CALD and African Professional Network Members Volunteered at the Saving Lives Society

From Left: Peter Nyame, Vanita Nyame,
Ruth Nduta and David Mutua CALD/APNET
David Mutua the CALD Founder and APNET member has facilitated volunteer opportunities for APNET members with American Red Cross Cincinnati, Ohio Chapter. On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 four members were called to volunteered at the Saving Lives Breakfast at the American Red Cross Cincinnati Region Headquarters 2111 Dana Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45207

The Saving Lives Society breakfast brings individuals and organizations together throughout our community in support of the life saving mission of the American Red Cross, Cincinnati Region.

Diaspora Volunteering

CALD, would like to partner and collaborate with others in developing a project that will facilitate volunteering from among the African education, health and other professionals now in the Diaspora for specific projects within Africa.

It is obvious to us that these highly skilled professionals are capable of making a significant contribution to the African human capacity building and economic empowerment if a favourable mechanism/forum is provided for them. This group of Africans invariably retain their contacts through remittances, which provide a lifeline for their families, friends and even health and educational institutions. Our preliminary research showed that some of them would like to contribute their skills for the African health, education and business development services so long as their jobs in the West were not at risk. We think it is possible to meet this as a minimum demand for contributing their skills and knowledge to their communities and Africa.
Project Title: “Voluntary Service @ Home, Africa” (VSHA)
Goal: To develop structures those enable a continuous and seamless flow of personnel and technology from the West to Africa through African Diaspora volunteers.

Volunteerism is intrinsic to human nature, it is in our nature to solidarise, empathise or sympathise with someone in need of help, we often do this without intending to gain, but nevertheless we always do gain, at least by feeling good that we were able to put a smile on someone’s face.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Every Child Online (ECO) Project

What is ECO? ECO  stands for Every Child Online. ECO is a radical technical and commercial advance that will provide broadband internet connectivity at very low cost to millions across Africa. It can deliver connectivity to every unconnected school in Africa. It is live today in hundreds of schools and will soon be in thousands. For more information go to: http://www.avantiplc.com/eco/
Read more

Top Cup Coffee

Image
T op Cup Coffee  is a CALD Enterprise Brand/Trade mark that facilitates coffee fair trade in Africa  Goal Our goal is to develop a global or international partnerships that will help smallholder coffee farmers in Kenya and Africa link with Coffee Research Institute's information and training center through the existing coffee cooperative societies and factories using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's) that will enable flow of information on improved varieties, better growing practices, value addition and get a better price for coffee beans by setting up a direct coffee exchange fair trade market portal. Mission Our mission  is  to   establish a  collaborative and sustainable social enterprise enabled through use of  ICT’s to ease flow of information on improved coffee varieties, better growing practices, value addition and get a better price for coffee beans by setting up a direct coffee exchange fair trade market portal. This will  increase their
Read more

IMlango project

The Unique iMlango Programme iMlango is about improving education. We believe that access to the internet and delivering smart digital education services and content helps to improve the education experience and outcomes for children. The programme aims to deliver improved education outcomes to 150,000 children, in 205 schools, and delivers digital attendance monitoring, broadband internet access via satellite and a host of online learning resources to help teachers and students. We are aiming to bring the potential of digital learning and the digital economy to the communities around the schools too. iMlango is delivered by a number of companies in Kenya and the United Kingdom – working in partnership with the UK’s  Department for International Development (DFID)  - and is supported by the Kenyan Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. For more information go to: - http://www.imlango.com/ 
Read more