At first I thought it was a joke when Harry Chikandira the
Action Aid Programes officer told us that we were going to translate the child
massages and help in renaming the child sponsorship photos. I looked at the place
we are coming from which is completely a remote place and I never trusted one
of us to march the standard of translation of about 450 child massages that
were going to be read by people from overseas.
I was however proved wrong when I saw Harry Chikandira and
his colleague Alepha coming to train us on message translation. When the
training started most of us were expecting to go straight and start practicing writing
but it was a different story when Harry started to give us a strong foundation
on the following:
Understanding of AAIM
by the youths –Mission, vision, values
How Action aid get its source of funding.
Processes followed in child sponsorship management
Supporter needs dissatisfaction and appreciation to continue
with the link.
Community expectation and roles in the management and
utilization of the funds
After that I felt motivated to and encouraged to start off
the training as I felt that I was obligated to do so and it was part of my duty
to help translate the child messages. The background of child sponsorship
motivated the rest of the activista team to give their best during the
training.
After the training we however went on to translate about 450
messages and renamed photos on computer with the help of the computer literacy
skills we were trained by the Action aid inspirator Ayanda it was easy for us
to grab fast on how to rename them when Harry taught us.
two activistas translating massages. |
Our activista group has been cemented during the past 5
months having an inspirator and the child massages translation put concrete on
us and we will never be the same again. I now believe if action aid’s motto is
saying “lets end poverty together”
despite our location, level of education and age these action aid ambassadors
are enriching us and empowering us.
by albert sakala
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