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ALMA Reps Email Circular: February 2006

From Sheenagh Burrell ALMA Communications Officer
sb@burrell1980.freeserve.co.uk T: 020 8567 7400

Dear ALMA Reps,

I am very much looking forward to seeing you soon at the ALMA reps meeting, and to catching up with your news, ideas and suggestions. This mailing is a bumper edition with several helpful websites for those who want to go deeper.

Best wishes. Sheenagh.

CONTENTS:

  1. Reminder of ALMA reps Meeting & programme
  2. Contact Details for Peter Southwood: new ALMA Link Officer & Sheenagh Burrell: new ALMA Communications Officer.
  3. ALMA Fundraising Concert
  4. Mozambique food shortages
  5. Report on Visit to Niassa by Dinos Kousoulou
  6. Useful websites

1. Reminder: ALMA REPS MEETING

MONDAY 27th FEBRUARY 2006 - 6pm for 6.30 start (with refreshments and opportunity to catch up with each other from 6 at London Diocesan House, 36 Causton Street, London SW1P 4AU (nearest tube: Pimlico on the Victoria Line).

At the meeting we will: Have reports on two visits one to Beira and one to Mandimba by St Mary’s Hampton with the opportunity for questions; see a very short DVD on water supplies and capacity building in Angola and have some input on the reconfiguring and updating of the ALMA website.

2. New Contact Details

ALMA Link Officer

Peter Southwood, ALMA Link Officer, London Diocesan House, 36 Causton Street, London SW1P 4AU Tel no: 020 7932 1231 Email: Alma@london.anglican.org

Note: Peter is normally in the office on Fridays (he will be on leave, though, between 1st and 11th March 2006). However he has remote access to his emails on other days so anything urgent that comes up can usually be attended to.

ALMA Communications Officer

Sheenagh Burrell 24 Weymouth Ave, Ealing, London, W5 4SA Tel: 020 8567 7400
Email: sb@burrell1980.freeserve.co.uk

Contact Sheenagh for general enquiries, with contributions for the email circulars and for speaker requests.

3. Charity Recital in aid of Africa

Cello and Piano with Rachel Pierce and Elizabeth Tucker 7.30p.m. Saturday 4 March 2006 St John’s Church, Friern Barnet Road, N.11

(Not, as before, St James’ Friern Barnet Lane) Rachel and Elizabeth invite you to help promote our charities’ work in Africa: Hope for Children (HOPE) and the Angola, London and Mozambique Association (ALMA). Entrance is free, so there is no need to book tickets in advance, although it would be good to know if you hope to come.

Email E.M.Tucker@btinternet.com

4. Food shortages in Mozambique

Ian Leitch has very kindly monitored the food shortage situation and has sent me the following from the Christian Council of Mozambique. Their website (see section (6) is very useful . According to the Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) the situation is improving. They say

“Household food security in Mozambique has improved with the improved availability of water and seasonal fruits and the distribution of food aid to those recovering from last season’s drought. The food aid pipeline is now fully sourced.

However, as the rainy season intensifies, rivers in southern and central Mozambique are now on flood alert, and many access roads have been cut off. In southern and central Mozambique, these rains are benefiting crop and livestock production, except in areas where fields have been inundated. In the north, however, much of Cabo Delgado Province and northern Niassa Province have received very little rain thus far in the season, warranting special attention.”

It seems the general opinion that the southern provinces will have some crops this year, but that it will not match up to the annual average.

5. Update from Niassa…Dinos Kousoulou from St Andrew’s, Enfield, (Parish Magazine, November 2005)

Full Report here

6. Useful websites for Mozambique

Next circular we will look at alternative information sources for Angola – if you have any favourites please would you email them so me so we can share them. Many thanks.