Unofficial blog of ADD
Title: Founder Members Meeting #1
Location: Sea House
Description: Finalizing forms.
Attended by: H.Nizam, Sidgee, Yasiph, Ameena, A.Nizam, Ifham and partly by Nelfa
Decisions made:
Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2008-08-19
End Time: 16:00
Title: Sharing stories, building communities
Location: Recreation Hall, NNCB Community Service Centre, Alikilegefaanu Magu
Description: DIGITAL STORYTELLING: An example of Arts and Culture for Civil Society Strengthening (ACCiSS)
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2008-08-10
End Time: 22:00
The invitation to Founder Members of ADD came from Ming Yu of People’s Foundation to join them in learning how Digital Storytelling is one way of using creativity, arts and culture as a tool for strengthening civil society and encouraging increased participation and expression, especially by marginalized and vulnerable communities.
This is a small, informal gathering of local artists/cultural practitioners, Maldivian NGOs and international organizations working directly with communities. The event is in English.
Title: Selecting Parents/caregivers for Hand-in-Hand Support Group
Location: Hand-in-Hand
Description: Hand-in-Hand selection on Parents of CwD’s of ADD.
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2008-08-08
This is a report by CFPA of Min. of Gender and Family on the “Forum on Disability” held on 29th July 2008 in which I was invited as a Parent of a child with a disAbility. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Min. of Gender and Family and their consultant, Ms Joanna Champion for the Invitation and giving an opportunity to voice out how a parent feels in having a child with a disAbility, especially with the heads of ministries present. I would also like to thank Minister of Gender and Family, Aishath Mohamed Didi for mentioning about Yafaau’s website on her speech.
Introduction
During a consultancy for the CFPA, the consultant undertook a research visit to Haa Alif and Haa Dhaal and produced a report on the visits and consultations with parents. Alongside this work, the consultant had been working with a number of Ministries to produce a final version of the action plan. A cross-ministerial Forum on Disability was held on the 29th July to present the findings from the research visit and adopt the final action plan for children with disabilities 2008-2013.
Key Objectives of the Forum
I just added a Photo Gallery to this blog. You will find pictures of our past meetings and events. Click the links below to see it in its full glory. (note: you must login to see them)
Photo Gallery main : Meetings Album : Meeting 4 : Meeting 5 : Meeting 6
Hope to see you all on 20th Meetup #7
The name for our association has been decided on tonight’s meeting. The name passed for our association is Association for Disability & Development or ADD.
Therefore, we will be using this name from now on.
Title: Disability Support Group Meeting #6
Location: Ghiyasuddin School
Description: 6th Meeting to finalize a name for our Association
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2008-07-14
Title: Disability Support Group Meeting #5
Location: Ghiyasuddin School
Description: Fifth Meeting will be held at Giyaasuddhin School
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2008-07-10
End Time: 22:00
Although more than 20 invitations by phone were confirmed, most of them were unable to show up at the meeting. But Sidgee’s referral of 4 new parents were the inspiring start at the meeting. Here are some from my rough notes;
The meeting started with the first concrete decision by many parents who wanted the time to change to 8:30pm.
Which was followed by a chat about the terms we used on disability…
A common question which arises when I mention about this blog but most of them do not ask. But not this commenter on our about page. Its good that he asked, now It will be better to write about it. Ok, here’s why I chose “.siph.net”
The simplest and the easiest way for us to do online publishing is Wordpress. Like blogger (mvdisability.blogspot.com) addresses, wordpress too gives away free service similar to blogger which is “mvdisability.wordpress.com” BUT it has disadvantages as with any free service. We cannot use the plugins! Which I think is very important to run a this blog.
So, I’ve hosted it in one of my own domains which helps a lot in achieving this goal. Features like “Calendar”, “Guestbook”, “Polls” and even Printer friendly layout is currently achieved using “plugins” feature in Wordpress. I hope this answers the question of why it is on “.siph.net”