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President’s Report 2008 Presented on 19th
September 2008
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The year did start with an Ayad retreat of the two
candidates selected for Srilanka and one selected
for Vietnam, facilitated by Amanda, Peter and
myself, held at Moiya O’Brien’s place at 70 Mark
Street, New Farm.
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Our candidates to Sri Lanka that is Kat and
Katharine could not make to Sri Lanka due to
Australian government advice on the political
climate in Sri Lanka. This has been a major setback
to them, very disappointing as candidates but also
to me as the key facilitator of Sri Lanka School of
Social Work’s five year planned assistance and
projects.
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AYAD for Vietnam was successful. Bart and Amanda
made a visit to the project.
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We were invited to join the Not for profit network
as its foundation member. This invitation was
accepted by me in the capacity of president.
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Attendance at Reproductive Health Asia Pacific
Summit, in Hyderabad. President Venkat Pulla’s talk
on strengths based strategies in the field of
reproductive health was attended by 60 participants
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Visit to Sri Lanka School of Social Work: workshops
in strengths based practice. Over 300 participants
in all.
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Venkat did training for two days to corporate
responsibility groups in India at Mumbai with Tata’s
sponsoring the training event for 30 senior
executives.
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Invitation to Barcelona conference planning show and
impacts there after.
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Dubrovnik Planning meetings in Sydney organised by
Dragan Bombek and Venkat Pulla attended by 7 people
from the former Yugoslavian region, but current
residents of NSW and Queensland.
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Dubrovnik Planning meeting arranged and attended by
Venkat Pulla at Zagreb.
Professors
Dean Ajdukovic,,
Dr Dinka Corkalo Biruski, and Dragan Jusupovic
attended this meeting.
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Consultations on Strategic planning to Australians
Counsellors Association was provided by Peter Binyon.
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Strategic Planning meetings of BISbP were also
internally facilitated by Peter binyon
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Dine for development was held on October 4th
first gala Indian dinner and dance Palani Thevar and
Ram Velliam assisted by the Managing committee
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26th of November, 2008 Venkat attended
Karam Veer Puraskar by ICONGO and Indian Industry
and addresses on Principles of governance
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25th November 2008. Venkat inaugurated
an international social development congress in
Nepal
Special Appreciation:
To outgoing members of the managing committee Amanda Vos
and Bart Bunkering. Amanda’s association starts with
pre-conference of 2006 and her outstanding creative web
support – a very useful component of the conference.
Bart’s entry was through a strategic planning meeting
‘what after the conference2006? With outstanding
facilitation, he prepared well, asked us questions, and
spent time with most of us to find out what our
individual thinking was. I don’t think we have moved
much from that rather outstanding deliberation. Overtime
his contribution has been through imparting project
management skills to most of us in the organisation.
Bart and Amanda volunteered to spend their money and
visited Vietnam to support Hahn and took part in some
rather crucial discussions with host agencies. Although
they left the committee are always ready to offer
constructive suggestions in the interest of the
organisation. Bart especially is still keen on
assisting us in a consultant role looking at our project
plans etc on a need basis. As president, I am personally
grateful to both of them.
A word of Appreciation to the committee members: I must
acknowledge as the initiator of the BiSbP , the support
that I receive from Christine, Christopher, Dragan,
Peter, Ram and Palani.
Warm re-welcome: to Duncan Williams who
technically never left us- except that whole of last
year he was on a sabbatical. He continues to be on the
committee in right earnest the forthcoming future.
Welcome to Dr. Coralie Graham, Psychologist and Lecturer
Central Queensland University as Committee Member.
Coralie was a participant of 2006 Conference and has
been part of the faculty of Human Values initiatives at
work series that started in 2006.
Dr Venkat Pulla |
