I'm going to be putting together a special page for Rose, and this is where it will be. Right now, however, it's under construction...Pardon my dust!..........................................
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Rose's Page
I'm going to be putting together a special page for Rose, and this is where it will be. Right now, however, it's under construction...Pardon my dust!..........................................
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Tribute To Russell Thomas Hartsaw
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mark "Hard-To-Please" Arnold are two people who were taken from us way too soon, and both of them were born in different years on the same day of the month: January 15.
January 15 reminds me of them -- but it also reminds me of another special friend who was born on May 14, 1941: Russell Thomas Hartsaw.
What does January 15 have to do with May 14?
January 15, 2007 (when Dr. King would have been 78 and Mark/Hard-To-Please would have been 47) was a milestone day in my life, because it was the day that I met Russell online at an erstwhile social site called (to the best of my memory) Duno.
At the time (as I continue to do to this day), I was seeking out people who were serious about making a positive difference in the lives of others who needed extended hands instead of pointing fingers.
I was impressed with a post written by someone who had spent much of his life incarcerated but was now out making a difference in the lives of homeless and/or at-risk children, teens, and young adults.
We began to write to each other, and I recommended some writing sites he could use to both get the word out about what he did (as well as his dreams of being able to do even more) with one of those being a place called Judy's Book (I went there to investigate and found out that my portfolio was still intact with at least some of the things I wrote -- which is more than I can say for Epinions, but that's another story entirely).
I was unable to locate what Russell wrote, but he actually did a very complimentary review of me, and I was really touched and told him so online. He gave me his phone number, and we did a three-way call to my mom because she also wanted to thank him for doing this.
Thanks to misbehaving computers and other interruptions, I'm going to have to close shop here until next time I'm online, but I wanted to, at least, have the start of this tribute to a wonderful person posted on the 74th Anniversary of the date of his birth, because the world is a much better place for having Russell to pass this way...
(to be continued...)
This Graphic Might Not Say It All...
...but it still says a lot!
Thank you, Siabhra, for creating it! You're using your talents to make a positive difference in the world!!!
Thank you, Siabhra, for creating it! You're using your talents to make a positive difference in the world!!!
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Scotty's Page (Part Two)
(continued from here)
For a growing collection
of
links
Scotty-inspired
shares
...
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Scotty-inspired
shares
...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
Scotty's Page
This tribute is now officially open.
I've kept the construction work to show its history.
April 28, 2015
Coming Soon:
I've kept the construction work to show its history.
April 28, 2015
Coming Soon:
The unveiling of a page dedicated to
Scotty Miller
who passed away
on
April 22, 2015
Due to limited time online
which included some Murphy's Law stuff with my library computer today
which included some Murphy's Law stuff with my library computer today
I was unable to make the progress I'd hoped to.
Not sure when I'll be back online again
but I hope to have some of my behind-the-scenes work up and running
.......
Added to
on
April 28, 2015
Click on this link
to get to Scotty's official memorial site
at
Brown Butz Diedring Funeral Home.
Click on this link
to get to the first tribute I've written to Scotty.
It won't be my last,
because I know that there will be many times
when I think of Scotty
and will want to share my thoughts here.
Continuation of this ongoing tribute
Added to
on
April 28, 2015
Click on this link
to get to Scotty's official memorial site
at
Brown Butz Diedring Funeral Home.
Click on this link
to get to the first tribute I've written to Scotty.
It won't be my last,
because I know that there will be many times
when I think of Scotty
and will want to share my thoughts here.
Continuation of this ongoing tribute
Jillian's Journey
glitter-graphics.com
Once I get this finished, I'm going to post this on Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you're reading this now, it means that I already have it up and running. The project below will be coming up very soon, but Jillian's story won't be stopping with this.
I remember another young lady whose story was in the local news a little over 30 years ago, and people were being told about her. About a year ago, I happened to meet one of her relatives by marriage (former marriage, as this relative was now divorced), and she hadn't kept up with the family that much, but she told me that Sharon Stohler (a name well-known here in Madison County) had survived her own childhood health issues (in her case, having to do with her heart) and had recently (at least, according to what she'd been told) even become a grandma!!!
Thirty years from now, I wonder what Jillian will be up to.
For now, she's a courageous, young lady who would love to get lots of cards, letters, etc. for her upcoming 11th birthday, so her family and friends are trying to make this happen! Please join this global birthday party!
Details below...and, after that, a couple of links that will keep you up with her progress even beyond that time!!!
I remember another young lady whose story was in the local news a little over 30 years ago, and people were being told about her. About a year ago, I happened to meet one of her relatives by marriage (former marriage, as this relative was now divorced), and she hadn't kept up with the family that much, but she told me that Sharon Stohler (a name well-known here in Madison County) had survived her own childhood health issues (in her case, having to do with her heart) and had recently (at least, according to what she'd been told) even become a grandma!!!
Thirty years from now, I wonder what Jillian will be up to.
For now, she's a courageous, young lady who would love to get lots of cards, letters, etc. for her upcoming 11th birthday, so her family and friends are trying to make this happen! Please join this global birthday party!
Details below...and, after that, a couple of links that will keep you up with her progress even beyond that time!!!
glitter-graphics.com
Hello Fellow Supporters ,
We've seen it done before and we feel like trying it for our girl! Birthday cards from around the Globe!!
Jillian's 11th birthday is May 4th. We would like to challenge you two simple things, that would directly help Jillian's Journey.
BIRTHDAY CARDS!! That's right, we'd like EVERYONE to SEND a birthday card and THEN, SHARE THIS STATUS.
This is something that Jillian would have tangible, in her own hands. She'll be able to physically see the OUTPOURING OF LOVE from NEAR AND FAR!!
Doesn't that sound exciting?!!
Cards can be mailed to:
Jillian's Journey
PO Box 293
Yorktown, IN 47396
Doesn't that sound exciting?!!
Cards can be mailed to:
Jillian's Journey
PO Box 293
Yorktown, IN 47396
***PLEASE, send a card full of love. The world should see Jillian's fabulous smile. Each time this story is shared, there are two benefits. First Jillian meeting you, second you creating Jillian's infectious smile!
All of the birthday cards received will be presented to Jillian at the benefit chicken noodle dinner/ birthday bash being held on May 3, 2015 at Cross Roads United Methodist Church, located in Anderson Indiana. All are welcomed to attend!
We are eagarly trying to keep Jilliian's special smile on her face as she continues chemo and radiation treatments for Gliobastoma Multiforme (GBM) brain cancer.
For birthday card ideas, Jillian's favorite characters are Frozen (especially Olaf but she also likes Anna and Elsa), Little Mermaid, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and Tangled. She is also a fan of butterflies and dragonflies.
Thank you all for supporting Jillian on her journey! We encourage you all to share with your friends to follow her page here on Facebook, "Jillian's Journey"!
Here are the links to a couple of Jillian-related places...
Her special Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/jillianmariereed
Her site for progress reports and donation information:
http://www.gofundme.com/n9cksc
It's now June 2, 2015, and I'm sharing a new website for Jillian...
http://www.jilliansjourney.net/
Thank you for filling her mailbox!!!
P.S. Jillian shares a birthday (more recent birth year, of course) with the late, great Dr. Warren C. Polhemus who assisted God with bringing me into the world on Friday, December 12, 1952.
Her special Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/jillianmariereed
Her site for progress reports and donation information:
http://www.gofundme.com/n9cksc
It's now June 2, 2015, and I'm sharing a new website for Jillian...
http://www.jilliansjourney.net/
Thank you for filling her mailbox!!!
P.S. Jillian shares a birthday (more recent birth year, of course) with the late, great Dr. Warren C. Polhemus who assisted God with bringing me into the world on Friday, December 12, 1952.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
"Speaking Of Betty Ann..." (Book Two)
This is a continuation of the part of my empowerment blog that I started for Betty HERE...
Stay tuned for more about Betty...
Larry's Page
!!!This is Larry Eugene "The CanMan" Van Ness!!!
As with Betty, I believe that Larry is one of those very special angels who has come into my life during challenging times and will be somebody who will still be very special to me forever.
One difference, of course, between Larry and Betty is that I'm not crushing on Betty. L
L ...
In the case of Larry, I want to make it clear that the crush didn't come first -- it came later after the admiration, so I'm not just somebody with a crush on some guy and that crush has clouded my thinking so that I think that what he does is wonderful.
It's backwards from that:
I think that what he does is wonderful, so I've developed a very huge crush on him!!!
So, what exactly does Larry do?
For one thing, he loves to wave at people as they drive by his apartment house on North Broadway in North Anderson, Indiana. The waving makes both the people who honk/wave/often blow kisses/sometimes, stop to see him/occasionally, even take his picture and him feel good.
For another thing -- what he sees (right up there neck-to-neck with the waving) as his calling in life -- he collects aluminum tabs to donate to Indiana's own Ronald McDonald House in Indianapolis neighboring Riley Children's Hospital.
Larry also donates recyclables to local schools (Liberty Christian School and Valley Grove Elementary are his two main schools as of this writing on Tuesday, April 21, 2015) to help them with fundraising and other aspects of education.
Anyway, I'll be adding to this page often, but I want to include a couple of my most current writings about him here today...
http://www.bubblews.com/news/9908124-i-bet-he-looked-adorable-wish-i039d-been-there-with-my-camera
http://www.bubblews.com/news/9912628-my-latest-canman-discovery
and this is his own special page
!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!
As with Betty, I believe that Larry is one of those very special angels who has come into my life during challenging times and will be somebody who will still be very special to me forever.
One difference, of course, between Larry and Betty is that I'm not crushing on Betty. L
L ...In the case of Larry, I want to make it clear that the crush didn't come first -- it came later after the admiration, so I'm not just somebody with a crush on some guy and that crush has clouded my thinking so that I think that what he does is wonderful.
It's backwards from that:
I think that what he does is wonderful, so I've developed a very huge crush on him!!!
So, what exactly does Larry do?
For one thing, he loves to wave at people as they drive by his apartment house on North Broadway in North Anderson, Indiana. The waving makes both the people who honk/wave/often blow kisses/sometimes, stop to see him/occasionally, even take his picture and him feel good.
For another thing -- what he sees (right up there neck-to-neck with the waving) as his calling in life -- he collects aluminum tabs to donate to Indiana's own Ronald McDonald House in Indianapolis neighboring Riley Children's Hospital.
Larry also donates recyclables to local schools (Liberty Christian School and Valley Grove Elementary are his two main schools as of this writing on Tuesday, April 21, 2015) to help them with fundraising and other aspects of education.
Anyway, I'll be adding to this page often, but I want to include a couple of my most current writings about him here today...
http://www.bubblews.com/news/9908124-i-bet-he-looked-adorable-wish-i039d-been-there-with-my-camera
http://www.bubblews.com/news/9912628-my-latest-canman-discovery
This is enough to write for now, but Larry's page will keep on being added to, so please return and look for new additions!
(to be continued)...
I've recently gotten online at home -- which means that I will have more options for times when I can get online. I'll fill you in on the progress re: getting situated at a later time, but I wanted to go ahead and add my latest Larry post that I made at Bubblews a few days ago (when I still wasn't connected at home):
http://www.bubblews.com/posts/when-the-whole-world-became-pregnant
Sometime tonight, Larry and I will be talking, and I'll find out how many tabs away he is from his 11th million. When I talked to him last night (which would have been the first day of August), he was 282,760 tabs away. He hopes to have reached 11,000,000 by sometime in late November before the Christmas open house at Ronald McDonald House that will be on December 1 of this year.
(to be continued)...
(to be continued)...
I've recently gotten online at home -- which means that I will have more options for times when I can get online. I'll fill you in on the progress re: getting situated at a later time, but I wanted to go ahead and add my latest Larry post that I made at Bubblews a few days ago (when I still wasn't connected at home):
http://www.bubblews.com/posts/when-the-whole-world-became-pregnant
Sometime tonight, Larry and I will be talking, and I'll find out how many tabs away he is from his 11th million. When I talked to him last night (which would have been the first day of August), he was 282,760 tabs away. He hopes to have reached 11,000,000 by sometime in late November before the Christmas open house at Ronald McDonald House that will be on December 1 of this year.
(to be continued)...
Monday, April 6, 2015
"Speaking Of Betty Ann..."
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UPDATE: Tuesday, April 14, 2015! I've decided to leave in all of the initial construction work so that you can see how this site develops...The construction below is ongoing but was begun on April 7, 2015 (also a Tuesday) although I was able to at least frame it a day earlier than that, which would have been my mom's 93rd birthday...
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Construction work has begun on the page I'm making that is dedicated to an amazing woman!
You will be seeing a lot of activity on this page during the construction time, and it will continue to get added to in the time ahead...
glitter-graphics.com
"Speaking of Betty Ann..."
This catchy, little phrase that has become the title of this page is actually inspired by one of those old family stories that gets passed along -- this one being about Uncle Kermit (who is now 88 as I'm writing here on April 7, 2015 -- with his next birthday coming up on December 9 of this same year) back when he was a youth.
Suddenly, in the middle of some kind of conversation, he said, "Speaking of Betty Ann..." even though nobody was speaking of any Betty Ann at the time and it was more like my then love-struck uncle wanted to get the conversation focused on a certain Betty Ann.
Now, the Betty Ann to whom this page is dedicated isn't, of course, the same one whom Uncle Kermit wanted to become the topic of conversation, but she's really amazing -- like an angel in a human body!
It's interesting how things seem to happen at just the right time so many times.
For instance, how long it took me to get an apartment in Gillespie Tower in Muncie where I now live.
I remember how disappointed I was (and, especially, with the weather getting cooler and cooler and heading towards colder and colder) when there wasn't an immediate opening for an apartment in the building -- and that was one of the things that gave me a case of the blues on October 24, 2013.
But, had I gotten into an apartment then, I would have, probably, been moving some things over there and moving in on that day instead of going along North Broadway in Anderson and noticing a fuzzy-looking, little man on the west side of the street and ending up becoming good friends with him!
Just as he has done with so many others, Larry "The CanMan" Van Ness, lifted my spirits that day just by being himself!
In similar fashion, I kept coming so close other times to having an apartment there -- but I was unable to get to Muncie and claim it at those various times.
Then, one day, it all worked out, and I signed the lease on September 22, 2014 -- and, because it was the right time for this to take place, I ended up having Betty for a next-door neighbor, and she has truly been a blessing to me!
I'm not the only one who has been blessed by this amazing and wonderful woman -- but, when that moving van pulls out of here on May 1, that will mean that our seven-story neighborhood will be losing a beautiful saint of a neighbor, but her daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter down in Virginia will be having a very precious person living with them and making wonderful memories!!!
(to be continued...)
It's now Tuesday, April 14, 2015, and I'm going to be telling you what's going on with Betty.
As I mentioned previously, Betty will be leaving for Virginia soon. Not only is she somebody who is wanting to be closer to her daughters and grandkids (living with her younger daughter, son-in-law, and youngest granddaughter), but, also, she will, likely, be needing a lot of help sometime in the future due to recently learning from her doctor that she shares more with Glen Campbell than trying a little kindness (Betty is actually known for going way beyond trying a little kindness to practicing a lot of kindness and is an angel in an earthly body!).
But--even though she's a realist when it comes to the professional prognosis--she still believes that, with God, all things are possible and believes that the change-of-scenery will actually be helpful to her when it comes to how this challenging drama will play out in her life.
At this time, we're in the process of planning a going away party that will provide (her treat along with some chipping in by others) free party food & good, clean fun for her neighbors plus a few specially invited guests.
I'm not sure when I'll be back online again, but I'll let you know all about that party when I do! It should be a really fun and memorable event!
(to be continued)...
It's April 21, and I've started working on this page again. For starters, I want to share both the TinyURL with a preview here and the regular URL for this page...
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pv6lrez
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/04/speaking-of-betty-ann.html
That way, you can share the link to this page in whatever way you wish, depending on what kinds of space you have and other considerations.
Now, I'm going to be sharing this page on Twitter and on over into Facebook so you can be reading what I have so far, but I'm also going to be working on another part to go into it. I managed to make it to the library early, and there are enough vacant computers that I believe I can stay online for the whole day and get things a bit caught up. We'll see about that...
(to be continued)...
Here's an entry I made about Betty and finished a few minutes ago...
http://babybearbubbles.blogspot.com/2015/04/bettys-party-was-yesterday-shell-be.html
This might (or might not) be the last entry I make about Betty until she leaves on May 1 (the first time I get to a library after that, which, likely, won't be before May 4). I hope you're enjoying the journey so far. As a lot of this page has been taken up introducing her, I think I'm going to hook it to another page that will provide more links as I write them...
coming very soon, the next page of Speaking Of Betty Ann...
(to be continued)...
Betty's ongoing story continues HERE...
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Murphy's Law Comes To My Empowerment Blog!
Spring has come to Indiana -- even though we're still getting a last gasp of winter here and there -- and that means that I'll be able to get online more even if I don't have my own computer yet, as I'll be able to get to the library to use computers there.
Of course, when I get my minivan fixed, I'll be able to get to more places more conveniently -- including public computers with hours upon hours of access time.
However, I'm not going to become a stranger to this wonderful, little library in Downtown Muncie, as it's on place where empowerment is being practiced in some very special ways, which I'll be writing about at a later date.
There are parts of my life that I can view as being inconvenient (and I would be right, because they ARE inconvenient). However, this is an inconvenience used by God for greater purposes than those imagined by my original plans. I'll be writing about this someday soon in a new blog I'll be putting together in the near future -- that is, it will be soon, if that's what God's timing means.
God's "soon" and my "soon" don't always jive, but that's okay by me! Why? Because His "soon" runs circles around my "soon."
Anyway, I've just come across something disappointing, and that is that the pictures I copied over here (with Rose's permission -- and, in fact, at her urging) are no longer showing up.
Therefore, you will just have to imagine what the photographs look like -- and they certainly don't look like those blank (except for some kind of little icon at the top of each one) rectangular areas.
However, the links still work, and they will give you the information.
I guess that, if you want to see the photos, you're just going to have to contact Rose yourself until I can make the kinds of files once more that will result in permanent photographs.
Here's a link to get you started on your journey.
You will find other links within the content of each place you'll go, and I hope you'll keep on delving into the information, because there are several women and girls who are depending on you to learn more and get the word out!!!
Having said that, here is your first link...
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/01/wonderful-update-hope-happens.html
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/01/wonderful-update-hope-happens.html
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Wonderful Update!!! Hope Happens!!!
Due to not having access to my own computer and Internet connection at this time, I have to depend on going somewhere such as a library to get online. At this time of year, winter weather also factors in when it comes to even leaving my apartment building to make it as far as the Village Pantry a block away, much less, to the library. Then, there are days when I have other things going on to where getting to the library is out-of-the-question.
In short, this is my first time to get to the library in 26 days (almost a month!), so Rose and I have been playing catch-up.
She shared a really sad picture with me, which I've shared here:
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/01/sos-emergency-this-has-got-to-stop.html
It shows one of the young slave-brides who ended up getting killed.
We've been messaging back and forth on Facebook, and she gave me some wonderful news that some of our girls had just been sponsored!!!
Here are there pictures!!! How sad it would have been if they had ended up like the girl in the picture in the previous article instead!!! Now, you can see why this mission is so important!!!
SOS!!! EMERGENCY!!! THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!!
If this picture...
makes you any, some, or all of the following:
sad, sick, outraged, angry...
then, go here to find out more about how you can help.
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/01/happy-new-year-from-rose-story-continues.html
The email address you will find included with the information both provides a place to ask questions and use as a PayPal contact for sending cash contributions.
All kinds of help is needed. Even if you can't provide cash and/or supplies, you can share information about the mission, prayer costs nothing and neither do Tweets and other shares!!!
makes you any, some, or all of the following:
sad, sick, outraged, angry...
then, go here to find out more about how you can help.
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2015/01/happy-new-year-from-rose-story-continues.html
The email address you will find included with the information both provides a place to ask questions and use as a PayPal contact for sending cash contributions.
All kinds of help is needed. Even if you can't provide cash and/or supplies, you can share information about the mission, prayer costs nothing and neither do Tweets and other shares!!!
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Happy New Year From Rose!!! (The Story Continues...)
This is just an entry to let you know that Rose is a woman with a mission for sure!!! In fact, she's not only setting goals for 2015 but, also, clear through 2020!!!
If you read what's contained in these links, you'll better understand why this is so important to her--along with those (such as myself) who are right there in her corner with her noising her around.
http://babybearbubbles.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-rose-with-goal-to-do-away-with-thorns.html
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2014/12/here-come-brides-are-you-absolutely-sure.html
Now that you have read what's behing the links, please continue reading about her goals.
She has provided enough contact information for you to get in touch with her, so I hope you will -- as well as sharing this information with others. There are so many ways and opportunities to help, so please seriously study this information and decide how you want to use it...
If you read what's contained in these links, you'll better understand why this is so important to her--along with those (such as myself) who are right there in her corner with her noising her around.
http://babybearbubbles.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-rose-with-goal-to-do-away-with-thorns.html
http://empowermentjourneys.blogspot.com/2014/12/here-come-brides-are-you-absolutely-sure.html
Now that you have read what's behing the links, please continue reading about her goals.
She has provided enough contact information for you to get in touch with her, so I hope you will -- as well as sharing this information with others. There are so many ways and opportunities to help, so please seriously study this information and decide how you want to use it...
MIMUTIE
STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2015-2020
MIMUTIE
WOMEN ORGANIZATION
P.O,BOX
7406 ARUSHA
EMAIL:
mimutieorg@gmail.com
DECEMBER
2014
Preamble
Preamble
MIMUTIE Strategic Plan is for a term
of 5 years commencing from 2015-2020. This Strategic Plan is the main working
document of MIMUTIE, and it is derived from the experience and challenges of
the pastoralist women in Tanzania on Basic Human Rights like; education,
livelihood and development. The strategic plan has been developed to guide the
planning and implementation processes of MIMUTIE programs over the five year
period.MIMUTIE has been born of out of a great concern of income poverty
and general poor economic status of the
pastoralist women due to the cultural system embedded in social organization
system which puts the pastoralist women in the lowest social ladder in all
matters ranging from education, human rights, economy and assets ownership
rights. This strategic plan is aimed at implementing programs to address all
the said concerns within the context of the pastoralist cultures. The programs
will touch on ,education for girls, socio-economic empowerment, sustainable
livelihoods, environment, Health prevention and care,
Gender mainstreaming as well as address other challenges and problems in
targeted communities of Tanzania. Through the operationalization of the Strategic Plan 2015-2020, MIMUTIE will
effectively contribute to the Education development, livelihood improvement,
Economic empowerment of women, Social development, Environment care, and health
care of the disadvantaged women.
The Strategic Plan 2015-2020
presents nine key intervention/thematical areas;
- Enhance
and Promote entrepreneurship among pastoralist women.
- Empower
women to participate fully in social and economic development process and
plans for their own sustainable development.
- Promote
environmental conservation through development of climate change compliant
strategies, facilitation of designing climate change mitigation and adaption
strategies in order to enable pastoralists become resilient over climate
change.
- Strengthening
network with the government, other organisations, institutions and the
local community.
- Promote
awareness on the negative effects of FGM in pastoralist communities.
- Promotion
of education on land and human rights.
- Promote
improvement of reproductive health.
- Promote
awareness of and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
- Promote
innovative microfinance strategies.
The defined intervention strategies in
the MIMUTIE Strategic Plan will be implemented as planned but in case of
intervening circumstances which might necessitate some changes, relevant
adjustments will be made to ensure the plan is well on track to enable the
organization achieve its vision and mission .
The document is divided into the
following main sections:
1. Introductory part which
gives the background of MIMUTIE.
2. Tanzania national
context.
3. Strategic objectives and
the expected results.
4. Monitoring and evaluation
(M&E) strategy.
3.0.
Background Information
3.1.
Organizational Information
MIMUTIE is the Maasai traditional
name meaning “it is never late” which can be interpreted as “better late than
never”. The organization was founded on the philosophy that it is never late to
do something to positively change the powerlessness and poverty situation of
pastoralist women, who for centuries have been relegated to the lowest social
status due to the male dominated social organization systems in the pastoralist
communities. This means concretely that women being human beings just like men
have the intellectual and volitional power to fully realize their full
socio-economic development potentials given strategic empowerment through
capacity building and formal education.
MIMUTIE aims to support the women
empowerment process until women have the capacity socially, economically,
politically and legally to bring about their own sustainable development through
women managed development processes.
MIMUTIE WOMEN ORGANIZATION(MWO) is a
non-profit ,non-governmental, non partisan and non racial organization based in
Arusha and Manyara Region. It is duly registered under Non-Governmental
Organization Act, 2002 with Registration
NO. 00NGO/00001587 made on 9th may 2014. Has no religious affiliation and was founded
in June 2012.
The
organization seeks to work with marginalized pastoralist women in East Africa starting
with northern Tanzania, Arusha and
Manyara regions.First start will be, in Ngorongoro District especially in
Loliondo division. We will extend gradually to other regions in Tanzania and
beyond in the East African Region.
Administratively
the district is divided into three (3) divisions of Ngorongoro, Sale and
Loliondo. The district has Twenty one (21) wards, Fifty five (55) villages and
one hundred fifty one (155) sub-villages/hamlets. Loliondo division is the starting target of MIMUTIE which has
eight (8) wards; 1. Oloirien Magaiduru, 2. Ololosokwan, 3. Soitsambu, 4. Oloipiri,
5. Orgosorok, 6. Enguserosambu, 7. Losoito/Maaloni and 8. Arash. MIMUTIE has started to work at Arash village
in Arash Ward.
3.2.
Vision
A society where pastoralist
women are given the space to actualize their full human potentials for socio-economic
development which fully respects human rights and gender equity.( kuwa na jamii
ambayo wanawake wanapata nafasi ya kujiendeleza kiuchumi,kijamii na kisiasa kwa
kuzingatia usawa wa kijinsia)
Mission
To provide education and socio-economic
empowerment for the pastoral women in Tanzania through capacity building and
active participation and management of their
own development processes.
3.3.
Objectives
In order to achieve the above stated
Vision and Mission, MIMUTIE aims to achieve the following strategic objectives
which were formulated from MIMUTIE Core Values:
4:3:1 General Objective:
Enhance access to socio-economic
development opportunities by pastoralist women through promoting intellectual
capabilities and protecting environment for all current and future use by 2020
4:3:2
Specific Ojective:
1.
To enable the disadvantaged girl
children to access better education for sustainable development.
2.
To process and disseminate appropriate
information on environmental conservation and climate change as well as support
developing climate change adaptation strategies.
3.
To support entrepreneurship and local
capital development through establishing VICOBAS and microfinance services.
4.
To promote
networking with like-minded local and international organizations, instutions,
government and target communities.
5.
To enhance and support education on
Female Genital Mutilation in pastoralist communities.
6.
To enhance education and awareness
raising on reproductive health and
prevention of home preventable disease.
7.
To educate pastoralist women on land
and human rights as promulgated in the national constitution.
8.
To improve livestock production and
provide support on agriculture inputs.
9.
To support and assist pastoral communities
to have access to clean and safe water.
10.
To
strengthen the capacity of MIMUTIE to attain its strategic objectives for pastoralist
development.
3.4.
Core
Values.
MIMUTIE believes in the following;
§ Transparency.
§ Accountability.
§ Gender Equality.
§ Respect.
§ Sustainable development.
§ Team work
§ Networking
3.5.
National Context
Tanzania has put in place various policies on
socio-economic development to guide coordination of interventions by various
actors as well as to promote the spirit of contributions from the citizens. The
water policy, the policy on forest participatory management and the policy on
community development all underscore the importance of active participation of
target and beneficiary communities in the process of planning, implementation
and monitoring of their own development activities. MIMUTIE bases its planning
and implementation processes on these policies and thereby contributes to the
implementation of the same.
4.0.
Logical framework
MIMUTIE
logical framework matrix details the interlinked interventions set to achieve
general objective which will be attained through the achievement of 12 specific
objectives and its corresponding expected results and activities. The logical
framework matrix is the basis of the Monitoring and Evaluation system of
MIMUTIE.
MIMUTIE LOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Project
Description/Intervention Logic
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Objectively
of verifiable indicators
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Sources
or
means
of verification
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Assumptions
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Overall Objective;
Enhance access to socio-economic development opportunities by pastoralist
women through promoting intellectual capabilities and protecting environment
for all current and future use by 2020
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Droughts do not
pull back achieved development interventions.
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Specific
Objectives 1/outcomes
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1:1 .
To enable the disadvantaged girl children to access better education for
sustainable development.
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Number of girl children
supported
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· Certificates, academic reports from
schools..
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beneficiary
communities are ready to cooperate
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Expected
Results/outputs
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1.1.1.
Better education is accessed by the
disadvantaged girl children by 2020.
1.1.2.
Reduced number of unskilled pastoralist
women by 2020.
1.1.3.
Well and better educated community women
members of the pastoralist communities for present and future development.
1.1.4.
Education and training to disadvantaged
girl children and women is enhanced.
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·
Number of village meetings attended for
advocacy.
·
Number of pupils enrolled in primary
schools.
·
Number of Adult education classes
established.
·
Number people joining Adult Education
Programs.
·
Number of girls Supported for education.
·
Number of early pregnant girls supported
to complete their education.
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· Activity report.
· School registers.
· Adult education programs reports.
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communities are
ready to invest education of their children
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Activities;
1.1.1.1.To support
pastoralist girl students from poor
families to meet education costs at secondary and college levels..
1.1.1.2.To support women
adult education programs through the organized income generating groups.
.
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Specific
Objective 2/Outcome
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1. 2.1. To
process and disseminate appropriate information on environmental conservation
and climate change as well as support developing climate change adaptation
strategies.
2019.
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Number of training
sessions held.
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· Training reports
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climate change
does not work against efforts on conservation
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Expected
Results/outputs
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2.1.1. Strategic
conservation promoted for environmental protection by 2020.
2.1.2. Resilience
over climate change and adaptation strategies is prioritised by
2020.
2.1.3. Natural
resources management, planning, friendly use monitoring and conservation is
enhanced by 2020.
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·
Number of training sessions conducted.
·
Behavioural change practices noted on the
better use of local recourses.
·
Number of climate change adaptations
interventions.
·
Number of water sources protected.
· Number of Success stories
documented.
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·
Training reports
·
Good practices noted and documented
·
Work reports.
·
Success stories documented
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Activities
2.1.1.1. To
promote environmental protection through training and awareness raising.
2.1.1.2. To
develop community-centred early warning strategy for climate change
resilience.
2.1.1.3. To
enhance the local pastoralists resilience over climate change.
2.1.1.4. To
train the community on better natural resources planning, friendly use monitoring
and conservation.
2.1.1.5. To facilitate
initiation of forestation programs.
2.1.1.6. To
plan, train and construct demonstrative tanks for local fuel(biogas)
2.1.1.7. To reduce deforestation by introducing the use of
local fuel (Bio gas) at household
.
2.1.1.8. To
train and practice on the protection of available water sources
2.1.1.9. To
train communities on climate change and coping strategies
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Specific
Objective 3.
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1.
To
support entrepreneurship and local capital development through establishing
VICOBAS and microfinance services.
3.1.
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·
Number of groups trained.
·
Number of members of women managed
VICOBAS.
·
Total capital of all groups
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Ø Group report.
Ø Training reports.
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women groups are
able to function well and stay in the groups
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Expected
Results/outputs
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3.1.1. Increased
access by women groups to microcredit services by 2020.
3.1.2. Village
Community Banks are initiated and strengthened to enable them generate local
capital for capitalization of members’ businesses by 2020.
3.1.3. Number of Entrepreneurial women groups and
individuals has increased.
3.1.4. Pastoralist community livelihoods system is
diversified.
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·
Number of training sessions conducted.
·
Number of entrepreneurial groups meetings
conducted.
·
Number of businesses established.
·
Number of women having access to credits.
·
Number of VICOBAS established.
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Ø Training report
Ø BDS reports.
Ø Success stories documented.
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repayments are
done on time and no bad debts from defaulters recorded
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Activities
3.1.1.1.
Facilitations
of group’s formation.
3.1.1.2.
Training in groups dynamics, governance
and leadership
3.1.1.3.
6Training women on the
Village Community Bank model for savings and credit as a sustainable strategy
for mobilizing capital from local sources for capitalizing micro-businesses
3.1.1.4.
To link women groups with relevant markets
for their diversified businesses.
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Specific
Objective 4
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4.1.
To promote networking with like-minded
local and international organizations, institutions,
government and target communities
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·
Number of organizations linked with MIMUTIE
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list of organizations either
partnering with or linked with MIMUTIE
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Expected Results/outputs
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4.1.
Networking with institutions and other
development agencies is enhanced by 2020.
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·
Number of institutions networked.
·
Number of participatory decision making sessions done.
·
Number of pastoralist needs representations interventions made.
·
Number of M&E visits conducted.
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operational Reports
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Activities
4.1.1.
To design and reinforce linkage and
networking with other with other institutions.
4.1.2.
To create ,strengthen and update the data
base of relevantly resourced/technical people outside and within the
community for relevant solutions to the pastoral problems and needs.
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Strategic Objective 5
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.
5.1. To enhance and support education
on Female Genital Mutilation in pastoralist communities
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Expected
Results/outputs
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5.1.1.
Better knowledge of pastoralist
communities on negative effects of FGM is achieved by 2020.
5.1.2.
Lobbying and advocacy strategy on FGM is developed
and Strengthened by 2020.
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· % of target
groups who are knowledgeable of the harms of FGM.
· Number
of people reached out in the training and campaign meetings.
· Number
of study tours conducted to Kenya where FGM is progressively being reduced.
· Number
of child children who have not been subjected to FGM.
· Number
of training sessions conducted.
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Work
reports
|
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Activities
5.1.1.1.
To conduct study tours to learn of
successful strategies against FGM in Kenya.
5.1.1.2.
To train in female reproductive system
and health.
5.1.1.3.
To conduct workshops for both men and women to discuss the FGM
problem.
5.1.1.4.
To conduct training for the development
of Lobbying and Advocacy strategy on FGM.
5.1.1.5.
To identify organizations that can give
external support in the training and Lobbying and Advocacy.
5.1.1.6.
To make research and document terrible stories of the
negative effects of FGM and use them in the L&A processes.
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·
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Strategic
Objective 6
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6.1 To
enhance education and awareness raising on reproductive health and prevention of home preventable disease
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Number of people reached
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Training
reports.
|
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Expected
Results/outputs
6:2 Knowledge
on reproductive health is improved among pastoralist women by 2020
6:2 knowledge on prevention of home preventable
disease is enhanced by 2028.
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·
Number of group’s members trained.
·
Number of individuals practicing learned
skills on prevention of diseases.
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training
reports
|
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Activities
6:2:1 To increase capacity of women to understand and prevent simple
and home preventable diseases through hygiene and other skills.
6:2:2To
train in the diseases that can be prevented at household level through
learning simple skills and using simple local materials and technologies..
6:2:3To train in women reproductive health.
.
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Strategic
Objective 7
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7.1 To educate
pastoralist women on land and human rights as promulgated in the national
constitution
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No of women who
can describe their land and human rights in the Tanzanian context.
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reports
|
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Expected
Results/Outcome
|
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7:1 Knowledge of
women on land and human rights is improved
7:2 Women ‘s
ability to articulate their rights in the pastoralist communities is enhanced
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No of trained
women
No of women able
to articulate their land and human rights
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training
reports
operational
reports
|
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Activities
2. Training
women on land rights based on the Village Land Act of 1999
3. Training
in human rights according to the new constitution
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Strategic
Objective 8
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8: To improve livestock
production and provide support on agriculture inputs
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Quality of
agriculture and livestock production
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Agriculture
inputs.
Improved
livestock breeds distributed
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Expected Results/Outputs
8:1The
community is empowered with agricultural skills by 2020.
8:2 Agriculture
schemes are improved by 2020.
8:3 Agriculture inputs and improved livestock
production are enhanced by2020.
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· Number
of community interventions conducted
· Number
of agriculture inputs supporting mechanism made.
· Number
of livestock improved and distributed.
· Number
of beneficiaries benefited.
· Quality
of agricultural production
· Quality
of livestock production.
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Intervention
sessions
Agriculture
inputs.
Livestock
breeds.
Agriculture
and livestock production.
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Activities
4. To
conduct 26 training sessions on modern agricultural and livestock practices.
5. To purchase, isolate and distribute evenly
improved breeds of livestock for effective livestock.
6. To
conduct training on improved pastoral habitats.
7. To
conduct study tour in Kenya/ or elsewhere in east Africa for physical
learning on improved pastoral habitats.
8. To
establish 15 improved houses for better houses reinforcement.
9. To
conduct baseline on the number of health and water facilities available
versus the number of people accessing them.
10. To
conduct mainstreaming sessions on the effective use of safe water (water
policy) and health care services.
11. To
drill 3 borehole wells and construct 3 cattle troughs
12. To
conduct 46 sessions on health prevention and care.
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Strategic
Objective 9
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9:1 To support and
assist pastoral communities to have access to clean and safe water.
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Strategic objective
|
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9:1 Water access is improved in one three
villages.
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Activities
1.
Identifying possibilities of water
development.
2.
Organize community contributions to the
project.
3.
Training water management and
conservation of water catchment forests.
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Strategic
objective 10
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10:1 strengthen the capacity of MIMUTIE to attain its
strategic objectives for pastoralist development.
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Expected result/outcome
|
|||
10:1:1 The management and organizational capacity of
MIMUTIE has been improved.
|
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Activities
1. Training all the MIMUTIE staff on organizational
management and development.
2. Training in project planning and management.
3. Training in fund raising skills.
4. Training in monitoring and evaluation.
5. Training in financial management.
6. Training in the use of computers for management and processing of management information.
7. Study tours to other areas where likeminded organizations
are operating women development programs(e.g MWEDO)
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In order to monitor
properly the implementation of the strategic plan a clear monitoring and
evaluation system will be developed and internalized within the MIMUTIE
management system. This will entail monitoring of the activities and results,
which emanate from the actions taken towards reaching the mission of MIMUTIE.
Monitoring and
evaluation will be based on internal system through progressive reports, review
meetings, planning sessions and follow up visits at the sites of
implementation. External evaluation, both midterm and end of term will be held.
Standardized
progress reports will form the major part of monitoring mechanisms, which will
be implemented at all levels in order to capture and document results and
progress of the entire of MIMUTIE management system.
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