Comments on: Profiled: A Canadian Community-Capacity Champion http://dailygumboot.ca/2009/08/profiled-a-canadian-community-capacity-champion/ using ideas from everywhere to build community Mon, 21 May 2012 19:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kurt Heinrich http://dailygumboot.ca/2009/08/profiled-a-canadian-community-capacity-champion/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Kurt Heinrich Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:07:46 +0000 http://dailygumboot.ca/?p=433#comment-253 Michelle, This a really neat organization. What other projects besides the methane-powering pit latrine does the organization construct? I'd love to hear about some of their other ideas. Michelle, This a really neat organization. What other projects besides the methane-powering pit latrine does the organization construct? I’d love to hear about some of their other ideas.

]]> By: John Horn http://dailygumboot.ca/2009/08/profiled-a-canadian-community-capacity-champion/comment-page-1/#comment-250 John Horn Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:48:32 +0000 http://dailygumboot.ca/?p=433#comment-250 Here is my favourite thing about your article (and it reflects your delightful "general way of being," too): so often the "developed" world focuses on what we can do to "help" the "developing" world; your analysis of Partners in the Horn of Africa reflects just how far we have to go in terms of building community capacity and, I gotta say, sustainability, too. To quote a friend, a more "holistic" look at community, health, business, education, and all the rest of it is something that we can surely learn from Partners in the Horn of Africa. When it comes to caring about one's neighbours, we North Americans have got nothing on Downtown Africa. East Africa has a tough time ahead of it, too, and people around the world need to start paying a lot of attention to that regional community. Millions of people from Kenya to Sudan to Ethiopia are enduring one of the worst droughts in decades: http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-94274-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html. This might be a good time to stay home for dinner, only order one pint of beer, maybe not buy those new shoes, and give what you can to some people who are going to go through spectacularly hard times in the next few months. Twitblog the Interscape to find a charity that fits your values the best. Oh, I also like saying "The Horn of Africa" because my last name is Horn. And, one time, I went to Africa. - JCH Here is my favourite thing about your article (and it reflects your delightful “general way of being,” too): so often the “developed” world focuses on what we can do to “help” the “developing” world; your analysis of Partners in the Horn of Africa reflects just how far we have to go in terms of building community capacity and, I gotta say, sustainability, too. To quote a friend, a more “holistic” look at community, health, business, education, and all the rest of it is something that we can surely learn from Partners in the Horn of Africa. When it comes to caring about one’s neighbours, we North Americans have got nothing on Downtown Africa.

East Africa has a tough time ahead of it, too, and people around the world need to start paying a lot of attention to that regional community. Millions of people from Kenya to Sudan to Ethiopia are enduring one of the worst droughts in decades: http://www.idrc.ca/fr/ev-94274-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html. This might be a good time to stay home for dinner, only order one pint of beer, maybe not buy those new shoes, and give what you can to some people who are going to go through spectacularly hard times in the next few months. Twitblog the Interscape to find a charity that fits your values the best.

Oh, I also like saying “The Horn of Africa” because my last name is Horn. And, one time, I went to Africa.

- JCH

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