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WARD Participant Success
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Baturu
Mboge enrolled in the WARD training
three years ago even though he had not yet completed his BA at UoTG. At
first tentative, Baturu quickly became one of our strongest
facilitators. He has facilitated in all CDF deliveries as well as the
Human Relations and Development Economics courses. He has said that his
experience has changed his life and that he now wants to become a
professional trainer and continue to work with WARD. Even when he is
not teaching, Baturu often sits at the back of the classroom observing
the delivery and building his own facilitation skills. |
| He has also written WARD activities and provided feedback and
research. He traveled to Ghana, his first time outside of the Gambia,
where he successfully delivered two weeks of Human Relations and
Development with UDS professors. Baturu is nearly finished his
undergraduate degree program and is now planning on completing his MA
Saint Mary's University in 2004. |
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Alieu
Darboe recently graduated from the UoTG
and was trained in April, 2002 as a WARD faciliator. Alieu applied and
was selected to go to Saint Mary's University to complete his MA in
International Development. He began in September, 2002 and quickly
became an outstanding student at SMU, providing Canadian students with
an experienced perspective on development issues. |
Besides being a real student leader, Alieu was very
successful academically and will receive his MA from SMU this April. He
is returning to the UoTG and will continue to work with WARD.
In Canada, he noticed vast differences in student resources. In the
Gambia, people are rich in social capital and essentially become each
other's libraries. In Canada, students have endless varieties of
resources from large updated libraries, to Internet access at their
fingertips. He was also impressed with the highly trained and motivated
teachers, which he observed helped him in good study practice.
After only a short time in Halifax, Alieu was interviewed by McLeans, a
popular Canadian magazine.
Upon his return to the Gambia, Alieu has to write a thesis. He has
chosen to focus on decentralization and popular participation.
Development in the Gambia is embarking on a decentralization program.
One of the objectives of the program is to lead to popular
participation at the grass roots level. Alieu will be examining the
process to see if in fact decentralization leads to popular
participation. He will look at decentralization issues from both the
local and national level and compare the government's views with the
views of the people. Good luck Alieu! |
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