BEST PRACTICES: Experience
sharing on best activities
1-KIDS SUMMER CAMP each year during
holidays (a flagship program)
2-MAKER ACTIVITY –Makey Makey for learning
piano/ a lesson from recent training in Vienna
3- LUNCH SHARING with volunteers, community
and NGOs leaders and few faithful patrons
1-THE KIDS SUMMER CAMP EACH
YEAR DURING HOLIDAYS
July or Aug. (a flagship program)
Program Presentation/Camp Objective
The Kids Summer Camp known as OXYKIDS
(OXYgen for KIDS) is a program conducted by
AC Tiassalé (on behalf of/and thanks to the
US Embassy PAS) that gathered 30 kids (age
range 9-12 years old) and aiming at helping
kids build capacities, develop cross-cultural,
social and solidarity values, learn about the
American culture through various activities,
program lasts one month during holidays but
it covers 21 open days.
Nota bene: next camp in this FY2017 (July or
August) will be the 5th edition.
Activities of the camp
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English courses for beginners
Introduction to Computing
Manual activities
Sport session (Introduction to an American sports,
clinic guided by PAS staff and US marines)
HIV/Aids workshops
Children’s rights workshops
Movie Showings on the American culture
Visit (US Embassy for having a common program
guided by IRC)
Program unfolding
During 21 opened days kids benefitted from AC’s
staff and volunteers English sessions for beginners,
introduction to computing, visual Arts and
drawing courses, HIV/Aids sensitization sessions,
Children’s Rights workshops (teaching children
their rights and some social values), projections of
educative movies such as “Families of USA”, “Akila
and the bee”, “Kikool”. Kids also discovered and
learned American football and sports clinic
session is very often conducted by CAO and CAA,
with support of US Marines and staff of the
Embassy on an indicated date during camp
(Continued)The camp ended with a closing
ceremony. During closing ceremony campers
present a public show, a brief presentation
made by kids themselves on what they’ve
been taught all along that period in presence
of local authorities and their parents. In fact,
kids practice in pairs dialogs learned in
English, greetings, the alphabet, days of the
week and months of the year, colors and
shapes, songs, poems, numbers and counting,
designated school objects, indicated parts of
the body, showed different sketches on
Children Rights and HIV
sensitizations/awareness on the disease,
showed paintings they designed themselves
(that is a making activity), performed in
Courses: English classes for beginners,
Children’s rights workshop, visual arts...
HIV AIDS SENSITIZATION IN DOWNTOWN
TIASSALE
Sports clinic with staff of Embassy and Marines
Sports clinic with staff of Embassy and Marines
Parade for Promoting camp activities during National
Independence Day Aug.7th
2-MAKER ACTIVITY –MAKEY MAKEY for learning
piano/ a lesson from recent training in Vienna
What is Makey Makey?
Makey Makey: is an invention Kit for
Everyone, it is an electronic invention tool and
toy that allows users to connect everyday
objects to computer programs. Using a circuit
board, alligator clips, and a USB cable, the toy
uses closed loop electrical signals to send the
computer either a keyboard stroke or mouse
click signal. This function allows the Makey
Makey to work with any computer program or
webpage since all computer programs and
webpages take keyboard and mouse click
inputs.
INSPIRATION FROM IIP TRAINING PY351
Back from recent training, I have been
thinking for an activity using Makey Makey,
how to initiate a program in order to help and
teach preliminary lessons of piano with kids of
elementary schools. The program was
monitored by myself and Bakayoko Ezechiel
who’s a young volunteer/musician of the God
Assembly Churh of Tiassalé. The activity
covered 4 sessions of one hour per session
over one month (in November 2016). It was a
success as we trained 10 young patrons using
the keyboard of the computer as the piano.
This music program can be used to
teach the basics of music for all
instruments and particularly the
piano: for beginning notes (do-re-mifa-sol-la-si-do) even if practice is not
so profound. So participants were
able to create their own musical
melodies and this has been very
useful.
Content of the Makey Makey box, objects you
need
WHAT DOES IT LOOKS LIKE?
WHAT DOES IT LOOKS LIKE?
3- LUNCH SHARING WITH
VOLUNTEERS, COMMUNITY AND
NGOs LEADERS AND FEW FAITHFUL
PATRONS/giving them promotional
items (encouraging their support and
effort in our programming)
Background/context
Modern American Spaces are dynamic
physical platforms that support meaningful
engagement with foreign audiences in
support of U.S. foreign policy goals. In order
to offer a broad range of programs for target
audiences, many American Spaces rely on the
help of volunteers, interns and NGOs to
initiate, facilitate, and support programs. We
need necessary to be grateful for their
contribution and show them our kindness.
The idea of sharing a lunch
• It was a proposal of mini party of sharing
meals and soft drinks intending to engage as
much volunteers (especially chairmen of
NGO’s, local community leaders, members of
local red cross) to assist American Corner and
for recruiting more volunteers, motivating,
recognizing their effort in my Space.
• I distributed promotional t-shirts and pens.
We did it and for one time the Corner was
grateful and paid tribute for their dynamism.
TIASSALE BEST PRACTICES
END
THANK YOU!
Konankan Fernand