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Cooperation with a board game Norsun muisti (Memory Of The Elephant)
GLM Finland and GLM Zambia have launched a cooperation with a finnish board game Norsun muisti (Memory Of The Elephant). It is not an ordinary memory game, in this game you save animals and reunite families. Purchase of every game funds planting of a tree in Zambia.
Orders: lassi.raunio@norsunmuisti.fi or online store https://holvi.com/shop/LcZNwB/ (in Finnish)
More info (in Finnish):
http://norsunmuisti.fi/
https://www.facebook.com/Norsunmuisti/
Web pages published again
Due to some unfortunate technical challenges our web pages were down for some time. Now the pages are published again and we will be updating them as we can. Thank you for your patience and welcome back to follow the work of GLM Finland, GLM Zambia and GLM Swaziland!
Kevättervehdys 2017
Saimme viime vuoden lopulla hyviä uutisia Ulkoasiainministeriöstä Sambian ilmastokestävyyshankkeemme suhteen. Rahoitus kolmelle seuraavalle vuodelle myönnettiin ja tärkeä työ pienviljelijöiden elinkeinojen tukemiseksi jatkuu! Työ sekä Sambiassa että Suomessa on alkuvuodesta lähtenyt käyntiin ja odotamme innolla ensimmäisiä aktiviteetteja kylissä.
Swazimaan ilmastoaloitehankkeeseen emme valitettavasti saaneet rahoitusta tällä kertaa, mutta yhteistyö GLM Swazimaan kanssa jatkuu ja tulemme tukemaan heidän työtään muun muassa varainkeruun muodossa.
Muistathan, että jäsenmaksut ovat tärkeä osa varainkeruutamme. Jäsenmaksun maksamalla voit olla mukana vaikuttamassa satojen ihmisten elämään Sambiassa ja Swazimaassa.
Jäsenmaksut 2017: Perusjäsen 20€, vähävaraiset 15€, yhdistys- ja kannatusjäsenet 50€
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News from the Climate Resilience Project in Zambia
The past quarter in the climate resilience project was dedicated to capacity building in the project communities. Trainings in Monze, Mumbwa and Luyanshia districts were addressing the importance of education and the keys for a successful training. The objectives of these ‘Training of Trainers’ events were to equip participants with skills for training others and creating awareness on climate change and also to identify strategies for creating awareness on climate change.
The ongoing year has been full of other successful activities as well. At the beginning of the year, a group of farmers in the Shimbizhi and Chiyumu communities received small livestock, such as chickens and goats, from the project and now every partner village has been part of this activity. The owners are committed to donate some of the offspring for other farmers and this way the number of the beneficiaries increases through every pass-on. Finally, all community members in the villages will benefit. Farmers have not been used to see chickens and other small livestock as an income source before, but now some of them have even managed to cover school fees by selling animals. One family have reared 50 chickens from the one they got from the project and another family has already 15 laying hens.
Another objective of the project is to activate young people. Especially popular among the youth was a climate change awareness meeting which was organized alongside with a football tournament. Four teams from the project communities competed with each other in the ‘Climate Change Tournament’ which , in addition to football, included also education on climate change and its causes and effects through drama. The day was of course coloured with traditional dances.
In the rural areas, hardly anyone owns a TV but radios are very common instead. Therefore, it is an excellent way to reach people. GLM Zambia has conducted two radio shows which were produced and aired at Sky FM radio station in Monze. The discussions centred on the impact of climate change on community livelihoods and how the communities could become more resilient to the effects of climate change. The discussants were GLM staff and farmers’ representatives from Chisuwo and Chiyumu. The radius of Sky FM covers thousands of people and the station has received requests for continuation of the programme.
The year 2015 is not over yet but let’s take a little glance at the upcoming year. GLM Zambia will have two enthusiastic ETVO-volunteers in the team and the first one will arrive already in January.
GLM Finland’s pop-up restaurant serves seasonal lunch in Turku on the Restaurant Day
GLM Finland will serve lunch on the Restaurant Day on Sunday August 16th in Turku. The food will be made from locally picked and produced food to support our partners far away!
Menu:
– Nettle pancakes with mushroom, bean or zucchini filling
– Wild-herb-green salad
– Blueberry, sea buckthorn berry or apple pie and Aunt Päivi’s cookies with coffee or tea
Also for vegans!
Price is €8.
We will open at 12.00 and serve until 16.00, if food won’t run out before!
A fleamarket will also be organised at the idyllic courtyard during the Restaurant hours – come and find clothes, CDs, LPs and toys!
All of the profits will be used in GLM’s projects in the rural Zambia and Swaziland.
Siaynemukela / Welcome!
Ethical hats in Zambian style for Finnish winter season
GLM Finland and GLM Zambia have started a new project pilot in Chibobo village in Central Zambia. The purpose of the project is to engage one of the farmer clubs, Chibobo Women, to crochet beanies and barets with Zambian patterns using Finnish wool. The hats will be sold in Finland and the label of the product will include a photo of its maker.
While GLM has a long history of working with Chibobo, this pilot project offers a completely new way of providing additional income to the community members. The product development has been carried out together with Chibobo Women, and it was decided that barets and basic beanies would be made. These hats were chosen, because in Finland the cold season is very long and people need to keep warm, and these hats with local Zambian patterns also look very unique. In addition to producing nice hats, GLM is providing additional work opportunities for the women – which is, after all, the most important thing.