It has been a very successful year for UnionAID. We have established new projects in India, Sri Lanka, and the Thai-Burma border, and we are working on possible projects in Vanuatu and Samoa. It is exciting that the new projects have been able to build on our earlier training and capacity building to now develop [...]
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The UnionAID raffle has been drawn under Police supervision and the following were the prize winners: First prizes - iPad Colin Moore Bev Thomson Second prize - iPhone Dayna Kosega Third Prize - iPod Al Morrison Congratulations!
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UnionAid is planning a study tour to Mae Sot on the Thai-Burma border from the 23rd to the 28th January 2012 As well as visiting the new UnionAID 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 [...]
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“What happens in the world’s largest trash city will transform you” UnionAID has been successful in obtaining another excellent Oscar nominated film as a UnionAID fundraiser. Winner of nine audience awards at festivals the world over, including the 2010 Sundance film festival, Waste Land is a truly inspiring and moving film about celebrated New York [...]
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The fifth issue of Solidarity, the newsletter of the Unions Aotearoa International Development Trust, is available below. This issue introduces you to some of the people helping to organise more than 30,000 people in dalit and tribal communities in Tamil Nadu. Cooperative economic development Join us on UnionAID Facebook South India: building economic independence, cooperatively Study [...]
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An exciting new UnionAID project in South India will develop 5 cooperative based businesses and more than 120 micro-enterprises over the next 3 years. This new project will build on the UnionAID project work of the past 3 years which has organised more than 30,000 people in Dalit and Tribal communities and will help them [...]
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www.facebook.com/unionaid Become a UnionAID Facebook friend and meet the workers that your donations are helping. “Share” our news to spread the word about courageous people like Meenakshi, the first female cremation worker in Tamil Nadu who had no sons so took over the job when her husband died. Or meet Mr. Robin, the president of [...]
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The new UnionAID project will enable Dalit and Tribal communities to build their economic independence (from landlords, middle men and moneylenders) through cooperative based businesses and micro-enterprises. On a recent visit to South India UnionAID Executive Chair Ross Wilson was able to talk to many of these groups about their aspirations. Gypsy communities Rajalakshmi and [...]
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The programme has yet to be finalised and will depend on numbers. We will contact those who have expressed interest within the next month or two.
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Tickets to our April fundraising dinner at Maranui sold out within five days. Due to the success of this dinner at which we raised over $3000, UnionAID plans to hold a spring dinner in September. We will notify local members of the date closer to the time.
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