April 2012

The beautiful campus in Malvern, England

SDIA AGM in Malvern, England This year SDIA’s members networking meeting and AGM will be held in Great Malvern, UK, from the 22nd to the 25th of August, alongside the Subud Britain National Congress.

As always an action-packed programme will be proposed and we hope that many of you will be present to join in our meetings, presentations and workshops!

Register on Subud Britain's website

January 2012

The next Human Force Camp for Social Change

The next Human Force Camp for Social Change will be held in Anisha, near Bangalore in India in early July 2012.

The Human Force initiative is designed to bring a group of enthusiastic volunteers together with a project which needs them for a specific task or tasks for a short period.

January 2012

Budesti English Language Summer School, mark two

Applications are now welcome from willing volunteers!

Following the success of the first Summer School in English for disadvantaged children in Budesti, Moldova, Subud members are launching the second edition of this project, which is now an SD network member.

• Practical Action Most food in the world is grown, collected and harvested by more than a billion small-scale farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk. This food is mainly sold, processed, resold and consumed locally… reinforcing the diversity and vibrancy of local food systems should also be at the forefront of the international policy agenda.
• What is the Rio +20 Conference about? The environmental crisis is looming and we must be active on the local level; but our response must also be coordinated globally if it is to be effective. The elements of the crisis are resource depletion, global warming, population growth, poverty, the grossly unequal distribution of wealth, and our economic dependency on growth. The United Nations has provided a wealth of material to help us become informed about the situation all around the world and what needs to be done.
• What is the contribution of Susila Dharma towards acheiving the UN Millennium Development Goals? — Download this matrix and see it all in one place.
• Promoting Justice: An Unexpected Life — Livingston Armytage has been a Subud member since 1971, and is a child of Subud parents, Sofyan and Halimah. He served as National Chair for Subud Australia between 1981/3, and as a regional and local helper. He has lived and worked with his wife Miyako in about 25 countries mainly in Asia, and is presently leading a judicial development program across the Pacific region. His Ph.D entitled: Reforming Justice: a journey to fairness in Asia, is being published by Cambridge University Press in early 2012