News Mail keeps you up to date with What's New on the GLI website 06/11/06
Burduli Zurab - Tbilisi - first from Georgia - Georgian Young Lawyers Association - GYLA was established in 1994, soon after the break down of Soviet Union. GYLA aims at protecting human rights, promoting the Rule of Law, development of the legal and civic education, transparency and accountability of the government and advancement of civil society in Georgia. GYLA unites 800 members, operates through 8 offices with 110 full-time staff and many volunteers. Andrew Leung - London, UK - Andrew Leung International Consultants Limited - With over 40 years experience at a senior level interfacing with China on a broad front, I have founded Andrew Leung International Consultants Limited based in London to provide a more insightful understanding of the key issues affecting China and to assist businesses and organisations both in and outside China. Concurrently I am Chairman of the China Group of the Institute of Directors City Branch in the UK; a Senior Consultant with MEC International promoting Middle East energy business involvement with China; Executive Committee Member of the 48 Group Club with historical links with China's leadership; Member of the influential global think-tank Asymmetric Threats Contingency Alliance (ATCA); Member of the Governing Council of King's College, London; Member of the Advisory Board of the China Policy Institute of Nottingham University; Global Commercial Agent for Changsha, Hunan Province; Visiting Professor to NIMBAS Graduate School of Management, Utrecht, Holland; as well as the IMBA programmes of Sun Yat-sen University and Lingnan University, China. I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts for the promotion of businesses and the humanities. I was awarded the life honours of Silver Bauhinia Star in the 2005 Hounours List. I write and speak fluent Chinese. Mikael Letang - France - I am a software engineer, having worked nearly 3 years in India, and willing to put some of my IT knowledge & skills where it is really needed. (Mikael has volunteered to help the GLI French website team in Senegal.) Malin Sheena - Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa - St. Mary's provides quality health care to a community of 750 000 people, a third of which are HIV positive. The Hospital delivers level one district Hospital services as well as manages over 2000 patients on Antiretroviral Treatment. The community that St. Mary's services has an unemployment rate of 60%; and is predominately from a rural and peri-urban area. Tendai Ncube - Randburg, South Africa -ICTs For Rural Africa (ICTRA) - Africa can be developed like countries in the west. Poverty can be alleviated if the majority of the population is informed, uplifted and empowered. The majority population is found in the rural areas. People living in the cities have it all, be it access to latest news/information, access to clean water and sanitation, access to electricity, better education (schools & teachers), better health, better houses, fresh food etc. ICTs for Rural Africa is there to provide the skills to use a computer with more time spent on using the Internet as a source of information. If all people are well informed of opportunities around the world poverty will be reduced to zero. Information is knowledge and knowledge is power. The Internet has so much information on health issues, scholarships, job opportunities, export opportunities, access to funding, new farming methods, etc and it is our wish that every African gets access to this vital information. Jon Ottley - Belize - Caracol-ycd - Caracol delivers workshops to groups of young people in rural areas of Belize, Central America. We work in communities and schools. Children and young people learn to use photography as a tool for exploring their communities and culture. Combining photography with creative writing and arts participants tell ands share the stories of their lives. James Rajasekaran - Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India - People's Association for Rural Development (PARD) - Our organisation is working to protect the rights of women, children and farmers in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. We have created a mini 'website' for PARD at www.glinet.org/PARD Stephen Beadle - Oxford, UK - I am the founder and MD of WearFair, an online fair trade jewellery retailer and wholesaler. Takuji Hiroishi - Tokyo, Japan - Since 2002, ETIC has been directly involved in supporting young and potential social entrepreneurs to scale up and out through multiple approaches. Since 2004, we have been promoting 'Challenge Community Project' - a project by which we bring up young experts called 'CP (Challenge Producer)'. These young experts are given the opportunity to prove how youth can contribute to community development in local cities, Japan. Currently 15 groups participate in the Challenge Community Project from all parts of Japan. We hope to exchange opinions on the management and development of such nation-wide networks on social entrepreneurship and on how young social entrepreneurs have scaled up/out (within a span of a couple years) and what sort of support was needed/given. Please contact me, if you have any interest in this Japanese project and social entrepreneur movement. Thirunavukarasu Someswaran - Colombo, Sri Lanka -The Centre for Advancement of Resource Mobilisation (CARM) was established in May 2004 as a non profit entity. Our main goals are to build the capacity of NGOs in relation to Programme skills, Governance, Transparency, Accountability, overall resourcing, and gather and share information about the trends and issues relating to the NGOs and join with others in advocating for an enabling environment for resources mobilization. Jesse Amerimeku - Accra, Ghana -The Foundation For International Human Development and Environmental Studies is a non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in May 2000 - OUR MISSION Maureen Silos - Paramaribo, Suriname - our first Caribbean networker - The Caribbean Institute is a social enterprise promoting integral sustainable development. We support communities in the transformation to the organization of sustainable prosperity, participatory democracy and self-responsibility. Samson Jeyaraj - Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India - HEARTS - is a registered NGO in Tamilnadu. We work among the multiple disabled and specifically mentally retarded .we also work for the empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (microcredit). We concentrate on the water needs of the community, Hiv/Aids intervention, child labour and education of girl children.(HEARTS was one of the inspiring projects we ivisited in our Inspiring GLI Visit to India, November 2006 - our thanks to Samson for showing us his fantastic project - we will be writing up this story for our Inspire area of the website soon.) Richard Ntaka - our first Networker based in the Congo - International Youth Centre is a UK registered charity based in Congo Democratic. We aim to relieve poverty among young people affected by war, by providing them with vocational training, information and support. Pauline Solomons - Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa -The Community Development Resource Association (CDRA) is a non-governmental African organisation, based in Cape town, South Africa. We work with people who are engaged in social transformation with marginalised communities. We help development practitioners to build more developmental practices in the field and the kinds of organisation and leadership that best support these. We do this through offering courses; OD work through consultancy, dialogue initiatives, publications and our website. Brohi Sikander - Karachi, Pakistan - Participatory Development Initiative (PDI) is a not for profit and non-governmental organization. Launched on January 29, 2000 by a group of young community development professionals, human rights activists, trade unionists, researchers, media professionals and concerned citizens PDI is registered under Societies Act 1860. The organization is engaged in advocacy, campaigning, community awareness, mass mobilization, participatory community development, participatory research, and networking on the local, national as well as global issues negatively affecting the lives and the livelihoods of the poor communities. Add link to your website in your GLI Networker Profile
If you are bilingual in Tamil and English, or French and English and would like to volunteer please get in touch with Robin Rowland
Global Links Initiative is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (No.5176983) and a registered charity (No. 1110013). |