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Fatin’s Regular Column on Arab News: The Little Girl Who Shocked World Leaders Into Silence
Author admin | 02.06.2008 | Category Saudi Arabia, Updates
Fatin Bundagji, (MNP 2007 Saudi Arabia) writes a regular column for the Arab News - Here’s her updated column from this past week (Friday May 30, 2008) -
“There is a YouTube video clip being forwarded that is worth seeing and definitely worth passing around. Its content is an old footage from the “Earth Summit Conference” organized by the United Nations back in 1992, and the scene is taken from a plenary session under the theme, “Development and the Environment”.
The speaker is Severn Suzuki, a 13-year-old Canadian girl, and her audience is world leaders.
Two aspects of the footage got my attention: The speaker, and her message. At the age of 9, Severn started her own Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), made up of a small group of children committed to teaching other kids about the ongoing environmental crisis. In 1992, Severn and her group raised enough money to attend the Premier Earth Summit in Brazil to warn decision makers of the catastrophic results of their actions - or inactions as we see today - on future generations
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Shirlene Noordin (MNP 2007 Singapore) Organizes Much-Awaited Photography Exhibition!
Author admin | 01.06.2008 | Category Singapore, Updates
Phish Communications organizes its eagerly-awaited Month of Photography exhibition, starting on the 13th of June, 2008. Entitled ‘The Magic of Cinema’, the exhibition will cover still and moving works of art, along with the opening of the Magic of Cinema, a Magnum Photos Exhibition.
The Month of Photography Asia and the Cathay, in association with Elle’s 5th anniversary invite you to walk the red carpet on the 13th of June - If you’re in Singapore, don’t miss it!
For more details, please click on the attached thumbnail! Congratulations Shirlene!
Ratish Nanda (EF MNP 2007 India) Appointed DUAC!
Author admin | 01.06.2008 | Category India, Updates
Ratish Nanda has just been appointed to the DUAC
The article in the Indian print newspaper, “The Mail Today” (attached as a jpeg for reference reading also) had this to say:
AFTER dilly-dallying for over three months, the Union ministry of urban development has finally constituted anew panel for the Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) with the citys renowned urban designer, K.T.Ravindran, as its chairman. The panel also includes conservation architect Ratish Nanda, Delhi University history professor Nayanjot Lahiri and landscape architect Mohammed Shaheer. The new panel has been constituted for a period of three years beginning from the time of assumption of charge.
Fellows Give Feedback!
Author admin | 24.02.2008 | Category Chile, Finland, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, Updates
Earlier this year, I had sent out an email asking each of the fellows some questions, to reflect if the fellowship had helped them professionally or personally. I have taken the liberty to put together a few of the responses and am posting them here so you can read their responses and assess for yourself what the impact has been. While the Fellowship is a long-term association to a progressive cause, this is a very short-term insight into their lives!
What was the biggest achievement(s) since your return from the Fellowship
Gunvor Kronman: I survived and actually won a few very tough battles in the Public Radio and TV Board, resulting in the sanctity of minority channels. This is a fight that will continue. I have successfully started the re-orientation of my center. Strategy processes are going well, and of course, I managed to reconnected with a number of old friends.
Farith Rithauddeen: I managed to learn to delegate responsibilities and coach my new team to allow them to learn and resolve issues in their own way. I also brought
Roberto Guerrero: I was able to start a fund raising program for our law school shortly after my return. We launched it in October and in less than two months we have raised half of the targeted amount. I also implemented many of the management tools I learned for a law firm which helped 2007 become one of our best years in sales, revenues and internal organization.
Emine Kaya: Sharing my experiences of the Fellowship with my collegues from both the Dutch Ministry and the European Commission. The lectures I gave will be published in an article , dealing with the topic on linking integration-immigration issues with experiences from the EU-USA.
Everybody has to deal with diversity, not only societies, but also multinationals. Can the models of the profit and private sector be compared and if yes, what are the results? The private sector has already established, as a vision and a mission, that diversity leads to creativity which leads to inspiring working environments, innovative products and outputs.
On a societal level, diversity is dealt within the historical, judicial and cultural framework of a particular country. There can be discrepancies in national policy approaches (for example racist, multi-cultural, liberal etc) however pressing demographic and economic challenges are urging factors to re-design new answers to issues of integration and immigration in this global society.
Susie Perera: I faced the biggest challenge in my life up to now when I got back from the
Fatin Bundagji’s Columns in the Arab News!
Author admin | 09.02.2008 | Category Saudi Arabia, Updates
The Arab News, Saudi Arabia’s largest English Language Daily Newspaper, has a new regular columnist! Fatin Bundagji (EF MNP 2007), has several columns talking about everything from social change to community building, infrastructure to HR development.
You can log onto www.arabnews.com and search for ‘FATIN’ to see a complete list of these articles, but here are direct links to a few:
‘Have We Failed Them?’ February 8, 2008
‘Why Do We Fear Accountability?’ February 1, 2008
‘A Stitch in Time, Saves Nine!’ - January 9, 2008
You can write to Fatin directly a: fatin@bundagji.com or post a comment for her through this website.
Fatin Bundagji writes for the Arab News!
Author admin | 09.01.2008 | Category Saudi Arabia, Updates
Fellow from Saudi Arabia, Fatin Bundagji, wrote an article in the January 9th, 2008 issue of the Arab News - you can read a bit of the article below, and click the link at the end of it to go to the Arab News site to read the rest!
‘A Stitch in Time Saves Nine’
Fatin Bundagji, Arab News, January 9, 2008
I had never realized the truth of the proverb “A Stitch in Time Saves Nine” like I did today. As is usual to my daily morning routine, I logged on to be greeted by my Yahoo homepage. As I sat sipping my necessary morning tea, an unusual “news” headline caught my eye. “Garbage Crisis Stirs Protest in Naples”.
Unusual in its seemingly benign topic because in comparison to current news headlines of war, terror, death and disease, garbage seems secondary and trivial.
But is it really? In Naples it seems that it is not. According to the news, the city is suffering a two-week-old garbage collection crisis that has resulted in “scattered stinking mountains in the city.” With no solution in sight, angry citizens have taken to the streets in riots and rebellion. The media latched onto the story and finally government officials began to pay attention. In a public statement, Italian President Giorgio said that he was “alarmed” by the situation and called on officials to shoulder their responsibilities in resolving the problem. Premier Romano Prodi announced that government ministers would meet to resolve Naples’ garbage problems “once and for all.” Fearing negative international coverage on such a domestic issue, he continued to state that “Everybody is watching us, and I don’t want Italy to have such a negative image. It’s an emergency we must tackle rapidly.”
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Khash is all Good News in 2008!
Author admin | 01.01.2008 | Category Mongolia, Updates
The MNP 2007 fellow from Mongolia, Khash, has tons of great news to share with the group as he writes in with New Year Greetings - What’s he upto? Well, the institution that Khash works with, has successfully published ‘The Economic Freedom Yearbook of Mongolia 2007′ where they tackled unfair competition in the country, Human Development Report of Mongolia 2007 and a number of other policy reports all aimed at making the economy and business develop faster and be fairer. “This”, he says, “is our contribution to economic development.“
Gunvor and Olga in Helsinki
Author admin | 19.10.2007 | Category Czech Republic, Finland, Reunions, Updates
Olga, the fellow from the 
Colleagues , doing some work with the Finnish University Åbo Akademi. “We had dinner and some champagne - it was really wonderful to see her.” Writes Gunvor – Just like old times, eh Gunvor?
Since her return, Olga has been to
Rizwana and Gunvor Meet Up in Finland!
Author admin | 16.10.2007 | Category Finland, Reunions, Reunions, Updates
“Rizwana visited my center last week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.” writes a very happy Gunvor.
Though Gunvor (Finland) was away for some of the time, Henrik was the perfect host for their guest and friend in the foreign land. “We really enjoyed having her here - just worrying about being able to send her back home in time for Eid!” writes Gunvor
Gunvor Kronman hosted a panel discussion on “Global environmental and climate threats” at the Hanasaari – Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre, Hanasaarenranta 5,
Friday, October 12, 14.00 to 16.00 – Rizwana Hasan (Bangladesh) was invited as one of the speakers to the panel - Below are the details of the event:
Spotlight on: Farith Rithauddeen
Author admin | 13.10.2007 | Category Malaysia, Updates
It is essential to find out what the impact of spending two months in the
Farith Rithauddeen, Eisenhower Fellow from 
Program sits down for the cursory chat over email. This is what we found out:
As per my company’s new direction and my new position (where I have passed the running of the company to my no 2 and partner), I am now focusing on more international and high level relationship management. The fellowship has given me more credibility in the areas of technopreneurship where it allowed me to exchange and share my experience and insights of my studies/ research during the fellowship. E.g. The fellowship allowed me link with
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