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I am sorry if my apparent web illitereacy has gotten you worried as to how to handle a vanishing discussion, here today, gone tomorrow, as my last contribution has been. Thanks to Louis for raising the issue with me today and sugges...
Dear friends:
I am sorry if my apparent web illitereacy has gotten you worried as to how to handle a vanishing discussion, here today, gone tomorrow, as my last contribution has been. Thanks to Louis for raising the issue with me today and sugges...
Dear friends, sisters and brothers all:
I am aware that the question of AGRA and whether or not it deserves our support, has been discussed in the context of a Forum that raised the issue. I do hope, however, that the discussion is not yet closed...
Dear friends, sisters and brothers all:
I am aware that the question of AGRA and whether or not it deserves our support, has been discussed in the context of a Forum that raised the issue. I do hope, however, that the discussion is not yet closed...
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- what is your vision for the world?
- My vision is of a New World that repudiates all atttempts to encryt peoples' lives in what I have called the Sarcophagus of Silence and Distorted lives. A world that must be created together with all those who seek justice, fairness and equity for all and fight against the rending of societies into two parts with the elite and privileged ones taking the resources of the earth for themselves alone while leaving only crumbs for those who produce the world's wealth. i envision a world where noone is damned simply because of the side of the social line on which she/he is born, an accident that nobody chooses. I believe that we can achieve a New World that does not discriminate on the basis of sex, religion, race or age. I am committed to fighting for a world that is able to forget and forgive the hurts of the past but insists on learning from this past that we are all one, not to take advantage of one another based on race or technology, or religion or skin colour, etc. This seeming Utopia is positive and can be achieved if we all pull together in love and abiding faith.
- About Me:
- A Ngerian medical doctor-Neuro scientist who had the fortune of being accepted by smallholder farmers as learner-teacher in the search for justice, equity and fairness for those who sustain society despite the unrelenting effort of elites of various types to encrypt everybody in their Sarcophagus of Silence and Deformed lives. I have learnt from the marginlised during the past 35 years and I feel deeply enriched and ennobled. The present effort to launch the World Family is part of this learning, absorbing and growing effort.
- What are the creative skills that you feel you have or would like to develop.
- 1. I have a gerat taleent for dreaming large dreams and then going on to try torealise them in a team.
2. I have a knack for designinng and fabricating machines that would be useful in myh work, sort of poking around in many fields, relly.
3. I know a few chords on the guitar and I write my own music toplay and sing along, and when I can find it, I play the Harmonica.
4. I often hide behind fharacters created by playwrites on stage and, sometimes in film .5. since I tend to not ever stop huymming tunes, someof which could be very good, I would like very much, as I get older and closer to retirement which is some 30 years ahead, to learn to play the Tenor Saxophone.
6. I have learnt to be a good listener but it was not always easy.
7. My mind works through challenge and I love to be chalenged with questions in search of ideas.
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USMEFAN youths have started to make collaborative plans with us. Being our elder and father, we feel it is place to introduce ourselves officially to you.
The Better World Students Nature Club (BSNC) is a group of young students mostly of graduates from Environmental science and agricultural students. It is the main execution wing of BWC action plan in:
- Environmental Education through Green Schools (Environmental Education in primary and secondary schools), useful Holiday workshops program Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and production of a monthly Better World Cameroon Newsletter called Better News.
- Permaculture practice, through landscaping and organic market gardening project. This project also enables us to sensitize unemployed youths on the fight against food crisis.
- Creating links with Newcastle schools. We already have a link with Newcastle Horticulture college UK and hoping to link with university students groups in USMEFAN. At the moment BSNC is working with the USMEFAN students from Olabisi Onabanjo University.
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The global food crisis issue has reached boiling point in Cameroon.
- Social tensions on the back of rising food prices in 2008 could except again in 2009, with warning signs emerging that the government plans to boost the agricultural sector have been ineffective. For this we feel we have plenty of hot potatoes on our plate, but confidence we have strong leadership.
We hope we can continue to count on your stewardship.
Best regards.
Better World Students Nature Club (BSNC).
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I hope this message finds you well, it's a long time since we've been in touch. The stars have aligned this month and I would love to get in touch again. Do you have a personal e mail I can contact you on? I would love to hear more about the festival that John W has told me about, and to hear how I can help to support this venture. Lots of love and best wishes, Ceri
It is true that I have not been as active as I would have liked to be on the family site and thi is due to the pressue of work here as well as to the fact that, to use the internet, which I do virtually everyday, I must drive myself to and from Ile-Ife and spend hours, only to return to the village at Odeomu when it is becoming dark. I am not complaining though, simply trying to let you appreciate the challenges that we face. I am fully aware of the good work that you and 'Lamide are doing towards the meeting of young farmer leaders, sometime in April as a leadon to the planned mini summit of youth platform and NAAS branches in as wide a spectrum of institutions in the country as possible. Since you are the person raising this issue, let me use the opportunity of this response to you to send a document to the entire family, regarding what hapens as the battle to take away peoples' right to produce their own food in accord with their cultural predilections deepens. We already mentioned this matter in the family whilst I was in Brighton and the publication by our friends at Ekta Parishad in India brings it all into focus one more:
SEZs: India’s Special Economic Zones
Thousands of people who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods are
feeling the impacts of India.s Special Economic Zones (SEZs.)
Whether it is through the loss of lands, the poisoning of waters or the
violence inflicted on those who voice their opposition, SEZs have
brought little more than pain and loss to rural communities all over
the country. As the Government of India invests its time in the
creation of policies that will lure foreign money into India, rural
poverty, migration, farmer suicides and the destruction of lands and
livelihoods are increasing at an alarming rate. The total area of SEZ
land in India is estimated to be over 200,000 hectares, most of which
is agricultural land capable of producing almost one million tones of
food grains. As more and more agricultural lands are established as
SEZs, food security in India is increasingly at risk. How can the
government justify allotting thousands of hectares of agricultural
lands to foreign companies when it means potentially risking the lives
of so many citizens? The answer is money. As the number of SEZs in
India increase the government claims that there will be improvements
in industry, technology and export growth. The problem is not just
the total lack of regard for the constitutional rights of India.s people; it
is also the fact that SEZs are essentially foreign territories in India.
Areas not governed by the same economic laws as the rest of the
country. The potential for mismanagement, instability and violence is
enormous and India.s history of dealing with land acquisition and
displaced communities does not offer one much hope that this time
things will be done for the benefit of the affected communities.
While the government claims that SEZ will create employment in the
country and purports to have resettlement and rehabilitations
schemes in place, it is hard to believe promises made by the same
government whose .development. projects have displaced millions of
people who, decades after being displaced, are still waiting for
compensation. Those who stand to lose the most come from adivasi
and tribal communities that already suffer because of existing land
policies that completely disregard their constitutional rights. Ekta
Parishad activists are working throughout the country to create
awareness, to organize campaigns and to lobby for the abolishment of
SEZs in India. In the mean time, the National Land Reforms
Committee, headed by the Minister for Rural Development, is working
to push the government to amend SEZ policies to ensure that the
rights of the affected communities are at the forefront of policy design
and to bring an end to the use of agricultural lands for nonagricultural
purposes.
Happy New Year to you and all my sisters and brothers over there.I was busying in the upper north here in Ghana and throughout December i was busy with some of my members here trying to render selfless services to the floog victims here in Ghana.
Many thanks to God all is well now and i am back to my base in Accra,I will be alive with other members now.God bless you all.E seun.
I wrote a brief note to you, Yemi, only ten minutes or so ago, in which I was giving you a hint of a longer note that I plan to write on the good charity work that you and your colleagues are doing in Ghana and for which you have solicited and received assistance from "Family Members". Unfortunately, I had just finished helping Irawo to change her picture on her site, and did not yet sign her out, when I wrote the brief note. So, please do not be confused by this inadvertent jusxtaposition of two family members. The letter comes from 'Seinde and not Irawo.
Thanks and God bless.
'Seinde
But to the more practical,I met with my friend Chris Rose, Chrissie's husband, just returned from the Rhode Island school of Design, last night and enjoyed their family, but we also spent time in his garage/studio discussing the implications of your visit and the connections with the work that he will be doing in February when he goes to Bangalore University. He is at Brighton Uni today doing his one day a week, having just retired as course leader in his design field, but will be joining the family and uploading some of his work.
He will be one of the people helping me network on World family issues, particularly with the job I offered to do speaking with young & trainee farmers at Uni's in the UK.
I will keep you posted.
The Radio 4 Today show may be a blind alley, but many seeds have to be sown to get a good harvest so that some of them grow, as you of all people know.
Blessings to you and all your extended family.
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