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10:10 PM
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My Bonaboto President, this is a good idea
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Mat, at 10:12 PM
Great. Now if there is an issue, we can all talk about it
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mat, at 12:51 AM
It is very encouraging to know how far BONABOTO has come since those humble beginnings several years ago.
The number of registered branches and the emerging potential branches like my branch in Kintampo, suggest "BONABOTANS" are determined.
Furthermore,the international members in UK and USA are are also an inspirational to all of us.
As US-Bonaboto and UK-BONABOTO hold their congresses in June, it is my hope and prayer that they will delibrate on issues that will make them grow in membership and impact at home and globally.
I ALSO CONGRATULATE THE CURRENT and past excutives for their sacrifices and dedication that has led us this far. The fact that BONABOTO is on-line is as a result of sacrifices of individuals and I personally congratulate them and wish them God's blessings to enable them go beyond the mark before them
GOD bless all.
Abagnaba Lawrence,
(Belgium. tel. 0032495164282, abagnabalaw@yahoo.com)
Kintampo branch and formerly of Cape Coast Uni. Branch
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Anonymous, at 4:36 PM
I wish to share with all members ofBONABOTO on awards won by Ms Vida Yakong from Nangodi, currentlty a PhD student at UBC in Canada. It should make all of us and female academics proud and motivate the girl-child in our secondary schools .BONABOTO- WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/events/awards/index.php http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/publicaffairs/mediareleases/2009/mr-09-051.html
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Anonymous, at 3:51 PM
I wish to share the following story of Ms Vida Yakong with all Bonaboto members
Media Release | May 22, 2009
UBC Okanagan student Vida Yakong receives McNamara Memorial grant
Vida Yakong
Vida Yakong, a UBC Okanagan graduate student from Ghana, has just returned from Washington DC where she spent four days as a guest of the World Bank. It was an important trip for Yakong -- and one that could lead to improved health care for women and children in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yakong is pursuing a PhD in medical anthropology, nursing, and anthropology of gender and is one of 10 women from around the world selected this year to receive a $12,000 grant from the Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF).
Administered by the World Bank, the fund awards educational grants to women from developing countries whose graduate studies and future plans are directed at improving conditions for women and children in their respective regions.
The grant will support Yakong's research in rural northern Ghana where the fertility rate is nearly seven children per woman and maternal mortality rates are among the world’s highest. In that region, for every 100,000 live childbirths, as many as 500 women die during pregnancy, childbirth or in the days after delivery. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals for women's reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa include objectives to reduce by three-quarters the maternal mortality ratio and achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health care.
"In 10 years, I know there'll be a huge difference,” says Yakong, but she notes that right now in northern Ghana those goals are a long way off. Little progress has been made toward reducing the maternal mortality rate, for example, and her research will help to identify some of the cultural and social reasons behind that.
"I am focused on culture and gender, exploring how men and women relate and how that impacts health care decisions," she says, explaining that gender and relationships influence the health care decisions made by women in rural villages but this is largely neglected in women’s health care practice and policies.
After earning a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree in Kelowna in 2004, Yakong returned to Ghana where she worked as a nurse practitioner. She later returned to UBC Okanagan on a scholarship supported by School of Nursing faculty and community residents to pursue a master’s degree. In June 2008, Yakong was UBC Okanagan's first Master of Science in Nursing graduate.
Her visit to Washington DC this week included tours of the World Bank and the U.S. capital, a recipients' forum with World Bank Group vice president Joy Phumaphi about the previous and future research being done by this year's 10 grant recipients, and a formal dinner hosted by the World Bank Family Network.
Yakong notes that the MMMF grant is welcome recognition for important work to be done, but it also has particular significance for international graduate students.
"International students have very limited access to grants, so this has really made a great impact," she says.
"It is motivating and energizing, and tells me that what I am doing is making a difference. This kind of recognition urges you to do more."
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David M.Kabzot-Tembil, Botswan, at 4:46 PM
BONABOTO SHOULD SPEARHEAD BUILDING OF DAMS ON RIVERS AND STREAMS
I wish to bring this vision to all members of Bonaboto especially the Executive Committee.
Year in year out, we watch water in the rainy seasons flow down to the coastal parts of Ghana and into the sea. We need some of this water up in the North within the BONABOTO area in the Upper East of Ghana and hence need to do something about it just like what is happening in Burkina Faso. We must make a deliberate and conscious effort to dam our rivers and streams to retain some of the water, so that we use it for irrigation and for the drinking of our animals in the dry season. The cooling effects due to the presence of substantial water vapour in the air will also help in bringing comfort to the inhabitants of our region. This is a task I consider Bonaboto with enough expertise to execute or start and to get the Assemblies of our districts involved. I see the president of BONABOTO Mr Mathew Adombire, engineer and in charge of Water matters in Ghana , mapping out the points along the rivers and streams in the Bongo, Bolgatanga and the Talensi- Nabdam districts that can designated for damming in the dry season. I see other member- engineers and architects, builders of Bonaboto Business persons and other Personnel of good standing in Bonaboto contributing their quota in money as it is with BEAF for these projects to succeed. If we do not have to re-invent the wheel , we should get our Burkinabe brothers and sisters as consultants to show how they did it to make their country green.
In the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s when we attended primary and secondary schools we had more green and more comfort for ourselves and our livestock. The Meat factory in Bolgatnga cited for the obvious economic reason of nearness to meat materials was a step in the same direction and we must work to turn around rearing of animals -one of the livelihoods of our people to a better standing than it is now. We can only make the raising of animals and dry season farming possible with water and vegetation for grazing.
I am not an expert in Agricultural matters, but I do see many of my colleagues in BONABOTO and in this field agreeing to put their expertise for the benefit of present and future generations. There is proverb which says
“The land does not belong to us, it is on loan to us from our children and grand-children, we must do well to preserve it and return to them in the good state we got it “.
When all is done the hunting festivals or hunting sessions that go with bush-burning : Tong-daan moog, Nangod-naab moog, Datokdaan moog, Sakotdaan moog, etc must be stopped by bye-laws and legislation.
By David M. Tembil
dmtembil@yahoo.com
Shashe River Senior School
Botswana
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David M. Kabzot- Tembil, at 2:30 PM
I think it is about time for BONABOTO to establish some kind of funding/scholarship to support girls' education in rural areas of BONABOTO. This will facilitate in breaking the gender equity in education in Northern Ghana. We have been there as a group for far too long to have neglected this important issue.
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Anonymous, at 5:24 PM
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