1. DEAR MIMI: Reduce Tech-support time with Cheat Sheet

Every organization has its techie, it's Internet champion, its computer problem solver that everyone turns to for help. You know who you are, and Mimi salutes you! This month, she will give over her space to share an excellent Techsoup.org article by Joanne Connelly, a learning and development consultant with more than 15 years experience creating training programs and support tools. In her article, Joanne outlines very useful strategies for dispensing with common questions and problems you and your colleagues face every day. Kabissa makes use of job aids (also more playfully known as "cheat sheets") every day, and without them we would not be able to function as an organization, or help our volunteers and interns to quickly get up to speed with our processes and special Kabissa ways of doing things.

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2. UNDER THE BAOBAB TREE: Announcements from Kabissa Members

  • Campaign for the Recognition of Pygmy Rights
    • Are you familiar with Pygmies? Pygmies are an indigenous people who make up a minority in Congo-Brazzaville, and in other countries in central Africa, more generally.
  • New Tactics Workshop in Liberia
    • This February, New Tactics was in Liberia, conducting a six day training workshop with CVT-Liberia and LINLEA, the Liberia National Law Enforcement Association. Bringing together civil society organizations and human rights activists from all over the continent, the workshop focused not only on developing new tactics, but also on sharing innovative means of disseminating tactical information.
  • Human Rights Defender Attacked in Nigeria
    • Anyakwee Nsirimovu, Executive Director of the Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (IHRHL) in Rivers State, in the Niger delta, was attacked on 4 March, a week after an apparent threat to kill his family if he did not stop his human rights activities. Amnesty International believes that his life may be in danger.

3. KABISSA MATTERS

  • Introducing the New Kabissa Server
    • We are pleased to report that the "Great Migration" was completed successfully yesterday, on March 13th. In a heroic effort, our migration consultants successfully moved more than 500 Internet domain names hosted on Kabissa to a brand spanking new server. This process took quite a long time for them, since they were moving large amounts of data which then had to be verified on the new server, and also since they were required to upgrade several services at the same time.
  • In DC? Two Fun Ways to Support Kabissa:
    • If you are in DC in the next month, we have two events to raise support for Kabissa AND will be alot of fun!

4. MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: Thembanathi

Thembanathi, which means "hope with us" in Zulu, is dedicated to providing support for orphans of AIDS and other vulnerable children in the region of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Thembanathi currently supports projects on the ground that feed and educate children, and will also be starting an afterschool program for high school students in South Africa next year. This program will focus on activities that creat behavioral changes that prevent HIV transmissions, as well as skills development. Thembanathi raises money for its programs through its jewelry company, Tanda Zulu jewelry, which is made by women in income generation projects in South Africa. Tanda Zulu uses ICT to sell its jewelry to customers in the United States as well as to communicate with the women who make the jewelry. Proceeds are donated back to Thembanathi's orphan projects in South Africa.

Read on: http:www.kabissa.org/spotlight/thembanathi-spotlight.html

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5. NEWS, EVENTS AND DOCUMENTS

6. OPPORTUNITIES POT

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