Arc Greater Twin Cities, Opportunity Partners, Fraser and the Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota have joined with advocate, Sandy Beddor, to explore a possible development project with advocates, educators, missionaries and government officials in the country of Zambia, Africa regarding children and adults with disabilities. This project will build on a leadership training program developed by Sandy Beddor to train non-governmental organization employees in Zambia. However, the focus and purpose of this project will be the preferences and needs of children and adults with disabilities and their families.
The leadership model currently being explored involves identifying a group of partners in the United States and a group of partners from Zambia and promoting a cultural and professional exchange. Arc Greater Twin Cities, Fraser, Opportunity Partners and the Institute on Community Integration are working together to pull together the U.S team. Amy Hewitt from the Institute on Community Integration and Sandy Beddor will be spending time in Zambia in January 2008 to meet with various possible partners, listen to their needs and preferences and then to identify a potential team to travel to Minnesota and the U.S. sometime in 2008 on a learning and leadership exchange.
This blog has been developed to provide information, visual illustration and exchange between the potential partners in both the United States and Zambia. Amy Hewitt and Sandy Beddor will provide information and commentary on their travel to Zambia beginning in mid January 2008.
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