SI MONTHLY NEWS AUGUST 2005 Editorial
From SI Exco News
Meetings, meetings, meetings ..
Around the Servas world meetings are taking
place. They may be a Servas traveller meeting
his or her host for the night, a local group getting
together for a barbeque, a national group having
its Annual General meeting or an international
group sitting down to discuss the way forward for
Servas. Over the last month or so all these
events have been happening around the world
with plenty more to come. That is one of the
purposes of Servas, a peaceful getting together
of people in small and large groups to get a
greater understanding of each other and so help
spread accord rather than discord round the
world. In this issue there is a record of some
successful meetings that have been held: on the
International level in Askov, Denmark; on the
national level in India, and on the individual levels
in a variety of countries. Potential successes are
anticipated with national/international level
meetings in Germany and Patagonia. In this
latter the future of Servas, the youth, are making
big strides.
Find out more about what meetings are happening by checking our Meetings and Get togethers on page 3. Check the national newsletters which are now coming on line on www.siexco.org.
Join in, take a constructive, positive part. And remember to listen. As Servas we hope to help bring about peaceful solutions in a quiet way. We cannot help find solutions if we have not listened to the problem. And to quote from The Art of Conflict Resolution by the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution: 'The less we blow ourselves up as being experts, the more we can contribute.'
Hurricane Katrina - how can Servas help?
As this is written, our thoughts and wishes for
positive re-construction go out to those who
suffered the effects of Hurricane Katrina in New
Orleans. We need to do more than provide
thoughts on such occasions. What can Servas
do to help in such situations? .........................
It would be good if Servas Monthly News readers could help provide answers to that question.
Is the monthly news now accessible?
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access the pdf on my home computer although I can
access it from work. This is because at home I have an
old version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Through discussion
we decided that I could not access it due to some fancy
fonts that I had been using for previous issues. From this
I have now changed the fonts to more basic ones.
Hopefully the problem will have been solved so that more
people will have access to the Monthly News and so be
able to keep up with what is going on.
Please let me know whether you can access or not.
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