AUSTRALIA:
Location: Timor Leste
Elaine and John Telford spent two weeks in Timor Leste following up contacts
from previous ICA Australia work. There is a real spirit of hope in the country
and people we spoke with were very optimistic. Alex Gusmao, CEO of Timor Aid is
using ToP methods frequently e.g. in training workshop leaders for the 3rd
National Womens Congress held in September.
Alex and Denorah, new CEO of the NGO
Forum, are committed to organising an intensive ToP training event mid 2009 for
which ICA Australia would send trainers. Other capacity building possibilities
in both the public sector and the non-government sector were explored.
Timor Leste thetelfords@gmail.com
BANGLADESH:
Location: Dhaka
Selina and Fuad applied for Japan visa and they already succeeded and they are
now planning to attend the Global Conference. Selina altready confirmed her air
ticket as Nicolien sponsored her. Hilarious, Manik, Naimul, Shahadat also
applied for visa and now they are waiting for the result.
Manik, Naimul, Fuad and
Aziz had a office management meeting on 25 October and they are working on
office set up and upliftment.
ICA Australia sent Aus Dollars 6000.00 out of which
5000.00 is for office and staff support and we are expecting 3000Aus Dollars
plus which are about to receive from Julie in ICA Australia which will be used
for office support, Ghoramara project and Japan conference participation. Under
the initiatives of Maria and Richard, colleagues in Australia raised office and
staff support.
Khair, Sajib and Sanjida met and discussed about ICA Primary
School in Ghoramara Project in Chandpur.
Naimul admin@ica-bangladesh.org
ICA ASSOCIATES INC. (Canada)
Location: Canada
Duncan Holmes, Dereck Strachn, Wayne Nelson and Jo Nelson walked in the Toronto
Marathon to raise funds for ICA Canada's support for HIVAIDS programming by our
African ICA colleagues.
We each walked a half-marathon - 13 miles - 21 km. At
the end, we were sore, tired and absolutely elated to have expended our energy
on behalf of our colleagues.
Bill Staples taught Meetings That Work to a group
from the Ontarion Public Service.
Jo Nelson taught Meetings That Work and Group
Facilitation to teachers from the Edmonton Board of Education.The previous week
Jo facilitated a planning process for Timiskiming Social Services and Bill
Staples taught Meetings That Work in our Toronto training centre.
Duncan Holmes
facilitated a planning workshop at the Allen Howard Waldorf School.
Jo did a
training workshop with a community group in NW Toronto. We have also recently
taught courses in Vancouver, BC, Red Deer, Alberta and Ottawa, Ontario.
Wayne Nelson wnelson@ica-associates.ca
ICAI:
Location: Montréal
Thanks to all of you who have sent us updates from your ICAs for this year’s Working Gifts program! We are now gathering this information updating the WG website in anticipation year 2 of this global fundraising initiative. This year, we hope to get more exposure and gain increased funding for the local human development programs that Working Gifts supports.
Due to popular inquiry, I would like to introduce the new 2009 ICAI Board of Directors:
Ali Dessouki
Derek Strachan
David Rebstock
Isabel de la Maza
Stephane Bordeleau (pending GA vote on extending Board in honour of a tie)
Tatwa Timsina
Wimke Kleinhouts
And returning:
F. Nelson Stover
Ruth Gilbert
Robyn Hutchinson
Gerald Gomani
Evelyn Philbrook
Mohammed Azizur Rahman
Shizuyo Sato
Pranay Shah
Vijay Lokhande
Contact info and details will be made available online in due course. In Montréal, we remain occupied with funding proposals and preparing for the conference. Sarah Farina is currently en route to Bosnia and Tajikistan on a capacity building visit. We look forward to hearing her reports from this time spent with our colleagues at BOSPO and EHIO.
Katie Burke
