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| Any contributor to the
Community Empowerment site is a member of the team. |
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Even a single illustration is a welcome
contribution. |
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| The main purpose of the
site is to provide training material for community field workers and their
managers, so illustrations are a vital part of that purpose. |
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The original illustrations were produced
in Uganda, and they illustrated the training material which was used for
training mobilisers there. |
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| They therefore have an
African ambience, in the form of costumes, the physical environment, and
the background details. |
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There has been an encouraging demand
for this training material in other places, inner city poverty pockets
in rich countries, Eastern Europe, Asia, ethnic enclaves, First Nations
reserves, and poor communities around the world. |
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| With that demand has
also come a request for illustrations that are relevant to those other
places. |
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Therefore the need for volunteers
to produce them. |
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| There are several guidelines
for illustrations for this site. |
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The illustration needs to be in black
and white; no grey scale, no colour. |
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| This makes it photocopy-able
by the widest range of machines, especially those in low income areas. |
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It also uses the smallest number
of bytes, and therefore more easily downloaded by computers that are not
state of the art. |
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| The size should be about
three quarters the size of a computer screen. |
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Best if you use a letter sized white
paper, A4 or 8 ½ by 11, and cut it in half. |
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| The illustration
will therefore correctly be in landscape not portrait alignment. |
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If you use a larger paper, say a
letter size turned sideways, I will have to reduce it, which makes the
lines thinner, and that sometimes makes a few lines disappear, so you will
have to use a fatter pen. |
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| Yes, use a pen, preferably
an illustrator’s pen, medium width, black ink. |
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Pencil does not scan well. Use white
paper, not lined, not tracing paper. |
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| You may choose your topics
according to what you see as needed, and what you would like to draw. |
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As a starting point, look at the
original drawings and choose the same topics, with your chosen ambience. |
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| Further to those, you
may see some training documents which cry for an illustration, write to
me for dialogue, and we can work up a new illustration. |
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You may wish to dialogue with me
before each illustration you choose to do. |
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| Since these training
documents are part of the arsenal in the war against poverty, many of the
illustrations will have elements of poverty in them. |
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Since you are entitled to have your
own profile page, and your CV or résumé, on the site, you may use this
as an opportunity to raise your public profile, and to obtain further
employment or sales. |
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| You can send me digital
photos of a few examples of your other work, and I will put them on to
either or both of your profile page and CV. |
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Furthermore, you may put your membership
on the team, as a voluntary, pro bono, activity, onto your résumé. |
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| There is no
money available for paying for contributions to this site. Our annual budget
is zero. |
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Your contributions are
much appreciated. These training documents
are valuable for helping low income communities become more self reliant. |
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