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Who was here?
In 2005, Ashoka Fellow Christina Jordan joined Omidyar.net in the search for a comfortable place to bring Life in Africa community members in Uganda actively online in a global space that would welcome, nurture, and support the the development of a community owned and operated social-purpose enterprise.
By September 2007, as Onet was coming to a close, Life in Africa's members in Kampala and Gulu had developed a unique track record for engaging Onet community input on shaping their ideas and options for the future. For Life in Africa's 40+ members who participated here, the Onet community was a virtual office space, a village hearth, a perpetual training class and a global group of really great friends - many of whom we met in person when they attended the Feb 2007 international Onet gathering at our community center in Gulu, Northern Uganda.
What happened?
Life in Africa was the recipient of an Onet Community Favorite award in both 2006 and 2007, and received considerable technical and financial support from Onet community members, on any number of LiA community initiatives.
Through exposure to some of the dynamic decision-making and consensus building processes that the LiA communities learned about here, one collective wish that became clear over 2.5 years of community social enterprise bulding, was that LiA should do more to empower the community's children in Uganda. In order to more flexibly facilitate this and other kinds of non-business oriented community empowerment activities, Life in Africa is re-incorporating as 2 distinctly separate entities during the last quarter of 2007.
Where have we gone?
Life in Africa USA will reincorporate as a USA based non-profit organization, and will continue to support African communities to organize themselves - online and offline - in a globally networked fashion. Life in Africa's communities of members in Kampala and Gulu are taking their relationships with some of the social entrepreneurs we've met here to another level. By Dec 2007, the communities are re-incorporating as ned-Uganda, and embracing their role as pioneers in developing a global better world building community brand.
To avoid future confusion between the old Life in Africa and the new entities that have spawned from the incredibly rich time spent learning at Onet, Life in Africa group content will NOT be viewable following the closure of Onet on 7 September 2007.
http://LifeInAfrica.org will launch in the fall of 2007, and will continue to offer global supporters unique ways to make a direct impact on communities and individual lives in Africa. LiA community members in Uganda and our good friends from Onet are invited to join in mapping the community's way forward as ned-Uganda over at http://www.ned.com/group/nedugan da/. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Hi all -
I've been tossing around the idea of a speaking/fundraising trip this summer and need to start nailing things down. I see vague shapes of possibilities in the UK, on the West Coast and on the East Coast of the USA.
The only thing that's certain so far is gathering with Lars and co in Vermont for the peacetiles facilitator's workshop on the first weekend in August. Other than that, July 19-August 30 is pretty much a blank slate.
If you've any ideas for groups near you I might address this summer about Northern Uganda and LiA's work there, please pipe up!
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By the time the Gulu conference ended, I was in meltdown mode. It had been a wonderful gathering. Intense highs - manic frenzies - intimate moments - disturbing frustrations... for me it had been 4 days of mental gymnastics. I was tired, and melting with the sun by the end of the last day.
Finally sometime after dark, Norbert and I managed to get away from the WE Center. We went and sat in an empty field, stared at nothing, shared a beer... and hatched a plan.
Not a little plan, but a big plan.
I should have seen it coming, since it always seems like my flashes of ability to see really big tend to coincide with times in my life when I'm juggling many complex (and seemingly unrelated) issues at a go. But in fact I was surprised. At that point, I really didn't feel like I had much left in me! By the end of our discussion, Norbert and I were both revived. And excited.
Significantly, I made a pledge to myself that night that this would be the first hairbrained idea of mine that I would not invest any of my own money in (there are people and organizations who I know will want to help), but that this will be the most important thing I've ever done. I see that I can, so I must. And the really wonderful thing is that Norbert sees it and is really excited about it too. "You go girl!" was what he said when I started to muse aloud about what a large piece of land could mean in social terms.
The following basic text has been sent to a Dutch investor who is ready to buy and export all of the organic produce that Opok Farms can grow. He's now shopping it around to some organizations in Holland who he believes may have an interest in such a project. We're only in the pre-pre-beginning stages right now, but since Norbert's family owns the land in question (and they are keen to see it developed), it's also very real.
I'm thinking self-help corporation, WE Center, solar everything, lots of bandwidth... wish us luck! I really think there is a lot of potential here to do something meaningful about a Northern Ugandan issue that needs some serious attention.
Opok Farms
Sustainable Living for Child-Headed Households in Northern Uganda
Government policy in Northern Uganda currently encourages the return of Internally Displaced Peoples to family owned land, particularly in areas surrounding the region’s largest IDP camps. Among the many human complexities to consider in implementing this policy, is where the thousands of child-headed households should go.
Opok Farms is a 3000 acre commercial organic farming development near Koch-Goma IDP Camp in Amuru District, that will offer employment, educational opportunities, and energy efficient homes for 150 child-headed families by 2010, and land-based employment for hundreds of agricultural laborers in nearby villages that are being reclaimed. As the first large-scale commercial farming endeavor to be restarted in the area, Opok Farms will demonstrate sustainable organic farming and solar drying techniques for producing crops that are valued at a premium in Uganda’s export markets. Two-acre parcels of crop rotating land will include a homestead to be inhabited by a child-headed household. A community Webbed Empowerment Center equipped with adequate bandwidth and solar powered computers will offer connectivity to the wider world, social support, recreation, education and vocational training to the community of children resident at Opok Farms.
600 acres of the land was previously cleared by the Ministry of Agriculture’s now defunct Bush Clearing unit in 1974-75, and planted in rotation through 1986 when commercial farming operations were disrupted by armed insurgency. The 20 year period has seen these areas return to forest, requiring mechanized clearing that is now only available in Northern Uganda through very expensive commercial services. An estimated $17500 will be required to re-clear half (300 acres) of the previously cleared fields using wheel loaders in 2007. A supply of seeds and a ready market for organic sim-sim, chilis, cotton and pineapple has already been identified; an additional $xxx will be required to finance tractor services, farm tools and agricultural labor through the end of the first growing season. Opok Farms will scale to 1500 planted acres by the end of 2010, with non-arable portions of the land devoted to alternative community income generating activities such as bee-keeping, poultry, dairy production and fish-farming.
All thoughts welcome
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C
[Edited by author: Christina Jordan on 12 Mar 2007 00:36 PST: I added a whole paragraph )I should have...) and edited several typos, since I'd posted in a hurry and found upon re-reading that I'd not conveyed part of the story I wanted to convey to my friends in the Onet community]
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After a month of visiting French speaking muslim West Africa and a couple of mental bomb-blasts upon my return to Uganda and Life in Africa, I find myself pondering: what does it all MEAN anyway?
I am a fountain of words that are getting ready to overflow into this space.
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Dear Onet friends ~
If I seem absent, distracted, or less productively engaged on some things here than you might have expected or wished me to be, please note that I am/have been running on depleted resources for quite some time now and am fully aware that I'm not giving as much as I would like to on things that are important to me. I am trying in my way to recharge while still moving forward, and it's feeling very much like I am grinding my gears.
As most of my friends here must realize by now, I have been plugging away since the beginning of the year at getting a lot of stuff actually done that I have been trying to do for about 5 years. I've got a microfinance program started again! I've also finally built a functional website which is certainly the best one since the old lifeinafrica.com from the 1999-2001 period. Funny how these came together so quickly and relatively quietly in just the past 2 months, after so many years of desperation over not being able to get it done. Come to think of it, I moved out of my always discouraging husband's house 2 months ago. hmmm. Can't help feeling those developments are related somehow.
As pleased as I am that things are coming together, I am also recognizing increasingly that I am intellectually and physically exhausted. I'm having some major back problems and there is nobody in country who can help me with it (my spine has a long metal rod in it that was placed to correct scholiosis about 25 years ago). The power schedule means that I'm often missing sleep to steal hours in the middle of the night when the power comes on unexpectedly. I leave the light switched on in my bedroom so that I can get up and work if the option presents itself- which it regularly does for 3-4 hours at around 2am. It sounds extreme, but it's helped us to stay on schedule more or less. The generator at LiA helps a lot, but we simply can't afford to keep it on all the time. In spite of Uganda's power crisis, though, we have really made an enormous amount of progress for which I am very grateful to everyone here who has helped.
But I am losing my steam. I'm feeling sloppy - out of my groove - in some areas where I should be doing better.
I left too much to the last minute on the Kiva application (which is about 14 pages long!). Knew I'd gotten a decent start on it, but then focused for too long on the internal stuff and left some critical details to get a bit bungled at the end. Need to get it in by tomorrow, because then I am leaving to Gulu for 4 days, to be followed by a quick trip to Nairobi to see a man about a consulting job. The consulting job would be for the month of May, which works professionally but means I will miss my middle son's birthday. My oldest son's teacher just told me he's having trouble in school, and here I am leaving for a week. I've got other commitments which tell me I should not go to Gulu but stay home and get the online work done. But I think I am going to go anyway.
I think I need some time to think. I guess I need to find the groove of inspiration that will finally put my own life back in gear. I need to refocus on regaining my edge. Perhaps I will find it in Gulu with a few days of focus on starting things there. I want to see the children again, and get to know them better. Somehow I think they can help me find in myself what I need to get back on track.
And yes, I also need to figure out what to do with this back of mine. It is painful to breath (ribcage expands, putting pressure on a vertebra that's out of line but should not be). I figure that can't be good. My pain tolerance is pretty high but I don't think I can do this for long. And I do think it's affecting my ability to focus. To be honest, it terrifies me to imagine what it might take to fix this, as the technology in my spine is apparently not used anywhere anymore.
All of this is to say that if you've been needing my input on something that I have not yet gotten to you, I apologize and ask that you be patient while I go through this period of shifting gears in my life. I'm not disappearing or intentionally reducing my participation here... just trying to find a comfortable way to breathe again and recharge now that I've crossed the finish line on the long race that building the LiA community has been.
Thanks for bearing with me - and for listening. Now about that Kiva application...
C
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More Adventures on the Piecetrain!
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Today I cleaned up baby vomit and diarrhea several times, cooked beans and franks for supper, and went out in the open online with a wacky business plan for profitably manufacturing comsumable peace that I've been dreaming up with some friends.
I am American. My kids are half Dutch. I live in Uganda, East Africa.
I build peace for a living. Or at least... I'm trying to.
I promised myself several days ago that today, 11 September 2005, would be the day I start writing a new adventure series. Then the baby got sick, so I guess this is it.
I think this writing might be about the new project I've started with this announcement today: http://www.omidyar.net/group/foodchain/news/54/ Then again, it might be the blog of a smart & sassy 40-country adventure mom who's got an insight or two to share about the state of our world today. It might be both, or neither of those. Maybe it will become a political party movement. Kirabo the Gift Mom for President!
Quite truthfully, I'm just writing this for myself. But hey, if it speaks to you in some way, feel free to let a friend know. (I am blatantly trying to get the word out about what's going on in Uganda, and could use all the help you can muster to get folks to know about the link above.)
I've decided the best place to start my new adventure series is with some general observations about my recent trip to North America. I returned 10 days ago from spending 6 long and busy weeks there, after 3 years of being away. Every time I go back, there are always themes in the changes I observe, but I'd been away for quite a long time this time. WOW - what a crazy place America has become.
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I've seen two burning bushes!
I wonder what Moses would make of it all.
Burning Bush 1 - I was amazed at how much marijuana consumption I witnessed during this trip - there were discussions about it in public places, friends who openly imbibed or declined in party settings, people growing their own, stories of families lighting up with the teen-aged kids after dinner. Now I'm not talking about scum of the earth people. I'm talking about professional people; educated, productive members of society who have chosen marijuana as their vice of choice. Middle class educated (white) people are quietly just doing this illegal thing.
And since marijuana is illegal, we give crime gangs control of the marijuana market. I don't know about you, but I've never seen marijuana provoke the kind of violence that alcohol does, and that's available in family restaurants. So why not just stick a luxury consumption tax on it and earn more money to fight other gang-related crimes?
In Holland, they've effectively taken marijuana out of the crime scene. They've contained it above ground, in places where the police know it is licensed to be bought and sold. And if we took the people on marijuana charges out of the prisons, could that help reduce the prison overcrowding problem?
I really don't know. Just thinkin'.
What I do know is that America needs to get serious with itself about the American based crime world. While race-based gang violence has been marginalized as a national issue, US gangs have built national and international networks and power structures that are very similar in operation to terrorist networks abroad. If America starts getting smart about understanding terrorists at home, then maybe we've got a shot at making some sense in a global war on terrorism. We are obsessed with crime shows on TV, but then we go out onto the city streets with our eyes closed to it. Or have we become numbed into believing that what is on TV is what real is supposed to be like?
Hmm... You think that's because of the marijuana?
Burning Bush 2 - Meanwhile, there's the W guy. You know, the one who's first reaction when disaster strikes is to just stand there and burn. Watching all those Dukes of Hazzard re-runs in his younger days must have shaped his worldview into thinking that action just magically happens, like on TV. They say Marijuana does that to people too.
For me, the Katrina debacle is yet another confirmation of a theme my husband and I discussed several times during our trip. It seems to us that many Americans really believe - or are trying to convince themselves to believe - that the American way of life is better than life in other parts of the world. That everyone wishes they could be Americans. That the American way of life is worth protecting, and we need to be afraid of all the others out there who want what we've got.
That's just not it.
There's lots of great stuff out there in the world that is way better than what we've got in America. Our media is doing a lot these days to make us terrified of everything foreign. All you hear about is the disasters. Well, as we now know, there are disasters everywhere - even in America. But there are lots of good things too, that Americans simply don't know about.
The sad thing is, while the media spends hours reporting on what Nicole Ritchie's dog is wearing, the world is developing independently of America, and passing America by. American families are missing out on the best the world has to offer by sticking their heads in the sand and obeying Government orders to be afraid.
Poor George has all this power and doesn't know what to do with it. And like my own family in the USA, the Bushes seem to have high levels of what I call the drama gene. The current George and his government are certainly good at creating drama. It's just that the slapstick superhero genre is getting a little old. Self-inflicted destruction of a nation is something you can only watch a couple of times before it starts getting tired.
And what a shame to lose the America that once was. I can look back and be glad that I experienced America in more glorious days, before so much started sliding downhill. I've been mostly living abroad since the mid-80s, and even though I wanted to leave, I can honestly say those were good days in America. It's very sad to see my country falling apart, both abroad and at home. As the Katrina debacle unfolded to a shocked global audience in airports on the way back to Uganda from America, I watched my memories going up in flames, around the second vision that looked to me very much like a burning bush.
Since returning to Uganda and settling back into my work as a peacebuilder, I feel this incredible need to want to start setting things in stone, and get moving. I think Moses might have clicked with me in this. And after thinking long and hard about the burning bushes and what they might mean, a Piece Path is the best idea I've come up with.
To be continued... The baby just puked again.
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I've read a ton of stuff here since being gone for 6 weeks and it's all swimming in my head! Lots of stuff happening at the Onet community - GREAT stuff! Congratulations everybody on all the movement I see in the big picture!
You are invited here to step back with me and look at this wonderful picture. Help fill in the gaps. Tell about any amazing stuff coming together for you of late, that can help paint a collective picture of where we stand as a community in this battle for making good stuff happen!
Let's make some sense out of this tapestry we are weaving. It's really gorgeous! Like a magic carpet to a new future!
I'll start -
Startdate: 14 September 2005
A group of 20 Life in Africa members will attend a Peace Tiles workshop to kick off a new piece-building push into Northern Uganda. The completed tiles will physically be mounted at the WE Center as a frame around the Peace Tiles mural created by the Omidyar.net community at a conference in Chicago last July.
Each participant will pay shs. 6,500 per tile, which will actually pay for the creation of 2 Peace Tiles. The second tile they buy will be for a Peace Tiles party to be tentatively held on the weekend of October 1-2 at Gusco reception center in Gulu. If all goes according to Life in Africa's plan, the peace tiles made by 20 child soldiers will be auctioned online to start up a community Peace & Reconciliation factory project in Gulu.
The PR Factory's aim is to serve as a community-owned profit-making gathering place for workers, children and parents involved in a range of peace-building and income-generating activities that are designed to promote awareness of Northern Uganda in the world. The factory will work with local athletics based activities to engage the community in producing art, music and craft products packaged to link consumers in other countries with Northern Uganda's stories.
The PR Factory will build on a merger of innovations designed by 2 East African social entrepreneurs from the global Ashoka network of Innovators for the Public. Trevor Dudley brings outstanding programs in athletics, the delivery of community peacebuilding messages and corporate engagement programs from his experience as Founding Commissioner of The Kids League. Christina Kirabo Jordan's Webbed Empowerment (WE) Center concept launched earlier this year bridges the Uganda based Life in Africa Foundation's member activities in peace-building and craftmaking with opportunities available through a growing new online community designed & launched 1 year ago by the legendary founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar.
The first Peace Tiles made by children in Gulu last July are now underway to Darfur, Sudan with a fellow peacebuilder from the Omidyar community. As the PR Factory in Gulu continues to develop, other members of the Omidyar.net community are developing more social product ideas, developing global franchising concepts and consumer mainstreaming strategies, and hammering out tomorrows shapes in bylaws for governing these new international alliances for profitable peace-building on a global scale.
A conference of Onet community members is tentatively scheduled in Uganda in December. That's a little over 90 days from now, which could potentially serve as an extremely good reason to mount an Onet monitoring and evaluation mission to Uganda.
All I can say to what my mind sees as potential and significance in all of this now is WOW!
Zap quickly to the present:
Please fill me in - what's been happening around here? What are the major developments you see? I would love to understand all the different pieces folks working on to see what can fit together and start to really make happen now. I have more to tell y'all too!
P.S. - It's good to be back. I'll be chiming in on a couple of other threads soon.
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There's a whole new and different kind of micro-philanthropy experiment now happening here that I hope this community is going to love! It's just launched today, so please go look!!!
Here's the story
Remember the Invisible Children solidarity bracelets that Life in Africa's artisan groups submitted design samples for a few weeks ago? Well, we're auctioning off the designs that weren't selected for mass production, to help IC raise money for the first 1,000 piece production trial. Some of them are really gorgeous.
Internet4Change trainees at the WE Center here in Uganda have been assigned the task of uploading the auction pages. 8% of the auction proceeds will feed into an earn and learn program that provides them with a small amount of compensation and helps defray their connectivity costs. Another 8% on all products sold through Life in Africa this year goes to a community chosen charity. Both the IC crew and the i4c Team unanimously agreed that on this auction it should go to Margaret, to help pay for her surgery.
I am so excited about this! In case you haven't noticed by now, I love it when lots of my favorite causes can be uplifted through a single action. 15 bracelets are already online in a week long auction that started today. Another 9 bracelets or so will be uploaded within the next couple of days. The IC crew told me they'd send out the link in their newsletter - hopefully today or tomorrow. We'll be advertising as much as we can this week, so please pass the auction link along to your friends if you can.
Since this is our first online auction, we don't have an ebaY reputation yet. To try and address that, I've linked all of our auction pages to this page, so that interested visitors might click and get a sense of how this community feels about all the initiatives this auction is designed to impact. Thanks in advance for posting any endorsements you can muster below, and don't forget to bid on your favorites! Most of the designs have the names of real invisible children on them. You can read their stories and click to bid right here.
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This just in to share from my good friends at http://ReachOutMbuya.org
Reach Out is a Life in Africa partner project. We're collaborating to find ways both projects' members can access/create mutually beneficial opportunities for change by working together.
Reach Out's founder Margrethe Juncker and I have a LOT in common. She is also an Ashoka Fellow AND a "trailing spouse" in an cross-cultural marriage like me :) My husband works for the EU; hers works for the World Food Program. I've been in Uganda for 7 years; she's been here 5 years. Both of us will (sadly) be leaving Uganda next year :(
Margrethe was in Cambodia prior to Uganda, and also worked with the AIDS affected communities there. She's a medical doctor who believes in treating the person, not the disease. The community her approach has provided the spark to ignite is really very inspirational.
If anyone here would like to order a copy of the video about the project, I will be happy to facilitate delivery on my upcoming trip to Chicago.
Dear Friends,
Reach Out has made a 23 min documentary called HOPE FOR THE FUTURE on our work in Mbuya Parish. In this movie we are focusing on three of our clients, who through their experiences tell about the care and support provided at Reach Out.
We would like to be able to give each of you a copy of the documentary as many of your through various kind of contributions have helped us to make Reach Out what it is. Unfortunately, we can't afford such generosity, so if you are interested kindly take a look at the advertisement attached and see how you can get a copy.
We believe this documentary will be useful to inspire other groups involved with HIV/AIDS care on the ground as well as giving people outside a 'key-hole view" of HIV/AIDS in Africa. First of all we hope this documentary will show, that there is indeed reason to have HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.
Yours, Margrethe Juncker Reach Out
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