I found out about James Kariuki's blog today "Random reflections about elearning in Africa". James is also a CIARIS friend in that he was a shadow-facilitator in the STEP course of Strategies for combating social exclusion ...

And I recommend his blog!

My story in CIARIS began one afternoon nearly two years ago when José Manuel Henriques telephoned me. I was doing my shopping in Jumbo at the time!

My recollection is that José Manuel was an external evaluator for a project with ACIME in Portugal. ACIME had also been partners in project about exclusion in schools where I had been an external evaluator.

José Manuel introduced me to Philippe Vanhuynegem who invited me to prepare the modules "Strategies for combating social exclusion at a local level." In the beginning I said "No way Phillipe! I am trying to finish writing my doctorate." But he was rather persuasive!