Click for a detailed curriculum or a downloadable catalog with additional information about the International Training Center Fall Practicum Aug. 27 - Nov. 2, 2012

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Practicum preparation guide

PRACTICUM, SEMINARS & TRAINING

Join with grassroots community leaders from around the world to learn practical skills to help the poor help themselves in a context of Christian Community Development. Come to SIFAT's International Training Campus in Lineville, Alabama, for the ten-week summer practicum in appropriate technologies and Christian community development.

Click for a printable catalog or flyer about the International Training Practicum.

Coming Soon!

September 26-30, 2011 - Agriculture & Leaf for Life
October 3-7, 2011 - Water and Sanitation
October 10-14, 2011 - Primary Healthcare
October 17-21, 2011 - Training of Trainers (TOT-I)
October 24-28, 2011 - Fuel-efficient cookstove/Alternative Energy

Contact Kathy Bryson, brysonk@sifat.org, for more information.

May 20-June 2, 2012 -- Field Training in World Hunger and Malnutrition: Practical Skills to Make a Difference (download a flyer)

Do you want to learn practical skills to address hunger and malnutrition in the developing world?  Come join us at SIFAT's 176-acre international training campus for two weeks (May 20 - June 2) of intensive hands-on learning that will give you a tool-kit to address basic human needs.

At the same time you learn practical skills, your understanding of world hunger and community development issues will deepen through participatory activities. Students will have the opportunity to:

• Learn roof-top gardening
• Build a simple solar cooker
• Make leaf concentrate to treat malnourished children
• Learn some simple technologies for clean water and sanitation
• Build fuel-efficient cookstoves
• Learn to preserve foods and "refrigerate" without electricity

Click here for more information, including registration form and course objectives.

In the Past...

Lab in a Suitcase. Click here for more information.

International Conference -- Exploring Alternative Foods for World Hunger: The Potential of Edible Insects. Click here for more information.

SIFAT is partnering with the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the Sparkman Center for Global Health to offer periodic seminars/workshops combining the best in academic research with appropriate technologies in a community development context to address basic human needs essential to good health globally.

2011 Information:

SIFAT is partnering with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Sparkman Center for Global Health to offer this course:

Field Study in World Hunger and Malnutrition: Practical Skills to Make a Difference. Join us on SIFAT's campus in Lineville, Ala., in an intensive 10-day field training in food and nutrition: May 15-28, 2011.

Seminars usually last one hour at UAB, usually at noon at the School of Public Health. Workshops at SIFAT are longer with hands-on practical components. For a sample curriculum, see information on previous offerings held both at UAB and at the SIFAT Campus:

Agriculture for Meeting Basic Human Needs

Killer in the Kitchen - Indoor Air Pollution

Leaf for Life

Low Cost Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases

Low Cost Water Testing Where There is No Lab

Focometer Training - Primary Eye Care & Vision Training