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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you Nigel for your beautifull and inspiring
telling, I can see and feel the event, the childeren and Jingens
Han`s Mongolia in its softness</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Avner Haramati</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jerusalem</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=nigel@fulcrum.com.sg
href="mailto:nigel@fulcrum.com.sg">NigelSeys-Phillips</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:08
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Raising the Open Space flag in
Mongolia - longish</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">With due thanks again to Peggy Holman and her
Columbian adventure (2000 children…how DID you do that??) the World Bank
initiative in South East Asia has taken a couple of further steps – and as so
many people asked me for an update I am delighted to provide
one.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">I have been hugely privileged to “Open Space” in the
past month for street children in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Laos</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region></st1:place> – in both countries
focusing on the questions of vital importance to them from their perspective.
I am sure somebody has done work in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Laos</st1:country-region> before (if not, please let’s add this also
to the countries where we have raised a flag and that counts as two in a
month!!) but not too sure about <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region></st1:place> so maybe I have managed to
plant another flag for the world of Open Space??<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">We held the meeting at a Children’s Centre some thirty
kilometers outside <st1:City w:st="on">Ulaanbaatar</st1:City>, the capital of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region></st1:place>. For those geographically
challenged among us, I suggest a large scale atlas where you will find
Mongolia nestled totally landlocked between Russia and China – and if you
wanted two larger neighbours I have no idea where you would look, when you
have a total population of a mere 2.5 million. With it’s Soviet past (although
now independent and with an elected Parliament) the Centre has a wonderful
“soviet” look – solid, old fashioned, lots of crumbling concrete, stone cold
corridors and a splendid statue of the founder in bronze at the entrance.
Strangely (well, to me at least) the countryside was beautiful around the
Centre with fir trees and many others slowly changing from green to brown,
clear blue skies and a vast area with the most unusual collection of guest
houses – each clustered together in a “style” that apparently resembled
Mongolian / Japanese / Swiss….well so they told
me!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The meeting was held in the sports hall – probably the
only one with a yellow, blue and green painted floor with the NBA logo in
Mongolia I suspect – with fantastic steel radiators lining the walls installed
when radiators were meant to give off heat not act as interior design
accessories and when pipes were just that…stuck all over the
place.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Laos</st1:country-region> and <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Cambodia</st1:country-region></st1:place> signs came off the wall
because it was too hot and humid – here because, despite the weather being at
least clement, the walls were too cold, and just a little crumbly in
places!!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Open Space produced its magic – even if I have no clue
what was said for the entire two days! We had well over 100 topics raised,
some 70 with written notes which went into the Proceedings Book and ten which
we prioritized for action points.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This helps the World Bank, Unicef, National
Association of Children, Save the Children, World Vision and others focus
their efforts, both for themselves and for the demands they can make of the
host government who will be clearly shown the priorities from the mouths of
those they expect, and we hope want, to help<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">BUT it also produced two days of wonderful magic for
the children themselves, released for that time from their daily grind to
achieve something in their lives, which for many means actually surviving for
another day – and when winter comes here it hits Minus 40c which means
survival is a darned tough ask. The stories you may have read about street
children living in manholes is totally true – because the heating pipes need
to be buried underground to withstand the cold this is often the only warm
place they can find.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">They worked with all the sessions of a two day Open
Space (sitting on chairs in meetings for a couple of hours could not have been
further from their daily life if we had tried) although given the age range of
6 to 22 we did have a few drop outs…oh and one small dog who contributed
beautifully, but unknowingly, as a “butterfly”…but then reveled in the
outside. Meetings disappeared under trees on the edge of the forest, they sat
by an empty swimming pool, they climbed the tower of the Japanese village,
they ran everywhere. They were fed great meals, scoffed cake and sweets in
their farewell party, and after dinner the staff of the Centre and the
children ran, played games, sang songs, and soaked in the freedom, the safety,
the clean air and the warmth of the countryside.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To add to the magic we had our own brass band…battered
though the instruments were (and in several cases bigger than the children
themselves) and a little dubious the notes, the stirring sound of martial
music welcomed us all back after lunch and enlivened a few tired spirits at
the end of the day - contrasted splendidly with the disco synchronized arm
waving that followed seconds later! <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Oh yes – we were on Mongolian Television as well last
night….I didn’t watch it but then how would I have known which was the news
anyway?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And a final touch of Open Space magic to end a
memorable event. Before leaving <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Ulaanbaatar</st1:City></st1:place> I had a chance to walk around the
town and heard my adopted name called out - “Scotch”..not the drink but the
tape we struggled to fix, and refix, to the wall !!!! – and two of “my”
children came running up to say hello, still dressed in the orange t-shirts we
had all worn for the previous two days and still smiling from ear to ear. It’s
a great feeling to make 197 new young friends in just two days, and they all
know your name in a foreign country….”Scotch”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thank you Peggy – thank you Open Space – and welcome
to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Mongolia</st1:country-region></st1:place>!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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