[strawbale] Fwd: FW: GSBN:Re: The Nature of Things Not Off Topic/Maybe Just a wee bit.

[simon <pieman66@yahoo...>]

> From: "Martin Oehlmann" <martin.oehlmann@wxs...>
> To: "Owner-Strawbale" <owner-strawbale@eyfa...>
> Subject: FW: GSBN:Re: The Nature of Things Not Off Topic/Maybe Just a
> wee bit.
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:19:11 +0100
> 
> 
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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: GSBN [mailto:GSBN@lists....com]Namens Huff 'n' Puff
> Constructions
> Verzonden: zaterdag 16 maart 2002 12:35
> Aan: strawbale@crest...
> CC: jostro@dds...; van Reijendam Datje; Builders without Borders; GSBN
> Onderwerp: GSBN:Re: The Nature of Things Not Off Topic/Maybe Just a wee
> bit.
> 
> 
> G ' day Balers
> 
> Just watched a programme called The Nature of Things Race
> Against Time narrated by David Suzuki and featuring Stephen
> Lewis The United Nations General Secretary's Special Envoy
> for AIDS in Africa a Canadian chap I believe, seems a decent
> sort of cove.
> 
> I have called SBS who put the programme on in Australia and
> asked them if I could get a tape of the show, they could not
> help me and put me on to the Canadian Broadcasting's web
> site.  However the web site is a few months behind the
> programme we saw here.
> 
> Would any Canadians on the list know how I can get a copy of
> the programme?
> 
> You see the programme has had an enormous effect on both My
> Little Wolverine and myself.  We new things were crook in
> Africa especially my birth place and first home, Kenya.
> However we did not expect what we saw.
> 
> 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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