Welcome to IINAIS Internationalism - then and now Page 4 UMMS Insight In Bolivia Kim Harris, an experienced speech and language therapist, specialised in working with children with learning difficul ties, joins the Centro de Rehabilitación in Cochabamba. Vanessa Keegan, a designer, whose broad career has included exhibitions in Paris and Tokyo as well as work with Oxfam Trading and Traidcraft, joins Alpaca Worksa Cochabamba-based collective of women's knit ting groups, which is aiming to be ecologically responsible from the production of raw materials to the finished garment. In Brazil: two dentists join the programme. Jo Rees, who has accumulated many years of experience of working in remote areas (as well as an MSc in environmental science) joins Projeto Mamiraud. Based in an ecological reserve, Jo's role will be to help improve den tal health standards amongst the communities living within it. Jill Stewart from Glasgow will be working with Saude e Alegria, a dy namic interdisciplinary community development project working with riverside communities. In Amazonas, Andy Martin, a nurse from Bolton, with previous overseas experience in Nigeria, Ethiopia and India, joins the Alfredo da Matta leprosy control programme. In Mali I Nick Hudson, a teacher/community education worker, moves from his community school in Rochdale to join Association Subaahi Gumo - "bright morning full of good hope" in the Malian language Sonrhai. ASG is an NGO developing a wide range of edu cation and literacy activities both in Bamako and rural areas. In West Bank and Gaza: Stephen Craig joins the De mocracy and Workers' Rights Centre in Ramallah in the role of trade union educator. Stephen will be making use of his extensive experience in the UK to help develop workers' education programmes with a view to in creasing the effectiveness of the activities of the local unions. Project Worker Nationalities January 1995 - March 1996 Photo of U.N.A. straat in the Netherlands. After severe flooding in 1953, the United Nations Asso ciation sent volunteers to help reconstruction on the former Isle of Schou wen - Dui veland. This was the start of International Service. Photo courtesy of Streekarchivariaat Schouwen-Duiveland. In our concentration on the coun tries of the South that we work in, it is important not to lose sight of the crucial contribution of non-UK citi zens to the work of UNAIS. The article on the facing page shows the contribution of two Dutch people to UNAIS' brand of development while the list below shows the breadth of cultures represented by our project workers. The photo below shows the street named after the project where it all started. 1-3 project workers: Canadian, Chadian, Egyptian, Ger man, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Polish, Somali, Spanish, Nigerian/ British, USA/British 4-10 project workers: Australian. Dutch, French, Irish, USA 65 project workers: British

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