tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-242528582011-11-24T01:33:58.375+02:00Phaphama news is an online record of Phaphama activities, thoughts, pictures and stories written by Phaphama members to share our progress with each other and others. Guidelines for postings. 100-200 words with pictures. The occasional 600 word article is welcome. Please write from your own experience and thoughts. We welcome and appreciate comments.EXPECT THE BESThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10313907609125996159noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24252858.post-1158008089570786092006-09-11T22:49:00.000+02:002006-09-11T22:59:58.026+02:00

The AVP International Gathering in South Africa- 2006 has a blog- www.avpig.blogspot.com or click on the link on the right.Please send reports or activities of your AVP IDRC committees for posting or post them yourself. (email Jeremy and I will give you a password)Yours in peaceJubillant Jeremy

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I was one of the lucky people who attended the A.V.P. workshop over the weekend at the Georgetown library.I'm writing this email to show my gratitude to have been given a chance to be part of something so great and life changing. I learnt a lot from the workshop than I have in my life till now. It changed the way I do a lot of things or rather my way of thinking. But mostly it made me a better

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Anele Nunu, an AVP facilitator with Phaphama has set up a restaurant in a container at Mandela Park, Khayelitsha. With training from Phaphama he now offers TALK Tourism experiences. These can be morning, afternoon ar full day experiences in which visitors meet the people, sites and projects in Mandela Park and Khayelitsha, share a meal and through the unique TALK experience the hosts and visitors

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Dear AVP friendsDoes anyone attending the AVP International Gathering wish to visit Port Elizabeth after the Gathering and co-faciliate a couple of AVP workshops with local schoolteachers? We are a university research team trying to get AVP into local schools and would love to meet you -- we can host 2 or 3 people at a time.Contact me at Shena.Lamb@nmmu.ac.za

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Heather Parker Lewis – social worker and researcher, taught for fifteen years at the University of Cape Town – she has studied prison gangs for ten years and is author of: God’s Gangsters? – the history, language, rituals, secrets and myths of South Africa’s prison gangs (ihilihili press/2006); The Prison Speaks: Men’s Voices/South African Jails (ihilihili press/2003); Also God’s Children?…

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Dear AVP Friends wishing to attend the Pre and Post AVP-IG activities in Cape Town.I have posted this to facilitate your participation in the activities we are arranging. The AVP community is looking forward to meeting you as we will not all be able to attend the AVP IG outside Johannesburg.We wish to accomodate all who wish to participate in workshops as lead or cofacilitators with the overflow

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In February this year Christoph had the privilege to go to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, where Miriam Kraemer asked him to support her in setting up AVP in Sudan. She had visited Cape Town two years ago and co-facilitated four AVP workshops."It was my first time to visit Sudan and it was an overwhelming feeling for me to be in a country (the largest in Africa!) which is so different from South

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Nine new facilitators graduated in Wednesday 8 March at a ceremmony addressed by Mr Madikane, Deputy head of Medium B prison. They shared how they felt having completed the workshop and Mr Madikane proposed that wardens attend the next AVP basic workshop. They now join the three remaining facilitators who will mentor them and start taking on the role of lead facilitators.

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The Franciscan Order in Africa has set up the Damietta Initiative which aims to proactively and reactively address community and inter-religious conflict in Africa. Local Pan African Conciliation Teams (PACT) will be set up consisting of people of different religions represented in the community. Their excellent website www.damiettapeace.org.za is worth a visit. They will be trained in

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AVP in Africa is only standing on one leg.Jeremy attended the Friends World Committee for Consultation - Africa Section representatives in Mabanga, Kenya in February. He was fortunate to meet AVP facilitators from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and DRC. "The Tripod we used only had one functioning leg which we realized was a good image of AVP in Africa. In each region AVP only happens

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Greetings and peaceWelcome to this exciting new venture of cooperatively writing our Phaphama stories for our new blogspot.This will provide a permanent and interesting record that can be shared all over the world.The stories can also be used for local newsletters and other reports.Stories should preferably be 100-200 words with a photo or two. The occasional longer story of 600 words with photos

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