MKFC Stockholm College Ghanian partner eCap Ghana will present their work about “ Through educating the community of the importance of healthy living and the benefit of education” at ICACD 2010.

The conference would be organized in Kumasi Ghana from 14th to 17th of November 2010.

The conference celebrate the golden Jubilee of more than seventeen African countries this year the conference has chosen the theme dubbed Post Independence Africa -Cultural Imperatives for Development.

eCap Ghanas presentation has also been selected among the few to be published in the first Culture and Development Journal of Africa which will cover 23 African countries with Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Sierra Leone as the focal countries.

Patrick Awuah was born in Ghana and shares his experiences in the subject. He tells about the importance to train and to get educated in leadership. I am glad to know what teacher training can do in those areas

How can students in unprivileged communities get the needed resources to learn?

Kay Obiri-Mainoo, our Ghanaian partner who made this clip says eLearning is the key – we agree.

Last week MKFC Stockholm College participated in the eLearning Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal.

We held workshops about how to use mobile phones in education together with SPIDER. This is Bengt Nykvist from the Mid Sweden University who was the workshop leader.

Jonas, Emma, Xarbi, Nuredin, Ibrahim and Jonas doing a mutual presentation

Our friend Jonas from Ghana Institute of Journalism held a presentation about our mutual course Journalism and Social Media. Kay talked about our Community Action Project in several presentations. Nuredin and Ibrahim from the Al-Baraka school also made presentations about our Teacher Training in Service.

One of many meetings

We got a lot of inspiration and exchange of knowledge’s and experiences! We met our friends from last year’s conferences and we also made new valuable contacts. eLearning Africa is a very good way of meeting interesting people doing wonderful things and our network grows bigger.

Thank you for a wonderful week with experiences! It was exciting!

MKFC Stockholm College participates in this year eLearning Africa conference in Dakar, 27-29 May. MKFC are committed to foster Learners to make the best performance. Our passion for eLearning lays on eLearning plattform (LMS) OPIT WSOY .fi and forums for social media. eLearners share experiences and achieve results thanks to dedication and diversity of our eTeachers and eExperts.

MKFC in two presentations
On the 27:th we participate and present our Mobile Learning at the pre workshop together with Mid Sweden University, The Open University of Tanzani and Örebro University.

On Friday the 29:th we will present our End-to-End eLearning™ Model and learning projects together with representatives from our Teacher Training programme in Somalia, the Community Action Plan (CAP) project in Ghana and e-Journalism and Social Media at the Ghana Institute of Journalism.

Performance Forward!

–It has been quite an experience these past days in the village, the way of life, the people, the children, their environment, have all been something that we never imagined possible, in this day and age, Kay writes.

–Though we were faced with some obstacles, we knew the plan ahead and so we struggled and overcame. I had originally brought two cameras to use for pictures as well as recording documentation, but after our arrival, one camera stopped working, and so we were left with only one for the whole time!

–We were able to talk to the people, and motivate them, we were able to determine their problems with them, and we were able to help them. They themselves along with us have chosen leaders to oversee everything we have established in our absence, Kay continues.

–I know that it will not change overnight, but I also know that with our determination to help, and as they see that, they too will be motivated to continue what we have started with them even when we are not present, Kay completes his message.

Now the team works with their first documentation, then prepares for the next step in the project, before returning to Niliyendo.

More stories and pictures will appear within short, so follow the grassroot work for local change at this blog.

Written by Olle Lundberg