This meeting was all about pulling our research together and figuring out what other information we needed.
Education
Education
- If there has been education, it hasn’t been able to stick
- Literacy--training of NGO volunteers in the native language
- ELECTION COMING UP
- Religion--the river is a god--be conscious of that
- Native language
- Schools and health facilities collapsing
- Rainforests cleared out for farming and increased population
- Yam Festival
- Human souls leave humans and enter an animal
- Nigeria’s biggest export--oil, but Ogonis rarely benefit
- Outsiders laying claim to their resources
- Bottom of the British social ladder
- Rhetoric about BP and the government that isn’t actually doing anything
- Regulation system is broken
- Technical personnel is lacking
- Lobbying group about social problems across Africa
- Trade and Environmental Database--good look into the issue
- First World response to oil spill--Mississippi Delta spill
- Environmental conflict resolution
- Fertilizer to increase nitrogen content in the soil
- Bacteria is extremely expensive
- What in the UNEP report has been implemented? NONE--MOSOP working to alleviate the problems
- How can we work with the people and the government to not disrupt life and everyday systems while still achieving goals?
- How can we decontaminate water? (Alum, UV light water purification)
- Who are we trying to reach and what are the perspectives we need to look at?
- Why isn’t the government receiving international pressure to fix the problems?
- How are we going to make sure we are safe and secure?