Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA) is a method for empowering rural or other low tech communities by giving them the tools to analyze their own communities. Such analysis is often much more accurate and insightful than that done by outside professionals from the academic world. The process of analysis also provides local villages and other communities with the basis they need to interact effectively with government and other outside business and institutional organisations.
Various reports from members of the Network, both SD nationals and projects.
2003 - Participatory Rural Analysis (PRA): How to Become a True Believer
2006-'07 - Mithra Foundation: Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
Mithra Foundation's Annual Report for the years 2006 through 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ mithraAR-2007.pdf ] [ mithraAR-accounts-2006-2007.xls ]
2007 - Albadi School: Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Education
2007 Annual Report from Albadi Orphanage and School Project in D.R. Congo.
Download attachment(s): [ albadiAR-2007.pdf ]
2007 - Asociación Vivir: A French Woman in Ecuador
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Health,
Regional Reports
Mathilde Dybowsky spent five weeks volunteering at Asociación Vivir in Ecuador during the summer of 2007.
2007 - Center for Culture and Development: Project Construction Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
The Centre for Culture and Development received 1350 GDP from SD Britain for the construction of the building of multi-purpose hall for a supplementary coaching centre Children at Kaligrammam.
Download attachment(s): [ ccd_constructionReport-2007.pdf ]
2007 - Center for Culture and Development: Summer Camp Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
Supported by SD Norway, this one week program in a village near Madurai, India, was designed so that children had an opportunity to express themselves freely and genuinely. Here is the report of the camp.
Download attachment(s): [ ccd_summerCamp-2007.pdf ]
2007 - Colegio Amanecer: Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Education
2007 Report on the Colegio Amanecer Nuestra Señora de Fatima in Colombia.
2007 - Fundación Amanecer: Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Education
Amanecer Foundation was created in September 1991. Its objectives include: developing educational and social programmes which encourage a balance between a human being’s interior and exterior contents.
2007 - SD Canada: Annual Report
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SD National Reports
SD Canada's annual report for 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ sdCanadaAR-2007.pdf ]
2007 - SD Germany: Annual Report
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SD National Reports
Susila Dharma Germany's annual report for 2007.
2007 - SD Vietnam: Annual Report
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SD National Reports
SD Viet Nam reports on their activities in 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ sdVietNamReport-2007.pdf ]
2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: A Report by Ridwan Kennedy
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Meetings and Conferences,
Conference Reports
Director from SD Britain reports on the Lewes Conference:
From Thursday 25 January until Sunday 28 January forty members representing SD International and SD National bodies from various European countries, Norway and North America met in Lewes. All SD (Britain) Board members attended and Ridwan Kennedy gives his recollection of the meeting below.
From Thursday 25 January until Sunday 28 January forty members representing SD International and SD National bodies from various European countries, Norway and North America met in Lewes. All SD (Britain) Board members attended and Ridwan Kennedy gives his recollection of the meeting below.
Download attachment(s): [ sdia_lewesConf_Kennedy-2007_1.pdf ]
2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: An Invitation to Transform the World
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Solen Lees Gratiet from SD France reports on her impressions of the SDIA Conference in Lewes, England, January 2007.
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2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: Lewes is worth a visit!
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Members from SD Germany report on the conference in Lewes, January 2007.
Download attachment(s): [ sdia_lewesConf_sdGermany-2007_1.pdf ]
2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: Summary
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A summary of the Susila Dharma meeting at Pelham House in Lewes from January 25 to January 28, 2007. For the full report, see Widening Our Footprint.
Download attachment(s): [ sdia_lewesConf_sdGermany-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_lewesConf_sGratiet-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_LewesConf_sGardiner-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_lewesConf_Kennedy-2007.pdf ] [ sdia_lewesConfSummary-2007.pdf ]
2007.01 - SDIA Lewes Conference: Widening Our Footprint
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The report from SDIA’s members meeting in Lewes, England, January 2007 was attended primarily by SD National organizations from Europe and North America.
Download attachment(s): [ SDIA_widening-our-footprint_2007.pdf ]
2007.03 - YUM: A Trip to Kalimantan
In the spring of 2007, Olvia Resksodipoetro of Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) and several others took a trip to Kalimantan where they visited a number of SD related projects.
Download attachment(s): [ kalTrip_2007.pdf ]
2007.06 - A Child's Garden of Peace: Update
Illène Pevec, founder of A Child's Garden of Peace (Brazil) reports on events in June 2007.
2007.08 - Mithra Foundation: The India Civil Society Summit
India now claims superpower status as a nuclear weapons state and nearly double-digit economic growth. In contrast to these signs of progress we have the dubious distinction of being on the wrong side of other indicators of human development—maternal mortality, female infanticide and foeticide, and deaths due to preventable diseases, to name several. India’s progress is uneven: while she is developing world-class technology and services; she also has has the world’s largest number of poor and illiterate people. For many, freedom—in its true sense—is yet to dawn. For these people, the struggle continues.
2008 - Centre for Culture and Development (CCD): Annual Report
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SD Project Reports,
Community Development
2008 - Entrelazos: Informe de Miembros Asociados
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SD Project Reports,
Education
Download Entrelazos Annual Report for 2008 (Spanish)
Informes de los Miembros Asociados 2008 de Entrelazos (Español)
Informes de los Miembros Asociados 2008 de Entrelazos (Español)
Download attachment(s): [ entrelazos-informeDeMiembros-2008.pdf ]
2008 - German Gov Grant to Anisha for Indian Farmers
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Community Development,
SD Project Reports
Anisha has received a sizable grant to help marginalized farmers in a region south of Bangalore, India to maintain a place in the changing Indian economy.
2008 - SD Australia: Report
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SD National Reports
Susila Dharma work is moving strongly in Australia. In June 2008, Renee Goetz, chair, reports on several efforts.
2008 - SD Norway: Annual Report
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SD National Reports
2008 - SD Serbia: Belgrade Marathon for Schools Without Violence
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SD Project Reports,
Education
The Belgrade Marathon has now joined in the partnership for the “School without Violence“. The slogan of this year’s marathon is “19th Belgrade Banca Intesa Marathon – for School without Violence“. …International sports legend Carl Lewis will also join the campaign. He will be a special guest and promoter at the fundraising cocktail party for the corporate sector
2008 - SD Serbia: School Without Violence Report
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SD National Reports,
Education
The “School without Violence” is a comprehensive program to educate children, teachers, parents and the broader community in Serbia about the ongoing problem of intolerance, violence and harassment at schools in Serbia. The problem of violence among children is not a new one in Serbia. But for far too long it has been neglected and allowed to exist on the periphery of the national consciousness. The goals of this new UNICEF project are multifold: to bring the problem of bullying and violence in school into the daylight; to raise the consciousness of parents and community members regarding the right of every child to feel secure at school; to make a protective network within all schools; to connect this network with outside services and resources, and to preventively respond before the threat of serious incidents escalates.
2008.02 - Puppeteers Without Borders: Conference in Bosnia
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SD Project Reports,
Education
Participants from the Balkan countries, dedicated to theatre, and to the social and cultural fabric of Bosnian society, took part in a conference called “Mask, Object, Puppet: A Powerful Means of Theatrical Expression. Erica Sapir, of Puppeteers Without Borders gave a presentation called, “Using puppetry in education with special emphasis on Non Violent Communication.”
2008.10 - Flood in Desert devastates Ghardaïa, Algeria
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Community Development,
Regional Reports
On the day of the celebration of the Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), very
strong flooding took place in all the towns of the valley of the oued
(river) Mzab, of which Ghardaïa is the capital city, at around 600 km
south of Algiers in the middle of the Sahara desert.
2008.10 - Les inondations a Ghardaïa, Alger
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Regional Reports
Le jour de la fête de l'Aïd el Fitr (Idul Fitri), de très fortes
inondations ont eu lieu dans toutes les villes de la vallée de l'oued
Mzab, dont la capitale est Ghardaïa, à environ 600 km au sud d'Alger.
2008.11 - Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities for Children and their Families after Disasters Report
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Community Development,
Meetings and Conferences
“…discussions centered around notions of
resilience… It was not always clear what this meant or looked like. [As if] disaster events are
in some way inevitable… and that
the way to respond to disaster is to find a way to “bounce back.” There
is an assumption that disasters, themselves, are politically
neutral events.”
2009 - SD Britain: A Question of Sustainability
2009 - SD Canada: Annual Report
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SD National Reports
Download attachment(s): [ sdCanadaAR-2008.pdf ]
2009 - SD Chile: Overview Report
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SD National Reports
SD Chile sponsors many small charitable projects: helping members of Subud Chile, assisting the elderly, working with children from distressed homes using drama as a medium in which children can act out and reflect on the conflicts in their own lives.
Download attachment(s): [ sd-chile_overviewReport-2009.pdf ]
2009.04 - BCU Update: New Classrooms
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SD Project Reports,
Education
Kalimantan BCU School has started building two new classrooms. The existing classrooms around the latihan hall can only hold a maximum
12 pupils with limited space and the school had reached full capacity
with 55 students. The school has grown from 36 pupils in mid-2008 to 55 now. Four new
classrooms are needed to help us increase our student body to 96 pupils, which is the
financial break-even point…
2009.04 - Lessons from Doctors without Borders
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Health,
Regional Reports
In January 2009 Lusijah Marx, Luther Schutz, and Wendy Neal traveled to the South African township of Khayelitsha to learn from the experience of Doctors without Borders in creating the most effective and efficient use of human resources to deliver quality health care to empoverished victims of HIV/AIDS
2009.07 - Albadi News: School and Savings & Loan Co-op
All of the students at the Albadi School passed the national exams and a new Savings and Loan Co-operative has just been started.
2009.07 - Dernières nouvelles d'Albadi
2009.07 - Remembering a Call to Prayer
“…[in] a room full of land mine accident survivors, it came back to me: The
long mournful Call to Prayer from my Subud brother Salahin Thom, ‘Allahu Akbar.’
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”
“…We had our hands full. Yet in that moment … Salahin’s voice awoke a profound sense of compassion, I prayed and vowed to find a way to help.”
2009.07 - SD USA: Fundraising Efforts
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SD National Reports
2009.07 - Susila Dharma in Our Daily Lives: A Workshop
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Development Issues,
Meetings and Conferences
…a workshop at the Congress called “Sharing Our Acts of Caring: Susila
Dharma in Our Daily Lives”. Attendees reported examples of their own
personal volunteer work and discussed the significance of this work in
their lives…
2009.08 - Testing Yodigo Computer Learning in India
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Education,
Regional Reports
Yodigo is innovative new multimedia software that aims to deliver literacy fast in settings that are challenged by resource requirements. It is unique in its use of video and Flash design elements that make learning fun, its game-like reward system, and the fact that it can be delivered online or offline.
Oliver Zeilke had the opportunity to test this system at a government school of poor rural children near Madurai in Southern India. Here are some excerpts from his journal.
Oliver Zeilke had the opportunity to test this system at a government school of poor rural children near Madurai in Southern India. Here are some excerpts from his journal.
2009.12 Albadi School Annual Report english
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