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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS SITE

The Resources Here Are Not the Work of a Single Person

By Phil Bartle, PhD


About this Site:

This site is created and maintained as a pro bono, voluntary, unpaid public service of several dozen individuals. See The Collective. Your voluntary contributions are welcome (and will be acknowledged on the site), as is dialogue. Send your questions and comments and ask for a reply.

Some volunteers have made one contribution, a single translation or illustration, others have made hundreds. Some volunteers have continued for one week, others have stayed on for years.

Board Members:

Phil Bartle is publisher, editor and web smith of this site in Victoria, Canada. He wrote many of the training documents on it.

Kwabena Boateng is a Ghanaian living in Victoria, Canada, translates into Twi (Akan), and provides computer services.

Al Boss in Seattle, USA, originally set up this site when Phil was in Uganda and had no access to the Internet at the time. Al continues as a mentor and trouble shooter.

Jonathan Gentille in Victoria, is our Board Chair.

Bergen Amren, Vice President in Charge of External Affairs and sociology and empowerment mentor. Negotiated the shift in venue of the site from Seattle to Vancouver and is in dialogue with various agencies and associations in search of collaborators and a wider scope.

Allison Miller in Victoria, Canada, contributed a poem.

Silke Reichrath lives in Ottawa,  translates into French and German, co-ordinates the French and German translators.

The biggest volunteer contribution to this site is by Maria Lourdes Sada, who has translated most of the training material into Spanish, coordinates the Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, Turkish, Greek and Romanian translators, is one of three coordinators of coordinators, and is Web Manager for the MPFC site.

Justin Smith made Power Points.

Adriana McMullen, contributed an illustration with a First Nations ambience.

David Stott, our founding Board Chair, wrote a page on timing, and is writing a document about urban gardening.


Special collaborations:

Janita Thomson in Australia is our volunteer coordinators manager, and coordinates Tagalog and African language translators.

Wai King Lung Matthew (Matthew Wai) lives in Hong Kong, China, translates into Chinese, converts pages to our new format and is an invaluable help in finding errors in our web.

Mirinha Lara Bicalho lives in Brazil, coordinated right to left languages (Arabic, Pashto, Punjabi, Sindhi, and Urdu) and was one of three coordinators of coordinators.

Edward Anafi is a medical doctor in Ghana and contributed a paper about HIV AIDS.

Doreen Boyd works for the UNDP in the Caribbean, and wrote a guest paper about participatory appraisal.

Michelle Carter in the USA wrote a guest document guiding grant writing.

Ben Fleming in Australia, who trained autochthonic police officers in the South Pacific, wrote guest papers and provides conceptual feedback.

Kamal Phuyal, from Nepal, on assignment in Japan, wrote two papers about PAR/PRA.

Jacques Slik lives in Canada and wrote a module on reading.

Vaidehi Krishnan lives in India and wrote several poems.

Julianna Kuruhiira in Uganda has drawn many of the illustrations on the site.

Mercedes Vargas Machuca (Meche) produit des illustrations pour le site.

Greg Bartle, Phil's son, a City Planner in Vancouver, drew the diagramme for the rope pump.

Chris Williams works for UN-Habitat and reported on the research on the Community Development Programme which eventually led to this web site.

Andria Durney was our English Coordinator, wrote the newletter and edited documents in English.

Dr. Larry Bomford in Victoria, Canada, is a retired agricultural economist. He helps to answer specific questions sent by mobilizers in the field.

Roberto Cancel lived in China, now in the USA, coordinated the Bahasa Indonesia volunteer translators, and advised on operating the web site.

Melissa Marquez lives in the Philippines and is a computer specialist for the site.

Hassan Nasir Mirbahar, who lives in Pakistan, helps out with computer processes.

Bruce Tufford lives in Victoria and is a computer specialist.

Rupal Rawat Bisht was a special coordinator for troubleshooting.

Michael Adrid in Afghanistan ensured the inner workings of the Filipino page links.

Hon. Joseph Dziwonu-Mensah , cultural advisor

Jean-Philippe Drécourt provided computer assistance.


Language coordinators:

Maria Lourdes Sada: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Turkish, Greek, Romanian

Hassan Nasir Mirbahar: Arabic, Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi, Urdu.

Mirinha Lara Bicalho: Arabic, Sindhi, Pashto, Punjabi, Urdu.

Janita Thomson: Filipino and African languages.

Mónica Rodriguez: Kiswahili, Wolof, Akan.

Shilpa Sharma: Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi

Summer Johansson: Urdu, Tamil, Vietnamese,.

Ade O'Dwyer: Hindi, Yoruba, Hebrew.

David Cetina: Korean, Japanese, Malay,

Saraswati Kaja: Italian, Telugu, Bengali.

Iuliana Bulibasa: Russian, Polish.

Alice Fossati: Mandarin Chinese.

Nanang E.S: Indonesian.

Roopa Kamath: Italian.

Layla Saeed: Arabic.

Joanna West: Thai.

Jafar Filfil: Arabic.

Sonya Allen: Filipino.

Anna Barseghyan: Russian

Brennie Dalgeish: African languages

Irma Ferran: Portuguese.

Liu Haotian: Chinese.

Hanny Purnama Sari Harryono Wishnuardi: Indonesian.

Kevin McGowan: Filipino.

Miao Jiejun: Chinese.

Translators:

Arabic:

Yomna Fouad Sabry Haykal, Yassir Osman Ali Ahmed.

Bahasa Indonesia:

Betha Apriana, Nanang E.S, Yuli Hastadewi, Dwi Aryo Tjipto Handono, Sekar Ayu Rarastri, Indira Dian Saraswati, Arny Wahyuni, Rivai Wardhani, Desi Yasri, Hanny Purnama Sari Wishnuardi, Iswadi Idris, Diana Novianti, Henry Mangkusasono, Bessie Utomo Lucas, Wendi Setia Permana, Laura Gracefull, Thea Rizkia, Desi Yasri, Bayu Agustari Adha, Rivai Wardhani.

Bengali:

Md. Ershadul Karim, Md. Nahid Hasan Raju, Bidhan Shaha.

Bulgarian:

Desislava Shtarvanova, Daniela Georgieva, Galia Lazarova, Krassimir Shapkarova.

Catalan:

Oriol Monroig, Irma Ferran, Laura Pla, Marta Moreno, Anna Morral, Eduard Blanquet, Esperanza Escalona, Elisabet Llopart, María Pérez del Cura, Álvaro Martín, Alicia Ballabriga, Carmen Villalba Ruiz, Núria Meléndez, Cristina Sala Pujol, Georgina Mendoza Méndez, Isaac Blanquet, Blanca Matas, Pau Gros Calsina, Gemma Beltran Aniento, Judit Manuel, Esperanza Ventura i Martínez, Alba Araguz, David Perez Martorell, Alba Mena, Mariona Oncins Vilajoliu.

Chinese:

Jin An, Xianjing (Maggie) Gu, Lulu Guan, Wai King Lung Matthew (Matthew Wai), Li An Jing, Kwan (Jen) Wei, Nerissa Yuan, Liu Haotian, Miao Jiejun, Carman Chang, Kiki Yeung, Zeng Chang Jie, Guo Yi-chao, Sun Pi-China, Zhang Han, Alice Wong, Xu Haichuan, Zhang Qian, Cai Siying, Cao Rui Ching, Song Jianchun, Amber Cheung, Liang Guanen, Amber Cheung, Sun Pimin, Ivy Leung, Xin Xiao, Carment Chan, Andrew Livingstone, Cao Ruiqing, Duan Chao, Fang Wei, Guo Yichao, Liu Sheng, Liu Shuang, Lu Yang, Nuttaya,Qi Jingwei, Wang Yushan, Wu Minghui, Yang Xuehui, Yao Zheng, Zeng Changjie.

Euskera:

Amaia Donés, Andrea Badiola Mateos, Alberto Oliva.

Ewe:

Victor Tsikpe-Morttey.

Filipino:

Aileen Antolin, John Balolong, Jamie Bibit, Florenz (Jessica) Buen, Myla Burke, Jasmine Canton, Andrea Cuyos, Dr. Lenie Galicha, Maureen Genetiano (Filipino, Bicolano and Cebuano), Victoria De Jesus, Pamela Marvilla, Sheila Mendoza, Erika Polinag, Blanca del Rosio, Dorothy Saguing, May Virola, Dionisio (Jun) Vitan, Desiree Yu, Joyce Zaide.

French:

Evelyn Hernandis, Silke Reichrath, Ambroise Agbogba, Jean Baptiste Baribonekeza, Carmen Barbu, Sonia Denoix, Jean-Philippe Drécourt, Fabienne Flessel, Stephanie Guico, Guillaume Jacquet, Marie Krishnan, Anne Lacourcière, Claire Lechasseur, Estella Lucas, Clara Milochau, Hendrick Niyondagara, Marie-Laure Ross , Rochelle Sampy, Savina Savidis (proofreader), Gabrielle Thevenon (proofreader), Hourya Zihri, Laetitia Ginet-Novotná, Sandrine Lafoix (proofreader), Frédérique Gwyther (proofreader), Jean-Baptiste Baribonekesa, Nadége Weightman, Marianne Perret-By, Agnès Hérouard, Enda Synfev, Cherif Gamra, Jovite de Courlon, Stéphanie Guico, Pierre-Antoine Mangin, Jean-Philippe Drécourt, Elodie Fradon-Gunness, André Sugitani, Frédérique Taylor, Pierre Moreau, Carmen Mihaela Barbu, Monica Rodriguez, Céline Réau, Emmanuelle Baudon, Kieran Groeger, Essoh Jesus, Essohanam Gnassingbe, Khayam Allen, Elodie Chatelais, Anne-Laure Tixier.

Galician:

Iria Castiñeiras Pérez, Nahir Seijo.

German:

Kathrin Schubert, Christine Voigt, Helene Sterzl, Hans H. Knauf, Stella Stocker, Katharina Sehnert, Nico Bergemann, Miriam Wendland, Anne Gerstle, Julia Wohlgemuth, Stephanie Manchu, Fabiola Oliveira, Seraina Caviezel, Martina Sander, Anna Pattis.

Greek:

Elizabeth Nakou, Kalomoira Bimpeza, Katerina Boutsia, Elena Marda, Anestis Asatidis, Apostolos P Chatzilakos, Kristina Mantasasvili, Chrysoula Galanaki, Lorenzo Nerantzis, Eleni Constantinou, Georgia Samara, Maria Vidali, Nafsika Bourma, Sofi Kara, Elisabeth Sideri, Alexandros Bartzas, Athina Grigoriou, Moscha Yannissi, Demetra Aristotelous, Athina Skianni, Ioannis Kaperdas, Maria Kantartzopoulou, Ilias Papadopoulos, Dionisia Maraki, Christina Giannakaki, Antigoni Roza, Fotini Chaida, Ellen Papageorgiou, Christina Kokali, Efthymia Diamanti, Spyros Chryssikopoulos, Giorgos Kyros, Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Olga Papadopoulou, Katerina Emmanouilidou, Nina Afouxenidou, Dorothy Efstatoglu, Maria Papaioannou, Andria Antoniades, Stella Gounari, Niovi Angelidi, Maria Mavropoulou, Stavros Symeonidis, Zoi Simopoulou, Zorpides Panos, Dimitrios Dagdeverenis, Michail Rizos, Chrysi Giannakoudi, Evi P., Azucena Ramos, Apostolia Gougousi, Christos Skouras.

Gujarati:

Shilpa Sharma, Rupande Mehta.

Hindi:

Avni Singh, Shilpa Sharma, Shivani Arora, Parveen Rattan, Tania Gupta, Deepti Rana, Manish Kapoor, Laxmi Bhandari, Monika Krishnan, Nirmala Ramakrishnan, Late Aditya, Arzoo Bharani, Mitesh Tank, Komal Patel.

Italian:

Anna Bosi, Cecilia Lunati, Valentina Ferrato, Alessandra Noris, Lara Derosas, Nicolo' Perazzo, Porzia Persio, Cecilia Lunati, Stefania Castelli, Angela Ferrari, Francesco Valsecchi, Alberto Gualtieri, Ilaria Sacchini, Sara Rancati, Donatella Immacolata Ciccimarra, Beatrice Ruscelli, Danielle Treharne, Michela Del Zoppo, Erica Salvaneschi, Denise Borzacchini, Francesca Mereu, Emiliano Rago, Alessandra Tuccari, Annalisa Volse, Simona Bertini, Agnese Wulzer, Francesca Pozzi, Laura Valvo, Ilaria Masinara, Nunzio Pruiti, Ilaria Costa, Lorenzo Raimondi, Ana Maria Mădălina Panait, Alice Fossati, Laura Massara, Marco Zoppi, Francesca Nicotra, Davide Tramontano, Aldo Adorni, Enrica Giacobbe, Alessandra Angelino , Marilina Villaman, Cecilia Fazioli, Denise Bozacchini, Monica Scalici.

Japanese:

Kazuoki Honda, Ayako Hoshima, Miho Yasui (Heidi), Diego Okanan, Tsuda Shuichiro, Naoko Adachi, Mashiko Kasari, Miki Shirai, Kazuoki Honda, Ayako Hoshina.

Kiswahili:

Marcellus Chegge, Elie Chansa, Lillian Odembo Naka, Jacob Lisakafu, Philip Wamalwa, Angelica Mulokozi Christin.

Korean:

Juliet Cho, Lee Woong Kee, Kim Seyoung, Danny Park, Nan Park, Saeme Park, Ahn JB, Chung-Ah Kim, Ae Gyoung Oh, Yejin Noh.

Lithuanian :

Agnė Savickaitė.

Malay:

Yoon Sook Jhee, KW, Tisna Tasya Tajudin, Grace Tam, Rose Ragai, Karen Wong, Ezlyna Shamsuddin.

Nepalese:

Joshi Pankaj

Polish:

Anna Łukasiewicz (Polish, French and Spanish), Aneta Chudzińska, Katarzyna Matiasczyk, Adama Chmielnickiego, Ewa Busz, Wanda Davies, Honorata Szopa, Małgorzata Górna, Anna Riondet, Kasia Jędrkowiak, Urszula Bielec.

Portuguese:

Alan Ennser, Ana Carolina Gonçalves, Ana Figueiredo, Ana Maria Abreu, Ana Paula Andrade Dos Santos, Ana Pinto-Ferreira, Ana Verena S Nigro, Andrew Melim, Beatriz Trapp, Bruna Dessimoni (Caldeira), Camila Cordeiro Donnola, Camila Costa, Célia Martins, Cristina Pereira, Daniella Kircher, Deborah Polido, Eduardo Félix, Eliane Garcez, Elias Bene, Eugenia Kossi, Fabiola Ferreira Oliveira (Portuguese and German), Fatima Gouveia, Florbela Elias, Gabriela Catarina Leite Santos, Gloria Scaroni, Hélia Dezimahata Lory, Hildebrando Neto, Inês Rato, Isabel Mendes, Isabela Fontanella, Ivone Ferreira, Julio Issao Kuwajima, Leandro Chu, Liana Souza, Lucas Tcacenco, Lucas Medeiros, Luiz Claudio Correia dos Anjos, Luisa Santos, Maila Buzollo, Manuel Campos, Marianna Leite, Marina Lourenço, Martim Silveira, Natalie Unterstell, Pedro Ferraz, Piter Pereira Leal, Poliana Nieto, Rafaela Silva Altieri, Raphael Correa, Raquel Ania, Rogério Monteiro, Sam Mangaeia, Sofia Ferreira, Svetlana Rebroff, Tarsila Souza.

Romanian:

Alex Stern, Alexandra Antofi, Alina Balagiu, Ana Maria Mădălina Panait, Ana-Maria Grittmann, Andrei Murariu, Barna-Jozsef Bokor, Bianca Ingridt/Bozu, Bolea Anamaria, Bota Gabriella, Camelia Bucatariu, Camelia Toanchina, Carmen Margina, Claudia Marinas, Cosmina Menghes, Cristina Grigorie, Dan Carp, Diana Ignat, Denisa Constantinide, Laura Larisa Ciortea, Elena Gabriela Hosu, Elena Taropa, Georgeta Brehoi, Ioana Ciobotea, Ioana Nica, Iulia Bulibasa, Laura Mihailescu, Lavinia Loredana Bertia, Lavinia Oprea, Loredana Tirziu, Mihaela Dumitrascu, Mihai Pascu, Natalia Grymnak, Oana Bajka, Oana Necula Gafencu, Ovidiana Ariella Netedu, Raluca Avramescu, Ramona Baltaretu-Jacob, Ramona Borsa, Robert Mititelu, Roberta Radu, Romana Careja, Sandra Lifshitz, Ursula Hermann.

Russian:

Anna Bowman, Raisa Sinelnikova, L.Graschenkovoy, Alexandra Lee, Kulzhanova Ainur, Alexander Mitskyavichene, Helen Verigo, Catherine Knaub, Marina Kovaleva, Elena Buchnev, Marina Adair, Aralov Narkess, Svetoslav Apostolov, Kateryna Mysak, Paisy Sineyanikovoy.

Sindhi:

Yomna Fouad Sabry Haykal, Hassan Nasir Mirbahar.

Serbian:

Miloš Stojadinović, Adriana Dulić, Daliborka Drinić, Zorana Josić, Goran Petkovic, Stevan Filipović, Dragan Mićić, Boris Baščarević.

Somali:

Salaad Ali Omar.

Spanish:

Lourdes Sada, Ianire Basabe, Bárbara Gama, Sergio Xavier Gama, Reinaldo Hernández, Sara Carolina Sakoda, Nadia Comino, Rocío Romero, Gisela Pérez González, Erika Barochiner.

Telugu:

Sankaratejasvi Uppuluri, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Potta Penjara, Nirupama Pratapa Reddy, Tunga Meher Prasuna, Turaga Kamaraju, Rajesh Kalva, Saraswati Kaja.

Thai:

Jenjira Kanjanajaruaty, Pakij Saengsawang, Joseph Santhi Pechsiri.

Turkish:

Nesrin Yilmaz, Asli Gunaydin Calma, Ilge Yakıcı, Cengiz Cemaloğlu, Burcu Oc Cerit, Birgi Ertufekci, Hande Tanerguclu, Beste Kocgazi, Burak Genç, Deniz Savtur, Erin Gulesen Uzun, kerem karabinis, Leyla Akyüz, Mumun Ozturk, Musa Toprak, Mustafa Ozer, Pelin Berberoglu, Pınar Aksoğan, Sarp Balci, Serdar Orbay, Sinem Alparslan, Hande Odabasioglu.

Urdu:

Touqeer Abbas, Sonia Naveed, Soobia Afroz.

Vietnamese:

So Ta, Thanh Hiền, Vũ Diễm Hằng, Thu Dương, Lua Nguyen Thi, Duong Vu.

Yoruba:

Adebunmi Adetona Amos, Oladipupo Abayomi.

And also Soobia Afroz, Ravi Badri, Patricia and DJ Corey.

Translators of the "GO" poem:

Don Chan translated the "Go" poem back into its original Chinese, Mohammed Ag Acharom (Bambara Kan), Paul Agbedor (Ewe), Garazi Arteagoitia Aguirre (Euskera [Basque]), Charanjev Aheer (Punjabi), Meghna Bhatt (Hindi), Lonela Bloxom (Filipino), Eli Brant (Hebrew), Wayne Browne (Bosnian, Serbian and Hrvatski), Paula Constantinesqu (Romanian), Pieter van Dongen (Nederlands [Dutch]), Kindra Douglas (Maori), Ignatius Duhu (Yoruba), Victoria Amponsah Essah (Guan), Tesfay Ghebray (Amharic, Tigray and Saho), Gudrin Johansdottir (Icelandic), Nellie Khamuya (Luhya), Haseeb Kiyani (Urdu), Mary Jane Kunnizzi (Gwich’in), Elena Marco (Catalan), Rastislav Martinka (Slovak), Hon. Joseph Dziwonu-Mensah (Ewe), Jan-Egil Mosand (Norwegian), Dr B. M. Mbah (Igbo), Mutinta Munyati (Tonga), Nestor Mutanga (Shona), Rahmadianto (Javanese), Edna Rodriquez (Portuguese), Billa Sarath (Telugu), David Stockwell (Turkish), John Thomsen (Danish), Bevan van der Berg (Afrikaans), Ville Vuorinen (Finnish), Ayumi Yamashita (Japanese), Anna Barseghyan (Armenian), Ah Sun Kim (Korean), Hon. Joseph Dziwonu-Mensah & Paul Agbedor (Ewe).

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