100人村「スイミー作戦」コミュのぼちぼち動きましょうか

みなさーん！
ぼちぼち動きますよ〜

おぉ始動ですか！？
スイマセン、100円貯金、1万円でとまってますが…
そして私に何ができるかもわからないですが…！
なるべくたくさんの人が集まるといいですね。
スイミーのみなさん来て来て下さい！

＞つむつむさん

よろしくですー！！！
先だって、スモーキーマウンテン関係にかかわりのあるフィリピン人を捕まえたので、
そこからいろいろたぐっているところです。

りっきーさんが探している｢適切な受け入れプロジェクト｣って、具体的な方向とかあるんですか？
うまく言えないけど、スモーキーマウンテンの子供の教育をバックアップするとか、環境衛生についてだとか…

一応方針としては
１．スモーキーマウンテンの子どもたちの衛生、福祉、教育に関するプロジェクトであること
２．「お金を渡してはいおしまい」というものではなく、持続的プロジェクトであること
３．後でレポートを提出してもらうこと
を条件としています。
中身としては、衛生、福祉、教育のどれか（あるいは複数）です。
より詳しい話は、もう少し現地の情報が必要なので、
現在情報収集中です。

現地のコンタクトパーソン（担当者）からのメールです。

時間がある時に訳します（汗）

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Dearest Ricky,

Please accept my sincere apologies for replying so late to your email.
We got caught up in so many activities these past few weeks that I
neglected to reply to your email right away.

Thank you so much for showing such compassion for the children of our
country. It warms my heart to know that there are kind-hearted
individuals like you who are willing to help alleviate the suffering of
others from countries far away from yours. Your assistance will be
incredibly helpful in improving the lives of wastepicker children.

As Rei might have already mentioned to you, I'm the contact person for
wastepickers' concern for the EcoWaste Coalition of which Rei is
coordinator, and the contact person also for the same issues for the
organization that I work for: GAIA or Global Anti-Incinerator
Alliance/Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. (Please check out
our website at www.no-burn.org).

Like you said, the issue of children's exploitation is universal. Here
in our country, it is just one of the many aspects of wastepickers'
concerns that we wish to address, although for me personally, it is the
most important. In the past, we had a very successful partnership with
wastepickers' groups that are based in Smokey Mountain, but owing to
several organizational problems within this group, we lost contact with
them and are now starting over with different wastepickers' groups that
are now found in other dumpsites. Before, EcoWaste Coalition's
involvement with these groups was to offer trainings and marketing
opportunity for the adults by honing their skills in making handicrafts
and items from juicepacks. With GAIA, our involvement has always been
to lend financial and human resources support to our members who are
actively involved in wastepickers' work.

For this year's local work, we agreed to focus on getting kids out of
dumpsites, most desirably by sending them to school. Regrettably, the
school year has already started, and since every year, our schools are
always congested, it is almost certain that late enrollees will not be
entertained at this point. Enrollment in public schools start as early
as April and end in May.

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Also, although it would be easy to send kids to school, monitoring their
progress and ensuring that they will stay in school will be much, much
harder. You may already be familiar with the fact that for many
wastepickers, a structured environment is not always a welcome thing.
It's very common for poor children to enroll and come to class regularly
for the first few weeks of the schoolyear, and then drop out or stop
from going to class completely for the rest of the year. So before even
talking to children about giving them the opportunity to go to school,
what we must do is make them and their parents understand that education
is the best solution to poverty. Many parents we've talked to in the
past who have kids who work for a living, were hesitant to let their
children attend school, because these kids contribute to the daily
income of the family. Several steps must be taken before we can begin
sending children to school.

For wastepickers families, a different and deeper kind of dialogue is
needed. Initially, we're thinking of holding several group discussions
with families to introduce to them this concept of funding their
children to attend school. Of course, we'll be very careful about the
issue of funding. Our experiences before with starting any kind of
dialogue with talks of funding have not been very good, so we'll be
extra careful not to raise unnecessary expectations from the parents and
more importantly from the children. Any funding we receive from you will
always be accompanied by full financial reports and clear, precise
liquidations of where the money went. Aside from talking to families,
we also see the need to talk to our lawmakers and government officials
to ensure that kids are taken out of the dumpsites. We also see the
need to talk to teachers/school officials where the children will go to
make them understand the reality of a wastepickers' life.

We fully realize that an extensive amount of time is needed for a
campaign of this magnitude, but this is something that we are fully
cognizant of, so it's okay. If your funds are hampered by limitations
and you will not be able to cover the community organizing aspect of the
campaign that we're proposing, I fully understand. If your funds are
only sufficient to cover the expenses of sending children to school,
that will still be incredibly welcome. However, if this will be the
case, I would like to request respectfully for your patience and let's
see if we can start sending kids to school during the next schoolyear.
That way, we can also ensure that we our combined efforts and resources
will not be wasted.

If however, you need to disburse of your funds this year, there are
several options that I can think of, such as subsidizing poor children
who are already enrolled but are not necessarily from wastepicker
communities or organizing health outreach programs in areas such as Pier
18 and Payatas. There is also a school in Payatas that is in dire need
of educational materials. That could be an option too.

Thanks very much, Ricky, for your wonderful offer.

Sincerely,
Anne

＞　REGGAE a.k.a HA-MANさん

管理人のりっきーです。
どこでもいいので、ぜひ現地に足を運んでいただきたいと思います。
きっと素晴らしい出会いや事件が待っていることでしょう。
もちろん悲しい思いもいろいろするかもしれませんが、
その経験が明日の私たちにきっと力を与えてくれると思います！