IIPT sends congratulations and announces events

Saturday, 18 Oct, 2006 0

IIPT’s Australia Chapter has sent congratulations, via Shan Ali of Grameen Bank Australia representative to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and its micro – loan scheme to the poor.  

Shan was a speaker at the IIPT Australia 2003 Conference and  IIPT Founder and President Louis D’Amore joined in sending congratulations to Dr Yunus.

The Grameen Bank scheme started in Bangladesh in the 1970s and it has since been adopted in over 100 countries, with 97% of the loans, interestingly made to women.

IIPT also released details of forthcoming events as follows: –

1 November 2006 (Wednesday) 6 for 6:30pm

City of Sydney Peace Prize lecture with Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International.  Seymour Centre Box Office Phone 02 9351 7940

14 November 2006 (Tuesday) 

IIPT 2006 AGM and end of year function to be held in Sydney. 

21 November 2006 (Tuesday) 

Melbourne promotion 6-7pm, Intrepid Retail Store, 360 Bourke Street. Travellers, agents and anyone interested in peace through tourism are welcome.  Event details to be posted to Intrepid website www.intrepidtravel.com then click Inspirations, then Events.

24-26 November 2006

Adventures in Travel Expo, Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour. IIPT is an event supporter and is included in the seminar program.  www.adventuresintravel.com.au

29 November – 2 December 2006 

Destinations 2006 – World Tourism Forum for peace and sustainable development.  Porto Alegre, Brazil.  Louis D’Amore will be chairing one on the sessions, and Daphne Lowe Kelley will be a panellist.

Easy Being Green Ways to save energy, water, $$ and the planet, worth having a look at this website www.easybeinggreen.com.au

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