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The team's 5th group meeting

Last Thursday, most of Kuni wa Kun team's members met to share, talk about, finalize points on launching the coming campaign. Here is a summary of what happened by Amal Ashtal.

We had the team's 5th group meeting, this time enjoying the fabulous site at the top of Burj Al-Salam hotel in Old Sana'a (thank you Ibrahim for pushing for this change). Although the plan was to discuss the initiative's progress for one hour before eating, it was difficult to defeat our hunger and we discussed things over food. Led by Ibrahim, the 3 hour meeting resulted in creating a structured working plan that divides the initiative into "units" and their coordinators.

Kuni wa Kun visiting pioneers

On Thursday, Jan 28, 2010, the Kuni-kun-ers had another interesting day. We began a group meeting at 1:30 pm at Mokha Bunn (the plan was to go to a restaurant but we decided that would be less productive)...lasting till 3:30, the meeting included overall discussions of where the Kuni initiative stands and what the next steps should be. Then at around 4, a group of us (Amal, Najla, Ibrahim, Zulfa, Fras, and Ahmed) went to visit Dr. Mohammed Asda at his home. He is one of those people with many hats: a neurologist, TV presenter, and musician who speaks Chinese fluently and is well-versed in religion. We also met Dr. Fuad al-Sabri from UNDP there and both of them gave us general advice on how to approach the woman's issue in Yemen. Being the wonderful host he is, Dr. Mohammed then entertained us by playing the piano and Oud while we munched on some snacks (more like attacked the food since we hadn't had lunch :S ).