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Community to Community:
Collaborating for Healthy, Peaceful and Just Societies
2007 DGH General Assembly Agenda
October 25 – 31, 2007
Centro Loyola, San Salvador, El Salvador
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Friday, October 26, 2007
7:45 Registration and breakfast
8:45 Welcome & Introduction to the GA
DR. LINNEA CAPPS, DGH President
RECOGNITION OF SANDY KEMP SCHOLARS & TULANE “INTERN”
9:15 Keynote address: Dr. JUAN MANUEL CANALES, DGH Partner, Chiapas, Mexico
10:00 Session I: Global Challenges
Moderator: DR. DANIEL BAUSCH
Panel: Juan Rojas Don Saturnino Ramos
Chico Montes Dr. Angel Ibarra
11:30 Break/networking
12:00 Breakout sessions
- immigration - Dean Brackley
- environmental preservation - Angel Ibarra
- land exploitation – Juan Rojas / Chico Montes
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Session II: Community autonomy and health/empowerment
Moderator: DR. LANNY SMITH
Community Autonomy Panel: Isidra Garcia Villalobos - popular education
Ramiro Cortez Argueta - CDH development
Maria Doris Hernandez - Indigenous Culture, Morazán
Oscar Garcia Morales - Chiapas
3:30 Breakout sessions
popular education - Isidra Garcia Villalobos
cultural preservation – Maria Doris Hernandez
sustainability of local work – Ramiro Cortez Argueta
- role of the volunteer – Abraham Martinez
HIV/AIDS – CoCoSI, Jen Kasper
health promotion/health promoter roles – Hermenegildo Mendez Gutierrez
4:30 Break/networking
4:45 Flood of ideas! What works and what doesn’t: a starting point for discussion.
Large group community sharing with focus on popular education, health promotion, cultural preservation, local work sustainability.
6:15 Closing for the day
6:30 Dinner
7:30-10PM CULTURAL EVENT I: An Evening of Celebration and Sharing.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
7:45 Breakfast
8:30 Opening for the day
8:45 Session III: Local Meets Global – Privatization of Health Care
Speaker: "Healing the Body Politic: The White Marches & Privatization in El Salvador"
- Sandy Smith-Nonini
9:30 Successful Salvadoran Strike Against Privatization of Healthcare Panel
Moderador: DENISE ZWAHLEN
Medardo (Tito) Ernesto Gómez Centeno
Margarita Posada
Virginia Rodriguez
MARCHA BLANCA participant
10:45 Break/networking
11:15 Breakout sessions
- Sanitation and Environment – Barrio Edgar Lang, Nicaragua
HIV/AIDS – globally and locally – CoCoSI, Jen Kasper
War & post-war: physical & mental health/violence – Ricardo Martinez Mtz
12:15 Lunch
1:15 Improving our Work: Making our projects stronger through project evaluation.
- A workshop facilitated by Emily Rosenberg, Bridget Dyer, Linnea Capps
2:45 CoCoSI presentation
3:15 Break/networking
3:30 Session IV: Activism and Self-promotion * Accomplishments * Sharing the work
Each DGH community shares its “shining jewel”: Campesinos para el Desarrollo Humano (CDH),
Chiapas, Nicaragua, Santa Marta. Moderator: DR. LINNEA CAPPS, DGH President
4:45 – 5:30 First breakout session: Learn more specifics from those doing the work.
5:40 - 6:25 Second breakout session: Learn more specifics from those doing the work.
- Health promotion - Sustainability of local work - Cultural preservation
- Micro-enterprise - Local promotion and activism - Popular education
- Environmental preservation/promotion
6:30 Dinner
7:30-10PM CULTURAL EVENT II: An Evening of Celebration and Sharing.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
7:45 Breakfast
8:30 Introduction to the day
8:45 Session V: The Role and Struggles of Women to Integrate Themselves as Equal Partners in Society
Speaker: “Processes of Women’s Empowerment through Development with Equality”
- Deysi Cheyne
Speaker: Dr. Violeta Menjiva
9:45 Empowerment of Women Panel
Moderator: DR. LLENI PACH
- role of women in community work - espacio mujer projects
- domestic violence - gender roles and violence projects
10:45 Break/networking
12:00 Closing remarks
Speaker: “Putting the Pieces Together”
– DR. LANNY SMITH & DR. LINNEA CAPPS - Founding & Current DGH Presidents.
1:00 Lunch and checkout for those departing
2:00-3:30PM Mandatory project evaluation meeting for some: DGH project coordinators & in-country
partners, meet by project areas.