AUSTRALIA:
1. Long term friend and supporter of ICA, Stella Cornelius, is now mother
and grandmother to the authors of the revised edition of the best seller book on
Conflict Resolution, 'Everyone can Win' by Helena Cornelius, Estella Cornelius
and Shoshana Faire. Simon and Schuster...an outstanding book Several ICA members
attended the packed book launch last week.
2. The ICA team of 5 have been in
Timor Leste for almost a week now. Reports on the work to date are good, and
they have been safe, in the midst of continued unrest.
Ray Richmond
CANADA:
This week, a new co-ordinator for our YFL programme joined Cara. Her name
is
Eowynne Feeney. Cara and Eowynne went up to join in a community meeting
in
Georgina (where the current YFL project is starting) along with
the
project's researcher, Crystal Mellin, and our partner from Earth Day
Canada,
Jason Kun.
Cara Naiman
JAPAN:
Location: Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines
Shizuyo Sato lead an outstanding ICA Japan Annual General Assembly with
35 people attending, including Iwao Masuda and Takashi Kosugi, who are national
Diet members and key supporters.
The 2008 Conference committee synchronized the
Japanese and the English language brochures, and requested ALL ICAs Worldwide to
review the main titles, which are...The 7th Global Conference on Human
Development...Seeking Fresh Insights...
Paulo Ito secured a contract with ICA
Phoenix to provide training in Chipas state, Mexico.
Mamiko Tanaka and Kasuko
sent out materials to Peace Links, whose members are wives of prominent Diet
members.
Kaoru Ito presented a dametic slide show about his work in the
Philippines to visiting students.
Eiki Kubokawa is finishing an Earthquake aid
activity in Indonesia, and wrote a request for an extension of the severly
needed materials including repair of dams for irrigation.
Submitted by Wayne
Ellsworth
PERU:
Location: 100 Valleys
Decided to create an ongoing 3 week community leader formation program
with the first one scheduled for 21 January, and marketing to be completed by
the end of November. Meanwhile the staff has defined a major research project
to document 8 valleys over the next couple of months, which is a major task as
the valleys are up to 300 miles long, containing many communities. The 100
valleys project is heating up.
Ken Hamje
SPAIN:
Location: Madrid
We have given the first session of a course to senior citizens on feeling
good with ourselves to be able to help others around us. The acceptance and feed
back of the course is encouraging on the importance of such courses to improve
communication and relationship via seniors.
Franco Voli
UNITED KINGDOM:
Martin did a lot on finances for our Board meeting this week, Julie
continued marketing and scheduling courses for 2007, and Jonathan secured a
small facilitation contract for December and met with Fred Simons of ICA
Canada.
Jonathan Dudding
UNITED STATES:
This is the first week of a total reorganization of ICA USA. ICA USA
has asked all ICA senior staff to start their own business and become part of
the ICA network. The staff are taking the old ICA business with them. The ICA
USA organization will service and support this network through research and
development. The image is that the ICA USA organization will become a large
network of people and organizations who are promoting participatory methods and
projects. We are all being forced to think outside the box by being thrown out
of the box. Is an exciting time to be alive and part of ICA.
Richard Alton
ICAI SECRETARIAT:
Location: Montreal
ICAI staff has just held its first staff meeting in Montreal. The staff
members are Lambert Okrah the Secreatary General and Sarah Miller, Development
Officer. The hightlights of the meeting are: the development of a fundraising
plan and the transitional operations plan beginning 1st Novermber, 2006 to 1st
January, 2007. ICAI has come a long way and we wish to express our sincerest
appreciation to all of you for the wonderful work.
Lambert Okrah