PRIME SUMMER Newsletter 2018
Read the newsletter here: 2018_summer
Snapshots from a number of PRIME's tutors as they reveal some of the realities and delights of sharing whole person compassionate care across the globe... this edition includes Armenia, India, South Asia, Uganda and the UK
In this issue:
- CHALAPI - Uganda
- Welcoming Armenia - Armenia
- Important dates. Regional groups - UK
- Health and safety. Kolancherry-style - India
- Working with the vulnerable in South Asia - South Asia
- PRIME. Who are we working for?
- Restoring wholeness to healthcare
- Listen ... Watch ...
- Upcoming events
- Restore the heart of healthcare
Snippets...
"When PRIME started we had little
idea that it would become as large or as worldwide as it has become. But
there was a vision given to us of a pebble dropped in a pool and the
ripples as they spread outwards grew larger not smaller. And so it has
turned out. The ripples have indeed got larger as those hearing the
message adapt it culturally, to local circumstances, and pass it on to
many more people around them. Vision inspires vision and we hope that
the vision may continue to spread and grow."
"We
arrived in the early hours of Wednesday to hear that parliament had
failed to elect a new PM and a general strike with mass demonstrations
across the country had been called for that day – with a second
parliamentary election planned for 8th May, the day we returned to the
UK! All public services, transport, schools, universities, etc. were
closed down, hospitals took only emergency admissions and we arrived on
what was probably the last flight to land in Yerevan before the airport
was closed."
"Whether in the UK or abroad, we are enthusiastic to equip and empower all our tutors with up-to-date teaching materials that are relevant and inspiring to those we teach. Technology now allows us to make these much more accessible, but raises the question - exactly how do we do this? Research is required both to learn from the methods of others and to identify what will work best within the principles and workings of PRIME."
"As we were walking we heard voices from above. It was hard to make out where the sound was coming from but eventually I spotted a three storey building being painted. It had sealed ceiling to floor windows with ledges about 30cms across. In each of the top alcoves was a man with a paint brush and some paint. No hard hat, no safety harness. There was no scaffolding - so how did they get there?"
"Kasese district in Uganda can boast of only five prisons hosting thousands of prisoners who mercilessly suffocate within the claws of injustice, dire hunger, excruciating pain and hellish living conditions. I know you may fold your arms on grounds that these are prisoners, but mind you - such calamity can befall anyone. It could be your brother, sister, nephew or child. We do not know the complete picture…”
“Enormous need, unimaginable suffering, virtually no professionals and shoe-string budgets for medicines from donations of friends… The fight against mental illness continues against all odds!”
Over the last financial year PRIME tutors delivered 56 separate programmes in 23 different countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. This involved over 98 different tutors from 17 nations serving overseas for a total of 715 days providing teaching and training to well over 4,000 individuals. And, importantly, this teaching is being passed on by many in their own day-to-day teaching and practice in many more places.
"Whether in the UK or abroad, we are enthusiastic to equip and empower all our tutors with up-to-date teaching materials that are relevant and inspiring to those we teach. Technology now allows us to make these much more accessible, but raises the question - exactly how do we do this? Research is required both to learn from the methods of others and to identify what will work best within the principles and workings of PRIME."
"As we were walking we heard voices from above. It was hard to make out where the sound was coming from but eventually I spotted a three storey building being painted. It had sealed ceiling to floor windows with ledges about 30cms across. In each of the top alcoves was a man with a paint brush and some paint. No hard hat, no safety harness. There was no scaffolding - so how did they get there?"
"Kasese district in Uganda can boast of only five prisons hosting thousands of prisoners who mercilessly suffocate within the claws of injustice, dire hunger, excruciating pain and hellish living conditions. I know you may fold your arms on grounds that these are prisoners, but mind you - such calamity can befall anyone. It could be your brother, sister, nephew or child. We do not know the complete picture…”
“Enormous need, unimaginable suffering, virtually no professionals and shoe-string budgets for medicines from donations of friends… The fight against mental illness continues against all odds!”
Over the last financial year PRIME tutors delivered 56 separate programmes in 23 different countries across Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. This involved over 98 different tutors from 17 nations serving overseas for a total of 715 days providing teaching and training to well over 4,000 individuals. And, importantly, this teaching is being passed on by many in their own day-to-day teaching and practice in many more places.
