Sujo … One COURAGEOUS Young Lady In Bangladesh !!!

On October 21, 2016 By Daniel EmigIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Sujo (edited only slightly from Oct.’16 report received from Bangladesh) …

(name adjusted to protect her) age 15, in class 10 faced a BIGGEST challenge in her life. After her class as she came back to her home she found many unknown guests … all of them were waiting for her! She thought they might be relatives. Surprisingly she found that they came to see her to choose her as bride for one of their sons. She knows what it means and she knows suffering is waiting for her. She took initiative with mighty courage that her family were astonished. She said, “If I am even killed I will not marry. I will study and make a career to help my parents. I will not allow anyone to destroy my dream. If anyone dare to do so has to kill me first”. Parents said that they unable to bare her education expenses. She said I will manage my own. She urged please don’t force me to merry. Parent could not change her mind so visitors left.

She came back to her group and shared her problem. Everyone gave her courage and Kari(TCD/GHNI mentor) asked her what she loves to do? She loves gardening. And beside her homestead there is a fallow land. She with her group mates clean the land and prepare the land for gardening. She knew this is her only chance to save her dream. She work every day after class. Within a week of her labor she planted gourd in her garden. It was complete madness to the villagers to see a girl working for her marriage(NON!)! “She will get married and cook for her husband family that what she was born for according to the village leader.”(said villagers) She ignored all criticism and worked hard. Besides working in garden she is now giving more time to her mother to assist her in domestic work.

Surprising everyone within 2 month her garden was full of flower! Every flower was a part of fulfilling her dream. She told her group, “If we work hard, a way will be shown to us to overcome any problem of life”. She is selling every other day gourd from her garden. Now it is source of income of her education and source of nutrition of her family. “TCD group has saved my life, by introducing life and hope into my life. Still she is studying and encouraging other member of her group.

Kari ... and some of her wonderful children — Kari (TCD/GHNI mentor)… and some of her wonderful children

Thanks for you … in choosing to be a part of all this!

Daniel

Back Up and Re-group!

On September 30, 2016 By Daniel EmigIn Development, TCD, Team, TrainingLeave a comment

What’s a better attention-getter than a Bob Marley statue, complements of Universal Studio’s(Orlando, Florida)!

A breather from the travels and overseas’ focus, our GHNI-USA(and Geneva, Switzerland) team gathered in Orlando, Florida for a few days of re-grouping, training, camaraderie and new challenges for our future into ’17 and beyond. What an incredibly good time of seeing where we’ve been and accomplished in the past 15 years.

Each team member was able to update their specific focus, and do some healthy projections out into the future, laboring together to help each other in virtually all capacities.

From various regions we work in, each of us were mutually encouraged to hear stories of how Transformational Community Development(TCD) was impacting individuals, villages, cultures, and governments, in ways well beyond each of our individual foci. “Team” matters! Administrative responsibilities in Geneva and Orlando matter deeply into each village!

I am privileged to have such surroundings of this team, each grabbing a nearby baton or rope from another to help. We must have each other!

In the months ahead as you read of villages and lives being transformed, please keep in mind that it’s not “about” me. It’s about our collaborative efforts into the lives … bring Help and Hope to the Hidden and Hurting.

And a HUGE “Thank You” for being equally a part of this team … !!!

Daniel

House of Esther – Spitak, Armenia … there … !

On August 30, 2016 By Daniel EmigIn Armenia, GHNI, refugee, Self-Sustainability, TCD1 Comment

House of Esther – Spitak, Armenia

It’s truly a beauty to behold, when one sees one person, impassioned, committed to a task at hand, accomplish so much in 5 short weeks of their “vacation” time! Please witness this man and his accomplishments … Vince Melkonian.

HoE – House of Esther, in Spitak, Armenia is a future home of transition, healing, and wholeness for refugees out of Syria and other needful locations. Seeing that TCD-Transformational Community Development can happen in this setting, Vince is focused on allowing GHNI to serve alongside he and others, as they help some of the neediest people of Armenian decent, displaced in war-torn locations.

To accomplish this, much logistics have to happen in short order, especially as winter is fast approaching this higher elevation locale.

Pig pens were built. Chicken coops were built. Manure, top-soil and fertilizer were brought in for establishing fields of farming. Green-houses were established. Crops planted in early Spring were harvested. Dorms for refugees were configured. Vision seminars for TCD were taught to those living there and locals. Relationships between organizations were further secured, as UNHCR-Armenia, GHNI, ALEPPO org., and others came together to commit to this special place.

Further help is needed in finances, as we secure a manager for, and make all provisions needful for full-fledged self-sustainability or HoE. Will you please consider these needs and all we all seek to accomplish here. It’s a great semi-rural location for vetted refugees to re-establish life and become healthy again. Donations can be made at: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/ghni-AM-House-of-Esther?code=Refugees%20in%20the%20Middle%20East%20Webpage

Thank you … Daniel!

UNHCR-Armenia - ALEPPO-GHNI + — UNHCR-Armenia – ALEPPO-GHNI +

India 2x Villages: Agriculture & Education foci …

On June 30, 2016 By Daniel EmigIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Jatapara 6-'16 new farming TCD initiates — Jatapara 6-’16 new farming TCD initiates

Your name: Manu Kisku Date – 10 June 2016

Last month I had taught the villagers to do kitchen gardening and grow brinjal, tomato, chlli, etc., so that they don’t have to buy vegetables from the market and they can get nutritious food and they can even sell it. As the result, some of the villgers did it. Dular Hembrom is one of them who tried it. With the little help of us, she grown brinjal this time, and surprisingly she got a large amount of brinjal that she is having it herself, giving it to the neighbour and she has sold some of it to the weekly market and earned more than 500 yet.

It is a solid proof before villagers that with little amout of water, they can get a good vegetable. Now Dular Hembrom is standing as a modal before other and I am trying to teach her success story to others.

Your name: Sanjay Tigga Date – 10 June 2016

The TCD work was started in Kharibari Village under Jalpaiguri District of West Bengal in the month of May 2016. Though I would visit this village once a while and offer study materials among the children, that paved the way to enter in community. From May month I started giving weekly tuition to the children and now around 7-8 children are coming every week. Then one Wednesday I called a gathering of parents and informed them about the por performance fo the children studying in government schools.

The children are so weak so that a 2^nd standard children are not able to read and write English alphabet. Almost all the children are very weak in studies to the poor education system of government schools. When parents were shown how weak their children were, that really raised a concern in their minds. I explain them that we can together overcome this problem provided they help me wholeheartedly. They were happy and now they all are dropping their children to weekly school.

Khairbari 6-'16 TCD Education — Khairbari 6-’16 TCD Education

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