This October I will be going to Nairobi to take 33 women through the official NMNW TOT Certification process. The good side is that this will enable the Kenyan women to conduct their own 3 week training intensives and certify their own NMNW Instructors.

The bad side is that TOT salaries are larger than the Instructor salary and more instructors mean more salaries. You could say I’m waiting for the grant / funder calvary to show up. Expansion is great – it’s a tightrope you walk between what needs to be done and what you have the funds to accomplish and everytime I arrive at this juncture I hear  this quote by Judith of Norwich:

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

After long and arduous efforts by Jacky Agonda and members of the NMNKenya staff we finally have our Authorization Letters from the Ministry of Education in Nairobi. This allows us to teach in  all public and private Primary and Secondary Schools.  We are officially sanctioned at last! This provides great latitude for school teachers and administrators to welcome our instructors into any school we’re hoping to do trainings in. Hurrah!

Thanks again to Jacky and all who worked to jump through every necessary hoop!

http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/04/pedophiles_psychology_miramont.php 

If our training didn’t force the incidence of rape to go down as much as it does I think I might lose my mind at this point. I’ll keep you posted on these results – we need to really dig into this data here. Research is key. We’re going to get at the truth of what is really going on in these slums and we’re going to do everything we can to empower the girls to resist effectively. Research isn’t cheap by the way, if you’ve got any cash to swing our way that would be faboo. I’m praying the new website is ready this week, there will be a donate button on there.

Speaking of donations, after two years of financing the the infrastructure for an expanded  Self-Defense program we are finally  getting into fundraising/grant writing mode. We have gone from 6 Instructors to over 30, our research teams are in place, our instructors are  in the field teaching and as you can imagine our expenses are up. Our projected date for renewing our acceptance of donations was early 2012: so here we are.

More on this topic when the new site is live.

  http://calpactucb.blogspot.com/2012/03/reshaping-global-rape-prevention.html

Poignant description of what its like to experience a sexual assault, during and after. And how it feels to learn about Self Defense and the empowered spirit.

He pulled her into an abandoned house. That was his first mistake.

If I didn’t have those tactics I would have been raped and I would not be proud today like this.

…. afterwards he was taken to the hospital.