SEAPCP COMMUNITY ORGANISING

Cambodia CO Touching Many Lives
The following report is from Hem Nareth, a young and dynamic organiser who has undergone SEAPCP Comunity Organising training course in 2008 and 2009.




Here is my latest achievement of providing CO training to young people who living in slums as well as some staff of Village Earth organisation in Cambodia. I am trying to build inside and out side community organisers and now after the trainings, I have 4 more main steps for them:

1. Practice analysing their own community problems sharply
2 Document these in writing.
3. Start to organize community through existing programs such as medical care (in eviction problems and also use income generation as entry points as well).
4. Monitoring and Evaluation of their own organizing work.

After they have finished the 4 main steps, they could achieve the real experience in organizing and they will also get their certificates. (This course will take about 1 years).

Every 2 weeks, I meet them ( those trained participants) for about 2 hours to consult or assist them when they faced problems or challenges. I also integrated CO session in sustainable development curriculum, it's quite a successful workshop.

Now I am organizing the youngster ( at risk youth) by using music class as entry point. It's quite challenging, they get passionate very fast, and also lose interests very fast as well. That's so hard for me to monitor and motivate them so often!

Will update u later about that improvement, take care everybody,

Hem Nareth