:Title:    January & February 2008: SOLID News
:Author:   Meron Moroz
:Date:     Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:03:35 PST
:Modified: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:27:52 PST
:URL:      http://www.ned.com/group/solid/news/6/

Here's some stuff we are working on:

January 17th: Two more SOLID volunteers are making the long journey to Malawi to volunteer their energy, expertise and enthusiam at Nkhoma hospital and Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Center. This mission follows in the footsteps of Anna Callegari and Beth Gessinger who spent three months working alongside Health Care Professionals in four Sub-Saharan African countries early last year. Sala Hantle Africa!

January 19th:  Meron, Phil and a couple of Global Awareness kids go to the `2008 Change Conference`_ to represent SOILD in a workshop.  The kidz and I will be presenting our Peace Tiles tale and Phil will sing his story about his work in the Export Processing Zones of Kenya.  He needs some help as his partner will be away so I'm reading the Maggie part.  No, I'm not going to sing!!! That wouldn't be pretty.

[Note: Our Peace Tiles story will be coming out in the next edition of `AWARE Magazine`_.  Thanks Chris!]

Heather and her lovely daughter Eswen are still in Lesotho, we look forward to their updates about our projects there.

Working on our new website and partnership at `Solar Energy Host`_.  Aaron is going to host our site for free and as an added bonus for every new account $5 will be donated to plant a tree in Africa though the Gardens of Hope project! Also we'll get a commission for every new account we send his way.  So if you are thinking of switching ... just mention SOLID sent you.

March 16th:  Planning for the Walk/Run fundraiser for Sala Hantle Africa being hosted by University of British Columbia.

There's more but it escapes me right now ... it's been a looooong day.  I'll update when I remember.

.. _`2008 Change Conference`: http://changeconference08.typepad.com/index.html
.. _`AWARE Magazine`: http://www.ned.com/group/aware/
.. _`Solar Energy Host`: http://www.solarenergyhost.com/