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WIMSA
Current Activities
The main areas in which San
communities have asked for assistance from WIMSA are:
Field trips are placed high on the
WIMSA co-ordinator's agenda because they enable the
organisation to work more effectively in these areas. It
is essential to consult the San communities in their own
environment, thus keeping in constant contact with
grassroots organisations is a high priority.
During 1998/99, however, San representatives increasingly
took up opportunities to visit the WIMSA office to report
on developments in their communities, to discuss specific
requests, to ask advice on strategies and approaches to
particular problems and to arrange for WIMSA facilitation
of their meetings with government officials and NGO
personnel. As most of these San representatives live in
remote rural areas without access to any effective
telecommunication means, they often have no choice but to
appear unannounced at the WIMSA office. This requires a
high degree of flexibility on the part of the WIMSA team,
but the team has unanimously agreed that sticking rigidly
to work plans rather than serving these representatives
who have travelled very long distances to reach the
office is unjustifiable.
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