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IN THIS ISSUE
What's New - Global Links Initiative News
GLI Executive Director, Fan Li, attended the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) forum held in the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP) on the afternoon of May 29th. This forum was conducted by the British Consulate-General Shanghai and CELAP. Sue Bishop, British Consul General in Shanghai; John Alty from the Department of Trade and Industry and the representatives from B&Q, Tesco, etc. attended this forum. Read more

In 2006, GLI is working with Ajinomoto, China to establish its local CSR programme. Ajinomoto is our first CSR business partner which is why we have added their logo to the Home Page of our website. For more information and to access Ajinomoto's own CSR website just click on the company's logo or Read more

GLI Founder and Chairman, Robin Rowland, and Executive Director, Libby Brayshaw, have just spent 4 days (21-24 June) in Glasgow attending the 6th CIVICUS World Assembly along with 1200 delegates from 100 different countries. The World Assembly is committed to change, globally and at home and provides an opportunity to exchange ideas on a truly global scale to bring justice, peace and democracy to the world. Read more

We welcome a new GLI volunteer, Ms. Naoko Matsue, who is working for a Japanese environmental NPO, Green Network, as a volunteer. Her work has been focussing environmental issues in China and she has just moved back to Japan from Shanghai. Ms. Matsue's has written about environmental problems and volunteer activities and we hope to include these articles on our website.

What's New - New Areas of the website
We have created a new page of Newsletter Links in the Share Area to augment the list of website Links also in this part of the site. Do you regularly receive an electronic newsletter that you find interesting or useful? Please let us know and we will add your suggestion to our list. Just email Libby Brayshaw.
 
What's New - Inspire Area - New 'learning by doing' stories
For July and August 2006, we are highlighting the Inspire area on the Home Page of our website. Many of the stories come from GLI Networkers and often they provide personal insights into the motivation and drive behind the social projects described - why they started, what they are doing and how they are doing it.I f you have a great story about what you or your project is doing - or about someone you know - please write and tell us about it - just send an email to Libby Brayshaw.

Courage + Persistence = Success! Zhao Yi's story - In 2004, Zhao Yi became Chairman of the student association at the China Agriculture University. Apart from his own study and on-campus activities, Zhao Yi planned to do something practical for rural people and migrant labourers from the rural areas. Each year the university organises student tours to rural areas in order to give them an opportunity to experience a real rural life. Read more 

A Small Step for the Community-Supported Agriculture Project in Liuzhou, China, - In early November 2005, Partnerships Community Development of Hong Kong, left for Liuzhou city, a three-hour highway-drive away from Nanning, the provincial capital of Guangxi, China, to visit three members of the Agri-Fond Association and to find out in detail about their Community-Supported Agriculture theory. Read more 

TeachAManToFish - Helping people to help themselves - Education represents a powerful tool for generating jobs, improving incomes, and expanding the opportunities available to young people in developing countries. TeachAManToFish is creating an international network of agricultural schools and partner NGOs committed to sustainable approaches to tackling rural poverty. We want to make the benefits of a vocational education open to all who want it, and support those organisations who share this aim. Read more

Bunker Roy and the Barefoot College -  GLI founder, Robin Rowland,  recently attended the 2006 Skoll World Forum and heard a presentation from Bunker Roy and the Barefoot College in Tilonia. Robin thought his presentation was easily the best of the three days and that this would be a great story to inspire others.We are delighted that Bunker Roy is our latest Networker to sign up from India.  Read more

Sharan Micro Credit/Savings Club - Martin Blakebrough (GLI Trustee) and Robin Rowland visited many inspiring and very practical projects in India at the beginning of May and virtually all of them are seeking to permanently improve the position of needy people. None was more practical, and capable of replication elsewhere in the world than one they visited in Delhi at the Health Education Drop-in-Centre run by SHARAN close to Azadpur Mandi in the largest Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market in Asia. Read more

SEED - SEED is a voluntary organization founded and established by the well known social activist and eminent social reformer, K.P.SARASWATHI, for the integrated and holistic development of unrepresented hamlets and the concerned people at rural Trichirappalli and Karur districts of Tamilnadu. Read more

GLI Networker Who's Who
People with energy, compassion and creativity can make the world a better place. If you are one of them, we would like to invite you to become a Networker and share your visions, stories and interests with more people through our website. You would be one of over 200 others who have so far joined us from 29 countries. See who they are and read about them in the Get Involved area under Networkers on the website.

Here is what some of our new Networkers say about themselves in their Networker profiles:

Tawanda Elton Madzure - Zimbabwe - I am the steward for Zimbabwe local network of Pioneers of Change - www.pioneersofchange.net - a group of people committed to Being themselves, Do What Matters, Start Now, Engage with others, and Never stop asking Questions. Our work is varied from learning to build self-reliance at multiple levels: financial, practical, material, social, psychological, and spiritual, to being change agents for positive change.

Jeyaraj Seenikalai - Tamilnadu, India - WASA is a registered development organisation working for the downtrodden rural workers. WASA is working for the promoting egalitarian society by mutual education, promoting community based institutions among the target population for their empowerment and emancipation.

Unathi Loos - Cape Town, South Africa - Learn to Earn is a skills training and job creation organisation. Learn to Earn was established in 1989 and since inception, over 7000 people have been trained through Learn to Earn. It has branches in Khayelithsa, Hermanus and Durbanville. The communities Learn to Earn serves are previously disadvantaged communities, with unemployment rates ranging from 30% to 70%. Read about Learn to Earn in the Inspire Area of the GLI site

Eric Holmes - New Zealand - Traidmission has made a commitment to help those who are in a position to help others, to complement existing programs and add experience and expertise to those who wish to
develop new projects.

Simon Fenton-Jones - UK - StreetShine, a subsidiary of homelessness charity Thames Reach Bondway, is a social enterprise that gives jobs to marginalised individuals and the chance for them to develop their self-esteem and rebuild their lives whilst at the same time offering a professional shoe care service in London offices. 

Agnes Saudrais-Hough - UK - I am a trustee/volunteer of the Charity RoadPeace. The charity was set up in 1992 to assist people bereaved and injured by a road crash, who had no organisation to turn to at the most desperate time in their lives. The Charity set up the first ever support structure thanks to a national helpline providing vital information, advice and support 7 days a week. Since 1992, over 10000 families have called its helpline. Among its many achievements, the World Day of Remembrance, initiated at grass roots level by RoadPeace has now received official recognition by the UN on 26 October 2005 and is becoming widely more observed with each year.

Get Involved!
Find out how to get in touch with our Networkers or be a networker yourself by clicking on 'Get Involved' to find out more or on 'Register' to sign up as a Networker. It is free to all. Also please contribute to our website - send an email to Libby Brayshaw.

Update your Profile Information
Please remember to let us know what you are doing and update your profile information on the website just as Margaret Adams has done. We recently had a message from Margaret giving an update of her activities. 'I had a wonderful successful trip to Romania, a few weeks ago , teaching 30 staff ( hospice and care homes) our level 1 massage routines , and with 2 other therapist now designing level 2 for a return trip next June.' Read Margaret's profile in Get Involved under Networkers and see Margaret's story on the GLI site or on her own website at www.spiraloftranquility.org.uk

You can write as much as you want to about yourself and your organisation or project so that others can find out what you are doing. We have also added a field in the form for a website address. It is easy to edit your Profile, just click 'Login' in the top line of the green navigation bar at the top of the web page and enter your email address and password - then click on Edit Profile in the green navigation bar at the top of the web page. Update your details on the form - add or change the information about you and your organisation, add your website address - and press Submit. Go on! Have a go! If you have forgotten your password - just click Forgot Password? and add your email address and your password will be automatically emailed to you.

Volunteers
If you are bilingual or trilingual in English, Japanese, and/or Chinese, and are interested in volunteering for GLI, please contact Fan LI

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