[Imc-africa] Senegalese Conference Delegates

[sphinx]

Hi Again Grace!
I'll try to answer your questions the best i can. I hope the answers are
satisfactory but 
just should incase you do not understand any of the answers well or feel you
still need to 
know something in particular do not hesitate to ask again.
While in the begining all of these details were part of the discussion,  as the
days when 
by and the prospects of getting funds to pay the transport of the African
delegates started 
fading away those details moved away from the cnetre of the discussion. 

> Where shall we be staying?
Michaela, Maureen and Glenda who had been at the forefront of organising
contacts in Dakar
 are putting up at the university for a little fee , while  trying to organise
for the 
university to provide us some places to sleep for Free.
The other option is to rent a cheap house and all lodge there together till the
end of the
 conference.There is also information of people who had been with the tour since
October 
when it started in Spain. With Wagonsand big tents. 
All of these while being important was a bit pushed to the background by the
more pressing
 issue of delgates transport to Dakar. Keep your eyes open in the list in the
next twodays
 the should be a more concrete answer on lodging.

>Is this paid for?
If some one wishes to stay at the university special hostel, it cost 5Euro for a
person and
 two persons per room . This is to be paid for by the individual  themselves.
We are going to organised a conference lodging space where delegates will have
to stay 
without them having to pay for it. That is we'll pay the space from the funds we
have left
 (which is enough to rent an apartment for the two weeks of conference :-)).
We had indicated at the very onset of the discussion about the tour that lead to
this 
conference that people with sleeping bags should bring them along to reduce the
worries 
of providing sleeping gear for all.

>Will we have any daily allowance to cater  for our personal needs?
No, we do not have funds to afford to provide any daily allowance. We'll have a
donation
 box where those who wish could donate into, but not for use in providing
allowance, 
rather to improve on the net situation of the entire group.
We are making arrangements to be able to cook our food ourselves. But those who 
wish can get Food too for low prices at the university canteen.

 Who is paying for  local transport?
I do not think that in the frame of the conference we'll have to be displacing
ourselves
 too much , thus the need for a local transport bill. If thinks works out with the 
university lodging arrangement, we may have our lodging/conference in a few minutes 
walking distance. With all the uncertainty about funds for the transportation of
the 
African delegates that existed, till late last week and early this week one
could not 
focus on these details.   

> How many women are attending?
I do not know exactly becuase there are some people coming with the tour group
that has been
 on tour since October 2003. This far there is Glenda, Maurine and  Micheala in
Dakar since 
Monday. Chrisi and Andrea are flying down on monday. You are flying down on the
8, if 
everything works out we may have an other comrade flying in arround the 7th.
 But I know that there is at least one woman with the group that has been on tour 
since october.

> What are the language arrangements? Shall we have translators?
Glenda, Micheala and Maurine are trying to get some students from the university
help out 
with translation. But if that does not work we will try to deal with that the
best we can
ourselves. We are going to have the indymedia handbook which is in English and
we have a
 french version of some of the main indymedia network documentation. In short we
will get
 mostly French and English like working languages.
Sphinx
Quoting Grace Waita <gracewaita at yahoo.co.in>:

> 
>  Thanks Sphinx:
> Very much appreciate your keeping me updated about the latest arrangements. I
> will await further information about the ticket and the money you said you
> will be sending by Monday at the latest to pay for the ticket.
> I just wanted to have more details about the logistics of the conference
> itself.
> Where shall we be staying? Is this paid for? Will we have any daily allowance
> to cater  for our personal needs? Who is paying for  local transport? I am
> asking all these questions because we found out about this conference at the
> last minute and had obviously not budgeted for it. Quite frankly we have no
> funds and that is why it is important to know.
> How many women are attending?
> What are the language arrangements? Shall we have translators?
> Grace
>  
>   sphinx &lt;sphinx at indymedia.org&gt; wrote: Hello Grace! Good to hear from
> you. The point is the Berlin based foundation
> that sellected to pay your tranport and the transport of some other
> activists
> from our complete list of delegates have a couple of rules.
> 
> One is that if we wish to recieved their donation as quasi-cash then we need
> to
> make the application only through a registered foundation. And since the
> foundation I do my other political work with meets only on the first week
> of
> every month to take a decision on issues like that, then it could be late
> with
> you and the other delegates making the trip to Dakar on time. 
> Thus the acceptable option for them and possible for us was to look for a
> travel
> agency that can issue tickets for all of your who were selected and send
> the
> bill directly to the foundation who then handles the finanacial transaction
> with
> them. So there is no extra money from them that could be sent to you.
> Basically we have been into trying to see to cordinate that with traveling
> agencies in Africa. The extra problem for kenya is that there is no cheap
> flight
> from Kenya to Dakar.
> 
> And to make it posslbie for you us to get cheap flights you have to connect
> flight witha couple of agencies which makes it impossible for you the ticket
> to
> be retrieved in Niarobi. There isthe option of buying the various pieces of
> the
> ticket and sending it to you by DHL or some other postal agency. The
> trouble
> with this option is that the fastest post we need a minimum of 4days to
> deliver
> the ticket to you.
> 
> Thu my insisting that you book the ticket and we see what arrangement to make
> 
> between the agency you book by and the traveling agency here with the
> ticket
> with many connections.As that was the request from the lady at tthe
> traveling
> agency. 
> 
> So as you see it is not going to be easy to further ask from them visa fees
> from
> the donors.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Grace Waita :
> 
> > Reference is made to the above and wish to inform you that we met with
> John.
> > I need you to confirm/ act on the following:
> > 1. That you have sent an invitation letter to the Embassy concerning the
> > issue of obtaining a visa.
> > 2.In addition to the fare , usd 60.00 is required for the issuance of the
> > visa. Kindly add this amount to the money you will send for the air
> > tickets.
> > Please do contact me in case of any further information or
> > clarification.
> > Thanking you and wishing you well'
> > 
> > Grace Waita.
> > 
> > sphinx wrote:
> > 
> > Contacts in Dakar 
> > 
> > -Abdoul Aziz : 00221 6425009 
> > 
> > -Rafael 0022151 112439 
> > 
> > -Nebe, Michaela,Maureen 
> > Universite cheikh anta diop de dakar 
> > rectorat 
> > direction de la cooperation 
> > et des investissements 
> > bp 500( dakar fann enegal tel. 0221 825 55 96 
> > Fax 0221 825 72 97 
> > 
> > tel. 0221 865 0040 ANNEX no 43 Room 2 
> > sphinx-- 
> > but for fate we could have been one another 
> > 
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