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The PPSEAWA Network: Conference Connections Lead to News Coverage
After attending the PPSEAWA conference in Malaysia, Member-at-Large Lisa Dreier spent the first 7 months of 1998 traveling through India, Nepal and Indonesia. Her mission was to find and write about outstanding women activists, and to learn and write about broader issues related to environmental protection and sustainable development."I was inspired to go to India, in great part, by the PPSEAWA members from India who I met at the 1997 Kuala Lumpur conference," Lisa said. "These women (who are leaders in the All-India Women's Conference and experts on various women's issues) were extraordinarily welcoming. At the invitation of AIWC Secretary Asha Dixit, I visited and stayed at the AIWC headquarters in Delhi, and visited Asha's projects in and around the city of Jaipur."
Lisa has written and is still in the process of writing a number of articles related to her recent travels. A list of articles to date includes:
- "Profile of Medha Pathar and the Save the Narmada Movement" (Women's Feature Service)
- "Tibetan Women in Exile Work to Preserve their Rights and Heritage" (Women's Feature Service)
- "Villagers Unite to build a School for Girls in Rural Rajasthan" (Women's Feature Service)
- "Indonesian Women find Opportunity amidst the National Crisis" (Women's Feature Service)
- "A School of their Own" (Ms. Magazine, June/July 1998)
- "Camel Trekking in the Remote Thar Desert" (Christian Science Monitor, 2113/98)
- "The Heart of a Hustler: meditations on the sociology of tourism" (Salon Magazine, 9118/98)
- "Tracking Wild Tigers in Rajasthan" (Christian Science Monitor, to be published this fall)
- "Growing Together: Women and Environmental Survival in Rural Nepal" (Women's Feature Service, to be published 10/98)
- "Foundations of Dignity: building support for women and local autonomy in Nepal" (Women's Feature Service, to be published 10/98) "I have about 10 other articles yet to be written or placed in publications, on topics that include women's solo travel, the Tibetan community in exile, Indian women activists, Indonesia's future, and Nepal's environmental treasures," Lisa said. "For copies of any of the above articles, feel free to contact me at lisadreier@aol.com."
