[Stoves] ECO-KALAN PROJECT PARTNERS WITH REAP CANADA IN TYPHOON HAIYAN RELIEF EFFORTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

[reb-kees]

Dear Stovers,
Just letting you know how the Eco-Kalan Project is doing.  Other suitable improved cookstoves will be included in our distribution as  funding and supply become available.  Elizabeth May is the Member of Parliament (MP) of Canada for our riding, Saanich - Gulf Islands, British Columbia and the sole Green Party MP.
Rebecca Vermeer

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "reb-kees" <ravermeer at telus.net>
To: emay at magma.ca, "ELIZABETH MAY" <elizabeth.may.p9 at parl.gc.ca>, "ROGER SAMSON" <rogerenroute at yahoo.ca>
Cc: "elizabeth may c1a" <elizabeth.may.c1a at parl.gc.ca>, "Debra (Emay office)" <elizabeth.may at parl.gc.ca>, "Rebecca Vermeer" <ravermeer at telus.net>, "FRED COLGAN" <fred at instove.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:49:38 AM
Subject: Re: ECO-KALAN PROJECT & REAP CANADA PARTNERSHIP

Hello Elizabeth --please give me a call at 250-656-6237 as soon as you get back to Sidney.   I am thinking of a press release through your constituency office or a joint interview with the Peninsula News Review and the Times Colonist of the joint Eco-Kalan  and REAP Canada's Project to establish Emergency Eco-Kalan Kitchens at evacuation centres and to distribute Eco-Kalan stoves to communities ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan in central Visayas Philippines.  We have learned from our experience in demonstrating and presenting eco-kalans to mountain communities, schools and prisons, that an Eco-Kalan kitchen is capable of cooking food for at least 1,000 people (see list of videos below).  That capability will be enhanced when Fred Colgan of  InStove in Oregon, USA succeeds in getting assistance from the Red Cross and Mercy Corps in providing one 60-liter Instove for every Eco-Kalan kitchen we establish in the evacuation centres.  Two members of the Eco-Kalan Team are presently touring the disaster areas of Cadiz in the northern tip of Negros Occidental and of Cebu Island  to asses the needs there.  Cadiz is an important base for our Eco-Kalans and kitchen supplies as it is accessible on land from the Eco-Kalan home base in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.  From Cadiz, other typhoon ravaged communities of Northern Panay such as Roxas City and Kalibo, and small islands in the Sibuyan and Visayan Sea can be reached by Canadian helicopters and DART medical team based in Roxas City.   My team members will be in Cebu on November 24-25 to determine the needs in Bantayan Island (northern tip of Cebu) and in the evacuation centres on the mainland of Cebu that have been recently established for the refugees from the island of Leyte.  The number of refugees that have been shipped to Cebu has grown to 7,000 and still increasing.  I will have photos  and a further report when my team returns to Dumaguete on the night of November 25.

Hello Roger --If possible,  please give me your telephone number where you can be reached out of office or in the evening or weekend.  Please prepare a funding proposal which Elizabeth, you and I can discuss through SKYPE.  I can host the teleconference as I can call a landline or cell phone as well as  a computer with my SKYPE account at zero marginal cost.
Thanks,
Rebecca 

ECO-KALAN VIDEOS
  
Negros Oriental Provincial Jail Eco-KALAN Presentation, Dumaguete City, Philippines, April 8, 2011 
http://youtu.be/WL9m3PpAXBo
 
Dumaguete City District Jail Eco-KALAN Presentation, Negros Oriental, Philippines, March 31, 2011 
http://youtu.be/VsjMwU-Zyw0
 
Eco-Kalan & Magic Box Demo to Lakbay Aral from Caticugan Elem. Sch., Siaton, Neg. Or., July 26, 2013
http://youtu.be/bhbjhoh6AOo
 
 
Eco-Kalan Presentation to 8 Tayak Communites, Siaton, Negros Oriental, Philippines, Jan. 26, 2013
http://youtu.be/ZxLd7_ivfZM

BINOBOHAN & LAOS PRESENTATION, GUIHULNGAN, NEGROS ORIENTAL, PHILIPPINES, FEBRUARY 24, 2011 
http://youtu.be/QU0Leumavis

Tamlang Eco-Kalan Presentation and Sustainable Tree Farming for Firewood (STFF), July/August 2010.
http://youtu.be/fmdscMwQX4g

Mabinay STFF & Eco-Kalan Presentation to Gawad Kalinga & DCCTMES Parents, Feb. 24, 2011
http://youtu.be/cdoIzKiq6P0

Caigangan Eco-Kalan Presentation & Tree Farming, Sta. Catalina, Negros Or., JAN. 21, 2011
http://youtu.be/0rTXk2qbViM

Introducing the Eco-Kalan-C and Eco-Magic Box to the Lunch Feeding Program, March 2010.
http://youtu.be/VtsM_dm6XZw




----- Original Message -----
From: "Elizabeth May" <emay at magma.ca>
To: ravermeer at telus.net, rogerenroute at yahoo.ca
Cc: "elizabeth may c1a" <elizabeth.may.c1a at parl.gc.ca>, "Debra (Emay office)" <elizabeth.may at parl.gc.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:41:27 PM
Subject: Fwd: Fw: ECO-KALAN PROJECT & REAP CANADA PARTNERSHIP

Dear Rebecca, (and Roger!)

I would love to help.  Have you approached the government (former 
CIDA)?  Have you got a proposal?  Have you considered working through an 
existing ngo with a relationship with CIDA?

Just some quick thoughts. I am currently in Warsaw for the climate 
negotiations.

Looking forward to working with you,

Elizabeth




From: reb-kees [mailto:ravermeer at telus.net] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 
2013 03:22 PM Eastern Standard Time To: May, Elizabeth - Personal; May, 
Elizabeth - Riding 1C Cc: Rebecca Vermeer <ravermeer at telus.net>; ROGER 
SAMSON <rogerenroute at yahoo.ca>

Subject: ECO-KALAN PROJECT & REAP CANADA PARTNERSHIP

Dear Elizabeth, Roger Samson, Executive Director of REAP-Canada and I 
(of the Eco-Kalan Project) have agreed to a joint effort to manufacture 
and distribute improved cookstoves suited for evacuation centers and 
communities ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan (also named Yolanda) in the 
central Visayas, Philippines. Roger suggested we explore funding 
opportunities with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade & Development (DFATD) (formerly the 
Canadian International Development Agency, CIDA). Please help us obtain 
government funding through DFATD or elsewhere in the Canadian government.

Our websites are as follows: http://www.eco-kalan.com 
http://www.reap-canada.com

Sincerely,

Rebecca Vermeer

Eco-Kalan Project email: ravermeer at telus.net Phone: 1-250-656-6237 Skype 
name: sky.rav