Higahele Campaign for Local Council Elections Started

“Higahele” is a voter awareness campaign run by CHOCO , with the aims of increasing voter turn-out and providing “responsible voting” message to the public. Higahele Campaign this time is targeted to upcoming local council elections. Choco is providing information about the councils, its' responsibilities and services.

The program consists mainly of a door-to-door campaign informing the public about the importance of voting and the roles and responsibilities of island and atoll councils. The campaign was launched with a pickup ride around the island announcing the messages of responsible voting. The launching was carried out last firday, 21st January 2011. The door-to-door campaign is scheduled to start on 24th January and will run until 3rd February, when the campaign will be wrapped up with a road show.

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Huvadhoo Master Plan Project Signed with UNDP

Choco signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UNDP for Huvadhoo Master Plan Project. UNDP's Resident Coordinator, Mr Andrew Cox signed on behalf of UNDP and Choco Chairperson Saruvash Adam signed on behalf of the NGO. The project will see the development plans and visions of 18 inhabited islands of Huvadhoo atoll integrated into a do...cument, which will be presented to politicians, policy makers and researchers.

This project aims to develop such a plan which incorporates the ideas at all levels including strategies of the central government, the manifestos of politicians as wells as the visions and dreams of the resident islanders. Eventual fruition of this project will be a document that will outline a master plan and a developmental framework that is necessary in order to influence the policy makers and to provide a yard stick for policy evaluation. Collective vision summarized and classified will help to promote good governance and possibly accelerate the developmental process.

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"Hithevare" Workshop Carried Out in Thinadhoo

CHOCO carried out Hithevare workshop to train volunteers and communicate the importance of social work to the youth, on 3-4 January 2011. This program was supported by Huvadhoo Association for National Development (HAND) and Maldivian Red Crescent. The 2 day workshop was carried out at Misbahul Huda School of Thinadhoo. 47 potential volunteers participated and successfully completed the workshop.

The workshop was inaugurated by Mohamed Liraar, Senior Manager Operations and Sales of Dhiraagu. Furthermore the workshop was addressed by the Program Officer of HAND, Ibrahim Ahmed. Lectures and activities were provided on volunteerism, team building, leadership and project/event planning and management by the coordinators. Hasan Abdulla from Choco, Nadha and Himya from Red Crescent coordinated the workshop segments.

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