Grassroot Good News, August 2000: excerpts

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Grassroots Good News / August 2000 Edition
 
Contents:
 
1. Changemakers
2. Two Decades of Threshold Peace Work
3. Nontoxic Mosquito Control
4. Children's Television in Macedonia
5. Fundraising Training
 
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4. Children's Television in Macedonia

In October 1999, a new series aimed at children ages 7-12 began on
Macedonian television. The series NASHE MAALO (Our Neighborhood)
focuses on conflict resolution and intercultural understanding. NASHE
MAALO is a half-hour program that follows the lives of five different
children from four different ethnicities - Macedonian, Albanian,
Turkish and Romani. This disparate group of kids comes together
because they all share a secret: the building they live in is alive!
The wise building�s name is Karmen and she appears to them through an
old television set in the basement. In addition to being the kids'
confidante and friend, Karmen has one special power: she can invisibly
transport them into other places, other homes. In this way the
children are exposed to other people's ways of thinking and living.
Each episode of NASHE MAALO tracks the adventures of the five children
as they slowly come to accept others. The series is made primarily in
the Macedonian language. However, to reflect the country�s
multi-lingual reality, scenes also take place in Albanian, Turkish and
Romani.
 
The series is co-produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW)
and Common Ground Productions (CGP). CTW vice president Steve Miller
said, "The motivating idea behind NASHE MAALO was to create a series
that would help demystify the cultural stereotypes children have,
before they become set in stone. But we also believe that these
stories transcend Macedonia's borders because they are fundamentally
about how kids cope inside of a society of ethnic mistrust. And what
country doesn't have that problem?"
 
The program's goals include discovering elements of a common culture
and heritage; discovering unique elements of each culture; recognizing
and rejecting stereotypes; and resisting negative social pressure. The
entire production, including the writing, directing and editing, was
staffed in Macedonia. NASHE MAALO Online can be visited online at:
http://www.cgponline.org
 
(Abridged reprint of an article by Lisa Shochat, email:
[email protected], in the January/February 2000 edition of
"Reconciliation International", the magazine of the International
Fellowship of Reconciliation (http://www.ifor.org) with kind
permission of RI.

Children's Television Workshop (CTW) uses media to educate and engage
children and families worldwide. Common Ground Productions (CGP)
creates television, radio, and Internet programming for the reduction
or prevention of conflict, website: http://www.cgponline.org


5. Fundraising Training

In September a fundraising training for NGO from Russia, CIS and
Eastern Europe will be held in Moscow organized from "Focus" and the
International Fundraising Group in UK. Topics will be the learning of
fundraising approaches and to get an overview about the fundgivers
scene. (from GGN correspondent Julia Larina - [email protected] - at Kazan)
Contact for the training: [email protected])
 

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