Lunch & Learn
The BC Council for International Cooperation invites your participation in an exciting new series called Lunch & Learn!
- Featuring Southern voices and experience.
- Not your typical public speaking event!
- A space to discuss best practices for effective development amongst peers.
- A 15 to 20 minute presentation followed by an informal dialogue for an hour.
- An intimate setting of 10 to 15 participants.
- Hosted by BCCIC Members with BCCIC’s support, such as promotion, registration, space.
- Low cost and low maintenance! Everyone brings their own lunch and hosts provide the drinks. Non-members pay $5.
Looking at the Ethiopian Education System with a Focus on its Partnership Program with the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia
Guests: Theodros Belew, Teachers & Educational Leaders’ Development Directorate, Ethiopian Ministry of Education
Hosted by CUSO-VSO
Wednesday, November 15th, Noon – 1:15 pm
1460 Howe Street, Vancouver
Last time:
A Holistic Response to the Threat of Domestic and Social Violence
Guest: Ryan Smedes, Country Director, Food for the Hungry (FH) Peru
Co-hosted by FH Canada & BCCIC
Friday, October 14th, Noon – 1:15 pm
375 – 23 West Pender, Vancouver
Read Karen Marki from Sustainable Cities International relate her impressions of the October Lunch & Learn!
Are your Southern partners and colleagues visiting BC?
Share their experience with peers at a Lunch & Learn!
Contact Lynn Slobogian, BCCIC Program Officer, for more information at 604.899.4475 or programofficer@bccic.ca.
Looking at the Ethiopian Education System with a Focus on its Partnership Program with the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia
Wednesday, November15th, Noon – 1:15 pm
1460 Howe Street, Vancouver
Please RSVP by November 9th.
RSVP Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHBNdHlnMnN3eE10THJKSklvWTNYLUE6MA#gid=0
Maximum of 15 participants.
BCCIC Members: Bring your lunch! Beverages provided.
Non-members: Bring your lunch and $5!
CUSO-VSO is happy to present BCCIC members with the opportunity to discuss education and partnerships with stakeholders with one of their Ethiopian colleagues, Theodros Belew. Theodros will discuss the role of international volunteers in development and what he considers some of the best practices they have developed.
Theodros Belew is the current Director of the Teachers and Educational Leaders' Development Directorate in the Ministry of Education, Ethiopia. He has worked in education as both a teacher and a trainer for over 25 years and has recently presented his work in Japan, the DRC, the USA and China.
