Subject: Kazakhstan Women's Information Network (KWIN)
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 29 1999 - 16:06:33 EST
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CivilSoc members wishing to reply to the message below should address
their responses to Alfia Abikenova <a_alfia@yahoo.com>.
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Dear colleagues!
Women representatives of the non-governmental organization the
Kazakhstan Women's Information Network (KWIN) address you.
We are women from 8 female NGOs from different locales of Kazakhstan,
which came to the necessity of joint cooperation and operating in a
uniform information space with the purpose of lobbying concerns of
the Women.
We have poor experience of network operation, and a weak material and
technical base; most of us are compelled or are unemployed. But all
of us are consolidated by unshakable desire to change the provision
of things: to improve the provision the woman, children, groups of
the population socially disallowed by company.
We know by what paths and methods it is possible concretely to help
most...Each of our NGO memberss is engaged in concrete businesses for
herself in locale, city, area. Thus, the NGO from Ust-Kamenogorsk
«The Woman of the XXIst century» and NGO from Semipalatinsk «Soyuz of
the Women and children » attempt to help the women suffering from
nuclear-weapon tests on Semipalatinsk nuclear Polygon. The NGO from
Kokshetay «The Feminist League» actively struggles for the rights of
the women to be honestly elected in organs of the local authority,
and carries out educational programs directed against violence in the
youth environment. The NGO from Kyzil-Orda «The Women's Information
Centre» has forced the re-opening of the facility for 25 children,
whose parents are on compulsory medical treatment...
That is, each separately taken NGO works actively enough, but all of
them have not enough material, technical and information support. For
reaching the purposes of strengthening and development it is
necessary for each separate NGO to join together efforts, to be
consolidated in the uniform Women's Network. We have no sufficient
experience of network operation much should learn, but main solution
have accepted all solidly--it is necessary to join together efforts
in scrambling for the rights, for worthy existence.
We have developed the particular program of strengthening,
maintaining and development of the Kazakhstan Women's Information
Network. Schematically this program to be divided into following
steps:
Step #1: Realization of 8 educational seminars/trainings on themes:
the Kazakhstan Women's Information Network. The help in drawing up of
the application on receiving of the grant. Modern information
technologies (Internet, e-mail).
Step #2: Winter Women's Schools. The 1-st Meeting of the
representatives KWIN. Acquaintance and exchange of experience. Fair
of ideas. Principles and methods of network operation. Experience of
network operation leading women's NGO of Russia and West.
Step #3: Renderings of primary technical support regional women's NGO
by payment of the lease of computer time for the local providers (for
the period of 6 months).
Step #4: Summer Women's School. The 2nd Meeting of the
representatives of KWIN. An exchange of experience, Joint discussion
and planning of activity of KWIN. Experience of leading female
organizations of Russia and West.
Step #5: Discoveries educational-rehabilitational Women's House.
For reaching these objectives we need finansial, information and
educational support. The wide experience of operation of female
organizations on themes touching the women is indispensable for us:
the rights of women, gender derivation, networking, modern
technologies, remote training, computer conferences, female
leadership, strategic planning and internal policy NGO, woman both
computer technologies and much other.
We require training and exchange of experience. Also we require in
partnership communications(connections), we search for long-term
contacts.
We appeal to you with the request to support the Kazakhstan Women's
Information Network.
Yours faithfully and hope,
Alfia Abikenova
Regional coordinator and chief of the project KWIN
AWIC (Almaty Women Information Center)
Fax: +007 (3272) 678426
Tel. priv.: +007 (3272) 652500
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