Message-ID: <9508251127.AB17039@cr-df.rnp.br> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 08:27:38 EST From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:poa-bsb@CR-DF.RNP.BR> Subject: Brasilia enews # 20 To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dear Friends,Sorry I have been so quiet lately. You may be sure that we are active all day long, many hours dedicated to our common projects. There are many, many things involved in them, all demanding our attention.
1. I have dinner with Pedro tonight, just we two, and he showed me every correspondence he has been receiving lately. He intends to go to Washington for the Presidents' meeting. He told me that maybe I could be invited since I am the secretary (acting as the executive director) of the chapter. About the seminar in Rio, in September, he suggested we should invite Jose Ivan. I agree, but I would suggest Jose Ivan to go to Washington for the seminar on microenterprise. He is completely involved in it, as you know. Pedro also told that yesterday was the last day to indicate someone to Rio's Seminar. He also gave me a report with his expending on the citizenship project resources. I will consolidate it and send it to you very soon. Sorry I can't go faster.
2. Next week we will have a course on ecological community gardening at the Open House for more than a hundred people from the community gardens supported by the local Secretary of Agriculture extension service. I will be the compost master, and every attendant will have opportunity to stay for two hours doing compost with me, in groups that will be two hours with every lecturer. There I will distribute the 1,300 seed packages from Partners.
3. And today (Wednesday next morning) I will be with the Director of the Cultural and Environmental Development Department of the Educational Foundation of the Distrito Federal - the official network of public schools of Brasilia (reaching some hundred thousands of students) to show her the results of that research we promoted at GISNO school with the young students. And talk about youth and citizenship development. I will be with her recommended by the Secretary of Education (former rector of the University of Brasilia) and his wife, Marilu, who works with me in Santa Maria social bank project (that will sell very cheaply the basic food for the poor and lend the resultant money to the population for productive local activities). Next Sunday I will go again to Santa Maria with Marilu and Jose Ivan to meet the clientele people and help them organize themselves to be able to receive this money. Marilu asked me to publish the handbook to be distributed to the people explaining what the project is all about. As the Santa Maria's population is quite illiterate, we will need to be very communicative on this publication in order to be understoond... I look forward to starting to edit it soon.
4. I will try to mail the Democracy newsletter #2 this week. Sorry. Thanks.
5. Have you seen our home page, which James Yven kindly is helping us to construct? There is a picture of Jose Ivan and other two leaders of the Open House (one volunteer and one governmental officer). There is another showing the kids making bricks and sowing Partners' seeds. Our WWW address is http://osf1.gmu.edu/~jyven. A lot of work shall be done there in order to make it fully operational and comprehensive about our projects and initiatives.
I do have more to say, but I need go sleep. And I am also spending some hours, every day/night, to classify all the information I receive from Internet and from you. Unfortunately I can't process all them till the point to actually answer them. But by classifying and storing them and keeping them useful for a soon utilization. We intend to join more people to help us. There are already some, but we need more friends to properly handle the Intenet informative resources and change them into concrete results for nature and citizenry.
Joaquim
______________________________________________________________ Joaquim Moura Youth & Citizenship Development Commission Partners of the Americas - Brasilia / Washington DC Committee SHCGN 713 - Bloco I - Apt. 202 - 70760-739 - Brazil Phone (55 61): 414-1780 (w); 273-5613 (h); 414-1898 (fax)