PHA-Exchange> In preparation of PHA2 (41) Setting up national PHM circles

[Claudio]

Setting up national PHM circles:

 

Dear friends,

 

You are part of the pha-exch family close to 900 strong. 

And you are in, I calculate, over 50 countries.

I assume you are all 'PHM at heart'. 

 

But we do not have national PHM chapters (we call them 'circles') in all your countries.

What a better time to get organized than shortly before PHA2, i.e. NOW. 

We absolutely need this.

In Cuenca, we will pass important action-oriented resolutions that need to result in action.yesterday! 

So we need to prepare beforehand.AND keep up a steady momentum after Ecuador!

Our network will remain a paper tiger if we do not pay more attention to organizing formally in every country we have members.

 [Remember: "Divided we beg.united we demand"].

 

What does this mean for YOU?

It means you have to pick up the phone and sit in front of your computer to make the key 15 phone calls and write the 20 key emails to like-minded fellow  travelers on the road of equity in health and of health as a human right. and 35 is already a crowd.

When calling/writing remember PHM is not an NGO. We are a network of individuals AND organizations; so call both. 

We are particularly interested in having grassroots organizations joining formally.

Set a date and a venue as you call/write and urge all to come.

 

In the meantime, go to www.phmovement.org  and fish out the People's Charter for Health (in your local language! --we have it in over 40 languages alrady) and make (35?) copies.  

Also print the PHA2 draft program, and --voila!-- you have the agenda for your first meeting. 

(Actually, the website has so much good material that you have agendas for a dozen PHM circle meetings.Ah!  And make sure 'your 35' subscribe to pha-exch by writing to me at claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn .

 

During the meeting, explore who of the 35 plans to come to Cuenca (and try to set up some system to raise travel funds locally) and make them (even more) regular visitors of the website to keep informed of fast changing facts about the Assembly.

 (You/they should also visit www.iphcglobal.org for PHA2, PHM and other good info for your circle).

 

As you succeed in your inaugural meeting, take all the notes necessary and list the attendees and share the info electronically with our PHM secretariat in Bangalore at secretariat at phmovement.org . 

 

Am I in an optimistic mood this weekend? 

You bet! 

Because I trust you have had enough and do not want to take all this injustice in health any longer..and that means getting organized in all countries we have a presence. 

Do not disappoint us. 

Phone and write today.

 

In solidarity with you and with those who suffer under injustices in health,

 

Claudio

(your moderator)

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