New York City: Organizing is often a matter of drawing the lines as quickly as possible — and as straight and true — as you are able between several points – or people – to bring them all together. Recently, I was cementing just that kind of connection where disjointed and skimpy pieces of information somehow …
Category: Organizer Training
A Church in Orange Farm
Johannesburg: The Organizers’ Forum Dialogue on South Africa began right after breakfast as our delegation (crew would seem a better word!) trooped onto a bus to head for Orange Farm, a huge developing township of 800,000 on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Along the highway as we came into the area we could see the innumerable one-room …
The Certified Organizers of Kenya
Nairobi: Kibura is a huge slum. The degree that a slum can be said to have “boosters,” Kibura had them. This was reputedly the worst of the worst and as I was told frequently with more than a million residents, this was “the largest slum in sub-Saharan” Africa. Low-slung with no dependable access to clean water …