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Mission
Statement
The board agreed a mission statement for SD(B) which read as
follows: ‘Our mission is
to stimulate and nurture initiatives by
our members in Britain to undertake and support humanitarian
projects anywhere in the world that empower people and are
participatory, sustainable and in harmony with the local
culture.’ From our mission statement and core aims we will
deduce our goals on an annual or biannual basis.
Fundraising
for Indonesia
The board agreed the terms of a one-year fundraising agreement
with Lorna Dowson-
Collins, making use of a donation received that
was tied to raising funding for projects in Indonesia. A further
agreement will be entered into with Stephen Gonsalves for him to
provide accounting input into the proposals and applications for
funding to various funding bodies.
International
Child Development Programme
The board two grants for projects in South America – one of
$3,000 for CeLuAn in Brazil
and one of $1,200 for a project in a
poor area of Buenos Aires.
Mithra
Project
The board received an update on this project and heard how Bella
and Joe, the
managers at Mithra were dealing with the main problem
of the turnover of staff. Raphael
has produced sponsorship forms
for his cycle journey from Canada to Mexico. These
forms would be
distributed and put on our website.
Links
with Subud Britain Regions
Following on from the joint meeting with Subud Britain’s
National Council, it was agreed
that links should be established
with the Subud Britain regions, with each SD(B) trustee
to develop
links with one of these regions.
British
International Gathering and Congress (BIG 2002)
The Susila Dharma programmes for BIG 2002 from 11 – 18 August
were discussed and agreed. During most of the pre-Congress
activities SD(B) will be joining with Susila
Dharma International
and other national Susila Dharmas. During the Congress period
SD(B)
will have its own vision workshop, as well as the formal AGM, and
will ask for a
final workshop with all the Wings attending. SD(B)
has contributed various sums, in co-operation with SDIA and other
SDs, to enable SD representatives to come to BIG
2002 from Ukraine
and R D Congo.
Our
next meeting will be on 31 August/1 September at Lewes
New School.
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