dear De,
It's always a good idea to help friends and there are many ways of doing it.
I'm sure anyone can find an NGO or a UN agency to which one can give money
saying it's for Mali. That's not difficult.
Thanks for you're reminding us we have to care!
Love
Carine

PS I now live in The Hague, working for the International Criminal Tribunal
on ex Yugoslavia

----Original Message Follows----
From: Deirdre Williams <deirdrewilliams2000@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: cardis@funredes.org
To: cardis@funredes.org
Subject: Re: CARDIS: Diversity and togetherness (From De)
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 14:02:39 +0100 (BST)

Je suis un peu impolite et j'ai oubli la "raison
d'etre" de Cardicis :-(
Cher Adama,
Si vous m'ecoutez est-ce que c'est possible que vous
nous aidez donner quelque chose a les gens de Mali qui
ont faim? Une petite sourire de la Caraibe a
l'Afrique. Nous avons besoin d'un nom - un/e
person/nne ou une agence.
Merci bien
Embrasse de St Lucie
De

--- Deirdre Williams <deirdrewilliams2000@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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