Tokyo Community News: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) present an evening with the Asian Rural Institute April 28, 7-9pm Bridging the grassroots: how a training program can impact values to bring about broader change in communities Contents: Panel discussion and presentations on working with grassroots leaders over the past 40 years. How values learned and shared may effect change. Moderator: Prof. David Slater, Sophia University Panelists: Tomoko Arakawa, ARI Director Sarajean Rossitto ARI Assessment Project Coordinator, Nonprofit NGO consultant Zacivolu Rhakho, India, Training Program Graduate, ARI staff member Rev. Timothy B. Appau, Ghana, Training Program Graduate, Chaplain Commentator: Prof. Richard Gardner, Sophia University

Monday, April 13, 2015

Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) present an evening with the Asian Rural Institute April 28, 7-9pm Bridging the grassroots: how a training program can impact values to bring about broader change in communities Contents: Panel discussion and presentations on working with grassroots leaders over the past 40 years. How values learned and shared may effect change. Moderator: Prof. David Slater, Sophia University Panelists: Tomoko Arakawa, ARI Director Sarajean Rossitto ARI Assessment Project Coordinator, Nonprofit NGO consultant Zacivolu Rhakho, India, Training Program Graduate, ARI staff member Rev. Timothy B. Appau, Ghana, Training Program Graduate, Chaplain Commentator: Prof. Richard Gardner, Sophia University

Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) present an evening with the Asian Rural Institute

April 28, 7-9pm

Training for transformation: how a training program can impact values to bring about broader change in communities

Contents: Panel discussion and presentations on working with grassroots leaders over the past 40 years. How values learned and shared may effect change.

Moderator:

Prof. David Slater, Sophia University

Panelists:

Tomoko Arakawa, ARI Director

Sarajean Rossitto ARI Assessment Project Coordinator, Nonprofit NGO consultant

Zacivolu Rhakho, India, Training Program Graduate, ARI staff member

Rev. Timothy B. Appau, Ghana, Training Program Graduate, Chaplain

Commentator:

Prof. Richard Gardner, Sophia University

Moderator:

Prof. David Slater, Sophia University

Panelists:

Tomoko Arakawa, ARI Director

Sarajean Rossitto ARI Assessment Project Coordinator, Nonprofit NGO consultant

Zacivolu Rhakho, India, Training Program Graduate, ARI staff member

Rev. Timothy B. Appau, Ghana, Training Program Graduate, Chaplain

Commentator:

Prof. Richard Gardner, Sophia University

Location: Sophia University, bldg. 10, room 301.

Access: Yotsuya station (JR, Marunouchi and Namboku subway lines)

Map link to campus:
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/info/access/directions/access_yotsuya

Talks in English

Open to all, no prior registration necessary

Map link to campus:

http://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/info/access/directions/access_yotsuya

Map link to campus building:

http://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/info/access/map/map_yotsuya

For more information contact sarajean.ari@gmail.com

About the Asian Rural Institute’s Rural Leaders Training Program http://www.ari-edu.org/en/home-eng/

Supported by the Institute of Comparative Culture, http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/

Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture

7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554

+81-(0)3-3238-4082 (Tel) / +81-(0)3-3238-4081 (Fax)

http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/ (Web)

diricc@sophia.ac.jp (email)