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LINCCO
has worked with Condoray
– a training centre for women in the Cañete
Valley, south of Lima – for over 20 years.
The
most recent project was a grant of $18,000 to train
48 Rural Women Leaders in 2003/04. The participants
came from villages in the Cañete valley and
received training to provide leadership to others
in their communities for educational, family and social
improvements. They received skills training in agriculture,
nutrition, hygiene, first aid and child care.
Background
on Condoray:
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Condoray means strength in Quechua, the local
native dialect of the Canete Valley. It was founded
in 1963.
- More
than 20,000 women in 18 villages have benefited
from its programs
- Cañete
Valley has 156,000 inhabitants of which:
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Less than 10 per cent of women earn a salary
allowing them to meet their basic needs
- 80
per cent of women are illiterate
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70 per cent of homes do not have running water
or electricity
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The infant death rate before first birthday
is 160 per 1,000 births
CECFOR – Democratic Republic of Congo
Beginning in 2005, LINCCO partnered with the Charron Foundation to undertake a $100,000 commitment over five years to develop tourism and hospitality industry skills among young people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Government bodies involved in tourism requested that Congolese Centre for Culture, Training and Development (CECFOR) include their students and staff in the training program. In the first four months of operation, 110 people, mostly women, benefited from the training.
The program consists of:
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Individual skills inventory followed by personal coaching
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Creation of teaching materials and a documentation resource centre
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Train the trainer programs for teachers in educational institutions
Special
Projects
In 2005, LINCCO partnered with Servir Plus to send a Canadian nurse to the Institut supérieur en sciences infirmières (ISSI) for eight weeks to train nurses working at the Centre hospitalier Monkole in Kinshasa. ISSI is a 50 student nursing program, started in 1994.
In 2006, a Canadian paediatrician, Dr. Albert Larbrisseau from the Centre hospitalier Ste-Justine in Montreal, spent a month at Monkole training physicians in specialized pediatric subjects.
Background on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
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DRC is struggling to rebuild following ethnic strife that began in 1994 and then a five year civil war that ended in 2003, estimated to have caused between three and four million deaths. This war was especially brutal, with the use of child soldiers and rape. Repeated pillaging, lawlessness and internal refugee migration further de-stabilized the DRC.
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Democratic elections were held in 2006 and the fragile peace is holding and rebuilding is underway.
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Despite the ending of hostilities, the lot of DR Congo’s citizens has improved only marginally. It is estimated that in 2005, 1,000 people were dying every day from war-related causes, including disease, hunger and violence. It is also estimated that 2.7 million people have HIV/AIDS of a total 65 million population, causing 100,000 deaths/year.
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Decades of decline, instability and war have left DRC’s economy and institutions weakened. Most economic activity is informal. Institutions such as all levels of education and health care are inadequate for the needs of the people.
Yarani
– Ivory Coast
As
part of the Harambee 2002 project, LINCCO received donations that were part
of an international fund raising campaign.
Donations
to LINCCO went to the Yarani Professional Training
School to train 120 women, allowing the students to
only pay one-third of the actual cost of their education.
The program was in hotel management, instructing them
about the food industry, customer service and computer
literacy.
As
female illiteracy is 66 per cent in Ivory Coast, this
course was designed for women with limited formal
education, allowing them to increase their chance
of integrating into the workforce. |
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