Sambal Telor

I have come to see that in Chile, a simple ¨I'm sorry¨ is not easy to come by. Because of my lawyer, the process of legalizing our foundation in Chile has been delayed by 5 months. I was finally able to see him, and do you think he said that. Well, no, he didn't. He just said that he had ¨trusted¨ the system too much. What he is actually referring to is that he expected the process would be slow, so he didn't bother to check in the ministry of Justice whether the process was going or not! Well, issue is that they are getting the necessary papers to see why the process stopped.

We met up with CONAMA this week. We presented the waste management results from both PW and PN. Although the presentation and following meeting went well, i got the impression that these guys were not overflowing with ideas. Well, maybe they just keep them to themselves. Even so, we also discussed the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, and the need to fortify the community participation component. As at the moment it is not so well developed and the whole concept of participatory policy development is not really being implemented.

I also reformulated the position for the coordinator role in PW. For your perusing it can be found using this link. This was distributed via Enviu NL, but also via the network of Fundacion Prohumana in Santiago. I have an applicant already from Chile.

Some other meetings were taken forward with the regional coordinator of the national network of volunteers. This was interesting although it seems that the network in the XII region is not so active. I also wanted to meet with Sergio Lausic from the university of Magallanes, but unfortunately he did not show up....what can i say.

For the moment it does not seem as if we will be able to get restarted by July. It looks like it will be september at the earliest. Although we had quite a lot of applications, the most enthusiastic ones have changed their plans unfortunately. But, well, the positions are still there, so if you know anyone just go to the Enviu website and check them out.

This week i received a great package from Holland! It was full of spices to make Indonesian food, and a recipe for Sambal Telor! Woopi!