By Stephanie Ahlgrain | Manager of Fundraising and Strategic Alliances
Dear friend and supporter,
We hope this update finds you well physically and emotionally during this challenging week. Gender equality is one of the most talked about issues in community development in recent times, and we are very grateful for your support and interest in reducing violence against women and girls in Mexico. As we mentioned in our previous report, the Community Narrative Practice (CNP) project has thankfully been able to continue more or less as plannedduring Covid-19, thanks to technology. We are on track to begin sharing the illustrated storybooks with families in Ocosingo in early 2021. This is the moment we've all been waiting for!
Before we begin implementation with families, we still need to complete the writing of a few more stories. Just last week, on October 30th, we began the five-part narrative writing workshop, which is being taught through the Webex Training platform in sessions of 5 hours each. Through this workshop Dr. Kathy Cash is training 4 people from Amextra´s central office and 8 people from the regional offices in Chiapas and Guerrero. One external support person is participating to systematize the experience and ensure that Amextra can replicate this workshop in other regions once the first pilot project in Ocosingo is complete and adaptions are made based on participant feedback.
For the stories that are already created, we are working on finding the illustrators to give them the final touch, and make sure they can be understood and seen by all. See the images below which are from the interview process so far. We love to watch the project taking shape in the form of the completed stories and initial illustrations. 2021 is guaranteed to be a big year for this project and we are happy you´ll be here to share the advances. Next year we will be able to share specefic stories of people that have benefited, and ideas that have come into reflection because of all this preparation to make the project a great success.
Wishing you the best,
Stephanie and the entire Amextra team
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