Dear Etienne and everyone,
I made the suggestion when the BBC World Service began
to report that the problem actually extended across
four countries - Mauritania, Burkhina Faso, Mali and
Niger.
It's not that I don't care about the others, but one
takes care of one's family first, and Adama has made
Mali our family :-)
But the logistics are dreadful :-(
Adama, if you are there can you help us? In St Lucia
we have a local branch of "Save the Children" which
gets some funds from Canada but which is staffed by St
Lucians and knows directly about St Lucian problems. I
know Mali is so much bigger but there must be
organisations like that, perhaps based in Timbuktu
which is in the affected area.
The URLs below point to Islamic Relief and
Muslimhands, both of which are already helping.
http://www.irw.org/foodcrisis/
http://www.muslimhands.org/Site/gallery/DisplayGallery?gallery=1004&image=5
De
--- Etienne Wermester <Etienne.Wermester@wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> It is indeed a very good suggestion to be followed
> up ... but logistics is
> never easy (getting and distributing the funds, how
> and to whom?).
> Furthermore, and as far as I know, it is Niger and
> not Mali which needs help
> at this very moment.
> With warmest regards,
> EW
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Pimienta" <pimienta@funredes.org>
> To: <cardis@funredes.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 1:26 AM
> Subject: CARDIS: Diversity and togetherness (From
> De)
>
>
> > From: "Deirdre Williams"
> <deirdre.williams@lycos.co.uk>
> >
> > Adama Samassekou came all the way from Mali to the
> Cardicis meeting in St
> Lucia
> > We talked about diversity and togetherness
> > Now Adama's country is in very desperate need of
> help
> > Could we perhaps get together to make a
> contribution?
> > Even if it is only a very small amount, something
> to show that we meant
> > what we said, that we do believe that the separate
> can be together as well
> > I was going to apologise for making a suggestion
> that has nothing to do
> > with ICT, but in fact the logistics of dealing
> with different currencies
> > from different countries might have a lot to do
> with ICT :-)
> > What do the rest of us think? Do we want to, and
> if so what about the
> > practicalities?
> > Hugs
> > De
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>

                
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