Hi all, just wanted to share some good news with people who I think would fully appreciate it. All things going well, I should be off to go and work with an organisation that works with the San bushmen of Botswana. I'll be working with Gantsi Craft, part of a group of organisations set up to help the San.
Gantsi Craft is the commercial arm of the organisation so to speak, marketing San craftsmanship and art and providing various development programmes. They where looking for someone to undertake a repricing evaluation - looking at the man hours involved in aspects of production, comparing it to other available forms of economic activity open to the San and also other crafts available throughout southern Africa. So it looks as if I'll be working closely with the San themselves.
I'll hopefully be heading out to Botswana in August/September and staying there for two or three months. You can bet that when the time gets closer I'll need all the advice I can get from those of you with experience in Africa because there is little chance of guest houses and local shops for much of it!
As I'm sure you can imagine, I'm pretty
exited... since I got the email saying they'd have me studying the ins and outs of legislative responses to prostitution has become VERY difficult!!!
http://www.unbotswana.org.bw/undp/news_220604.html - information on their help from UNDP in Botswana, some way down the page.
http://www.kuru.co.bw/Gantsi Craft.htm - their own page and the umbrella organisation, Kuru Family
Ben
Gantsi Craft is the commercial arm of the organisation so to speak, marketing San craftsmanship and art and providing various development programmes. They where looking for someone to undertake a repricing evaluation - looking at the man hours involved in aspects of production, comparing it to other available forms of economic activity open to the San and also other crafts available throughout southern Africa. So it looks as if I'll be working closely with the San themselves.
I'll hopefully be heading out to Botswana in August/September and staying there for two or three months. You can bet that when the time gets closer I'll need all the advice I can get from those of you with experience in Africa because there is little chance of guest houses and local shops for much of it!
As I'm sure you can imagine, I'm pretty
exited... since I got the email saying they'd have me studying the ins and outs of legislative responses to prostitution has become VERY difficult!!!http://www.unbotswana.org.bw/undp/news_220604.html - information on their help from UNDP in Botswana, some way down the page.
http://www.kuru.co.bw/Gantsi Craft.htm - their own page and the umbrella organisation, Kuru Family
Ben
