International Catholic Conference of Guiding
LETTER N° 8
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Venue /
Dates
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To bring / Finances /
Application / Candidatures
/ Inscriptions
To all member associations and corresponding members of ICCCG
To the delegations participating at the
Paris, the 4th of June 2003
Dear Friends, Our World gathering will take place in two months and we will be very happy to welcome the leaders that you have designated to participate at such an important meeting. The Girl Guide association of the Argentina is doing a very great job both preparing the gathering on the venue and making associations aware of its importance.
The venue
After some unexpected hiccups (the site we originally reserved had been assigned to someone else) the Argentinean team has booked another venue, situated 20 Km outside Buenos Aires. The address is as follows:
CASA DE RETIROS MONSEÑOR AGUIRRE Santa Rosa 2341 1664 VICTORIA Telephone: 4745 0118//4580//0450
Victoria is the name of an area of San Isidro a locality situated at 20 Km north of Buenos Aires along the coast of the Rio de la Plata. Participants will have to bring their own sheets and towels. These can, however, be hired from the Sisters for a supplement of 2 US$.
Dates: Due to the change of venue, there has also been a slight change in the dates: we will not have a free day between the World Gathering and the Council meeting.
- World Gathering: 20-26th July
- Council Meeting: 27t-29th July We must leave the house in the morning of the 30th July.
Communication We ask you to communicate if possible by e-mail, which is quicker and cheaper.
- - There is a special
address through which you can get the inscription forms, travel forms and an
answer to any query concerning cicgargentina@fullzero.com.ar. - - Inscriptions are also
to be send to Marie-Therèse Marchand, executive secretary at the following
address: gdfmarchand@wanadoo.fr -- You will also find all information on our Web site: which carries the latest information on the Gathering in Argentina. Please consult it. Our Webmaster, Céline Gélinas is doing a marvellous job. So get in touch, send back
your travel forms indicating precisely your flight numbers and arrival and
departure times.
What you need to bring with
you - - to the Gathering: 1 - It will be winter in the Argentine, it can be quite cold and rainy. 2 - Apart your personal equipment, your usual medicines etc., please bring:
- your uniform 3 - For the first evening: - a poster or a drawing made by the Girl Guides of your country and that express a wish for the world and a wish for the international Meeting - a song book ( traditional songs from your country, particularly children’s songs, fairy tales, games) - 6 or 7 personal photos to exchange with others so as to get to know each other (you, your family, your home, your county, your workplace, etc ) 4 - For the opening mass,
we would like each delegation to bring: school material: 5 - Some stickers, pins, etc . . . to offer to the girl guides and leaders that will visit us. 6 - Some material expressing the most significative projects that your association are doing with the other children in the domain of communitary developpent, the balttle against discrimination and exclusion, etc... ( in the form of posters with pictures and a short description of the project. ( An exposition will be held ) 7 - all other material that can inform on the work your association is doing ( pamplets, videos, magazines, ...) 8 - An
international market will take place in the evening of Friday the 25th.
Bring what you wish to sell 9 - Bring also traditional dresses, music, a typical product of your country etc.
- - for the Council Meeting:
Do not forget to bring
Finances
We have received only
to-day confirmation of a grant from CCFD and the Pie XII Foundation Because of the expense of
banking charges, the grants will be paid on the venue, except for emergency
cases. We are open to discussion with associations who have not yet
registered and ask them to get in touch immediately with Marie-Thérèse
Marchand, executive secretary, who also follows closely our financial
matters:
Application for membership to ICCG :
We remind you that there are two conditions for ICCG membership: be a member of WAGGGS and have a letter of support from the religious authority of the country in question. Application for membership has to be done by letter, signed by the President or the General Commissioner of the association, to which the letter of the religious authority has to be joined. The application has then to be submitted to the next World council meeting. Applications can be sent to the World executive or brought along to the Council meeting in Argentina.
Candidatures
So far we have received the following official candidatures:
- Position of World Executive: Silvia Staib
de Chanes of the Girl Guide Association of Argentina, - Position of Latin American Executive: Silvia Campisi de Cassanelle, Girl Guide Association of Argentina
- Position of Africa Executive: Brigitte
Aguiar from the association of Girl Guides of Benin, - Member of the Africa Regional Team: Martine Adoum from the Girl Guide association of Tchad.
Inscriptions Up to now, not counting the World Committee and the Argentinean team, we only have 56 inscriptions, amongst them some which have not yet been confirmed. Therefore, we ask each association to get mobilized for this important World Gathering and we request particularly the Associations of Latin America to do so, since no inscription at all has been received from any of them.
Please find enclosed - the programme of the Gathering, a travel form, the Agenda of the Council Meeting and the report from Togo (Note from the webmaster: you will find these documents in the section of the Meeting ). Given the delays due to translation, it is likely that the Financial and Activity Report will be handed to you personally in Buenos Aires. We will put them on line as soon as possible. This is our last letter to associations before the Gathering. Thank you for sending in the last inscriptions as soon as possible. Do think of getting a visa. We hope you have all made your air-plane reservations as we had suggested some months ago. With all our friendship and looking forward to meeting your delegates in Buenos Aires.
Françoise PARMENTIER
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