Amy:
Hi, I am Amy Ekdawi. My family and friends call me Amy. My colleague, Nader Tadros, and I are part of the team of instructors and mentors for the Online Activism Institute for Women.
You have an opportunity to take our class, “Build a Strong Grassroots Constituency”, online for 6 to 8 weeks in a written format, complete with homework and exercises to strengthen your skills when developing your personal activism plan.
Nader:
Hello, I’m Nader Tadros.
I’ll be working with Amy to help you learn how to build grassroots constituency for your issue. As a leader, you’ll develop strategies and acquire skills to successfully build a team. We’ll guide you through the process.
Amy:
Throughout the course, we’ll work with you so you’ll be able to achieve the following:
• We’ll identify constituencies for your issue -- and give you ideas about what to do if you don’t have a constituency at this time.
• We’ll help you recognize, select, and most importantly, involve constituencies throughout the planning process.
Nader:
• We’ll explore strategies that have worked in other Middle Eastern countries, and help you design your own strategies for strengthening your grassroots constituency.
• And, we’ll show you how to use today’s technology to communicate with, and build, your grassroots constituency
Amy:
Nader and I are from Egypt and worked most of our lives in the Middle East. In 2004, we founded People’s Advocacy, a small organization that works with many international groups to promote a model of advocacy that helps people realize their power and use it to effectively participate in the decision-making process.
Nader:
We believe that we are very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with you as you build your grassroots constituencies. Through the power of the Internet, we will work with you over several sessions to think together about your issues and how to build a strong grassroots constituency.
Amy
Once more, I am Amy Ekdawi,
Nader:
And I am Nader Tadros, and we look forward to having the pleasure of working with you..