WHAT'S NEW?

• Delivering building materials to Nakabambwe and Mukamba Community schools, supported by Academiw Work
• Self help education programmes in Mandandi, Kafekwa and woodlands.

      This is Response Network

• A rights-based organisation
• Teaching people to know their rights with regards to education and their rights for a life in dignity
• Knowing the human rights and working towards these is the key to equality and participation in the society
• RN changes people's lives
• RN helps people help themselves
• RN makes people believe in their own human and enviromental resources
• RN builds self confidence
• RN makes people understand their own potential
• RN builds pride in their own initiatives to meet basic needs
• RN provides information for community initiated development on how they can grow and improve
• RN provides encouragment for community initiated project

And this is how we work:

Response Network is based in Livingstone in Southern Zambia and visits villages all over the country where we hold motivation- and information meetings on how communities can start their own Self-Help activities, based on their own human- and material resources. Instead of pity-ing people and make them feel that they are poor we provide optimism and make them understand that they are rich in so many ways, and that they in fact can solve most of their own problems without depending on any donor. The communities have truly apprecieted this approach and proved to have a huge, latent initiative, as the results of our village sensitisation meetings are astonishing! As background to the meeting we use Self-Help Education Resource manuals. The community needs detailed information about available resources concerning the chosen education project, in order to implement the plans solely on self-help. Therefore relevant Resources Manuals are given to the leaders as such knowledge is not easily available to the people from other sources. The manuals provide information on how to start a Community School, a Women's Club, Skills Training, a Sports Club, Literacy Class for adults, a HIV/AIDS CLUB, a Health- and Nutrition Club or Organic Vegetable Growing. "Know Your Rights" gives advise to communities on what to do and where to go to secure their rights for a life in dignity.
The latest manual so far is no. 10; "Youth can, will and dare – together for a community free from alcohol abuse". The manuals can be loaded down one by one. Contact us if you want the manuals sent by post.

Need for partners.

Norwegian Church Aid,  Norwegian Olympic Commitee and Paraolympic Commitee and Federation of Sports (NIF) and Academic Work are our main partners.But many partners give support to those Self-Help Education activites who have proved they can stand on their own feet and can benefit hugely from support towards their activities in order to grow. Realizing the huge number of Self-Help activities which have started it is need for many more partners to support those strong initiatives. This is especially within Education and Health. For names of present partners see "Worldwide Donor Support".