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Servas has a new Servas News Website link New Top Servas Peace Training Servas Peace Training in Bogota Colombia. Registration is required. March 21-28, 2010 The Servas Peace Training Experience is a course that is intended to help participants recognize and develop their personal goals for peace and develop the tools they need to implement regional and international peace projects. This course teaches people to become effective ambassadors for peace and to go beyond personal projects and become trainers or peace team leaders in their home communities. You will experience an exciting opportunity to discover new country, to see amazing places and make new friends. Top Earthquake in Chile On February 27, 2010, a catastophic earthquake hit Chile. It's magnitude was 8.8. Servas International extends its sympthies for the more than 700 lives lost during the earthquake. Servas International is also organising its volunteer to help coordinate relief efforts. In the mean time, this is how you can help the earthquake survivors in Chile: Relief: Make a donation for Chile now, to a fast-working charity like the Red Cross. Do not try to send items. Give money instead to proven and trusted charities who can rush your gift to Chile Recovery: Reach out to people who support Chile. Top Haiti Earthquake 15 January, 2010 Servas, Haiti and You All of us in Servas can help Haiti now. Our Servas strength is our unique local and world network of good people, like you, offering friendships, understanding and Peace. Relief: Make a donation for Haiti now, to a fast-working charity like the Red Cross. Haiti roads, post offices and harbours are wrecked. Do not try to send items. Give money instead to proven and trusted charities who can rush your gift to Haiti. Recovery: Reach out to people who support Haiti. Many Haitians work at low-paying jobs in the North. They send money home to help their families. We can befriend these people who help Haiti through Servas kindness. Rebuild: Haiti is devastated. Its city and forests and farmlands are ruined. Its people are poor. Its land was once strong and beautiful. Global change and bad forces made Haiti suffer like many of the new African states. All these places used to host many Servas travelers. Now they are in dreadful decline into poverty. Farms abandoned, villages wrecked, lives lost in huge, unworkable and violent cities of desperate beggars. It is time for Servas Peacebuilding Teams, to look beyond just survival, to justice. Wherever Servas meets, think of Haiti. Search solutions. Get active. From this day, January 15, 2010, Martin Luther King’s birthday, let us admit the need and meaning of Haiti to our lives; commit to a true Servas vision of global justice and community. Top Servas Pakistan 
On the 25th of December 2009, the annual meeting of Servas Pakistan & the 60th Anniversary celebration of Servas International was held at the residence of Mr. Muhammad Naseem the National Secretary of Servas Pakistan, it is normally held on 10th of October every year, but due to some internal problems in the country the executive body of Servas Pakistan had to postpone this meeting to some other time. 
After ten weeks delay the executive body of Servas Pakistan decided to hold the 60th Anniversary of Servas International celebration & Servas Pakistan annual meeting on the historical day of 25th of December, 2009. The event was managed with great discipline & enthusiasm. Passion for peace-orientation could have seen on the faces of all the participants. A respected lady Mrs. Nancy Kaufmann from Chicago, USA was also there as one of the dignitaries. So many important issues were argued & discussed. Some revolutionary steps were also taken in order to have some quick & positive changes. The National Secretary Mr. Muhammad Naseem, briefly introduced Servas Pakistan as well as Servas International & its activities worldwide, he realized that the mission of Servas is to create the atmosphere of friendship through “Open Doors Open Minds” in different nations of the entire world. He also shares his experiences about the Servas GA at Mar del Plata Argentina & prayed for the bright future of SERVAS. 
He accordingly, threw light upon the major role of Servas & its significance. He stressed on further enhancements & strengthening of the concept of peace & love all over the world. He conveyed his whole message of devoting lives & complete efforts for the noble cause of peace & love, to all the participants. His sincere comments & suggestions were the clear delineation that he wants Servas Pakistan to be one of the most actively participated country on behalf of peace prevailing. 
Mr. Nauman Naseem Servas Pakistan Youth Coordinator offered all members to show their personal interest in Servas youth development projects. He said that we need your good suggestions for development of Servas youth projects in the region. Mr. Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Mr. Muhammad Arshad Khan, Mrs. Naila Imran, Mr. Muhammad Nadeem, Dr. Riaz Ahmad & all other participants supported Servas youth projects in Pakistan & displayed their views & prayed for the better future of Servas. They had shown their agreement to help the Servas youth in future & also promotion of Servas in Pakistan. 
Some other personalities expressed their views for the betterment & integrity of Servas Pakistan. Mrs. Nancy Kaufmann showed her satisfaction towards the leadership & expressed her noble wishes for future of Servas Pakistan. All members actively participated & proposed suggestions to uplift the activities of Servas Pakistan & Servas Youth. Muhammad Amjad Secretary Information Servas Pakistan Top Don Fawcett, past President of SI 
Dear all, Don suffered a catastrophic heart attack & stroke last Tuesday. He never regained consciousness. Don was a retired advertising creative director who came to California in 1949 after the war. He was an art director and creative director at a number of legendary ad agencies over his 40 year career; and as a writer wrote for Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's radio shows and was the man who gave the world Thunderbird Wine (aargh!). However his 35 year involvement with US Servas was what made him the most proud. The people he hosted, interviewed and visited contributed to a very rich 84 years of life. I'll miss him forever, but I had 7 years of love, laughter and adventure with a truly remarkable human being; and I am truly grateful! Aleyne Top |
