Janet,
Thank you for help!
I have set up this "holistic helping" working group for you to lead at
our lab around your key concept.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/
I've made you moderator with full privileges.

I've signed up Franz Nahrada and Samwel Kongere, too, to get us started.
We're all invited to join by sending any message to
holistichelping-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

I've written the following description:
"Holistic Helping is working group moderated by Janet Feldman,
Investigatorius of the Minciu Sodas laboratory. Janet is investigating
"How can I help those individuals who are coming to me, while also
taking care myself, and generate a ripple effect into a wider
community?" She invites us to join her here and pursue such questions in
our thoughts, words and deeds!"
and you're welcome to change that here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/holistichelping/settings?mode=10

I've also set up a wiki page for your group at:
http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/TheResourceToolshed/HolisticHelping
and if you like we can keep it there or move it. I hope we might talk
soon so that I might tutor you how to use the wiki. It would take 15
minutes or less.

Thank you for all your help with our Chocolate project. Do you have the
link to the letter you attached below. Thank you!

Janet, Thank you so much for sharing your great spirit with us! and
linking us with others!

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Direktorius
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms@...
+370 (5) 264 5950
Vilnius, Lithuania




Janet Feldman wrote:
> Hello Dear Andrius,
>
> Here is one of a number of resources I will send today, and thought I'd
> send it to you rather than posting it at Minciu. Hope it's helpful! I
> have spent the past couple days looking at a lot of resources, to map
> out the terrain, and will write up something abt my findings now.
>
> You did raise one issue and I will answer that: you asked if a business
> might do without certification or certain kinds of linkages they might
> have to pay for (as I understood your question), opting instead to go
> for "depth" of local commitments or some other seal of approval or
> ongoing client base.
>
> I would say, from what I've seen of this field--at this stage--that
> linkage regionally and internationally, certification and membership in
> networks, visibility online, in print, Google and search engines,
> databases, all are crucial. Once outreach has established a broader
> client base, then perhaps less need for links may pertain, and some of
> these expenses can be curtailed.
>
> Thanks much and yours in networking nibbles, Janet (I am dying to know
> what chocolate from "those" producers tastes like, haha!!)
>
>
> http://www.transfairusa.org/ (Trans Fair USA, which has a certification
> program and informs millions of Americans abt fair-trade issues)
> http://www.crsfairtrade.org/chocolate_project/index.htm
> http://www.lwr.org/chocolate/ownership.asp ("The Sweet Taste of
> Ownership")http://www.womenoftheelca.org/cafe/issue001/hot_topic.html
("Bittersweet
> Temptation: The Story of Chocolate and Breaking the Cycle of Oppression")
> http://www.fairtrade.net (Fair Trade Labelling Organizations
> International...a registration and certification organization which
> allows 1 million people in 50 countries worldwide to benefit from the
> Fairtrade label)





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