<div dir="ltr">News from South Asia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Marag India</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:maragindia@gmail.com">maragindia@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 9:26 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: Cordial Invitation on World Pastoral Day Celebration<br>To: ILC Rangelands Initiative Global <<a href="mailto:rangelandsinitiativeglobal.ilc@gmail.com">rangelandsinitiativeglobal.ilc@gmail.com</a>>, Heva Anne <<a href="mailto:h.a.brunelle@gmail.com">h.a.brunelle@gmail.com</a>>, Fernando García-Dory <<a href="mailto:fernandogd@inland.org">fernandogd@inland.org</a>>, Maryam Niamir-Fuller <<a href="mailto:mniafull2@gmail.com">mniafull2@gmail.com</a>>, James O'Rourke <<a href="mailto:jorourke@csc.edu">jorourke@csc.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Friends,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Greetings!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt">We invite
you to be part of our family for the celebration of “World Maldhari (pastoral) day”
on 26</span><sup style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">th</sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:11pt"> November, 2021.</span><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We celebrate
this day to commemorate the MERA Declaration of Global Gathering of women
Pastoralists held from November 21 to 26 in 2010. Pastoral women from 32
countries met at Mera village in Gujarat to strengthen the alliance and bring
practical solutions to the issues that affect the community. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pastoralists
are people who stay close to nature, unfortunately now they don’t have control
over resources on which their livelihood depends. They have also become victims
of the politics of nomenclature that is reflected in conversion of pastureland
into wasteland. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We have
been celebrating this day for the last 10 years, but this year is a turning point
for us as we move a step closer towards the call to the UN to declare the year 2026
as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. We expect that by then,
our issues which include – shrinking pasturelands, loss of traditional
livestock, rising milk prices, corporatisation of dairies/milk parlours, lack
of the accountability of the government – would be sorted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On this
day, moving beyond region, religion, political ideology and any such thing that
segregates us, we come together to pledge for a future where our goals of the MERA
declaration are brought to reality. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It’s our
day, organised by us to welcome ideas and make the policy makers realise our
existence to include us into the policies for our better future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(N.B:-
copy of the declaration is attached with this mail for your reference) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Venue: - </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rabari Samajni Wadi Paniyad, Botad, Gujarat, India</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Time – 6:00 pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Organizer – Team MARAG in
collaboration with Maldhari Vikas Samiti</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks and Regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On behalf of the team, I am</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anu Verma</span></p><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid windowtext;padding:1pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;border:none;padding:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">MARAG</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;border:none;padding:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">2-B, Milind Park</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;border:none;padding:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Opp. St. Xavier's High School - Loyola Hall</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;border:none;padding:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Memnagar Road </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;border:none;padding:0in;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Ahmedabad – 380052, Gujarat, India</span></b></p></div></span><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family:"Eras Demi ITC",sans-serif;font-size:11pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Tel: +91-79-</span></b><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><b></b></span><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">27912492</span></b></div></div></div></div></div>
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