Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The Plan (wait for it, here comes a pun...)


Looks like I'll be joining the EWB Water and Sanitation Team as a volunteer with a new partner agency: Plan Malawi.

Plan Malawi is part of Plan International, an international NGO primarily concerned with improving the lives of children in developing countries.

As a new partnership, some of my time with Plan Malawi will be spent assessing the existing and potential opportunities for collaboration between EWB and the organization. For the rest, I'll be working with Plan and with rural communities in Malawi to try and improve access to sanitary water and facilities, reducing the risk of various illnesses.
Though I'm not 100% sure of the details of the projects that PlanMalawi is working on (the internet is a bit scarce - apparently Google doesn't know everything...), it looks like we'll be working with an approach known as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS).

I'm really looking forward to working with an agency that puts such an emphasis on children. I just hope I can get up to speed fast enough to be more of a help than a hindrance to them in their work.
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Mustafa Hirji said...

CLTS involves organizing groups of people. If being sort of in the poli sci department has taught you anything, it's some of the theory around organizing and leading groups of people. This seems like a good fit!

- Mustafa Hirji

September 10, 2008 at 5:53 AM

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