Monday June 8 2009 – Friday June 12 2009 Classes at WACD-TC

On Monday we started classes at the West African Community Development Training Centre or WACD-TC. This training centre started out as West African Rural Development (WARD) Project which was funded by CIDA and began as a six year project. Since the project was so successful, it was decided that the courses would still be run by GTTI under the leadership of different facilitators. The WACD-TC was eventually formed by the original facilitators and now consists of four different modules, of which we are participating in Human Relations Development. The classes have an informal education style with mostly participation based discussion classes. After being in these classes for a few days I realized that they weren’t exactly what I was expecting. While the course material and activities they have planned is very useful, it is something that I have already been exposed to in various other classes in school since it has mostly been based around working in groups. I have come to realize that the benefits that I will receive from participating in these classes are going to come from the interactions that I have with my classmates.