Community Hope ProjectNovember 2011 UPDATE

Agenda

Brief overview of CHP for newcomers (mission, principles, activities)

Fundraising: Total raised: $1650 + $750 additional

Total sent: $2150

Needed monthly (just to maintain school): $450-500

Impact in Hill Cut + next steps

Local updates: Website progress

AIP: CHP internships beginning winter quarter

Student organization at UCSD

Possible trip to Sierra Leone this summer

Non-profit status

Next steps: planning for Teams

CHP Mission

…fostering hope, health, justice,

opportunity and growth through

human connection, creativity

and empowerment

Guiding principles

Global social and economic justice is good for those individuals and communities that are suffering, good for those of us who commit to helping to change things, and ultimately, good for all people

Health, well-being, access to clean water, ample food, decent housing, education, healthcare and the opportunity to work and live with dignity should be available to all

General hypothesisThe general hypothesis is that when someone:

-Increases her/his sense of self-efficacy, mastery and control over

her/his world;

-Enjoys a connection to a group of like-minded others, and

cultivates relationships of mutual respect, valuation and reciprocity; and

-Perceives her/himself to be of value, and to be living a life of

purpose and meaning,…

...(that) there will be a positive effect on his/her emotional, psychological and physical health.

We would expect to see this at both the individual and aggregate (community) level. We hope to measure this so that if it proves to be so, it might be replicated elsewhere.

General Project Overview

Community health/development initiative

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Connection btwn folks in S.L. and U.S.

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Youth Ambassador Program

More detail:Community health/development initiative

Partner with communities internationally (1st project: Hill Cut Community, Freetown, Sierra Leone)

Anthropological & human rights principles: respect for, and deference to, community beliefs & norms; partnership model-not bulldozing

Identify needs, interests, priorities of community members

Facilitate development (if not already present) of community leadership organization

Generate and/or marshal resources for community-identified priorities (school, adult literacy, micro-finance program, training center, water, garden/market development, health center)

CONNECTION

Pen pal program (18 kids currently with pen pals; 50+ more waiting in Hill Cut; 3 adult pen pal relationships established; 65+ more waiting)

Sister school arrangements

Possibly laptop program (One Laptop)

Youth Ambassador Program

Recruit 10-12 students (middle/high schoolers in low-income areas) at a time and train them in a peer leadership curriculum that looks at:

Global and local health (with emphasis on ecological model of health & the social determinants of health)

Social, economic, environmental and global justice

Actions they can take to effect change in their own lives and the lives of others (both internationally and their own communities)

Fosters knowledge, perspective, empowerment

YAs select a service or fundraising project to undertake (alone or as part of a team) that benefits their pen pal, their community, or both

Fundraising:

Total raised: $1650 + $750 additional

Total sent: $2150

Needed monthly (just to maintain school): $450-500

Additional $500/mo to provide lunch

-to support one child: $20-40/month (with or without lunch)

-to fund a new or expanded business for one family: $100-150 (one time)

UPDATE: Just received additional gift of $1000 on the 17th! Will be sending this off to help support the school and begin the micro-finance program

Where the money has gone….

View from Hill Cut, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Community Dwellings

Temporary building for school in Hill Cut

All labor for the construction was provided by community members on a volunteer basis

Opening Ceremony for the new school

The first class of kids!

Participants in the adult literacy class

Adult Literacy Teacher

Teacher for the children

Sample business products proposed for

microfinance program

Bead Necklaces

A beautiful local craft called, “gara”

Hand-made slippers

Soup-making

Next projects: Micro-loan program (line-up of applicants, each with a budget and

requesting $100-150 to start or expand their business)

Training Center (the adults want to learn different craft skills from one another; we are talking about this being one of the requirements of qualifying for a micro-loan)

Alternate (clean) water source (next few photos show current water source, which is not very good, and brings a number of risks)

Community garden and market (currently, people have to walk about an hour to reach the nearest open-air market)

Community health clinic (along with a program to train local adults to be local community health educators, using a “promotoras” model, and possibly fund a scholarship to send the most promising on to nursing or medical school, with agreement that they return to work in the community afterwards)

Current source of water in Hill Cut

Template for what the website will look like (w/different photos)

Next steps: planning for Teams

Fundraising

Program planning

Research design