BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Four colleagues - Aziz, Mahbub Sir, Naimul and Costa da from ICA Bangladesh
attended Nicolien's birthday party at Dutch Club on 8 February. Nicolien
introduced other colleagues in that party.
On 9 February at 4pm ICA Bangladesh
organized a discussion meeting for the GFC-funded National Workshop on the
Underlying Causes Project. 20 Participants joined the meeting held at Seminar
Room of Sociology Dept. of Dhaka University.
For Sidr-affected parentless
children project under TUC aid, ICA Bangladesh team is going to visit Bagerhat
and Barguna in the 2nd or 3rd week of February. One volunteer - Indrajit has
reached on 8 February in Bagerhat and has been doing situation analysis and
identification of target children based on school records and community
consultation.
Aziz admin@ica-bangladesh.org
NEPAL:
Location: Kathmandu
This week we conducted a meeting of the executive committee in which all the
members were present. The meeting was held to review one year long activities of
2007. The secretary informed about the year long projects and activities and the
treasurer shared about the year long income and expenses. Fianlly, one year long
activities for 2008 has been planned. The meeting also decided to celebrate 10
year anniversary and on that occasion a book will be published covering ICA
Nepal's activities.
Atma Rm Timsina ica@icanep.wlink.com.np
PERU:
Location: Chincha Earthquake Relief Project
We had a very intense 6-day visit from Wayne Ellsworth from ICA-Japan reviewing
the present project, doing some training for the project Promoters and
developing the next steps for the project. The nationally-known mayor of
Chincha spent Sunday afternoon with us to move the project forward, and we met
with three important funding agencies in search of appropriate funding. It now
appears that there are some Japanese funds already in Peru which could be
applied to the major 10 proposals for three year continuity of the project, and
further investigation of this source is in process. Meanwhile, another 300 plus
houses were built in the heat of a Chincha summer. Altogether, a very
productive week!
Staff admin@ica-peru.org
UNITED KINGDOM:
Location: UK
Following our AGM you can download our 2007 Annual Report and Accounts from www.ica-uk.org.uk and see a video of our
Youth Work at www.facebook.com contact me
for exact web addresses.
Jonathan Dudding jdudding@ica-uk.org
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Sarah Farina has been receiving pre-training survey submissions from several
ICAs, and encourages people who have not yet submitted to do so soon. Curriculum
for the training program is being developed now, based on needs identified in
the survey.
The ICAI Youth Participation Task Force is now underway on the web!
Anyone who is interested in contributing but has not yet become involved is
asked to please email Mike for details.
Lambert met some interesting people and
enjoyed interesting dialogue while participating Friday in the Montreal
International Forum workshop on civil society participation for regional
multilateralism.
A big thanks to everyone who has worked hard to send in their
organizational information for the Annual Report! We have received many, and
urge those who have not yet sent to please do so soon, in order to ensure a
complete report on the activities of ICA International in 2007.
Katie recruited a
couple of great volunteer photographers to come by the office this week, so look
forward to a lovely portrait of Lambert this year.
Katie Burke katie@ica-international.org
