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Weekending: Saturday 2007 08 25

CANADA:

Location: Toronto

This week the Listen to the Drumming team has been in Haliburton, with the 2nd team of Canadian volunteers from Il Ngwesi. The team of volunteers and the Listen to the Drumming team have been debriefing the Il Ngwesi intiative and looking at the next steps that will be taken in the future. In addition to the Canadians volunteers we also had Saaya with us from Il Ngwesi, Kenya.

Eowynne Feeney
          efeeney@icacan.ca


JAPAN:

Location: Japan and Peru

Peru Emergency Aid
In response to the earthquake that so severely destroyed the Southern Coastal towns of Peru, the Japanese Emergency Aid Team called on ICA Japan's Kaoru lto to go immediately, with 42,000 dollars for an immediate response, and to research how much more is needed. 

Meanwhile the great ICA Peru team found the urgently needed items that rural villages so desperately need. Together Kaoru and the Peru team started by bringing much needed water and blankets to 700 people.

JWLI Orientation Japanese Womens Leadership Initiative

Shizuyo Sato and Wayne Ellsworth oriented the team of women going in September to a Boston college, for a five week leadership development program.  They now are busy further developing their individual learning plans, and the results they wish to achieve when they return.- - - - -

Wayne Ellsworth
          staff@icajapan.org


NEPAL:

Location: Pokhara

A three day Training on Leadership and Management was conducted in Pokhara for retired British Armies and staff working through British Gurkhas Nepal. There were 37 participants.

ICA also started a three months training programme for youths who will be developed as youth facilitators. There are 17 participants in the first batch.

ICA Nepal has conducted an orientation programme for its staff who are developing case studies in forestry sector.

Tatwa P. Timsina           ica@icanep.wlink.com.np


PERU:

Location: 100 Valleys

Kaoru Ito arrived from Japan to apply the 42,000 dollars of aid funded by the Japanese government for the earthquake destruction to the south of Lima.  Gloria Santo, Pedro Aburto, Ken and Alison Hamje will accompany Kaoru this weekend to see the issues first hand and decide the best areas to distribute the 1200 blankets and 600 water tanks which are now totally covering the ICA offices.  The team will be going to some valleys where they have not been before, and making new contacts for the long-term future of the 100 Valleys Project.

Meanwhile, Jesusa Aburto is minding the store and moving three major programs along.

Staff           admin@ica-peru.org


TAIWAN:

Dick West and Jorie Wu continues facilitatring a planning program with a Taiwanese Buddhist University and hospital this weekend after many interviews and discussions.

Evelyn Philbrook holds a Meridian Massage Class with Master Wu and his wife from Tai Chung on Sunday instead of Saturday due to the typhoon.

Larry Philbrook facilitates a local private school in Hong Kong and an adult Non Profit Organization working with youth issues in Hong Kong before traveling to Shanghai. His flight was not delayed by the typhoon as it heads to China. Luckily Taipei was not in the direct path of they typhoon, but 70,000 people had no electricity for a period of time, though many have been restored by Monday.

Evelyn Kurihara Philbrook
          joyful@icatw.com


ICAI:

Location: Montreal

The team at ICAI has been working hard this week to accomplish a wide variety of tasks set out in the Q4 work plan.  The work plan itself was transferred from innumerable cards on the sticky wall to a functional spreadsheet - thanks Katie and Sarah - and was shared within the network. 

Work progressed on a revised operating budget for the rest of this year and we reviewed the 2008 conference budget items with ICAJ. 

A proposal for a forestry programme is nearing completion and progress is being made in the areas of donor relations, communications strategy and database management. 

Michael took advantage of an opportunity to meet Kumi Naidoo, the secretary general of CIVICUS  a conference partner, as Kumi had a brief visit to Montreal for a forum.

Michael Watson           mwatson@ica-international.org