Re: Job opportunity with Street Children

[Guest guest]

Dear Moderator,

I saw this advertisement for a Asst. Program Manager & Trainer by The

Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA), Bangalore by Mr. Meindert

Schaap.

The person specifications ask for a possible PhD and part of the job is to work

as a personal assistant.

Are Doctoral degrees so cheap these days?

The best people to train teenage street children and slum children, in my

experience are the older slum children themselves. They know the heart of the

street and slum kids and the attachment they form is instant.

So if we want programmes that really work it is time that agencies stopped

looking for PhDs and started looking for slum kids and train

them to be trainers.

It will be a brilliant selling point for APSA too. Plus in a few years they can

turn the whole programme over to the street kids

too.

Regards

Sasi

E-mail: <skumar@...>