[DCAD] Remerciement--IGF Session

Sat Aug 24 02:52:47 PDT 2024

TEAM UMOJA YOUTH ASSOCIATION (TUYA)

24/08/2024

Dear esteemed Donors, Funders, and Charitable Organizations,

We are reaching out to you with a heartfelt appeal for financial support to
benefit 300 orphans in hard-to-reach areas of the western region of Uganda
for their third term 2024 starting on 16/09/2024. Our organization, Team
Umoja Youth Association (TUYA), is dedicated to providing educational
opportunities to vulnerable children.

We aim to provide scholastic materials, including:

- Books ($800)
- Pens, pencils, and stationery ($500)
- Backpacks and lunch boxes ($500)
- Uniforms and shoes ($1500)
- Educational resources and activities ($1100)

Total Budget: $4400

Your contribution will directly impact the lives of these orphans, enabling
them to access quality education and break the cycle of poverty.

Benefits of your support:

- Improved academic performance
- Enhanced self-esteem and confidence
- Increased access to education and opportunities
- Empowerment of vulnerable children

We kindly request your financial support to help us reach our goal. Any
contribution, big or small, will make a significant difference.

Please send your donation to:

MASEREKA JOVA

Bank Account No. 3203306902

Thank you for considering our appeal. Together, we can transform the lives
of these orphans and create a brighter future.

Sincerely,

JOVA MASEREKA
PROGRAMS COORDINATOR
TEAM UMOJA YOUTH ASSOCIATION (TUYA)
+256708998859(WhatsApp)
+256789715570(Mobilie money account)
jovamasereka at gmail.com

On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, 12:52 Masereka Jova <jovamasereka at gmail.com> wrote:

> TEAM UMOJA YOUTH ASSOCIATION (TUYA)
>
> 24/08/2024
>
> Dear esteemed Donors, Funders, and Charitable Organizations,
>
> We are reaching out to you with a heartfelt appeal for financial support
> to benefit 300 orphans in hard-to-reach areas of the western region of
> Uganda for their third term 2024 starting on 16/09/2024. Our organization,
> Team Umoja Youth Association (TUYA), is dedicated to providing educational
> opportunities to vulnerable children.
>
> We aim to provide scholastic materials, including:
>
> - Books ($800)
> - Pens, pencils, and stationery ($500)
> - Backpacks and lunch boxes ($500)
> - Uniforms and shoes ($1500)
> - Educational resources and activities ($1100)
>
> Total Budget: $4400
>
> Your contribution will directly impact the lives of these orphans,
> enabling them to access quality education and break the cycle of poverty.
>
> Benefits of your support:
>
> - Improved academic performance
> - Enhanced self-esteem and confidence
> - Increased access to education and opportunities
> - Empowerment of vulnerable children
>
> We kindly request your financial support to help us reach our goal. Any
> contribution, big or small, will make a significant difference.
>
> Please send your donation to:
>
> MASEREKA JOVA
>
> Bank Account No. 3203306902
>
>
> Thank you for considering our appeal. Together, we can transform the lives
> of these orphans and create a brighter future.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> JOVA MASEREKA
> PROGRAMS COORDINATOR
> TEAM UMOJA YOUTH ASSOCIATION (TUYA)
> +256708998859(WhatsApp)
> +256789715570(Mobilie money account)
> jovamasereka at gmail.com
>
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 20:29 Judith Hellerstein via DCAD <
> dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>
>> HI All,
>>
>> Thanks for all these great comments. It is great to hear from many of
>> you. So glad we have many new members.  w
>>
>> We will work to factor some of them into our Joint DCAD-OER Session.  As
>> many of you know, The IGF Secretariat reached out to all DC session
>> proposers asking us to collaborate with other DCs on joint session
>> proposals, considering the limited number of slots on the IGF programme
>> this year.  As the IGF Secretariat and MAG are responding to the
>> community's request to have less overlapping sessions and not to end so
>> late this year, the result is fewer sessions overall, which means that DCs
>> also need to have fewer sessions. As there are a number of new Dynamic
>> Coalitions, it means that all DCs must partner with another DC to have a
>> session on the IGF Program. This year, we will be collaborating with the DC
>> on Open Educational Content.  We are still working on the revised version
>> of our session, but when it is finished we will share it with the community.
>>
>> In addition to this session, we also plan on applying for one of the
>> hybrid bilateral rooms for our annual meeting and will share this
>> information with you.  These rooms are allowed to be booked by DCs to host
>> an annual meeting, but will not be listed on the IGF Program.
>>
>> We will also be sharing in the next few weeks a new revision of the
>> Accessibility Guidelines the small team at DCAD volunteers has been working
>> on.  It will take in many of these suggestions. We look forward to your
>> engagement on these and other projects. Hope all have a great weekend.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Judith Hellerstein
>>
>> DCAD Co-Coordinator
>>
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>> On 8/9/24 12:14 PM, Lidia Best via DCAD wrote:
>>
>> Hi Deidre.
>>
>> Thanks for your comment.
>>
>> I am not surprised to see this particular workshop popularity here.
>> From hard of hearing side, we are very concerned about link between
>> disability,use of assistive technology and use of data.
>>
>> Not everyone maybe aware but hearing aids and cochlear implant processors
>> do collect data using the devices themselves and the apps that we have to
>> use in order of getting access to some functionality.
>>
>> Users are not even told about it and nothing is explained about
>> collecting data.
>> Is this ethical?
>> This is just one aspect.
>>
>> Lidia
>>
>> On Fri, 9 Aug 2024, 16:57 Deirdre Williams, <williams.deirdre at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear DCAD, June and Lidia,
>>> Good day to all.
>>> In May 2023 DCAD published a revised Governance document and Code of
>>> Conduct.
>>> There is no stipulation that I can find about which language should be
>>> used, although I agree with Lidia that it may simplify things for all of us
>>> to arrange to use English as a common language for communication on the
>>> list. In the Code of Conduct there is emphasis on respect, tolerance and
>>> fairness. Since I have spent the last 16 years (the first IGF I attended
>>> was Hyderabad in 2008) in an "IGF" context, and the 16 before that in a
>>> regional (Latin America and the Caribbean) context working on issues of
>>> multilingualism and accessibility, this issue of languages is very
>>> important to me. If you think about it it's very important to all of us
>>> since if it's not managed properly it may deprive us of our rights to
>>> speak, and to be heard.
>>> There is also another issue here. We're missing a great opportunity.
>>> Over the last 5 years or so the DCAD list has come alive once a year to
>>> deal with Fellowships for the IGF. Then it goes silent until next year.
>>> This year plenty of DCAD members have expressed an interest in a
>>> proposed workshop on Disability and Data Protection. We won't all go to
>>> Riyadh, we won't all even manage to participate virtually, but everyone who
>>> responded is "here" on the DCAD list.
>>> So why is this workshop so interesting? Do you have fears or challenges
>>> about data protection? Do you have good ideas for improving data
>>> protection? If we choose we can share our knowledge and ideas now, on the
>>> DCAD list, help each other and possibly provide a useful resource for this
>>> interesting workshop.
>>> Let's use this opportunity for something good
>>> De
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 16:27, juneparris5--- via DCAD <
>>> dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Lidia
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your support.
>>>>
>>>> June Parris
>>>>
>>>> On 7 Aug 2024 09:56, Lidia Best via DCAD <dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Deirdre.  English is a working language at this level and for this
>>>> reason we all use it.
>>>> You would struggle even more if I wrote in Polish :-)
>>>>
>>>> Let's use common ground, which is English.
>>>>
>>>> Lidia
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024, 14:51 Deirdre Williams via DCAD, <
>>>> dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The United Nations has six official languages - Arabic, Chinese,
>>>> English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
>>>> DCAD habitually uses English on the list, but I am not aware that this
>>>> has ever been stipulated as a "rule".
>>>> Since we are interested in working together to improve accessibility,
>>>> especially in a context of disability, isn't it desirable that we should
>>>> try to be as flexible as possible in terms of language used for
>>>> communication?
>>>> Deirdre
>>>> PS I'm glad that Joseph has English as well as French, but other people
>>>> may not have that facility
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 at 07:26, June Parris via DCAD <
>>>> dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> Hope you are all well. I want to remind the group that the official
>>>> language of the United Nations is English.
>>>>
>>>> Usually we address everyone using the same format. Since it is a group
>>>> email, when someone is addressed as Doctor we don’t know who they are
>>>> referring to, we really need to have a meeting ASAP to discuss the UN
>>>> protocols.
>>>>
>>>> June Parris
>>>>
>>>> Research Associate
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > On 7 Aug 2024, at 05:26, Joseph Moussa via DCAD <
>>>> dcad at lists.igf-dcad.org> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > 
>>>> >
>>>> > Bonjour à tous,
>>>> >
>>>> > Je suis très heureux de faire partie de la famille BCAD en tant que
>>>> nouveau membre. En tant que personne handicapée visuelle résidant au Bénin,
>>>> directeur général du groupe TIC pour tous SARL et membre affilié au Forum
>>>> des jeunes pour la gouvernance de l'Internet au Bénin, je suis profondément
>>>> engagé dans la promotion de l'inclusion numérique pour les personnes en
>>>> situation de handicap.
>>>> >
>>>> > Mon adhésion à BCAD me permettra d'approfondir mes connaissances sur
>>>> les technologies numériques et de mieux servir ma communauté. Je suis
>>>> impatient de collaborer avec les autres membres et d'apprendre de leurs
>>>> expériences afin de développer des solutions innovantes pour
>>>> l'accessibilité numérique.
>>>> >
>>>> > Ensemble, nous pouvons construire un monde plus inclusif où chacun a
>>>> l'opportunité de s'épanouir grâce au numérique. Je remercie BCAD de m'avoir
>>>> accueilli au sein de cette merveilleuse famille et je suis ravi de
>>>> contribuer à ses efforts pour l'autonomisation des personnes en situation
>>>> de handicap.
>>>> >
>>>> > Que Dieu bénisse BCAD et tous ses membres !
>>>> >
>>>> > Cordialement,
>>>> > Joseph Moussa
>>>> > Directeur général, Groupe TIC pour tous SARL
>>>> > Membre affilié, Forum des jeunes pour la gouvernance de l'Internet au
>>>> Bénin
>>>> > Bénin
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