By Nduka Ozor, MAYF
4 October 2005

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.