Global Bridge Network’s blog: 6月 2018

2018年6月24日日曜日

☆The second anniversary of GBN’s foundation!☆

Hello everyone!

Greetings from the Global Bridge Network (GBN)

It has been two years since GBN started.

It is our pleasure to inform you that the projects that were initiated last year have entered the second phase.

As international support efforts, we have two main projects in Uganda,

’Improvement of Educational Environment for Girls’ with funding from LUSH Japan

and ’EnvironmentProtection and Education’ with funding from the Japan Fund for Global Environment (JFGE).

Both of these initiatives have been implemented by a local NGO and great partner, SORAK Development Agency. As a result of their tremendous efforts, the projects have successfully made progress. We very much appreciate our partner and all our supporters.

Click on the following link to view our annual activity report for fiscal 2017.

http://globalbridgenetwork.org/images/en_works/H29_Annual_Report_en

Project of 'Improvement of Educational Environment for Girls'

Project of 'Environment of Protection and Education'

The most important point to carry out a project in the field is local people’s ‘needs’.

We believe that our partner, SORAK, well understands their needs since they work so closely with the communities and have already built a relationship of trust. Therefore, the local communities willingly accepted our projects, which leads to positive impacts.

SORAK's staff

SORAK's CEO, Mr.Muhammad
with GBN's logo

Last time, Hadijah, a local staff member, told me that the project she is implementing as a project manager has been going well and she really enjoys it. The ‘motivation’ of local staff is so important, and I was truly happy to hear that.

Moreover, as a means of promoting international communication, two events called ‘Uganda Night’ and ‘Sanyu!’ were held in collaboration with other partners.

At ‘Uganda Night,’ we presented GBN’s activities, introduced Uganda’s culture through Ugandan food and drinks as well as provided the opportunities to communicate with Ugandan people who were invited this event.

At ‘Sanyu!’, African style dance and drums were performed. Both of these events were held with the aim of enabling Japanese people to become familiar with Africa and its beautiful culture.

We were so happy to see participants smiling and enjoying themselves.

‘Uganda Night’

‘Sanyu!’

Click on the following link to view the report on ‘Uganda Night’.

http://globalbridgenetwork-eng.blogspot.com/2017/08/activity-report-of-uganda-night.html

Click on the following link to view the report on ‘Sanyu!’.

http://globalbridgenetwork-eng.blogspot.com/2017/09/activity-report-of-sanyu.html

In fiscal year 2018, we will continue ongoing projects as well as expand them to reach more areas. We are also planning to hold more events in Japan for everyone to enjoy.

Although there are a lot of things we want to try, the most important things for us are to do whatever we can really do and continue our current projects. We will proceed step by step, and therefore, we really appreciate your advice and support as GBN moves forward in these endeavors.

Best Regards,

Global Bridge Network

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2018年6月20日水曜日

Activity report of ‘Sanyu’_No2

Hello, everyone! Greetings from GlobalBridge Network（GBN）

Sanyu!_No2 was held at Calabash: African restaurant on June 9^th Sat.

This is the second event of Sanyu! That was held the last August, 2017.

‘Sanyu’ means ‘Happy’ in Luganda, one of the languages spoken in Uganda. Despite of the many challenges such as poverty in Africa, there are so many rich cultures such as dynamic dance, colorful fashion, fashionable craft etc.

At the Sanyu! event, we mainly aimed at our participants getting that feeling and enjoyment towards the mentioned aspects above.

Calabash: African restaurant in Hamamastu-cho

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A Ugandan traditional costume for the men called 'Kanzu'

A pink girl wearing a Ugandan traditional costume for the women called 'Gomesi'

and another one wearing an African fabric called 'Kitengi'

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On that day, we had programs like, introducing GBN activities, talking about Uganda’s culture, Q&A session about Uganda, African style dance & drum show, live paint show, and lastly Uganda’s music & dance as all members also joined the stage to participate and enjoy the dancing session.

The event was not only attended by Japanese, but also some few Africans participated making a total of 40 people. We all really enjoyed and warmed up♪

Introducing of GBN’s activities

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Introducing of Uganda’s Culture

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Q＆A Session about Uganda

Here, Mr. Arafat provided an amazing original Quiz

which many of the members really loved and enjoyed

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Live paint
TEEJ painted by her inspiration
and she also participated in Dance&Drum show as a performer!

Djembe players from African drum class

led by Mr. Eiichi Hanaoka and his fellow crew.

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African style dance with drum sounds (Djembe)

which was beautifully and enjoyably performed

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Drum performance by Mr. Hanaoka

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Solo dance and drum show

by dance instructor, Atsuko and drummer Mr. Hanaoka.

It was just AMAZING.

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Ugandan music and dance session

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They really enjoyed dancing with Ugandan friends

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All members joined to participate with in the session

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We would like to take this opportunity to push a bottle of thanks to the following members for the roles they have played towards the Sanyu function.

To begin with,
Ms. Atsuko from African style dance/STUDIO BARJARA who supported as the coordinator of this event,

Mr. Yamaguchi Kosuke from Uganda Diaspora Japan and he helped in event planning and being MC,

Mr. Eiichi Hanaoka who plays the drum and percussion leading Djembe players from African drum class,

Ms. TEEJ who performed in the beautiful live painting,

and importantly, Ugandan friends, Arafat, Raff, Precious who acted as event staff members and as well played a big role in assisting of the event organizers in as afar as cheering and creating an enjoyable atmosphere during the event.

You are such lovely people.