Nigeria Update: October 2007

Phillips Elisha, Nigeria Director

Village Care International

October 22, 2007

Just so many things on my mind.

1. The re - trainings is on going, hope to finish by 2nd week of December.

2. I have conducted a survey on 2 communities for possible VC presence. The trainings for these communities comes up in December. The communities are called Bwonpe in Plateau state and Kakura in the suburb of Kaduna, Kaduna state. The total number expected for these 2 trainings is 500.

3. I now have the first English Outcomes and Practices booklet printed in Ngeria. I have sent copies to David to help check the quality. Please let me know if it is ok. As far as am concerned they are excellent but i am not a professional here.
4. The entire training materials i have, about 1300 copies may not be enough for the trainings and the re trainings. We need to urgently produce more.

5. The Hausa Outcomes and Practices booklets are ready for printing. This would be better than the English copies. But the point is if we have to have them printed we must swing into action now. I am working with the printer on the cost because the number of pages for the Hausa material are more than the English copies

6. If teams are coming from January, then we have to start making arrangement for the bus.

7. Warware Note! I have concluded making contacts for Niger and Cameroun as you have asked me to do. We need initial visits to these places as a survey trip.

8. The VCI registration process is on. Because of so many things to handle i have asked Lucky Simon to coordinate that.

9. DAVID NOTE, others too. While in Kaduna ( Kaduna is the largest city in Northern Nigeria after Kano and this is where the worst of religious crises took place. Hopefully VCI programs will bring genuine reconciliation. I am optimistic ), i have talked to a few church leaders on VCI program and they welcome the program so much that they asked me to invite you to lend your voice. They have a program in October of each year. So its either you come next week for the program or wait till next year. At this program over 200 churches will come together with over 7000 people. It is because of this discussion that we are going to have one of the trainings at Kakura ( see item 2 above ). Hopefully this result into many trainings next year. I have slated you to speak to the churches for next year, since you are only returning to US today. This will blow VCI up in the entire country. I hope i am not too fast. Someone gotta stop me!
Let me beg to stop here, but i have more, as soon as i get other ideas worked out, i will get this across to you.

Thanks,
Phillips