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Re: [strawbale] Fwd: FW: GSBN:Re: The Nature of Things Not Off Topic/Maybe Just a wee bit.
Dear Friends.
As some of you may know we will have a working group on
developement cooperation projects on the european SB gathering
in Austria (4.-7.April). I am facilitating this working group and would
be glad to put the "Amelia Project" project on the agenda.
Therefore I would be glad to learn more about this project. Is
anyone who is more familiar with it attending the gathering (as far
as I have seen Jolien is not on the list...) - If not, who can tell me
more? (how many houses, how big, possible funds (Rotary??),...)
Are there other networks already working on the project (Builders
without Borders,...)?
Best Regards
Markus
> >
> > Some time ago a young lady called Jolien from the
> > Netherlands got in touch with us via Catherine Wanek, Jolien
> > wrote to us about Mama Amelia and introduced us to Datje who
> > was in South Africa and has a video of Amelia and her
> > amazing work looking after 150 orphans about an hour from
> > Cape Town.
> >
> > Amelia needs a straw bale orphanage or strawphanage. MLW
> > and I have agreed to help Jolien and Datje help Amelia get a
> > strawphanage. Rotary International District 9700 based in
> > Wagga Wagga and led by a Dr Ray King have agreed for us to
> > do a presentation to their meeting in April. Ray King has
> > said that he feels that the strawphanage is a project that
> > they would like to get behind as it fits their charter.
> >
> > So if any of you want to learn about Amelia:
> >
> > http://www.amelia.de
> >
> > http://www.amelia.de/zeitung1.htm this is the newspaper
> > article in English.
> >
> > So if any of you on this list can help me take Amelia's
> > strawphanage further we can form an E-task force off list
> > and see what support we can garner from around the world of
> > straw and beyond. I know that I have posted a story on
> > Amelia before and Joe Kennedy supplied me with some concrete
> > leads and the time has now come for me to do something to
> > start the ball rolling and Rotary International may be the
> > way to go. So any contacts, ideas, resources that are
> > lurking out there in straw cyberspace I would appreciate the
> > feed back. Any South Africans out there who might be able
> > to get in touch with their local branch of Rotary
> > International?
> >
> > The goal is to start building for Amelia after the
> > International Straw Bale Conference 2002, from now on known
> > as the SB Corroboree. In fact it may be a good idea to get
> > Amelia over here for the Corroboree and maybe, just maybe
> > DE, Matts and Judy, Bill and Athena, Rob Tom et al will be
> > here to meet Amelia and we can plan her strawphanage with
> > her. Well you can only go as high as your dreams. Maybe
> > Beel and family could bring Emiliano Lopez of Casas que
> > Cantan fame with them to teach us mob how to build something
> > very beautiful with nothing but earth and straw, now
> > wouldn't that be something.
> >
> > Maybe Builders Without Borders and Rotary
> > International...........................
> > Maybe Casas que Cantan can start singing around the world or
> > maybe they already have?
> >
> > Anyway seeing that you mob up north are truly out of
> > hibernation going by the 20-30 posts a day on side ways 2
> > storey load bearing bales in Canada, maybe you would like to
> > keep chating and see if we can do something for Amelia, off
> > list is fine by me.
> >
> > Thanks for thine ears and I do not often ask this list for
> > something that may make some us feel a wee bit uncomfortable
> > or out of our comfort zones but I just cannot do this on my
> > own and I am calling up a big favour I know.
> >
> > Warmest salaams
> >
> > The Straw Wolf
> > http://strawbale.archinet.com.au
> > 61 2 6927 6027
> >
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