Summary of project status and achievements:
The computer training program continued with the Intensive Advanced Computer Class. Students completed Microsoft Publisher and Microsoft PowerPoint, and they began Microsoft Excel.
A three-day Conflict Analysis workshop was held October 29 – 31 at Dufatanye Preschool in Block G. Participants came exclusively from Block G and were invited by the Block G General Chairman and other leaders in the community. Sixteen people attended, although only nine completed the workshop. This was the first PECT workshop to be held in Block G.
The PM submitted the Rhodes Scholar Southern African Forum grant during the first week of October. The coordinators asked for money for two additional solar panels, two batteries and two converters.
The coordinators and the PM began to plan for the Church Commission for Peace. The coordinators made a list of all churches in Block D and decided how many church leaders from each congregation should attend the training workshop. There will be thirty participants from approximately twenty churches and other religious congregations. The coordinators also mapped out the curriculum for the ten day training workshop. The modules will include an abbreviated version of the Leadership, Human Rights and Nonviolence workshops normally provided by PECT and full versions of the Conflict Analysis and Mediation workshops. A module on SGBV will also be added.
Future Activities and Projections:
Computer classes will conclude with the completion of the Excel unit. Interviews will be held for the next intake of computer students.
The training workshop for the Church Commission for Peace will begin in mid-November and will continue into December. Instead of holding the ten day training every weekday for two consecutive weeks, the workshop will be spread over three weeks with breaks, so the effect on the computer classes will be minimized.
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