[Viva] Fwd: Thank You

[Margarite Sanchez]

Hi Jessica and Deloris,

Congratulations to both of you. Way to go!
Thank you for emailing us.....I am happy to hear from you and I appreciate
being informed as things come up.

I want you to know that I will be forwarding your emails on to *ViVA*, a
community of HIV+ women in British Columbia with over 60 members at the
present time. I think it is important for small grassroots groups like ours
to know that there is a big international grassroots group doing the same
kind of work. Lately many ViVA women have been writing in support of Bill
C-398, which would provide affordable generic drugs to resource limited
countries. This is an important issue that ICWNA could also support.

Here is to a strong community of poz women [?][?] clink! clink!
All the best,
Margarite


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:41 PM, ICW NA <icwnacontact at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello ICW North America Members,
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> We hope that you are doing well? We just wanted to take a minute and thank
> you formally for your support in electing us as your ICW North American
> representatives on the International Steering Committee. Thank you for
> believing in us!
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> While in this position we want to focus on the following for our region:
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> 1.     Building and strengthening our regional membership
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> 2.     Advocating for our regional issues at the global forum
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> 3.     Sharing global information with our membership so that we can
> better understand and support other ICW regions with their issues
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> 4.     Creating and maintaining better channels of communication between
> our membership
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> We’re not exactly sure how this will be done, but we have some ideas.
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> In order to do this we need to know what you think are the main advocacy
> issues that we need to focus on in our region. We are going to send out a
> very short survey monkey so you can fill it out.
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> As far as ICW NA is concerned feel free to be as involved as you want. If
> you got a skill we can use it. Since we have no money, fundraising would be
> a great place to start. But of course there are many ways that we can work
> together to be agents of change in the HIV movement. Here are some areas
> that you could be involved:
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> 1.     Writing articles for a newsletter
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> 2.     Reviewing policy and documents about women living with HIV
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> 3.     Sitting on boards, working groups and committees as an ICW
> representative
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> 4.     Starting ICW NA social support groups in your community to talk
> about positive women’s issues home and abroad
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> 5.     Writing grants for ICW
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> 6.     Participating at regional conferences and forums as an ICW
> representative
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> There are probably many more ways that you could be part of this, it is up
> to you. All we ask is that is you are ever speaking on behalf of ICW or if
> you mention your involvement on a panel or workshop please send us a quick
> email so we can start to map where we are doing work in the region.
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> If you have any questions or concerns don’t hesitate to contact us at
> icwnacontact at gmail.com
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> We look forward to working with you.
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> Warmly,
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> Jessica Whitbread and Deloris Dockrey
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