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Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira
Peer-Support Training For Nonliterate And Semiliterate Female Ex-Combatants: Experience In Burundi, Cameron Macauley, Monica Onyango, Eric Niragira
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
In September 2011, 25 female veterans of Burundi’s civil war were trained to become peer-support workers. The five-day training, funded under a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and conducted by James Madison University’s Center for International Stabilization and Recovery, was the first of its kind to offer peer-counseling skills to nonliterate and semiliterate women.
World Education, Inc., Cisr Journal
World Education, Inc., Cisr Journal
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
After nearly a lifetime of work as an educator in China and throughout the world, Welthy Honsinger Fisher returned to India to continue her work in education at the request of Mahatma Gandhi in 1947. She founded the Literacy House, a small school providing basic education and agricultural training for disadvantaged adults. Observing that literacy training was needed to empower men and women worldwide, in 1951, she and others founded World Education, an international nonprofit dedicated to world literacy.
A Holistic Approach: Vvaf’S Work To Improve Lives In Vietnam, Joseph House
A Holistic Approach: Vvaf’S Work To Improve Lives In Vietnam, Joseph House
The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Transferred to the International Center in 2008, the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation conducts a multitude of projects aiming to protect the health and welfare of the Vietnamese people. VVAF approaches the security and well-being of Vietnamese citizens with a holistic mindset. Projects include demining, rehabilitation, vocational training, Agent Orange and dioxin mitigation, community-based mental health training and school construction projects.