Fwd: 1ST LATIN AMERICAN PC CONGRESS

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

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> Delivered-To: lakinroe at silcom.com 
> Reply-To: "Gaia" 
> From: "Gaia" 
> To: 
> Subject: 1ST LATIN AMERICAN PC CONGRESS 
> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 11:26:27 -0300 
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> ASOCIACION GAIA 
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> INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE PERMACULTURA
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> SOUTH COAST PC GUILD-   
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> Att. Margie Bushman  <mailto:lakinroe at silcom.com>lakinroe at silcom.com
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> Dear colleges and friends,
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> We are pleased to introduce to you our project and the next especial
event we
> are organizing: the 1st Latin American Permaculture Congress and we would
very
> much appreciate your letting us know if you would be interested in
supporting
> this initiative. 
>
> Gaia is a non profit association and was founded in December 1991. Its
> founding mission is the promotion of sustainable societies, mainly by
> creating human settlements based on the practice of Permaculture systems and
> methods. Since 1996, the first Eco-village project is being developed on
a 20
> hectares' site in a rural area near Buenos Aires city. We have founded the
> Permaculture Institute of Argentina and are currently involved in a world-
> wide Living and Learning Center project. Through these entities we carry out
> our main educational programs. We are also very focussed on networking. For
> that reason, we have participated in the creation of the G.E.N. (Global
> Eco-village Network) in 1995 and we have been very active members since
then.
> We are the South American node of the network.
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> We see Permaculture as an innovative tool to achieve the creation of
> permanent societies based on sustainable principles. We believe that Latin
> America is a fertile land to develop new techniques for sustainable life
> style and the challenge is to learn and spread them, always making local
> adaptations. Out of this vision arose the initiative of convoking the 1st
> Latin American Permaculture Congress, to strengthen the bonds among regional
> permaculturists, to offer a forum for the exchange of information and to
> organize mutual support within the Southern region.
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> In order to turn this congress into a success, which will provide a strong
> incentive to the development of sustainable living projects in Latin
America,
> we are in need of financial support. Therefore we would like to know if you
> would be able - or may contact us with any foundation that would - to fund a
> proportion of the expenses involved in organizing a congress of these
> proportions. We need to cover expenses in the following areas: 
>    * Travel and registration expenses for participants lacking resources
(e.g.
>    in order to be able to invite indigenous people) 
>    * Organization and secretarial work 
>    * Site infrastructure improvement 
>    * Diffusion and printing material 
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> Should you be willing to help us, then please send us all the necessary
> requirements in order to present our application as soon as possible.
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> We also would like to know if there is somebody in your permaculture center
> who has worked in Latin America and who would like to share that experience
> with us. He or she may be able to help by connecting the Latin American
> project he or she worked in with ours. Your support in the diffusion of the
> congress in your region is also very much appreciated. For this purpose and
> for your information we have enclosed a copy of the invitation to the
> congress.
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> Looking forward to your positive reply with much interest, we thank you in
> advance for your kind consideration of this letter and your cooperation.
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> Yours very sincerely,
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> Gustavo Ramirez - President 
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> Silvia Balado - Secretary
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> Asociacion GAIA - Almafuerte 1732- San Martín (1650)- Buenos Aires,
Argentina
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> Tel/Fax: (5411) 4752-2197
> Email:<mailto:gaia at wamani.apc.org>gaia at wamani.apc.org
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> <http://www.ecovillages.org/argentina/asocgaia>http://www.ecovillages.org/
> argentina/asocgaia
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> Enclosure: copy of invitation to the 1st Latin American Permaculture
Congress
> (1 page)
>


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