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PAKISTAN UPDATE (November 2005)
From Bushra Jafar Malik, Subud Pakistan Treasurer
Our team visited the highest located villages in the Chinar Kot Valley, Chappar Bala and Shingri. We are providing corrugated galvanized iron sheets (CGI sheets) to the villages at the highest altitude and will continue to work downwards in our operations. This strategy is because snow is expected at the highest places within the next ten days. Community members have already erected the structure framework, and once the framework is verified, our team gives each family six CGI sheets. This model is now being called the "Chinar Cottage Model" and was highly appreciated by the visiting government officials. In his speech Mr. Memon (Pakistan senator and coordinator of relief efforts) termed it the "most suitable, cost effective and community need-based" housing structure he had seen thus far. He congratulated the team and its supporters on their efforts and on the spot announced the provision of CGI sheets for an additional 80 families. These were handed to our team members yesterday.
The funds we are receiving from SDI will cover CGI sheets for close to 500 families to construct semi-permanent housing before winter sets in. |
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TIERRAVIVA (ARGENTINA) ART EXHIBITION (November 2005)
From Rasjid Cesar, Project Founder and Leader
Tierraviva presents creative experiences to incarcerated women and their children. The UPCN (civil servant’s union) organised an exhibition in the National Library November 11 - 25 called “Art in Confinement” of work by people in situations of imprisonment. Tierraviva is exhibiting work our colleague Fernando Bedoya collected when the UCPN sent him to give conferences on the Tierraviva project “La Estampa” which he runs in Ezeiza prison as well as the “fantastic animals” work of the mothers and children in Unit 31. On November 21 the UCPN held a debate on “Art and Confinement” in which Fernando Bedoya and Rasjid Cesar participated for Tierraviva, along with artists from the Borda Hospital (mental asylum) and other institutions. Soon we will send material to the USA and Canada via Rashid Hille who is visiting Buenos Aires and was at the exhibition’s inauguration. |
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NEWS FROM SRADHA, INDIA
(November 2005)
The Children's Day celebration was presented on November 14th at the SRADHA Training Center in Thally. The event was sponsored by Power Finance Corporation Ltd. and NTPC Ltd. All the village children and adults participated. The occasion highlighted the objectives of SRADHA - programs in the fields of rural development, health, education, child care and women’s empowerment through the cooperative effort of the village people. SRADHA stands for “Social Research for the Development of Human Abilities.” |
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REBUILDING A SCHOOL LIBRARY
(November 2005)
Teen Moms and More, a Susila Dharma USA project, is securing children’s books to rebuild the Bonne Ecole Elementary School Library in Slidell, Lousiana which was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. A shipment of 1,270 books from the First Book National Book Bank and Books are Fun organizations has been delivered! |
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Q FUND FOR AIDS CHIMOZA SCHOOL
(November 2005)
From Chellie Kew, Founder
The students in the Chimoza School, Zambia, are happy and proud of their school – and outperform the government schools in test scores! The school just established a library with books donated by the African Library Project. I feel a bright hope for the future of Africa that AIDS, economic injustice and western indifference cannot snuff out. Africans are looking for opportunities, and education will make the difference.
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BICYCLES FOR KALIMANTAN STUDENTS
(November 2005)
The problem of not having funds to buy their children bicycles to go to school is a concern for parents in Central Kalimantan. Many students have to walk up to ten kilometers a day. One day, a couple from Hawaii named Bill and Micky Evslin visited the Indonesian Relief and Development Network project coordinator in Palangka Raya. While visiting the IRDN social projects they were touched by the students who really needed bicycles and donated funds for twelve students to receive bicycles. IRDN is accepting further donations earmarked for student bicycles.
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