TME's interactive educational DVD discs are being used by a wide variety of community groups in over 12 different countries in Africa and Asia. The format does not need any training or previous experience of technology and students do not need to be able read or write – we are targeting the lessons at the world’s poorest people on the basis that very simple messages can really help change people’s lives.

We are now looking at cost effective ways of distributing and making these discs more widely available to the people who most need them. As well as finding locally based partners, we would very much like to work with organisations sending volunteers overseas to work with grass roots projects in the developing world who would benefit from using these discs. For example, we could supply you with relevant DVD lessons in appropriate languages for your volunteers to take with them to the projects they are visiting.  

You can find a list of all 29 lesson topics and the languages available as well as drafts of the English language scripts for all the lessons by visiting our website at www.tme.org.uk. You can also see the discs in operation and feedback from users. 

We have worked hard to produce the lessons and the various language recordings and would welcome the opportunity to work with you so that together we can ensure that these life-saving resources get to the people who so desperately need them.  We can provide the DVDs free of charge and encourage projects to duplicate copies themselves locally as they need them. We would be very happy to meet a representative of your organisation in UK to discuss this further and to provide a demonstration of the DVD lessons if this would be helpful.  

The hideous plight of people being traded as a commodity galvanised us into producing our most recent DVD lesson title and has opened all our eyes here at TME. Yes, we've all heard of this problem, but it's only when you start finding out a few more facts and figures that you truly begin to realise the scale of this awful activity. Corinne Sandenbergh of Stop Trafficking of People (STOP) in South Africa originally suggested we get involved. Corinne and her team have since been invaluable in drafting the lesson script and helping us source images - this has been a real joint effort. We decided to launch the new lesson at a select gathering in London earlier this year - using the beautiful and unusual Sir John Soane's museum to try and coax along new supporters. Both Stephen Clarke and Helen Taylor Thompson from TME, along with Ruth Dearnley from Stop the Traffik, gave brief but hard-hitting details of some of the effects of human trafficking. At the moment the lesson is only available in English, but we will be working hard to get it into other languages as soon as possible.

Dear Friends

We are a British registered charity publishing VERY SIMPLE audio visual lessons in the regional languages of some of the poorest people in the world.

The topics cover basic health and lifeskills subjects such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, Safe water, Childcare. The lesson are published on DVD discs and we have been using small portable DVD players which can charge from a car battery and can be connected to larger screens or projectors as needed.

The format does not need any previous experience of technology and students do not need to read or write – we are targeting the lessons at the world’s poorest people on the basis that very simple messages can really help change people’s lives.

We have a number of lessons in 7 Indian languages and I will be visiting Kolkata to show interested community groups how they could be used. We provide copies of the discs without charge and encourage local duplication by partners as required.

The discs are being used by a wide variety of community groups in over 12 different countries in Africa and Asia.

If you think this could be a useful addition to your projects then I would like to invite a representative from your organisation  to a demonstration on Wednesday 10th February. The meeting is kindly being hosted by Dr Ajanta Paul Principal of the Women’s Christian College in Kalighat, Kolkata.

Please do contact me or my colleague Bev Pettle by telephone or email if you would like to attend. More details of our discs can be found at www.tme.org.uk

Thanks and regards
 Stephen Clarke
Director TME
email info@tme.org.uk
Telephone  (in the UK)+ 44 1926 422711
SMS (to the UK) + 44 77 822 96 776  

Is one of our target languages your mother tongue?
Click here to see our list of most needed languages and click here to see the list of English scripts of most needed lesson topics. If you speak any of these languages and want to help we'd love to hear from you. 

BEFORE you start any translations please contact Bev Pettle on  +44 (0) 1926 442 711 or email@tme.org.uk to make sure someone else is not already working on the translation!!