Hi guys, below the email which we prepared with Jessica to be sent out
to all graduates asap. Please confirm asap if we can send it out as we
don't have much time! Tomek
Dear Kanthari graduates,
the global network of kantharis is gradually taking shape.
In the last months our working group has received valuable and very
appreciated feedback from many of you.
As most of you were opting for a legal registration of our network we have:
- drafted a governing document and a web portal - for the future network
- developed 8 criteria for assessing the country most suitable for legal
registration of an international association. Out of 8 analyzed
countries have found out that Germany and Poland are the most promising
in terms of access to donors, relatively low costs and good legal
framework and availability of local kanthari graduates
- started investigating potential funding opportunities to build the
capacity of our network
On coming Friday at 3.30PM (England time) we would love to hear what you
have to say during the 3rd kanthari Alumni Meet Up Skype! If you want to
participate reply to this email and make sure you have kanthari_plus in
your Skype contacts! We will be sending out a detailed agenda tomorrow.
Recently we came across a European Program which funds capacity building
projects of youth organizations between transcontinental youth
organizations from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa who cater to
the needs of vulnerable and disadvantaged youths. A prerequisite of the
funding is the establishment of mobility youth worker projects: training
courses or job shadowings like internships of youth workers in partner
organizations from other countries. We are planning to submit a proposal
for this programme to see if we can get funds for implementing the
activities of our network starting from next year: an online
peer-learning system (teleconferencing software and web portal which
could be accessed from areas with poor internet/eletricity
infrastructure) and a way of making it possible for us to meet and learn
from each other face-to-face.
The proposal is planned to be carried out by a transcontinental
consortium of organizations co-founded by kanthari graduates which form
the current working group: SolidarityFilmDoc (Tomek, Tijana , Poland),
Views International (Jessica, Belgium), Thumbs Up Uganda (Samuel,
Uganda), Bats in Action (Anja, Brazil), Always Reading Caravan (Yoshimi,
Thailand) and ... (David, India). As David does not have a legally
registered organization, a replacement is needed. To implementing
organization who would submit the proposal to the European Comission and
monitor the project would be Foundation for Social Economic Development
from Poland who came up with the idea of the whole project.
Attached please find an excerpt from our draft project application which
we would like to submit latest by 1st September 2015.
We believe that such a project could be a great start up to develop
knowledge and exchange tools, increase the dissemination of these tools
to the entire network of kanthari graduates and other grassroot
changemakers.
We would be grateful if you can give us your opinion about our proposal
considering the aspect, if we should apply for funding or not. Please
send us a reply as soon as possible, so that we are able to take your
advice into account. Further questions can be clarified during the 3rd
kanthari Alumni Meet Up Skype coming Friday.
Best regards
Jessica,
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on behalf of
kanthari alumni working group
Samuel - Uganda Anja - Brazil Yoshi - Thailand David - India Tijana
- Serbia
www.kanthariplus.org/working-group/ (objectives, meeting minutes)
Want to shape how the alumni network should be? Join our discussion list -
alumninetwork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - by replying DISCUSSION to this email.
Attachment:
Strength through Solidarity - objectives and timeframe.odt
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