Message-ID: <199609122151.QAA21332@venus.seark.net> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 16:51:49 -0500 From: Carol Cross <mailto:eaftdc@SEARK.NET> Subject: New Rural African Women Newsletter To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
New OnLine NewsletterRAWFFFOL Rural African Women's Food Fuel and Feed On Line Network
An Internet newsletter of practical suggestions for rural African women to improve their lives. Written for rural women and those who support them such as Peace Corp workers, Missionaries, NGOs, women in development groups, etc.
African women are carrying the burden of rural development in Africa on their backs. While we can do little to change the social structures that burden African women, or modify African Society, we can help lighten their burdens. There are new appropriate technologies, marketing outlets, and support systems designed to help women. But how to get that information to a woman in the bush. This newsletter is designed to pull together caring women into RAWFFFOL Sharing groups to create an information flow from those who have knowhow to women who need it. You can be a conduit of such information by becoming a RAWFFFOL Information Transfer Volunteer.
There is no cost. Just be willing to share yourself with African women through a wide variety of channels from the Peace Corp to the mission of many churches.
We invite you and any African women or women of African descent to participate in this network through RAWFFFOL by sharing ideas. We are especially interested in how the Internet can support this mission.
I you are interested in sharing in developing this information conduit for rural African women, please send an email to mailto:eaftdc@seark.net and say Subscribe RAWFFFOL
Sharing and caring,
Dr. Carol
If you would like to RECEIVE this FREE OnLine Newsletter, send this message to mailto:eaftdc@seark.net
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************* Volume 1, Number 1 October 1, 1996 Editor and Publisher, Dr. Carol Cross
RAWFFFOL is an internet newsletter focused on providing support and information technology to African village rural women. RAWFFFOL is being presented just like any printed magazine or newsletter. You can contribute articles, ask questions and assist these hardworking women in providing food for their families, fuel so they do not have to cut trees for firewood, and livestock feed for their small herds. This newsletter is available at no cost to you. This newsletter is for you if you are presently working with programs to assist African rural women or are a woman in a village in Africa. ˙˙ISSUE # 1 Tentative articles scheduled
1. Reviving the YUM - How Cameroonian women used to work together and how it can be redeveloped 2. Food drying systems for rainy weather - building food dryers from bamboo and local materials 3. Giza sorghum for firewood production 4. Small scale production of kenaf in a cut and carry program ˙˙˙Send in your listing, questions and requests for the PREMIERE issue to be published in October 1996.
*SPECIAL REQUEST - African women are needed as country coordinators for this newsletter. If you are originally from an African country, please contact Dr. Carol Cross at mailto:eaftdc@seark.net for more information. ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ Carol Cross, Ph.D. EcoAgroForestry Founder Email: mailto:solync@seark.net Phone & FAX: 501-367-8736. 2801 Olive, #35A, Suite 113, PO Box 5208, Pine Bluff, AR 71611. For Free Western Hemisphere Export Trade Newsletter send email saying SUBSCRIBE WESHEMOL. Together we Can Create A Sustainable World Through EcoAgroForestry (Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Forestry and Rural AgroIndustrial Development) by growing Kenaf, utilizing AgroResidues, forming consortiums, & developing Rural AgroIndustrial Centers (RAICs) or EcoAgroForestry Village Business Incubators(VBI). Free Kenaf Newsletter - Just Say SUBSCRIBE KENAFOL. Join us.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Gandhi)