SUMMARY
OF 96th MEETING OF SUSILA DHARMA (BRITAIN)
We
welcomed three new Trustees to the Board – Maemunah Hasan , Sarah
Garrard and Hamid Kennedy.
Sjarifah
Roberts will look into the possibility of attending the Bi-Zonal
meeting in Kinshasa, R.D. Congo, on behalf of SD(B).
Other people from SDIA and African projects will be attending.
Amalia
Dickie from Austria, one of SD’s
UN links, will be taking part in the Peace Exhibition in Edinburgh in
February ’05, and Sjarifah will put together a display of SD work for
a stall which is being supported by the Edinburgh group.
We
discussed our commitments for 2005 and tried to set a budget.
We realised that we were going to struggle to meet these
commitments because of the failure in our applications to the Community
Fund for the TSLICK project in Kalimantan and Mithra Foundation in
India. We therefore
decided to have a fundraising drive in 2005.
We
congratulate the Exeter group in holding a dinner in aid of Clearpath
International which helps victims of landmines which raised nearly £700.
It
is hoped to keep the TSLICK project ticking over and it is thought £5000
should be sufficient for this.
Lailah
Armstrong joined the meeting to report on the successful ICDP programme
in Nariňo, Colombia. She
told us that UNICEF want to extend the programme in 2005 to a region
called Boyaca and double their funding.
They hope to work with the Church, 3 universities, education and
health professionals in 123 towns.
Each authority would make a financial contribution to the
programme and ICDP needs to find £8,000.
SD(B) hopes to support Lailah in this great programme.
The
Board decided to send £1,800 to the SRADHA project in India to
complete the funding for their training centre.
We
have received a proposal from Mithra totalling £9,000 for 2005 to fund
the slum centres. We are
not yet clear how they will fund the running of the primary school, and
will try to clarify the position with Bella.
The
Board agreed to help fund a seminar in Indonesia on the use of
artemisia for the treatment of malaria.
SDIA are contributing $1,000 to this.
The Board is always happy to hear from anyone who feels they would like to support the work of SD in any way either by fundraising, organising local events, acting as a link to other organisations, translations etc.