| Welcome to this month's GLI News Mail. News Mail keeps you up to date with What's New on the GLI website and introduces new GLI Networkers.
We have a new format this month - we hope you'll like it. Please let us know! So What's New this month? GLI welcomes two new team members - Arisa Kishigami our new GLI Developer in Japan. Arisa has recently graduated from Oxford University with an academic focus on Nigerian social entrepreneurs. She is passionate to promote more internal and external linkage for Japanese social entrepreneurs through GLI - and Fish Wang from AIESEC in China, a student of SJTU and VP Finance in the largest student-run NPO in the world. AIESEC's core work is the Global Exchange Programme helping youngsters with interns abroad and enhancing international culture exchange. GLI has held its second Networkers' Salon in Shanghai. 5 new GLI Networkers have joined this group since the first Salon and the total number of networkers in China is now 60 of whom 18 are also working with GLI as volunteers. The guest speaker, Ms. Liqong Hao, introduced an NGO magazine called 'Rural Area' and also told the story of two other projects she is involved with relating to rural development run by young people living in big cities. A brand new area of the site - the How we do it Guides - was launched at the start of the month in the Share area. We wanted to pass on some of the really great practical 'how to' stuff that we knew was out there. We have published 7 guides so far and have featured this new area of the site on the Home page. Here they are. The School Store Supporting Education, Paraguay - income generation in schools - again our thanks to GLI networker Nik Kafka of TeachAManToFish. How Friends of the Land of Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, Promote Local Products from China Stories from Gorton - planter workshop for asylum seekers from Manchester, UK SUPPORT - Path to Serenity - help for street children using drugs from Mumbai, India We added three new Inspire stories from Japan, Africa and India - all quite different but all inspiring examples of 'can-do' operations making life better in their communities. Florence: Day-care centres for sick small children - in Japan - Hiroki Komazaki has released working parents from extra worry and burden by creating a day-care system that specializes in sick and feverish children. Young SE of the Year 2006 - Fairtrade tourism - Amy Carter, 25-year-old Joint Managing Director of Bespoke Experience, has won the Edge Upstarts Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. With thanks to the i-uk website - British Council, UK Trade & Investment and VisitBritain and to the Bespoke Experience website Social Education for Rural Development - SERD - One of the major components of SERD's programme is focused on the overall development of rural women. To promote economic development for women in rural areas, SERD has organised Self-Help Groups and micro-credit linked activities. SERD is working in the Sivagangai, Ramnad and Virudhunagar districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. In the Share area we added a new Sustainable Development section with a new story - Thoughts on Sustainable Development in Nepal - sent to us from GLI Networker Ghanashyam Joshi. In the Library section of the Share area, we also posted extra background material from the SERD Inspire story - the SERD Profile Mission and Vision Statements. In GLI News in the News Area the Hubworking Centre 'one of the 50 great ideas of the 21st Century' story appeared. Congratulations to the Hubworking Centre - one of GLI's Networking partners and the venue for our Board meetings - for being named in the Independent Newspaper as 'one of the 50 great ideas of the 21st Century'. As a Global Links Initiative Networker, you have access to these great business facilities in the heart of the City of London close to Liverpool Street station. And in the News Stories section of the News area, the Global School's Micro-Grant Competition appeared - taken with thanks from TeachAManToFish August 2006 newsletter - check this one out and see if you could apply! - as well as the HIV/AIDS - from global goals to local action report from ImpAcTAIDS of the forum on this topic held at CIVICUS World Forum in Glasgow earlier in the year. This is a report of a discussion of the issues by key practitioners at the grass roots. More than 280 Networkers from 34 countries and regions have joined GLI (for FREE!!). This month the following have signed up with details in English. You can find the full list of Networkers in the Get Involved area of the site under Networkers. Click on the names to see the profiles. Clesio DaGama - Vale da Cidadania - a development organization that seeks a society free from poverty, with social justice to all people, in a respectful and accountable relationship to the environment, with security, stability and hope - Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais - Brazil - our first Networker from here!
Marie So - Ventures in Development - a social enterprise that seeks to elevate the lives of the poor through growing the spirit of entrepreneurship - China Joseph Martey Agbeko - Fair River International Association for Development - an NGO in Ghana supporting the development of the people through community mobilisation in the fields of Agriculture/Food Security; Education; Environment; Entrepreneurship; Health; Micro-financing - Accra, Ghana Peter Winkel - DECA Equipo Pueblo, A.C. - an independent, non-profit advocacy organization that works in pursuit of a participative democracy in which there will be social, economic and cultural justice for all citizens, who will be able to participate fully in shaping public values and policies. Col. Independencia, Mexico - our first Networker from here! Anuj Duwadi - Freelance social worker - contributing finance, material and work for Nepal Canada Friendship Organization for various small projects in Nepal and for Praakritika and Vedic Realization Centre - healing, various classes, adult literacy classes, construction and running of a school at Kavre, cleaning works at public places, donating clothes and other items to needy people, helping orphans - also for livestock and poultry community farming, mountain farming and other activities for the benefit of the very disadvantaged people at Nuwakot district. - Kathmandu, Nepal Denise Kennedy - African Schools Trust - we are based in Northern Ireland. All volunteers. Various projects in Nairobi Kenya. - Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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