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ACORN India in Bangalore organized a Kalajatha (Street Play) to create awareness onright to education for the disabled in our working areas. The Kalajatha was organized by ACORN and supported by SN Basaveshwara Education Trust and the Acharya Institute of Management Studies. The Kalajatha was held in five slums of Bangalore where ACORN has members. The Kalajatha was held on 12th and 13th of March.
On 12th the Kalajatha was held in Binnamangala and MV Garden. On 13th the Kalajatha was held in Lingarajapuram, Rajiv gandhi Colony and Devarjeevanahalli.
The Students of AIMS supported by acting in the plays and SNBasaveshwara Education Trust supported by providing the sound systemand the vehicle was supported by the BBMP.
La respuesta fue entusiasmadora. Parte de la razón de esta respuesta esta ligada a las necesidades insatisfechas históricamente, a insolubles problemas de injusticia e inadecuados servicios básicos. La población volvió a quejarse acerca del agua, de la vivienda y de las respuestas a seguridad social básica. La otra razón del interés esta claramente ligada a la insatisfacción con la cúpula militar del ultimo año, la cual desplazo un presidente elegido, aun popular, con mucho trabajo y un moderado ingreso comunitario. La necesidad por un cambio fue acentuada por todos estos eventos provocando un más profundo interés en construir una organización comunitaria.
Prometimos hacer lo que podemos para responder identificando organizadores potenciales de Honduras que podrían ser contratados y entrenados en nuestro modelo organizacional. Si todo va bien, esperamos que ellos puedan estar listos para comenzar a manejar la organización y abrir operaciones de Honduras ACORN en San Pedro Sula y Tegucigalpa a fines de la primavera o a comienzos del verano.
También nos reunimos y disfrutamos la hospitalidad de los líderes y empleados del café de las mujeres y del cultivo de la sábila y de las cooperativas de mercadeo, COMUCAP en Marcala. Nos hemos comprometido a trabajar como socios con ellos en la búsqueda de nuevos mercados para sus productos en los países de Norte América: Canadá, Méjico y los Estados Unidos.
Representatives from ACORN International Chief Organizer Wade Rathke and Mexico ACORN Head Organizer Suyapa Amador recently spent five days in meetings with activists, unions, politicians, professors, and community based organizations in Honduras assessing the interest in ACORN International assisting in the development of a new affiliate Honduras ACORN in this country.Excellent meetings were held in San Pedro Sula and surrounding towns, Marcala in La Paz, and the capital city, Tegucigalpa.
The response was enthusiastic. Part of the reason for this response lies in unmet needs from historic and intractable problems of inequity and inadequate basic services. People returned to complaints about water, housing, and basic social security responses over and over. The other reason for the interest is clearly the lingering dissatisfaction with the military coup last year which displaced an elected President, still popular with many working and moderate income communities. The need for change was underscored by all of these events provoking a deeper interest in building community organization.
We promised to do what we could to respond by identifying potential organizers from Honduras who could be hired and trained in our organizing model. If everything goes well we would hope that they would be ready to initiate organizing drives to open Honduras ACORN operations in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa by late spring or early summer.
We also met and enjoyed the hospitality of leaders and staff of the women’s coffee and aloe vera growing and marketing coop, COMUCAP in Marcala.We have committed to working as a partner with them in finding new markets for their products in the North American countries of Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
The Acorn Dharavi Project conducted a successful workshop for children of members living in the Rag pickers communities in Dharavi on 13th december, 2009. The workshop was conducted by a visiting volunteer Ekaterina Nikolova ( Katya) who used a mix of theatre, craft, games , physical activity, drawing , art and various other teaching techniques to make the children laugh, cry , shout ,learn and unlearn about their city and Dharavi.
The same day we saw a visit from a International film crew of the National Geographic Channel which is making a 50 minute documentary on Dharavi featuring a segment on the Dharavi Project. The new year has begun on the right note, more next week on the waste matters project in 22 schools in Mumbai, which is distributing bins to the schools this week, our members get to collect the dry waste in return for my training the school kids in waste management and screening Parasher Baruah’s documentary. This week also sees a day visit to our community by 30 students of the American school as part of the year long program in the school.
Kenya ACORN launched in 2009 and is working organizing low income Kenyan’s around issues of basic health and quality of life issues. Below are some pictures of their early work:
