecins du Monde as General Manager
Médecins du Monde is an international humanitarian organization. For the last twenty-five years, its vocation has been to provide counseling, care and support to the most vulnerable populations in the world. The first mission of Médecins du Monde is to provide medical aid to the victims of natural disasters, famines, epidemics, infectious diseases outbreaks (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), armed conflicts, political repression, minorities as well as to street children. Speaking out against those who attempt to be obstacles to the access to healthcare, as well denouncing those who violate human rights and dignity are also missions of Médecins du Monde’s. Médecins du Monde condemns all forms of injustice, whatever their origin .
Before working at Run for the Cure Foundation this year, Makiko Hara was based in Osaka. There she devoted herself to a youth education NGO which she helped start up in 2001. She also worked for 2 years in Zimbabawe coordinating activities in her position as Sports Officer with Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers.
The Run for the Cure Foundation is a Nonprofit Organization that funds Breast Cancer education and awareness programs for throughout Japan. Our mission is to increase awareness of the importance of a positive breast health regimen, to strengthen support groups for women in Japan who suffer from breast cancer, and to raise funds to support and encourage the advancement of breast cancer research. We organize 2 events every year in October, the Run for the Cure and Pink Ball, a formal gala event. Money raised goes to organizations such as Japan Society of Breast Health and Akebonokai for educational and service programs. We need help from caring individuals who believe strongly in our cause. It's our goal to provide a meaningful and fun chance for you to be involved. We appreciate your precious time - currently, we are looking for people who are interested in volunteering on the Race day volunteer for Run for the Cure 2006.
Damion Mannings worked in publishing in Manhattan for six years before teaching English in Japan. He's volunteered extensively in Tokyo, completed the NGO Skills Development program at Temple University Japan. Damion is committed to enhancing children’s literacy, health and nutrition. He’s the current health coordinator of The PEPY Ride’s Chanleas Dia School, a sustainable development project focusing on education, health and environmental issues in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Protect Earth, Protect Yourself: PEPY Ride supports educational projects in developing countries and disaster relief areas with a focus on the relationship between the environment and our health. PEPY encourages adventure travel, which emphasizes social action, responsibility and accountability. We organize volunteer and adventure travel in developing countries and redevelopment areas suffering from natural disasters. The PEPY Ride emphasizes education through action, where participants both learn from and give back to the communities they visit. Daniela Papi and Greta Arnquist founded PEPY in 2005. Health, environment, and education are urgent issues in Cambodia. PEPY was founded to take action to improve these situations.
Nobuhiro Kadoi is currently a Senior Program Officer in the International Program Division at Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP). He has been working for and inchrage of Africa programs for JOICFP since 1996. Nobuhiro manages projects promoting integration of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS at country and regional levels. He studied health education at the School of Public Health of the University of Hawaii and obtained Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in December 1995. He also has seven years of experience in teaching health education in a high school and two year in a university in Japan. He served as an intern for the Waikiki Health Centre in Hawaii in 1995 for the HIV/AIDS program and the Youth Outreach Program. Nobuhiro was a JOCV volunteer in Kenya serving as a Judo instructor in the Kenya Police College from 1983 to 1986.
JOICFP, a Japan-based NGO, is active in the field of population and reproductive health and rights (RH/R) where it works to improve the health status of men, women and young people in developing countries. JOICFP was established in 1968 and grew out of a desire to share lessons of family planning and maternal and child health that flourished in Japan as a community-based movement oriented toward preventive health. JOICFP has activities in over 30 countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America where community people remain central to all efforts. JOICFP envisions a world where the basic human needs of individuals and families are met, where people are free of poverty and enjoy good health and welfare. JOICFP sees its mission as enabling individuals to make their own choices regarding reproductive health and rights while ensuring access to quality services and appropriate information. JOICFP enjoys UN/ECOSOC consultative status and works closely with the Japanese government, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). JOICFP received a UN Population Award in 2001.
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Dawn Tattersall completed a Masters of Sciences degree in Legal and Forensic Psychology in 2002. She is interested in Human Trafficking and the abuse of human rights that this crime represents, particularly against young people. She has spent a significant part of her professional life in Japan teaching English and Business skills to professionals as well as teaching English for Academic Purposes at various universities. Dawn joined three of the Skills Build Forums run by People for Social Change in 2005 and has been an active member ever since.
Introduction to Advocacy:
Sarajean Rossitto, an activist committed to progressive social change, is currently a Tokyo-based NGO and nonprofit consultant. She is the Tokyo representative for a number of US-Japan nonprofit projects including International Global Internships and the Japan Women’s leadership Initiative. She has volunteered with many different groups including JVC, TELL, PARC and IMADR. She spent 3 1/2 years coordinating bilateral exchange of community-based activists between the US and Japan for Nichibei Community Exchange (JUCEE). Sarajean holds a Masters of International Affairs degree with a focus on human rights in East Asia. Prior to this, she spent 6 years coordinating programs at the Tokyo YMCA. In her first job as a student organizer, she traveled the state of NY organizing lobby visits, issue education workshops, and grassroots trainings.
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