Dear Stovers, Just letting you know how the Eco-Kalan Project is doing. Other suitable improved cookstoves will be included in our distribution as funding and supply become available. Elizabeth May is the Member of Parliament (MP) of Canada for our riding, Saanich - Gulf Islands, British Columbia and the sole Green Party MP. Rebecca Vermeer
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "reb-kees" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], "ELIZABETH MAY" <[email protected]>, "ROGER SAMSON" <[email protected]> Cc: "elizabeth may c1a" <[email protected]>, "Debra (Emay office)" <[email protected]>, "Rebecca Vermeer" <[email protected]>, "FRED COLGAN" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:49:38 AM Subject: Re: ECO-KALAN PROJECT & REAP CANADA PARTNERSHIP Hello Elizabeth --please give me a call at 250-656-6237 as soon as you get back to Sidney. I am thinking of a press release through your constituency office or a joint interview with the Peninsula News Review and the Times Colonist of the joint Eco-Kalan and REAP Canada's Project to establish Emergency Eco-Kalan Kitchens at evacuation centres and to distribute Eco-Kalan stoves to communities ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in central Visayas Philippines. We have learned from our experience in demonstrating and presenting eco-kalans to mountain communities, schools and prisons, that an Eco-Kalan kitchen is capable of cooking food for at least 1,000 people (see list of videos below). That capability will be enhanced when Fred Colgan of InStove in Oregon, USA succeeds in getting assistance from the Red Cross and Mercy Corps in providing one 60-liter Instove for every Eco-Kalan kitchen we establish in the evacuation centres. Two members of the Eco-Kalan Team are presently touring the di saster areas of Cadiz in the northern tip of Negros Occidental and of Cebu Island to asses the needs there. Cadiz is an important base for our Eco-Kalans and kitchen supplies as it is accessible on land from the Eco-Kalan home base in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. From Cadiz, other typhoon ravaged communities of Northern Panay such as Roxas City and Kalibo, and small islands in the Sibuyan and Visayan Sea can be reached by Canadian helicopters and DART medical team based in Roxas City. My team members will be in Cebu on November 24-25 to determine the needs in Bantayan Island (northern tip of Cebu) and in the evacuation centres on the mainland of Cebu that have been recently established for the refugees from the island of Leyte. The number of refugees that have been shipped to Cebu has grown to 7,000 and still increasing. I will have photos and a further report when my team returns to Dumaguete on the night of November 25. Hello Roger --If possible, please give me your telephone number where you can be reached out of office or in the evening or weekend. Please prepare a funding proposal which Elizabeth, you and I can discuss through SKYPE. I can host the teleconference as I can call a landline or cell phone as well as a computer with my SKYPE account at zero marginal cost. Thanks, Rebecca ECO-KALAN VIDEOS Negros Oriental Provincial Jail Eco-KALAN Presentation, Dumaguete City, Philippines, April 8, 2011 http://youtu.be/WL9m3PpAXBo Dumaguete City District Jail Eco-KALAN Presentation, Negros Oriental, Philippines, March 31, 2011 http://youtu.be/VsjMwU-Zyw0 Eco-Kalan & Magic Box Demo to Lakbay Aral from Caticugan Elem. Sch., Siaton, Neg. Or., July 26, 2013 http://youtu.be/bhbjhoh6AOo Eco-Kalan Presentation to 8 Tayak Communites, Siaton, Negros Oriental, Philippines, Jan. 26, 2013 http://youtu.be/ZxLd7_ivfZM BINOBOHAN & LAOS PRESENTATION, GUIHULNGAN, NEGROS ORIENTAL, PHILIPPINES, FEBRUARY 24, 2011 http://youtu.be/QU0Leumavis Tamlang Eco-Kalan Presentation and Sustainable Tree Farming for Firewood (STFF), July/August 2010. http://youtu.be/fmdscMwQX4g Mabinay STFF & Eco-Kalan Presentation to Gawad Kalinga & DCCTMES Parents, Feb. 24, 2011 http://youtu.be/cdoIzKiq6P0 Caigangan Eco-Kalan Presentation & Tree Farming, Sta. Catalina, Negros Or., JAN. 21, 2011 http://youtu.be/0rTXk2qbViM Introducing the Eco-Kalan-C and Eco-Magic Box to the Lunch Feeding Program, March 2010. http://youtu.be/VtsM_dm6XZw ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth May" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: "elizabeth may c1a" <[email protected]>, "Debra (Emay office)" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:41:27 PM Subject: Fwd: Fw: ECO-KALAN PROJECT & REAP CANADA PARTNERSHIP Dear Rebecca, (and Roger!) I would love to help. Have you approached the government (former CIDA)? Have you got a proposal? Have you considered working through an existing ngo with a relationship with CIDA? Just some quick thoughts. I am currently in Warsaw for the climate negotiations. Looking forward to working with you, Elizabeth From: reb-kees [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 03:22 PM Eastern Standard Time To: May, Elizabeth - Personal; May, Elizabeth - Riding 1C Cc: Rebecca Vermeer <[email protected]>; ROGER SAMSON <[email protected]> Subject: ECO-KALAN PROJECT & REAP CANADA PARTNERSHIP Dear Elizabeth, Roger Samson, Executive Director of REAP-Canada and I (of the Eco-Kalan Project) have agreed to a joint effort to manufacture and distribute improved cookstoves suited for evacuation centers and communities ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan (also named Yolanda) in the central Visayas, Philippines. Roger suggested we explore funding opportunities with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade & Development (DFATD) (formerly the Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA). Please help us obtain government funding through DFATD or elsewhere in the Canadian government. Our websites are as follows: http://www.eco-kalan.com http://www.reap-canada.com Sincerely, Rebecca Vermeer Eco-Kalan Project email: [email protected] Phone: 1-250-656-6237 Skype name: sky.rav _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
