SI MONTHLY NEWS JANUARY 2007 News
From SI Exco News
Central American Servas Regional Conference
A brief over view, for complete report of the Conference you can read the minutes.
The elections were based on an agreement of one vote per country and by majority of the ballots cast. A check list of the duties of the AC (which included those required by the GA) and a list of the ideal personal characteristics of the Central American AC were generated by the group. The 5 voting countries were: Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico.
After two days of getting acquainted, and reports on the operation of Servas in each country, the unique Servas needs in each country, the discussion of the leadership in Central America, it was agreed that the Area leadership would be in the form of a Leadership team composed of an AC, a SAC (i.e., Deputy AC), and a Regional Newsletter editor. Election were by secret ballot. Of 4 candidates for AC, Hector Peralta, NS of Mexico was elected by majority vote on the first ballot. The 3 remaining candidates for AC were considered for SAC. By unanimous vote, Lineth Lopez de Cano NS of Panama was elected SAC on the first ballot. Ivan Garcia, youth representative and voting representative of Guatemala so designated by the NS of Guatemala by way of a signed letter of appointment, was elected Newsletter editor and Sharon Espinoza was elected Central American AC for youth.
The next Central American Regional Conference will be in Panama in 2008. Central American national groups have agreed to reach out and help develop Servas in Spanish speaking countries in the region such as Nicaragua, El Salvador and Cuba and to welcome English speaking Belize if it wants to be part of the Central American Servas Area.
Stefan Baschel 19 years old of Servas Germany is assigned alternative Military duty in Nicaragua for a year. Markus Kappenberger NS of Servas Germany encouraged Stefan to attend the Conference and Servas Germany provided funds for him to attend the conference. He was acclaimed by consensus to be the Servas establisher for Nicaragua and will be helped by other NS of the area. The DFC approved $200 to develop Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.
Spanish is the language of Central America and I was the only person there who spoke only English. I was assigned 3 translators to whom I am very grateful -- Pablo Chefuni, Francisco Solomon Luna Alberto of Mexico, the 26 year old youth representative from Mexico, and OLYN the wife of Hector Peralta.
The National Groups in Central America would like to receive names and contact information especially for individuals in El Salvador and Nicaragua who might be willing to be Servas members. The National groups are will follow up. Send information regarding contacts to Hector Peralta AC of C Am at mexico[at]servas.org
Also needed are volunteers willing to translate Servas documents into Spanish such as the SI Handbook and the SI Financial Operating Procedures to contact me. Volunteers willing to translate the Central American Regional Conference minutes into English are to contact Pablo Chufeni (pablochufeni[at]yahoo.com.ar) and volunteers willing to translate C Am newsletters from Spanish to English are to contact Hector Peralta mexico[at]servas.org. Mary Jane Mikuryia, USA, Exco
For pictures see: http://servasreunioncentroamerica.blogspot.com/
eGA, Latina, DVD available
A DVD of the April 2006 EGA in Latina, Italy has been mailed to all attendees and all National Secretaries. Contact Michael Johnson at:
unexpected[at]sympatico.ca if you don’t get a working copy by the end of February. If you are not supposed to receive the DVD but WANT one, please ask your National Secretary to copy one for you. There is a 30-minute video and 8 minutes of still photos with music. The video and a few photos are by Michael. Most of the photos are thanks to Amir. Additional photos were taken by Uwe. All expenses will be paid by Servas International. It is hoped members will enjoy this “memory of Servas working well together.”
Michael Johnson, Canada
Sri Lanka, Annual Meeting
I am happy to let you know that the Sri Lankan Servas conducted its annual meeting on 09th of December 2006. Two Special invitees the Ex. Deputy Minister for Justice in Sri Lanka Mr. Shelton Ranaraja and the Secretary for the Provincial Ministry of Agriculture Mr. Dhanasena Hettiarachchi in addition to the Board of Governors of Nation Builders Association participated and the Servas Hosts twenty out of thirty six attended. Although I was sick I too attended and following are the key persons elected for the year 2007 please.
In appreciation of services rendered by Mr. M.B. Adikaram, he was elected to be the president of Servas, Sri Lanka 2007 although this is a mere Honorary Post. Also we elected Dr. D.H.A. Subasinghe who is also one of our Senior Servas Hosts to be the Vice President.
Since I wish be more at work with Servas Exco. I wished that the National Secretary ship be palmed off to someone else. Herewith I send you the Key Persons or Servas Sri Lanka for the year 2007 please.
In Peace,
Nandasena Amarasinghe, Peace Secretary
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