Kia Ora Friends! Pacific Peoples Partnership is celebrating our 39th Anniversary Today! We have been long inspired to support the aspirations of Pacific Islanders for peace, justice, environmental sustainability and development. Please help us mark this special day by making a secure on-line donation to support our continuing work at: https://canadahelps.org/CharityProfilePage.aspx?charityID=s32540 A few historical facts: We were originally founded as the South Pacific Peoples Foundation. Our three founders (in 1975), were Elizabeth B. Silverstein, President/Chairman (founder), Stanley W. Hosie, Secretary/Treasurer (founder), Alan Ditchik Director (founder), with Joseph H. Konst, Secretary joining later that year. Our President Emeritus, Dr. James A. Boutilier has been with us since 1980. Phil Esmonde was the first Executive Director, 1982-1989. The PPP Esmonde Legacy Endowment was set up in his honour in 2012 and now holds over $20,000 in trust for PPP in perpetuity. In its earliest days the focus of SPPF was on nuclear testing and imperialism. In the 1990s these were still key issues to SPPF but other issues such as gender issues and climate change started to emerge and became important work focuses for our programming. In the early part of the 1990s, PPP dabbled with producing material in French. There were two French versions of Tok Blong SPPF in 1991; one French article appeared in Tok Blong Pasifik in 1994 and a bilingual one in 1995. Funded by Foreign Affairs Canada, the Indigenous Peoples’ Abroad Programme (IPAP) we placed nearly one hundred young professionals from every region of Canada with Indigenous-led CSOs, governments, professional associations and multilateral agencies in Fiji, Vanuatu, The Cook Islands, The Solomon Islands and Indonesia as well as in New Zealand Maori communities. pacificpeoplespartnership.org/ipap.html Hosted by PPP since 1988, Pacific Networking Conferences are the principal Canadian conference on the South Pacific, bringing together leaders from across the Pacific to share experiences and learn from each other. pacificpeoplespartnership.org/media/PPPOverview.pdf In 2015 we will be hosting our 22nd Pacific Networking Conference. Our partnered development programs have taken place throughout the South Pacific, most recently in Manokwari, West Papua where we are helping to build women’s cooperatives. Public Engagement through arts and cultural programming and exchanges is a key manner in which we engage Canadians: In 2009 PPP presented Hailans to Ailans, whose artists used “metal and wood sculpture, painting, weaving, and performance” to “examine the slippery nature of identity in places where ‘progress’ has often meant losing control”. pacificpeoplespartnership.org/media/Tok%20Blong/TBP.Fall09.pdf Page 7 in pdf In 2010 PPP featured the 2010 Pacific Music Award Group of the Year Te Vaka at the Victoria Event Centre. This event was so successful it sold out! pacificpeoplespartnership.org/news.html https://facebook/events/132927976738806/ One Wave Festival 2011 raised over $1500. A committee is now busy planning for our 7th One Wave Festival! pacificpeoplespartnership.org/media/PPP_2011-12AnnualReport-1.FINAL.web.pdf page 5 The first Pedalling for Papua campaign spanned 9,547 km, and raised over $5000 for West Papuan capacity-building. pacificpeoplespartnership.org/media/PPP_2011-12AnnualReport-1.FINAL.web.pdf page 5 In 2014 PPP presented a three-city tour combining discussion of Jeremy Bally’s Pedalling for Papua II with a screening of the movie Isolated. Both focused on West Papua. PPP has much in store leading up to our 40th Anniversary celebrations. Please be sure to keep in touch and continue to lend your essential support. Many exciting announcements are coming your way soon, all of which is only possible through your engagement! Warm regards, Eugene Lee, President & April Ingham, Executive Director
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:03:04 +0000
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