Guestbook Entries

Submitted:
First Name: Alexus
Last Name: Kennedy-Vanheusen
City/Town: Gainesville
State/Province: FL
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I have a Master's Degree in HR and I am currently looking for work, and information to prepare me for positions in HR.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
As stated
Submitted:
First Name: Estrella
Last Name: Evangelista
City/Town: Las Vegas
State/Province: NV
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
A community advocate that aim to change the mindset from healthcare to health
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Resource guide for program proposal.
Submitted:
First Name: Ernesto
Last Name: Vasquez
City/Town: Portland
State/Province: Oregon
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am currently an undergraduate student studying Music with a concentration in Education and Business Administration with minors in Entrepreneurship and Psychology. Upon graduation, I plan to continue my education in the fields of Community Psychology and Music Education. In the future, I hope to establish a music education nonprofit organization for at-risk youth in urban communities.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I have just recently stumbled upon the CTB and I can tell it will be a great resource that will expand my knowledge on how to pursue community engagement for positive change.
Submitted:
First Name: Mahawa
Last Name: Komala
City/Town: Monrovia Liberia
State/Province: Monrovia
Country: Liberia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
My name is Mahawa Komala from Liberia west africa, I am a volunteer member of a peace building organization in Liberia called (Everyday Ganhis) our mission is to educate and inspire the public, supporting peace through sharing stories and experiences that illustrate fresh thinking, respect for traditional culture,restoration of nature, innovative media, and the importance of community storytelling. as a peace-builder, as we understand it, is the inside-outsider who, by tending to that role, catalyzes the wisdom of an individual or community to restore its intrinsically sustainable authentic nature.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The community tool box has been very helpful to me and also my work in the community, I dream to become a environmental scientist, I have interest in community issue and development, I get most of my article from the community tool box, whenever we have a project to undertake in our community I used the community tool box to get all of my information in during my presentation, I am very thankful to the university of Kansas of creating this tool box for us.

Thanks

Mahawa Komala
Liberia
Submitted:
First Name: FREDERICK
Last Name: NUURI-TEG
City/Town: Tamale
State/Province: Northern Region
Country: +233
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a 25 year old gentleman and a graduate student of the University for Development Studies,Tamale, Ghana where I am currently studying MSc Community Health and Development.I am also an intent at a non-governmental organization called SavanaSignatures. I have personal interest in activities that has to do with community development which explains my desire of being a community developer especially in the area of health so as to improve lives of people wherever i find myself.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The tool box with its rich content will go a long way to equip me with the necessary resource and knowledge to effectively undertake any community development programme.
Submitted:
First Name: Tami
Last Name: Ruckman
City/Town: Asheville
State/Province: NC
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Director of Development at Eliada Home for Children, and have been doing program planning and fundraising for non-profits for 25 years. My background is social work.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I have used Community Tool Box for years - it helps me write grants, develop outcomes, lead processes, develop protocols, and so on. It is like "planning in a box". It is everything I have learned about non-profit work in outline form! I love it!
Submitted:
First Name: Betsy
Last Name: Stapleton
City/Town: Hephzibah
State/Province: GA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I retired and have volunteered to work with a group who has shown interest in building a substance abuse program ministry in our church and local community. At the present time, we researching credible sources to build this incredibly needed program.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
In searching for credible sources, I came across Community Tool Box site and was highly impressed with valuable information. I have not gotten into using the Community Tool Box, because I have not found whether or not substance abuse would be in the program at all. However, I decided to make contact and ask specific questions if we could possibly get help from this amazing organization.

I did subscribe to the eNewletter.
Submitted:
First Name: Jennifer
Last Name: Leaf
City/Town:
State/Province: Hawke's Bay
Country: New Zealand
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
A group of art and design students from a local tertiary institution, Eastern Institute of Technology, presented to our parks team and Councillors on design ideas for an upcoming park revitalisation - one of the groups referenced ctb.ku.edu - that seemed familiar!
I am a KU alum (Bachelors Geography '87 and MSEd '92)
Good resource you have here - being used around the world!
Submitted:
First Name: Bagrmwin
Last Name: Lawrence
City/Town: Nandom
State/Province: Wa
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a student of the University for Development Studies. I am reading masters in community health and Development. I work with the Ministry of Health in Ghana as a Nurse Practitioner
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
It help me in understanding key concepts in community health and development as a student. After my studies, it would health me in establishing foundation that would be devoted to community work.
Submitted:
First Name: Binta
Last Name: Moustapha
City/Town: Calabar
State/Province: Cross River State
Country: Nigeria
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Binta Moustapha teaches Basic Science and Biology at a privately owned school where she also heads the Mathematics, Science and Technology Department to earn a living.

She is most noted for her efforts towards promoting mathematics, science and technical education for young Nigerian learners especially girls since 2010 through a nonprofit organization which started as B'da Best Concepts but now registered as The Best Education for Development Foundation.

She has just opened an adult and Continuing Education Center this May 2014 to help young girls and women who were withdrawn from western schools for marriage acquire knowledge and skills to function effectively in the Community.

She just qualified for an award which recognizes women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics-(STEM) across Africa and Middle East sponsored by the United States Department for Education and Cultural Affairs.

This award is an all expense paid 5 weeks Internship at Washington DC and Silicon Valley in San Francisco USA scheduled for the 30th to the 5th of November 2014.

She looks forward to partnerships, empowerments and collaborations that will help develop her initiatives in Nigeria.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The Community Tool box has been a map to provide structure and content for my work.

The information and guidelines are indispensable.
Submitted:
First Name: Salomé
Last Name: Meyer
City/Town: Cape Town
State/Province:
Country: South Africa
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a social worker by training, worked mainly in community development for most of working my career (full time). Became involved in cancer as a volunteer and for the last 20 years have focussed in this field using community development skills in a consultancy and voluntary capacity. Am also an active independent cancer advocate - using political and media advocacy focussing on breast and cervical cancer that is shows the highest incidence and mortality rates for women in South Africa and Africa.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
I came across your website with the most wonderful toolkits and references – I do have to say that it is SOOO great to see work shared in the public domain. I am from Cape Town, South Africa – and involved in advocacy – which in SA is not really as developed as in many other countries. We are in process of developing an Advocacy and Communication training course for cancer non-profit organisations, and will be implementing a massive media based campaign for Advocates for Breast Cancer (ABC) around breast cancer policy development. In the notes we will make specific reference to your toolkits and will further refer the toolkits to the our colleagues in the AORTIC African Cancer Advocacy Consortium (ACAC).
Submitted:
First Name: Youchaou
Last Name: TRAORE
City/Town: Bamako
State/Province: Mali
Country: Mali
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the executive director of a local NGO dealing with community development activities like health, education, IGA, youth development, etc.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
This is my first time to discover your web site and tool box. It helped me a lot improve the action plan of my organisation and it has been particularly helpful for my junior staff who found it very simple and easy to use. Thank you very much for developing these tools and making them available for free for the development of humanity. You are doing a great job. Thank you very much.
Submitted:
First Name: Ikleen
Last Name: Ibrahim
City/Town: Tamale
State/Province: Northern Region
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a masters student at the University for Development studies. i am enrolled in the Community Health and Development Program. i have a keen interest in community work, a result of several years of observing the worsening plight of may communities in my country. this is despite the fact that so much has been attempted by government and other organizations to make things better.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The Toolbox for me is a timely intervention. From community assessment to developing advocacy campaigns, the toolbox gives me all the information needed to go into action. its emphasis on participatory methods for sustainable initiatives is worthy of note and emulation. My plans are already in motion towards setting up a research, advocacy and policy analysis organization and one of my worries has been sourcing of funding. the toolbox is therefore particularly resourceful in that light, i am grateful to Prof. Stephen B. Fawcett for introducing me to this resource.
Submitted:
First Name: ADONGO
Last Name: ATOGUMLEMYA PROSPER
City/Town: YUA-NAVRONGO
State/Province:
Country: GHANA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am ADONGO ATOGUMLEMYA PROSPER a native of Yua-Navrongo and a graduate student studying community health and development of the university for development studies.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
it is a very important source for me to get information for my assignments.
Submitted:
First Name: Abubakari
Last Name: Sumaila Gariba
City/Town: Bawku
State/Province: Upper East Region
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Am an Msc. student in community health and development at UDS Tamale, am also a registered nurse and a nurse tutor at the presby NTC, Bawku
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Am using it assist me in community field work and in teaching my students as a source of information
Submitted:
First Name: Dr. Young
Last Name: Usen
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country: Nigeria
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an educationist by profession. Have traveled wide across the different continent of the world. Am very concern and passionate about the pathetic condition and lack of proper development and organization of most communities in my country, and how to bring improvement to support what the government is doing. I have been considering starting an organization that will partner with private and government bodies and contribute to the improvement, provision of basic services and development to the less privileged citizens in their various communities across the nation. In my quest for useful and helpful materials, i stumbled on the Community Tool Box.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
Have just downloaded all the PowerPoint slides. Am studying them slide by slide. Afterward, I intend to start recruiting a team of volunteers with similar vision and passion, train them using the community tool box materials, then we will launch the Community Organization for Development Initiative across my nation. I am optimistic that with the rich content of the CTB, I will be able to effect an action that will eventually benefit the ordinary citizen in my Country. I also want to make further contact with CTB organization for any kind of affiliation that might be available. Thank you very much for the good job with the CTB.
Submitted:
First Name: ANYOKA
Last Name: BEDE
City/Town: TAMALE
State/Province: GHANA
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a post graduate student of University for Development Studies, studying community health and development. who wish to go into the academia that into lecturing and helping the rural communities in Ghana.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
i wish to use the community tool box in my quest to be a lecturer and to design community interventions that will help solve my community problems.
Submitted:
First Name: M.Arsalan
Last Name: Tahir
City/Town: korangi
State/Province: karachi
Country: pakistan
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
we are youth group working for youth of korangi , we are empowering our fellows by train them on different topics and life skills , which can make them benifical for society
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
CTB IS HELPING us by making us understand the concepts of community ,we use the speciman of fund rasing module and lectures
Submitted:
First Name: David
Last Name: Dumakawe
City/Town: Tamale
State/Province: Tamale
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
My name is David Dumakawe, a Community Health and Development student of the University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana. I am a entrepreneur but with a community nutrition background.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
As a Community Health and Development student, with an interest in the area of health literacy, this is just the resource i need to be able to embark on this exercise. In Ghana and mostly especially Northern region,one can have cases of high Antenatal Clinic visits but low supervised skilled deliveries, and this is a worrying trend because of our quest to reducing maternal and infant mortality. My work is going to be a lot more easier with this community tool box as my guide. It will also help me in managing my business as well, most especially in areas of selling my ideas and work to people using social marketing techniques and principles.
Submitted:
First Name: Ikleen
Last Name: Ibrahim
City/Town: Tamale
State/Province:
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am master student, studying Community Health and Development. I have a keen interest in community issues and participatory methods for sustainable development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?
The Toolbox is to me a resource like like none other. It is giving me a more practical insight into the assessment of community needs and resources, building leadership and dealing with opposition. Among other things I am glad that I can readily see what others have done in their situation and be able to adapt and customize it to fit mine. I am about starting an advocacy and policy research organization and the toolbox resource on funding proposal is very informative. It really straigtens all ambiguity and for me, research, teaching and training, as well as building partnerships for future developmental projects just got easier. I am grateful.