WASHINGTON: The director of the Mgbala Agwa Youths Forum (MAYF), Nduka Ozor, will speak at the Strength Based Strategies conference in Hyderabad, India.

The conference is devoted to facilitating global interconnectedness among people seeking solutions to the challenges they face and is focused on promoting the resilience approach as opposed to meeting deficits.

It will meet over three days and provide a wide range of workshops, discussion groups, and sessions on implementing strength-based strategies for solving problems.

NIGERIA: The Mgbala Agwa Youth Forum (MAYF) recently held its general meeting, during which attendees discussed the progress of MAYF’s Catch Them Young program, in educating young people about HIV/AIDS.

The meeting was held on July 28 at the Mgbala Agwa hotel and was attended by nearly 2500 persons from the Mgbala Agwa and surrounding areas. Government representatives, media, health officers both from the community health centre and the local government primary health centre were all in attendance.

The full report of the meeting is available for public viewing upon request.

MGBALA AGWA, NIGERIA: You can’t imagine the excitements of the people of Mgbala Agwa when NABUUR invited Mr. Nduka Ozor, the local representative and a community leader to participate in an 8 days workshop organised in Kenya to train her local representatives on the management of the Local Representative Portal in NABUUR’s website.

The workshop brought together 25 local representatives from around Africa. It was a participatory and action packed workshop. Other issues covered in the workshop included coaching and counseling of local community members.

Claudia took the participants on the management of the website and other internet operations.She also taught on how to post and respond to facilitators, and other neighour’s inquiries using the tools available on the website.

Edmee, in another energy sapping sessions took participants through the activities of NABUUR,their relationships with her local representatives, facilitators, and volunteers.

She informed the participants that it is painful when local representatives do not come online to discuss with their facilitators on issues bothering them about their community. Edmee called on all local representatives to change their attitudes to make a serious impact on their time.

Edmee a trained Administrator said that for any local representative who knows her onions should led her neighbours, facilitators and even donors by hand into the activities of the community by posting regularly on what is going on in their respective communities.

It was a very interesting exercise. Participants called for more of such training, they also called on NABUUR to help the local representative make practical impact in their community.

he entire programme was financed by NABUUR. Laptops and digital camera were distributed to the participants by NABUUR to enable them carry on their jobs effectively.