| wam kat on Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:05:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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BALKAN SUNFLOWERS UPDATE 6 (April 22) ----------------------------------------------- latest news and original SUNFLOWER plan: http://www.ddh.nl/org/balkansunflower Balkan Sunflowers c/o postfach 1219, D-14806 Belzig + 49 33841 30670 (30671 fax) [email protected] applications: [email protected] info: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------- Account: SUNFLOWER Accountnr 160 160 1 Bank Oekobank Frankfurt (Germany) BLZ 500 901 00 ------------------------------------------------ INTRO ------ Time for a new update. In short, sunflower are starting to blossom everywhere and in all coulrs and forms. From people who are busy to get computers with handy connection for refugee centers, mobile cinema, ecological solutions for the refugee housing problems, printing machines for centernewspapers, playtoys, clothes until groups who are preparing there trip to Albania or Macedonia. And when I write evrywhere in the world, than I mean everywhere in world, from Japan till Chili, from Finland till South Africa. EUROPEAN MEETING ---------------- In Europe we have a practical preparation meeting this weekend, where almost from every country in Europe re- presentatives are coming. By monday we hope to put on the net in which countries we have contact points. Basically it can be said that the workcamp organisation SCI and all here national branches will take up a lot of the national work. Because and Steffie will also be on that meeting, excuse us when we don't answer our email the coming 3 days. OFFICE PERSONAL --------------- Besides volunteers in the refugeecamps, pathfinders and international coordinators we have a need for people who can work our offices in Albania and Macedonia. The planning is that we will open them around mid-Mai and people who like to help there should bring some time (at least 3 months). If you are interested, please contact us. FUNDRASING ---------- As you could read we are going to open our offices in the region soon. And to be open, the price in Tirana and Skopje are high, to rent a place, where also volunteers can sleep when the just arrive and get their training cost at least 1200 dollar per month. This is to make it clear that we need funding for this. It is with other words from absolute need that people with fundraising experiences and time and interest contact us, so that we can start bigger fundraising activities. We are already busy on it, but we defenitely need more. PEACE MEETING IN DEN HAAG -------------------------- In mid-May a huge International Peace Conference will take place in Den Haag (Netherlands), about 4000 people are expected to come. We would like to get in contact with people who go there and who can help us to promote the balkan sunflowers there. SUPPORTING ORGANISATIONS -------------------------- Lots of organisations has send us a small email stating that they support us, we would like to asked again, if those organisations, and others, send us an official mail (or letter) stating their support. SUPPORTERS ---------- Lutzenberger, who won for about 10 years the so-called alternative Peace Price, has wish us a big succes and a lot of power to realise this initiative. If you are "famous" or know "famous" people please ask them if they officially support our action, it can help us to open doors. WEBSITE --------- our website www.balkansunflowers.org ist still not up, sorry. But on the site www.ddh.nl/org/balkansunflower you will find all the information you need, also an application form and news from the region. A group from about 5-6 people from all over the world are doing a great job there. And every where in the internet sunflowers website and logo with links to our site are popping up. If you want to link your website to ours, please do so, the logo and banners you can find on our website. WORKINGGROUPS -------------- If you want to join one of our online workinggroups, please send a mail to [email protected]. ALBANIAN and MACEDONIAN ------------------------ If you want to study the local languages a bit before you go there as a balkan volunteer, take a look at the site: http://www.travlang.com/languages/. TRANSPORT and VISAS -------------------- Lots of questions we got about how to travel to the region, what means of transport there is for goods, what visas are needed, etc. At this moment we can't answer all those questions, therefor we would appriciate if when you know an answer to send it also to us, in order that we can inform others. Mir Sada !!! wam:-) --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: [email protected]