It is amazing what we find if we actually make a determined effort to look, and what we miss out of sheer laziness. I confess to my laziness. I often refer to myself as an average, overeducated, underachiever… however, I am working on this. I have set up many filters to get information I would otherwise miss that is of interest to me, so I can continue to be lazy but still catch the stuff I would normally miss. This brings me to the article I came across today from the African Press Agency.
Basically, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a humanitarian agency out of Japan. I love their vision/mission statements. Here is a small snippet but the whole thing is great:
Vision
Inclusive and Dynamic Development“Inclusive development” represents an approach to development that encourages all people to recognize the development issues they themselves face, participate in addressing them, and enjoy the fruits of such endeavors.
Anyway, here is the quote that got me from the APA article:
The head of JICA office in Dakar was speaking at the opening of an international training workshop on school data collection and processing, with the participation of over 30 education experts from Burkina Faso (7), Niger (6) and Senegal (10), as well as JICA and Senegal’s Education ministry representatives.
It is amazing to see what other countries are doing to help with education in places. I believe I will be following JICA and what they are doing in my quest to be a little less lazy as well.