SUMMARY
OF 98th MEETING OF SUSILA DHARMA (BRITAIN)
The
Chair of Subud Britain, Stephen Gonsalves, joined our meeting to
discuss communications and working closely together with SD(B).
World
Congress. SD(B) will submit a report as part of a country
report to WC. We will mount a display of projects supported
including Wisma Mulia, which is the only SD item at present based in
UK.
Fundraising
events have been planned (Canterbury Group has now had theirs).
Maemunah is organising a Bollywood event at her place of work, and
Worthing Group have a fundraising event on 16th July.
Sjarifah
reported on her participation in the Bizonal meeting in Kinshasa, and
her visits to various projects in the Congo. It is hoped to
co-ordinate funding with other SDs and meet with project leaders during
WC.
It
was also hoped to meet with Bella and Joe Rosario from Mithra
Foundation at WC to clarify what funding they needed from us, and also
to understand the possibility of sustainability of the schools.
Sustainable
Livelihoods programme, Kalimantan. It has been decided not to
make another application to the Community Fund at this time, because
our first effort has been rejected, and it was felt better to
consolidate what had already been achieved. The methods are now
well understood by some of the villages and they can sustain themselves
to a certain extent. SD(B) has budgeted to support a small team
of field workers.
SD(B)
has received requests to fund a TB prevention project in Kalimantan,
and we are liaising with SD Indonesia and IRDN to firm up on the
proposals. It is hoped to move on to a malaria prevention
programme subsequently.
SD(B)
agreed to send £2,000 for tsunami relief and medical aid to American
Overseas Medical Aid Assocn., which has been set up by US Subud
members.
ICDP.
The Board agreed to send $2,200 in response to a request from the ICDP
project at Mina Clavero, Argentina, for the next stage of their
project.
SD(B)
has received a request for funding from Amanecer School, including work
with indigenous people, and we are clarifying how much is needed for
this aspect of the project before deciding on funding.
An
application is being made to the Diana Memorial Fund on behalf of
Clearpath International. Michael Wisnom and Imbert Matthee are
liaising on the application, which has to be submitted by 24th June.
Sachlan
reported on three projects where artemisia is being grown in an effort
to help malaria victims. These are Daniella Bustillo’s in
Rungan Sari, Dr. Rachman Mitchell’s in Kalimantan, and Ruslan
Morris’s in Java. Artemisia is also being grown in East Timor
but Luke Comey has now passed this to CARE International because he has
left the country.
SD(B)’s
next meeting is on 10th July at Loudwater.