August 1,2005 –More World Congress Business and Personal News Messages from Lewis Olds, Lucia Cargill, and more from Canadians! From Lewis Olds,at RINGSIDE! MORE NEW CHAIR-PEOPLE! Here I am at "ringside" as the testing for ISC chairperson resumed this afternoon.(Monday I guess,says Melinda) We now have several more candidates, in addition to Maya Bernard (France) and Hussein Rawlings (New Zealand). Other candidates include: Andrea Munoz from Spain, Garrett Thomson from USA, Dahlan Foah from USA, Benjamin Garcia from Ecuador, Robiyan Easty from Greece, Hameed Francis (Ireland) Helpers recommended Garrett (12-5) and Maya (9-8) Delegates wanted more testing - How is it be for the growth and development of Subud if Garrett/Maya were chair of ISC for the next four years? Maya tested with the women IHs and Garrett tested with the men IHs. Results of testing presented by IHs: Garrett (13-4) and Maya (8-9) Garrett said he was happy to do the job. Vote taken by delegates - for approving Garrett Thomson as next chair of ISC. Approved unanimously by consensus and the room applauded! Garrett is the new ISC chair! Love and best wishes to Garrett! Maya Bernardes who has been chosen to be the ISC vice-chair. So, ISC returns to the USA!!!!!!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Testing for SDI Chair: Sjarifin Gardiner Arnaud De Lune Mardijah Simpson Rayner Sutherland Helpers recommended Sjarifin Gardiner. Delegates voted unanimously to elect Sjarifin Gardener as new SDI chair. Candidates for SICA chair were: Olivia Moyano from Argentina Arnold Landen from German Lilliana Gibbs from Australia (Alicia Thoms's sister) Olivia is new chair! Arnold is vice-chair. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ And from Lucia Cargill, working at the Congress First Aide Station: Dear Melinda, Thought I would write a little to take my turn. . . I have been in charge of the health/first aid station. We are seeing hundreds and hundreds of patients in this Subud village. What do we have, 3000 people? There is a cold going around and everyone needs bandaids for foot blisters. We have sent five people to hospital, but so far so good. One little boy fell off the climbing wall and broke his arm in the first few days. We have seen everything! I am working with a wonderful doctor from Beirut originally, Dr. Zaid. He has been living and working in German for 20 years and married a German woman. He is one of the most generous people I have ever met. Just kind and loving. He was blown up in the invasion of Beirut. He died for 2 1/2 minutes. His right arm and left leg were shredded. Through a long process of surgical muscle and skin grafts, he ended up with a functional arm and hand, but still wears a brace on his leg. How he survived this, I do not know, but I will never forget his remarkable courage and personality. I also had the opportunity to go to a beautiful multicultural graveyard to say prayers for the people who died in the concentration camps. Levi Lemberger and Yasmina(now Hannah Devora) Nedboy-Lemberger, Gideon and Miriam Sarnat, and I went with the man who is in charge of the local Shula who gave us wonderful insight into the families buried there. The tradition is to put a small stone on the grave marker in prayer to celebrate their passing. Then Levi said the traditional prayer for the dead. The community here is harmonious. We have our moments of distress or concern, but there is no overt issue-making. Some people thing we should put our cards on the collective table when and issue comes up. The consensus is we tend to want to sustain harmony and do not bare our hearts when hurt by another. What do you think is best? AOMAA news: On 7/29, I presented the AOMAA project in Aceh. As we were double booked in the same room with the Mithra Project in India speaking on Human Rights, we made the best of it and demonstrated how projects can collaborate. We will take the pertinent parts of their human rights curriculum for children and use it in the school programs in Aceh. AOMAA is happy to present $100 to Mithra from money earmarked for India Tsunami survivors. I have a table set up and am selling bracelets made in Bainbridge Island Washington by BISTRIF, one of the funding partners for AOMAA/IBU4Aceh. This collaboration was started by Imbert Matthee who I had the pleasure of meeting here for the first time after having worked together for the last 7 months. And, I have had many conversations telling people that IBU Team has just seen the 18,000th patient as of this week. The $50,000 grant arrived and the first disbursement of $9000 was sent. The new/expanded programs will start on Aug 1. Lisa Hopper from World Care and I are planning to do the first site visit September 1-14. Ariana Susanti from Susila Dharma Indonesia would like to accompany us. The purpose for our visit to IBU is to transfer some technology. . . the methodology for doing self-evaluation. In addition, we want to congratulate the team for the first six months, including their heroic response in the emergency last December-March. On a personal note, I am in heaven every day seeing the young people dance, play and perform. They are so beautiful. Every night in the Statsale, the band and DJ play and they really rock! The first night I went, I learned to break dance. The second, we salsa'd until 2AM! >From this vantage point I do not see a problem for the future of Subud. Wish you were here. Love,Lucia Lucia C. Cargill, RN, Ph.D. President American Overseas Medical Aid Association tel: 310-829-0190/1-877-77 AOMAA mobile: 310-570-5107 P.O Box 741999 Los Angeles, CA 90004 USA www.aomaa.4t.com www.aomaa.org (pending) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MORE PERSONAL EXPERIENCES: Go to Subud Canada’s website! Click here: http://subudcanada.org/congress_page3.htm#VIC%202005%2015