Positive about MasonLaporte's future with NGOs

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Selene has finished the first three day training in Amman, she reports feeling satisfied and tired. I'm waiting for more details, and looking forward to catching up with her properly via skype soon.


Selene

Sarri returns from 6 weeks in Lebanon on Sunday - we're meeting next week for a debrief and to plan next steps. I'm feeling increasingly excited by what MasonLaporte can offer INGOs and NGOs in different locations with the experience we are building.


Sarri in Lebanon

Starting in Jordan and some local help for a friend

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I had a text message from Selene at 1am last night letting me know she'd arrived safely in Jordan. I'm now imagining her exploring small parts of the city for the first time and preparing herself to meet the Tdh staff tomorrow. Selene and I spent a couple of days preparing for her conflict transformation work with Tdh's child protection project with Iraqi refugees.

I'm also excited about being asked to share NVC with a mother and her two children aged 9 and 12. She says they're having some issues: 'it's like world war three here'. I really enjoy working in this way and seeing a practical outcome. We're all meeting up tomorrow.

Preparing for Amman

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It was great to welcome Selene to Brighton today. She arrived hot from Buenos Aires where she's been teaching NVC-based mediation.

So now Selene and I have a couple of days together before she leaves for Amman in Jordan - where she'll be running the NVC component of Terre des hommes' child protection project with Iraqi refugees. The idea is to help local staff create more connected relationships with adults and children using NVC, and to help families use NVC in the home and so improve child protection. The work is based on projects in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan run in 2008-2009.

For a full report of this work click here (or; save target/links as).