Alison Joyner
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Re:Setting a Sphere Project in Colombia - 2006/05/05 10:43
Hani Eskandar wrote:
I am a senior member of a Colombian ong called Grupo de Apoyo General Defensa Civil Colombiana and I am very interested in implementing the Shere proyect in Colombia. Our organiztion is a private ong which promotes training to diverse rescue and humanitarian aid groups in the southwest of Colombia, and is also involved in Search and Rescue in the region. I would apreciate any guidance in seting up the Sphere proyect in our country. Thank you very much for any help you could supply.
Posted: Robert Hutchings
Robert,
Thanks for your question, and apologies for the delay in responding. In fact we don't set up Sphere projects around the world; rather there are organisations that support Sphere, and the small project office in Geneva (3.5 members of staff) aims to offer technical support those Sphere users in their activities - training, materials production, translations etc. We have very limited funds, but are willing to support funding applications to donors made by interested organisations.
In Colombia, we know there are already people working on Sphere, and you can find on the website a report on a Traninig of Trainers course run in Colombia. It's in the download section under training, but to make it easier this is the link:
http://www.sphereproject.org/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,69/Itemid,203/
lang,English/
You will find in the report a list of all the participants and their organisations, which will give you a good start in identifying people in Colombia who are already using and training on Sphere. Jose Luis Barreiro, who works for Oxfam in Colombia, is the point of contact for the report, and his details are given on the website.
Once you have been in touch with others in Colombia working on Sphere, please don't hesitate to contact the office if you have questions about ways in which your organisation could get involved. Areas on the website that could be of interest include information on focal points, currently in the news section, and the training and materials sections.
I hope that this answers your question, we look forward to keeping in touch.
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