Letters From Florida For Bhutanese Refugee Children
by Luba Salam
Durga Lal Acharya is the coordinator of
RESPECT Nepal and is
currently working in the Bhutanese Refugee Camps in eastern
Nepal. He is planning to establish a computer resource centre
there. In this regard, he contacted Marc Schaeffer, founder and
president of RESPECT International.
Marc suggests focusing on the letter exchange program that
RESPECT runs, since it is through extensive participation in the
global letter exchange program that affiliates, like RESPECT
Nepal, are able to benefit from fund-raising projects that might
lead to the establishment of a computer resource centre.
Marc encourages letter exchanges with the refugee students in
the community as an affiliate needs to successfully complete a
letter exchange with at least one partner school before they are
considered an associate.
Letters from Florida
Women's Demonstration Creates Concern
by O'Burphy Richlue
The county heads and stakeholders in the Buduburam Refugee
Settlement have met to discuss the peaceful demonstration of the
concerned Liberian refugee women. The meeting was held on Sunday,
March 2, 2008, at the
Dominion
Christian Academy in Buduburam.
Chaired by the head of the county heads, Erol Madison Gwion, the
meeting was called as a result of a request made by the
settlement manager, Honorable Cal Afun, to the men to remove
their women from the field bringing an end to the peaceful
demonstration. The manager's request also asked for the men
to determine the way forward.
However, it was agreed by the men that the women's points
should first be taken to the appropriate authorities for redress
before their women can be asked to leave the streets. They
believe their women's actions are for a worthy cause.
Women's Demonstration
