SI MONTHLY NEWS APRIL 2007 Exco Info
From SI Exco News
Sharing your Servas videos with everybody
Various people are wanting to share their Servas experience by video. This is great. To do this easily there is a section in Youtube on the internet being set up for Servas. Why not share your experiences with everybody there.
search for servas in www.youtube.com see this link :-)
Exco meeting in Bangalore
The meetings in Bangalore should result in an EXCO Action Plan to:
• address continuing EXCO work
• action the Latina GA directions
• respond to and correct items listed by the Audits
make use of our own analysis of trends, Big Picture, etc. and advice received from Committees, etc., and national secretaries, etc.
Using DFC money
Starting in 2005, in order to update Host List for Honduras, Dr. Espinosa personally visited hosts whose phone number is not accurate to be really sure if they want to be listed as hosts and they will not be left out.
At the EGA in 2006, David Espinosa was one of the Central American NS that demanded SI support for a Central American Regional Servas Conference. Pablo brought all the Central Americans to a lunch meeting in Latina and translated their agreed desire to have help from SI and from and for each other.
David Espinosa went to the Central American Regional Servas Conference in January 2007 and he met Stefan, a German youth and Servas traveler working with young people in El Salvador as his alternate military service. Stefan came to the Central America Servas Conference at the urging of Markus Kappenberger, NS of Servas Germany. Stefan was able to go to the Central American Regional Servas Conference because travel & conference registration funds were generously provided by Servas Germany. David Espinosa is now a mentor to Stefan as Stefan seeks to develop Servas in El Salvador, a country with less than 10% of people with telephones. Stefan will like David be making home visits to built Servas in El Savador.
Thanks to the DFC, both David and Stefan have money to support their outreach effort in their countries.
Now this is the kind of personal initiative, personal encouragement and with funding, and the cooperation between National groups the EGA was encouraging. Don't you agree?
Mary Jane Mikuryia, SI Exco
Another UN conference that might interest people:
Vision Statement
60 Annual DPI/NGO Conference
Climate Change: How it Impacts Us All
United Nations, New York, 5 – 7 September 2007
The 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference, in addition to
reviewing the scientific evidence that has documented
the changes that are taking place in the earth's weather patterns, is being structured to produce a plan of action to counter the catastrophic impacts that Climate Change poses. Climate Change threatens every aspect of life on earth, and also the viability of the planet earth itself. We now know with 90% certainty, attested to by the most informed and respected scientists, that the environmental degradation causing the climate warming phenomenon is primarily caused by human activities.
The scientific knowledge provided by the conference will help NGOs better understand the myriad causes of Climate Change. UN, governmental, NGO and other community experts will lead a series of roundtable discussions with conference attendees on the diverse approaches that have already been put in place to counter Climate Change and analyze their effectiveness. We can achieve several important goals by working together to counter and control Climate Change:
(1) Identify defensive measures capable of minimizing damage from climate change.
(2) Slow down any further climate warming by reducing or eliminating human actions that scientists identify as causative.
(3) Change our lifestyles to accommodate these facts.
After exchanging information on best practices and recommended standards with the experts and each other at the roundtables, workshops and network sessions, NGOs will have the tools they need to form partnerships and create effective action plans to counter the Climate Change crisis. In addition to reducing harmful emissions by conserving energy and supporting the use of environmentally friendly alternatives themselves, they will have the knowledge they need to educate their friends and neighbors to the cataclysmic dangers posed by Climate Change. Participants will also understand the urgent need to protect themselves, their families and the entire world's people, as well as every other species, by taking appropriate action now.
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