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Belarus

Guido Dellagiacoma advises:
“Have just come back from Belarus on 11th may, where we have held a course of sensibilization at Drybyn, in the region of Moghilev. In the Drybyn province the Clubs are spreading and should be by now about 10. In the provinces of Mozir and Kalinkovicic, in the South, there are another 4 or 5 Clubs, while there iso ne Club in Oshmiany, on the border with Lithuania, and one in Zhabinka, next to the Polish border, near Brest. During the meeting in the latter village, we have suggested to create an association of Clubs, but the bureaucracy in the country is such that they prefer to refrain”.
 

Congo

Father Corrado Tosi advises:
“The first Course of Sensibilization has taken place in Kisangani (in the area called Simi-simi), from 5 to 8 april, with Giorgio Mazzoleni as director from Italy, plus the staff consisting of Tiziana Fanucchi (co-director), Ivana Ghedina and father Corrado Tosi (group leaders). Elisa Grazzi has taken care of the translations in the various languages used during the course: Italian, French, Lingala and Swahili.
 

Congo

Thanks to the initiative of Father Corrado Tosi, who is already running the CATs in the Kinshasa area, and the friends from the Trento region in Italy, the first Course of Sensibilization, will take place in Kisangani (in the area called Simisimi), 5 to 8 april, with Tiziana Fanucchi from Italy as director.
 

Chile

Despite the seriousness of the earthquake, we have got news whereby the vice-president WACAT for Americas, Juan Manuel Cerna Guerrero, who lives in Talca, very near to the epicenter of the earthquake, is alive, up and running. We now await more news about the general community of the Clubs in Chile.

Macedonia

Vladimir Panzov is reporting:
“The Clubs in Skopje (capital of Macedonia) are working satisfactorily, and recently have started some new branches. They have also obtained new head-quarters, where however some of the material has just been stolen. Strangely enough, thieves have also taken material regarding the Club work, including the CD of the last Lignano Course.

Belarus

Guido Dellagiacoma and Angelo Tedioli have come back to Italy from the country, where they have held a course of sensibilization in the village of Kalinkovici, the same place where Irina Kashperko (WACAT delegate for Belarus) lives and works. The participants were about 40, and quite a few of them declared to be willing to start a Club. In Kalinkovici currently there are 3 Clubs. They have also visited the region of Moghilev, where a new Club has started, and the region of Dribyn, where the clubs are by now about 10. Also in the region of Brest 2 clubs should start soon. The programmes are slowly picking up, and the local authorities of two other regions have already applied in order to have their own course of sensibilization. Unfortunately the ANPAS representative office in Gommel has been closed down, and the local Clubs have died.

Denmark

Niels Andersen is reporting:
“We have held a course of sensibilisation for Denmark, Norway and Sweden in week 42 in Copenhagen. We were happy to find 14 participants only from Denmark, which probably will mean opening of at least 5 new clubs, and dividing of some others. 
We are especially happy about opening clubs in the south of Jutland and also on Zealand outside Copenhagen. It is also nice that the clubs finally seem to get started in Sweden. In addition we shall be holding an updating course in Denmark on november 20th/21th, with staff coming from Italy”. 

Sri Lanka:

Olcott Gunasekera, vice president WACAT for Africa and Asia, reports:
“We had the monthly meeting of the Servant Teachers on September 5, held for the second time at the complex of the Provincial Director of Health, Kurunegala. All facilities were provided without a charge. This is an important development in networking with the public sector.
 

W.H.O. draft paper on Global Strategy on Alcohol             

Following up the meeting with NGOs (where WACAT was attending) back in November 2008, and with Member States during spring 2009, the W.H.O. has produced a draft of the document that will be will be circulated to Member States this autumn.