There are an increasing number of poor community groups moving around
visiting each other - in their own cities and countries and in other
countries.
As a regional coalition ACHR has been supporting exchanges
within Asia for the past decade. After a few years of experimentation,
this
methodology of sharing and learning generated such forceful impacts that it was formalised into a training process for ACHR which became
known as TAP.
Along with exchange pioneers in the SPARC alliance India and
friends in People's Dialogue, South Africa, community to community exchanges
have now extended beyond the region to a direct international sharing among poor
communities.
Face to Face is a tabloid style newsletter / magazine which attempts to
inform about the process and the benefits of community to community
exchanges. Over 32 pages, 55,000 words and over 100 photographs
attempt to hook up the ideas and people which have helped bring to life this
relatively new development process.
The stories and text come from innumerable documents, conversations, e-mail
messages, videos, speeches and notes, and weaving them together involved the
very far flung editorial collaboration of Sheela Patel, Diana Mitlin, Joel
Bolnick and Thomas Kerr. Support for the magazine came from Pilotlight
(UK) and the English National Lotteries Charity Board.
Hard copies of Face to Face magazine are available from ACHR Sec,
PilotLight, and SDI. The full text document is available at the
Website of Slum Dwellers International (SDI).
Our serialized extracts begin HERE
Below: a couple more Exchanges
last year
Cape
Town Communities Face to Face in Thailand and Cambodia
Vietnamese Exposure to Thailand and Surabaya
April 2000
