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*GRATITUDE
*IMPENDING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR, SUDAN
*IDEA’S EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS FOR AFRICA
GRATITUDE
The Institute of
Development and Education for Africa (IDEA), Inc.
would like to extend its heart-felt gratitude to
hundreds of people who encouraged and supported
the Institute since its inception. IDEA is highly
indebted to the many professional and talented
people who indefatigably sacrificed their time and
energy to meet the deadlines encountered by the
Institute, and who in many ways cooperated to
facilitate the initial groundwork at the crucial
time of take-off.
IDEA extends its special thanks to
- Bingham McCutchen, LLP Law Firm in San Francisco that
processed all legal and paper works for IDEA
to register as a non-profit public benefit
corporation under Section (c) (3) of the
Internal Revenue Code. Many thanks for its pro
bono and professional undertaking.
- Sean Yon, owner of A1Photo Studio in New Haven,
Connecticut who, based on IDEA’s idea,
designed all the logo and layouts pro bono for
the Institute.
- Bereket Kiros for his selfless dedication and his
offer of his expertise in the website building
and initial web hosting for IDEA. His pro bono
consultation and his patience in the execution
of important tasks pertaining to web hosting
and management of files via ws-ftp and ms
front page are highly appreciated.
- Walta Gebreselasse for his tireless efforts and input
in the making of the initial construction and
domain name of IDEA.
- Dr. William Seraile for his expert advice and moral
support as
well as his sacrifice of his time to serve as
board member of IDEA.
- Dr. Lawrence Nii Nartey for his consultation, expert
advice, and his time to serve as board member
of IDEA.
- Tadesse Tsegaye of Ethiolist, Software Engineering
Consultant, for his professional advise and
support.
- All visitors of IDEA’s website. So far 2547 people
have visited the homepage and other
departments of the Institute of Development
and Education for Africa
Impending Genocide in Darfur,
West Sudan
IDEA
has learned that the on-going massive killings in
Darfur, West Sudan, perpetrated by the so-called Janjaweed
militia, who, in turn, apparently enjoy the
support of the central government in Khartoum, may
unleash genocide in an effort of ethnic cleansing.
IDEA seriously appeals to the United States
Government and the Bush Administration to avert
the impending genocide by using its diplomatic
prowess at a time when it is about to broker a
negotiating table for the Government of Sudan and
the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
IDEA appreciates the efforts of the many
peace loving organizations including Priority
Africa Network (Berkeley, CA), Washington Office
on Africa (Washington, DC), TransAfrica Forum
(Washington, DC), Global Exchange –GX—(San
Francisco, CA).
IDEA’s
Educational Projects for Africa
IDEA is proud to
announce that its Education Committee will offer
pro bono consulting on education to all African
nations, especially to the promising countries
that are committed to democratic governance,
transparency, and accountability. In addition,
IDEA will cooperate with higher institutions of
learning in developing educational standards.
IDEA will sign contractual agreements with
respective African nations in developing a
state-of-the-art Standards for the Teaching
Profession at a very reasonable cost. The
Standards could vary, depending on individual
countries cultural and historical backgrounds as
well as their level of economic development and
priority agendas. However, IDEA’s Standards will
include universal and holistic vision of pedagogy
that will ultimately satisfy respective African
nations by creating uniform curriculum development
and instruction across the board in the continent
of Africa.
IDEA’s Standards will feature the
following important themes:
1)
Introduction; 2) Organization; 3) Objectives; 4)
Foundations; 5) Student Learners; 6) Positive and
Effective School Environment; 7) Organization of
Subject-Matter; 8) Planning
Instruction Theories and Methodologies; 9)
Designing Learning Experiences; 10) Needs
Assessment; 11) Professional Education for
Development.
Interested
parties: please send your proposals, application
dossier, and questions via webmaster@africanidea.org
or write to IDEA, Inc. by mailing (please click on
‘contact us’ for postal address) your
documents.
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