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Attachab
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John Dada's vision for Attachab is that it will be a model integrated farm with a high hands-on learning component, it will be the base for various SMEs...
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Collage-network - The Age of Collaboration
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Collage-network is a UK based social business addressing the challenges of unemployment.
The initiators:
Nikki Fishman and Pamela McLean are co-founders and...
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Dadamac Day
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(Written by Pamela McLean September 2009)
Dadamac Day is an annual celebration which is held online and at Fantsuam Foundation.
The start
Dadamac Day grew from...
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Dadamac's Posterous
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It is an alterative space for quickly publishing content on the web. Orignally used for open letters and things that didn't have an obvious "place" within...
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Dadmac.net an experiment in information sharing
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Dadamac.net is an experiment in information sharing, not a traditional website. It is exploring strategies to make grassroots information more visible and easy...
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Daily Nutritional support for Orphans and Vulnerable Children - Visibility
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Ongoing: Fantsuam Foundation provides daily nutritional support, in this instance lunch, for 17 OVCs .
These children are highly vulnerable HIV/AIDS orphans...
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Elderly-Kakas Programme
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The Kakas Programme (‘grandmother’ in Hausa) serves grandmothers that have taken on the role of caregiver to their grandchildren. The majority of their parents...
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ESSPIN
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April 2010, Fantsuam Foundation signed a DFID contract to reactivate local community involvements in running of village schools.
ESSPIN stands for...
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Fantsuam Foundation - initial "visibility" project
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The original reason for setting up www.dadamac.net was to make Fantsuam Foundation more visible on the Internet, and to illustrate how dadamac could make...
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Fast Tractor
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Fast Tractor is a UK based initiative started in May 2012 to help Fanstuam Foundation purchase a government subsidised tractor. The tractor is to use at...
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Feeding the Street Children - visibility
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Known locally as the Almajirai Food Programme.Fantsuam Foundation is feeding approximately twenty street children.
The project is targeting the Muslim children...
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First Thursdays
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First Thursdays are a series of online chats that take place on the First Thursday of every month. To take part see First Thursday Meeting Updates
"First...
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GlobalNet21 Learning Networks
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(Written January 2013)
The initiators
Francis Sealey, Pamela McLean (me) and Steve Podmore.
The backstory
Francis is the founder of GlobalNet21 (GN21). Steve...
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Julliet Makhapila's project - visibility
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Updated January 2013
Julliet is a Kenyan living in London. She set up a small feeding programme for children in her home village, from her own pocket,...
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Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC)
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The Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC) is at the main Fantsuam Foundation compound. The KRC offers free Internet connectivity, and reference books, CDs and...
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Microfinance - visibility
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Microfinance was established at Fantsuam Foundation, Nigeria in 2001 following the Grameen model.
Its success has been overseen by Kazanka Comfort and John...
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Plastic recycling - a pilot study
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A collaboration between Fantsuam Foundation and Developing Technologies. Funded by Comic Relief. Initiated by Dadamac.
Updated September 2012
Linus in UK...
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Sickle Cell - visibility
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This is a project overseen by John Dada and run by Fantsuam Foundation.
The aim is to raise the awareness of this disease both locally and internationally.
To...
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Supporting Yidnek ref Skype is Illegal in Ethiopia
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This is not an initiative or project in the usual sense, but it is inlcuded here because it is the story of someone in our network. It also raises issues about...
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UK-Nigeria weekly meetings
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Dadamac UK-Nigeria team meetings are held on Skype, and are typed. They have a set agenda and last for one hour. You can read the unfolding story of all the...
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Academic-practitioner collaboration
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Dadamac actively supports closer collaboration between academics and practitioners. We are interested in the theory behind the practical work that we do...
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Another Pyramid of Peace?
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Kenyan elections are scheduled for March 2013. Various people in Dadamac and Minciu Sodas remember both the violence and the conflict resolution work from last...
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Beekeeping - training and livelihoods
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Typically in Nigeria, honey is collected from the wild, and then sold by women in the local markets. It can be contaminated with debris, brownish in colour,...
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Broadband for Nigeria (BB4N) - visibility
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John Dada is actively involved in this project.
On August 28th 2010 he chaired the Broadband for Nigeria stakeholders Forum in Abuja, Nigeria.
Prior to this...
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Cameras For Communication (C4C)
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Cameras for Communication (C4C) is a practical training course, covering basic camera operating skills, specifically for communication.
(First two photos here...
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Child Carer Project - visibility
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Successfully completed. The child carer project targeted child headed homes. The 50 beneficiaries were children who had had to assume the adult...
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Chris Macrae and the Muhamad Yunus Book Club
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Chris Macrae was keen to promote the ideas in Muhamad Yunus’ book, ‘World Without Poverty’. To this end he distributed free copies of the book and...
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Climate Change
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This initiative is to bring together Dadamac things related to climate change, initially for the benefit of Coalition of the Willing. The initiative was set...
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Collaborators Connect
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Dadamac's Collaborators Connect is an online community initiated by me (Pamela McLean). It's where we connect with each other because we can do more together...
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Collaborators connect and climate change
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Whatever you believe about climate change, there is no denying:
We live on a finite planet and so it makes sense to live in harmony with it, rather than to...
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Community Action Committees (CACs) - visibility
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This is a Fantsuam Foundation initiative.
In December 2010 Fantsuam Foundation contacted community leaders from the many different districts that they...
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Community Cohesion and Conflict Resolution
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This initiative was started in response to the challenge that John Dada is facing because of post election violence,in the local community (in the...
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Community Media Unit (CMU) - visibility
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At the UK- Nigeria meeting on 6th April 2011, John Dada informed us that Fantsuam Foundation now has a team of enthusiasts keen to start their new Community...
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Courses for ‘Crown Agents’
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Pamela first contributed to Crown Agents courses at the invitation of David McLean (no relative). She did half-day presentations related to the work in...
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Dadamac Economics - SIG 2011
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In the Dadamac Economics Special Interest Group some Dadamac Learners are exploring their own interests related to ecoconomics in the 21st century.
Pamela's...
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Digital footprints
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This is an exploration of digital footprints as a way of demonstrating competence (especially in emerging areas which lack the easy reference points of...
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Ecodome at Attachab
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Marcus Simmons has helped people to construct eco-friendly buildings, including ecodomes, in various countries. He wanted to discover if the methods would...
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ExpLAN and field trials of the Solo
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In 2002 Pamela organised a field trip for Paul Richardson of Explan. They spent the first week in Abuja meeting with politicians, thanks to Senator Diffa...
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Famine Prevention Project - visibility
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The background and current situation
On April 18th 2011, post-election violence broke out in five of the communities where the NGO, Fantsuam Foundation...
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HIV/AIDS Programme - visibility
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Fantsuam Foundation's mission is to eliminate poverty and disadvantage through integrated development programmes.
Close to 4,500 individuals benefit from...
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Information Centre at Ago-Are
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The Ago-Are Information Centre was set up by OCDN (Oke-Ogun Community Development Network) in Nigeria in collaboration with Pamela McLean in UK as the main...
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Kafanchan Peace Market - visibility
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Following the post-election violence in April 2011 the idea of rebuilding the razed market as a peace and reconciliation project emerged from discussions...
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Kafanchan Peace Traders - visibility
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April's Post-Election violence in Kafanchan took the local community by surprise.
Summary
Fantsuam Foundation, led by John Dada, was at the heart of tending to...
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Landscape of Change
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This is a perspective on our rapidly changing world. Think of it like a rough sketch map to help us find our way as we stumble (or run, or slide, or whatever)...
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Maria Agnese Giraudo Memorial
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This initiative was set up in response to the sad and unexpected news of Maria's sudden death on February 21st 2011. As people shared the news, and responded...
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Martin Luther Day January 2012 - Kafanchan - visibility
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During one of the regular UK-Nigeria online meetings in November 2011, John Dada, CEO of Fantsuam Foundation, shared with the team his vision.John told us...
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Nafsi Acrobats - visibility
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The Nafsi Acrobats are based in Nairobi. As well as performing they do great work with deprived children. It might help them to use www.dadamac,net to tell...
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Needs analysis for COL
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In 2003 Krishna Alluri of COL (Commonwealth of Learning) asked Pamela to do a needs analysis in Ago-Are. David Mutua and Pamela organised this together....
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Oke-Ogun Community Development Network (OCDN)
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This is the network that was set up in Oyo State to continue the work of the late Peter Adetunji Oyawale. The commitee was originally called Oke-Ogun...
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Orphans and Vulnerable Children - visibility
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Our sister organisation, Fantsuam Foundation, in North Central rural Nigeria, runs an Orphans and Vulnerable Childrens Programme (OVCs) which includes the...
