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 …
Category: Organizer Training
Outside the Box?
Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside, California: Every year for the last number we have done two sets of training for all of ACORN‘s new organizers. Mid-level includes all organizers with between six and eighteen months of experience and Advanced moves in many organizers who seem to be “keepers” a year after they have done mid-level. For …
A week in Toronto
Toronto: The Community Leadership Centre (www.columbiainstitute.ca) reassembled our organizer trainees in Toronto to have them debrief from their first dozen weeks in the field and do some intensive training on campaign mechanics before their second stint of field assignments. We were a smaller, but hardier crew as we pulled into Victoria College on the University of …