CAMBRIDGE WORLD DEVELOPMENT GROUP
Cambridge WDM www.cambridgewdm.org.uk
MINUTES For 18 January 2006 7.45pm at Ray and Fabiola’s.
Thanks to Ray & Fabiola for their special Hospitality.
PRESENT: Ray G (Chair), Fabiola B, Beth C, Aidan B, Clare B, , Raju R, Sue W and 3 guests from Just Living and Roots and Shoots who are producing the Ethical Guide to Cambridge – Grey Baker, Alex Smith & Jasmine Brackett
APOLOGIES : Pat S, Shilpa S, Bernard S, Tom H, Paul C
1. MINUTES FROM MEETING 21 Dec 2005 approved as a correct record.
2. Matters Arising
a) Letter was read out from Lord Warner of Dept of Health forwarded to Sue W in December by David Howarth following our discussions with him at his surgery 1 July about our concerns over UK recruitment of medical staff in poor countries which strips them of medical expertise. Sue had already replied but we agreed to wait a month before writing again to say UK should be offering UK staff to fill the gaps left by the emigration of these doctors and nurses, perhaps by offering it as an option to UK doctors on elective year.
b) Speaker Meeting 8pm on Tues 14 Feb at the Latimer Room, Clare College, Trinity Lane CB2 1TL
Where Next For Make Poverty History? Moving Forward for Global Economic Justice
Speakers Kofi Mawuli-Klu of the Pan African Task Force for International Dialogue
Vicky Cann WDM HQ Campaigns Officer
Cambridge WDM is organising this and Raju is to act as Chair as he is a member of Clare College and secured the venue. Please all try advertise round friends & colleagues. Posters from Aidan if you want them. We will use our email publicity list to send out notice to possible interested parties and we stuffed 300 envelopes there and then with letters and posters to advertise through the Royal Mail to libraries, colleges & depts, churches and individuals. College One World Week contacts to be targetted (emails to me please Grey). Sue and Raju to invite David Howarth to come and speak too as he is a fellow of Clare College. Aidan and Sue to sort a press release to go out immediately after we get a reply from David Howarth.
c) Campaign Leaflet WDM HQ have agreed to give us a grant of £150 to help pay for this campaign leaflet giving info on our campaigns, contact details and those for all local MPs and MEPs. Agreed to go ahead with the designer who did our Fairtrade Guide to Cambridge, John Williams, who quoted £100 for the design. Now need quotes for printing. This scheme is going ahead.
d) Fairtrade Guide to Cambridge Updated Cambridge City Council had agreed to give us a Sustainable City grant to produce an update of our Fairtrade Guide. We welcomed Grey, Alex and Jasmine to this meeting who with Chiara Ferrara and others of their two groups, Roots & Shoots and Just Living are producing an Ethical Guide to Cambridge. See www.justliving.org.uk for details. We agreed to help each other so Grey and Jasmine will forward their research to us on which places sell Fairtrade goods and what these goods are as student teams will be visiting all venues/outlets in the city to check their ethical status. Sue will ask for City Council permission for them to use the TIC/City Council map that was the basis for our Fairtrade Guide. Agreed to offer Just Living/Roots and Shoots a stall and opportunity to say a few words to the Public meeting on MPH on 14 Feb at Clare College (2 (b) above).
3. A Co-ordinated Prostitution Strategy
Ray passed round this document following the talk we had last year from Carrie Pemberton of CHASTE, her organisation active in churches against people-trafficking for prostitution.The strategy concerns wider processes of prostitution than people trafficking and can be downloaded from the Home Office website.
It shows the link between poverty and prostitution with more underage girls being drawn in.
4. Cambridge WDM’s Website www.cambridgewdm.org.uk
Beth had worked hard on updating our website and though a few items remain to do like posting recent minutes, it is now up and running with notice of the MPH public meeting at Clare College 14 Feb. The issue of an online forum was discussed but as WDM HQ’s online forum is little used, agreed not to have one.
5. One World Week (OWW) 1 – 14 March 2006
Agreed to jointly promote OWW with students. Alex to let Sue have emails for Fairtrade reps in colleges.
6. Next meeting - 15 February 2006 at Raju and Alex’s at 7.45pm at Flat 1, 31 Queen Ediths Way
Further Cambridge WDM meetings in 2006, held monthly on third Wednesday in the month :
15 March at Sue’s, 19 April at Pat’s, 17 May at Aidan and Clare’s, 21 June at Beth’s and 19 July at Sue’s