Posts from the ‘Solidarity, Autumn 2011’ Category
The fourth issue of Solidarity, the newsletter of the Unions Aotearoa International Development Trust, is available below. This issue looks at what happens to the money you donate to UnionAID. First skills training classroom already built Thanks to fundraisers Project priorities for 2011 UnionAID fundraising priorities for 2011 Notes from the field: Mae Sot Burma [...]
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Building of our skills training centre for Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot is well underway. The first classroom has been built and training has already begun. Just before Christmas UnionAID received the exciting news that funding for the occupational training centre has been granted under the government’s new Sustainable Development Fund. This will enable [...]
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Over $20,000 was raised last year through various fundraising events both in Wellington and around the country. Thanks to all those who helped organise and to those who attended the events and donated generously. This year we plan to have at least two film screenings in the capital as well as a fundraising dinner at [...]
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UnionAID has established the following priorities for our project work in 2011: 1. The FTUB Mae Sot project The establishment of the skills training centre for Burmese migrant workers is our first priority for the year. Funding from the Government’s new Sustainable Development Fund will assist with this desperately needed facility. 2. The Tamil Nadu [...]
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UnionAID has established the following priorities for fundraising in 2011: Kiwi Solidarity Programme We will continue with the priority of encouraging people to sign up to monthly direct debits as Kiwi Solidarity members. Our objective, consistent with union principles, is to get a lot of people giving small amounts, although large amounts are never refused! [...]
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Kathryn Baldwin recently returned from working for six weeks as a volunteer with the UnionAID Project in Mae Sot. One of her strongest impressions was the lack of freedom or rights for the migrant workers from Burma. She is full of admiration for the commitment of the project leaders Min Lwin and Htwe Nge and [...]
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UnionAid is planning a study tour to Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border early next year. As well as visiting our new Occupational Skills Training Centre the study tour will be a unique opportunity to talk to Burmese people on the border about their hopes and aspirations for a democratic Burma, to learn about international [...]
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2011 is going to be the year when UnionAID really takes off. All the hard graft getting established, together with growing support from donors, has laid a strong foundation from which to build. Just before Christmas we got the exciting news that our application to the Government’s new Sustainable Development Fund (SDF) to build a [...]
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