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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:25:15 +0200
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From: Teresa Crawford <tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: [kan-l] TRIP TO MACEDONIA
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**** Kosova Action Network Discussion List ****
Dear friends:

As some of you may know I have been moderating the 
Kosova Action Network distribution list, KAN-L.  
This has meant that I get to see many emails about 
organizing going on around the world.  People have been 
sending me interesting notes about work they are 
doing or questions they need help answering.

On Saturday, June 26th I will go to Skopje, Macedonia and 
hopefully on to Prishtina.  Obviously this is not a vacation 
at the same time it is not purely work.  I have a very 
personal connection to the region and the crisis.  But 
the work I am going to do is partially spurred by emails 
many of you have sent me.  Whether it was from Sani in 
San Francisco telling me about a Roma group in Skopje or 
Jan telling me about her and Fran's trip and some of the 
people they met and initiatives they supported or Dan 
sharing with me about people he met in Skopje.

As the refugee crisis has heightened I am getting emails 
from and about local grassroots initiatives in Macedonia 
and Albania that need to be publicized and need to be funded.  
I have forwarded these far and wide but am hampered by the 
distance from the actual work they are doing.  Now that many 
refugees are returning home the face of the crisis is 
changing again and many of these local groups will restart 
inside Kosova.  I am especially interested in and heartened 
by the response of women and women's groups to the crisis.

So using my information technology project, the Advocacy 
Project, <www.advocacynet.org> and connections I have made 
in the last year I am going to investigate and profile 
the work and needs of these grassroots initiatives and 
publish it via email and on our website. The targets of 
this email newsletter are diverse.  They are people like 
you that have worked for years in various capacities with 
local groups, they are people who have had no connection to 
the region before the war started and they became glued 
to their computers reading reports, they are International NGOs 
who have a mandate to work with local partners and also 
UNHCR which in their refugee return plan has focused 
specifically on how to support civil society during 
reconstruction.

This letter is an appeal for several things: 

* I need contacts.  This can mean emails, phone numbers, 
addresses or even just names.  These can be anyone you 
know whether they work with NGOs or not.  If you could 
also forward this email to them and let them know I am 
legitimate that would be great.

* If you know about an initiative that could benefit from 
the publicity let me know.  (examples of these initiatives 
are in the first of the series which is at www.advocacynet.org)  

* I also need people to forward my reports far and wide to 
ensure people know about these people's work.   To subscribe 
yourself send a message to <majordomo at wyrdwright.com> with the 
text <subscribe kosovo> in the body.

* I also need names of friends and family that may have gone 
missing in the last few months.  I will be able to ask about 
them while I am there. 

In no way should this be seen as a partisan mission.  I will 
try to visit all groups no matter the ethnicity or nationality 
of the people who run it as long as they are doing good work.

Below is the first of the series on civil society in the region 
that went out a month ago.

Hope to hear from you.

Teresa

***

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Submitted by: Teresa Crawford <tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu>