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Lastest News Flash for 1st May, 2008
Translations and recordings
Jack and Nigel are back in Malawi having toured South Africa at breakneck speed
Sarah Jackson runs the London Marathon!
tme India created!
Brainstorming on Distribution and Marketing
Links being developed with Alison.com
Euro Talk Junior Language Challenge
News from Zambia
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April has been a fantastic month for getting lesson scripts recorded into languages needed by our overseas partners:
Within a 2 week period, along with a French and a Hindi recording, three Ugandan women came to Leamington Spa and stayed overnight to help us get 12 recordings in 3 different Ugandan languages (Lugisu, Acholi and Ateso.)
Luckily some of our Associates and friends have expressed an interest in helping facilitate recordings, so a willing team is now able to spread the load and increase the possible output.
A plea for help with translation printed in the ‘South African’ magazine has resulted in several new volunteers - one of whom did an Afrikaans translation of one of our lesson scripts overnight!
Naomi Lumutenga, who kindly recorded 4 Lugisu scripts (pictured with her husband, Charles, and Bev at our office in Leamington).
They have been working with Tom and Alison Husbands to look at getting new discs into Chichewa and the existing lessons have gone down very well there. Amazingly, they are due back next month after five months on the road. They will return with some new recordings and a whole lot of new experiences under their belts!
News
Sarah Jackson completed the London Marathon in 4 hours and one minute!!
In doing so she raised a fantastic £2,320 for tme.
Well done Sarah and many thanks to everyone who donated.
£2,000 will buy portable DVD players for 33
locations around the world where people need to learn the basic messages of
our DVDs.
The father of our Associate Jyotsna Chadrani has fulfilled his offer to create an Indian branch of tme and register it as a charity there. This foundation also called tme is registered in Calcutta and is able to raise money tax effectively within India as well as implement projects. This could have huge implications for the future and we look forward to working with Mr. Chadrani to set it up as an effective partner.
The session on marketing and distribution brought together 20 people as
diverse as award winning entrepreneurs, high level retailers, Ugandan
project implementers and factory managers!
The session looked at some of the
constraints limiting the impact of our work and suggested solutions
improving it. Although some of the ideas were mutually exclusive the
priorities for the future are around focussing on the distribution of our
existing lessons, plugging into networks which can handle distribution for
us, having a one-off trial to distribute 1,000 players over the next year
and using the Indian branch of tme (see above) to handle worldwide
distribution efforts.
We have been in touch with Mike Feerick of Alison.com which is an on-line learning website committed to delivering education free of charge to the user. Mike is keen to explore ways of delivering our content via the web and his team is working on putting a sample lesson up over the coming days. Mike has also agreed to take part in our marketing and distribution brainstorm on 16th April in London.
Want to inject some fun into foreign languages using ICT?
Don't have the teaching time to organise MFL?
Does the sound of a competition appeal?
The Euro Talk Junior Language Challenge can help you with all of this and more! It's the national competition Euro Talk organise every year for under 11's and they are inviting your school to join!
Euro Talk supply the software for all three rounds of the competition. There's a small fee of £2.50 per entrant and all the money raised goes to thare machi education.
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Our good friend, Jane Kaye–Bailey has just returned from a trip to Zambia, where she distributed multiple copies of our 4 HIV\AIDS DVDs and our lesson on "When to have a baby".
From an email during her trip Jane said:
"I am having a great success with the DVDs, though I wasn't able to bring them all out this trip because of the weight; however
I have been visiting other schools in Livingstone and gave a full set to the Vice–President of Zambia when I met him last week!
Will tell you more on my return but everyone loves them!"
Having just spoken to Jane now that she's back in the UK she mentioned that in one town school they already have an active HIV\
AIDS awareness programme, but the headmaster was very excited to have a new, interactive resource to add to their existing material.
A lesson specifically on promoting condom use has also been suggested, because,
although condoms are free in Zambia, many villagers are still unaware that
condoms can help prevent HIV\AIDS, as well as helping alleviate poverty by
enabling people to plan if and when to have children.
Zambian School Children
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| Country | Language |
|---|---|
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Lingala |
| Uganda | Runyankole, Lugisu |
| India | Marathi, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Assmaese |
| Zambia | Chin’yanja |
| Nigeria | Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo |
If you speak any of the above languages, please contact Bev Pettle on (01926) 422711 or email Bev Click Here.
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