woahhhh that was fast dude i wasnt expecting a response that quick:shock: but that just makes me apprieciate you even more heheheh , more to the point cant wait to see you mate and i hope you have recovered and see you soon.

welcome Chunky Monkey

yes this forum is very quiet

i guess the charity and events side to the org is our busiest
but we are a new forum so get all yoru friends on board to increase the forum members and inevitably teh communication too etc

Have had a quick read of some of the messages here and it feels like a bit of a private club! Thought I'd take a look at what's going on over this side cos I'm a member of your facebook group and have been impressed with what I've read there so far.

I hated the 9-5 too! Or possibly truer to say that I burnt out from working in social justice for too long. Battling stupid new legislation, paperwork and management committees that have no idea what I do but know exactly how I should be doing it!! Fortunately I'm well-versed in living on next to nowt, so I gave it up! I live in Plymouth, grow veg, am almost as unmaterialistic as it is possible to be and am much older than you guys so had more options.

Hope the dinner arrangements come to fruition! Will pop in again sometime. Nice to "meet" you x

and it was very nice for you to drop in quaker.

grow veg for a living the ultimate living off the fat of the land. sounds brill.

i wouldnt say its a private members club more a warm freindly bunch of people of believe that individually whilst we may not be able to make the biggest difference in the world, collectively we can. so by all means we would like you to join the extended family!

...which is why I joined!

The Bangladeshi project looks amazing! Have just been involved in opening a school in Mozambique, near a big refugee camp in Nampula, far north of the country. We really need another school there to complement it, but have to run with what we have available currently.

Am also involved in setting up a UK arm of the charity Unleash Power For The People so that we can claim the tax back from the Treasury. Gives us more money to set up solar powers in remote villages that have no access to electricity. Gives the Government less money to throw bombs at people that we didn't wanna throw bombs at in the first place! If you wanna take a look we're a facebook "cause", or at www.unleashpowerforthepeople.com.

Will be watching for other projects that you're involved in, but if there's never more than the street kids in Dhaka, it's enough!

WELCOME ON BOARD SIR QUACKER!

far from a private affair i assure you, we are still growing so it may seem like that as there a a tightknit dedicated bunch of us who use the forum but by all means, we want to expand and get everyone communicating

glad to hear teh first project appeals to you
its challenging but we are ambitious and determined to make it fruitful.
I just joined your project - do read my comments - i like what i see

so whats your eco-way fo getting rid of snails for the veg patch by the way?

That sounds pretty amazing! Thats quite an achievement on what you've already done QuakerSal - keep it up! Your support with RestlessBeings would be appreciated as well, as we know, our collective small efforts to these people in unfortunate situations will hopefully equate to a global movement to rid the world of poverty, injustice and inequality. One can always hope!!

Nancy

And Rahima - squashing them with ur wellies

Have always believed that however little we achieve, it's better than nothing. Apathy is what we're constantly up against isn't it? It may be a drop in the ocean but the ocean is made up of drops, as either Mother Teresa or Gandhi said.

The first four photos of the school in Nampula, Mozambique are up on my facebook page if you'd like to take a look. I was both thrilled and sad when they arrived. Thrilled because, after many frustrating months, it is at last finished and open and the children are not trying to learn in a "shed", and sad because I should have been at the opening but I had a limited budget and there were things we needed to buy for the refugee camp residents that I thought took priority over my plane fare so I paid for them instead. Maybe I'll get there some other time. It would have been great if it could have been this time, cos the other guys stopped off in Kenya to visit the deposed President of Burudi. I met his wife a few years ago, while he was still the President of Burundi. She was very helpful with some refugee projects I was working on locally and I would like to have met up with her again. The future obviously has summat better in store for me.....!

You can squash slugs wi your welly Nance but they may not die instantly and it makes an awful mess on the bottom of your wellies, apart from making em slippery!! A pot of salt water kills em instantly and, I like to think, they don't live long enough to know anything about it! I still can't pick em up though. I have to use some kind of tool for that!

Hi there, I'm Aysha and, er, I registered today and was also at the open evening thing this evening (that sounds a lil vague but you all know what I mean). It was really cool to actually see, er, the people there, you know, as in the creators. Great stuff, what you're trying to achieve, not just hot air but an actual plan of sorts to get there. Anyway, I have a somewhat messy background in that I haven't found what I'm looking for just yet so am currently doing an MA part time in contemporary lit, work as a paper shuffler for Film London and also part time at the Idea Store. I also have a tendency to digress so I'll leave it at that before I get distracted and ramble on about some random topic...

welcome shan/ayesha, it was lovely to have you and others at the meeting. explore the forum and post away!

Welcome aysha

what do we call you? shan? aysha? ayshan?

contemp lit, which authors you studying? i did lit and postcolonial theory for my MA.
You studying Chinua Achebe and all that ?

glad you could make it to teh meeting

coming friday night to the skool event ?

Hi. My name is Mary, I'm a granny in the US, an activist and a bleeding heart (at least that's what the republicans call us). I'm here to learn about the org. and to see if I can be helpful here.

Welcome aboard! Thanks for joining the forum (no doubt you'll find plenty of debates and opportunities to discuss! )

Feel free to engage on the forum, and of course read through our website. You'll find loads of info there, although the website is currently undergoing a complete makeover.

How did you hear of restless-beings?

Some friends joined the group on Facebook, but upon reading the forum there, folks were being directed here. I came and read for some time.

Hey there aMaryCan

www.restlessbeings.org (is our current website) if you would like to find out more

welcome to the RestlessBeings forum!