06-FEB-B-6

06-FEB-B-5

THE ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE FOR ME TO VISIT

MAYANGE, A “MVP”—MILLENNIUM VILLAGE PROJECT—

WITH A VIDEOGRAPHY CREW FROM KIGALI

In addition to the short trek off to see Julie from our Gisenyi base, we will also go with a professional video crew to the MVP Mayange from Kigali. We will try to set up the clinics to allow a brief side trip from each fixed venue for these purposes.

GWG

>>> <rsconyers@physiciansforpeace.org> 2/19/2006 8:42:20 AM >>>

Ranu, thanks. We'll be back in touch.

Brigadier General Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.)

Chief Executive Officer

P 757.625.7569 x 317

M 757.435.5288

-----Original Message-----

From: rxd166 [mailto:Ranvir.Dhillon@jefferson.edu]

Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:34 AM

To: Josh Ruxin

Cc: 'Sonia Sachs'; rsconyers@physiciansforpeace.org;

joanna.rubinstein@unmillenniumproject.org; ak2547@columbia.edu; 'Karen

Schmidt'

Subject: RE: Rwanda

Dear Dr. Conyers,

We greatly look forward to meeting with Dr. Geelhoed and the rest of the PFP

team in Rwanda. Please feel free to pass on our contact info to the team

and

we can coordinate their visit to Mayange. Thank you!

Ranu

+250-08306723

Quoting Josh Ruxin <jnr4@columbia.edu>:

| Dear Ron:

| Thanks very much for your offer of photography for the village. I think

| that could be helpful - particularly since our documentation skills are

not

| as professional as they might be. Please ask Dr. Geelhoed to be directly

| touch with Ranu upon arrival in Kigali. It's roughly a 90 minute ride

from

| Kigali to Mayange (though only 40 kilometers!) Because there is a famine

| breaking out around Mayange, it's difficult at this moment to commit to

any

| particular day since the situation is rapidly changing.

| I don't know if your DSL issues below referred to Rwanda, but it should be

| easy to get high speed access temporarily - at the very least a 3G card

| could be purchased for use in Kigali and offering 1 meg/sec wireless

access

| (surprisingly, the world's best!).

| I'm also copying this to Annette Karenzi, the Millennium Village

Coordinator

| and Karen Schmidt my deputy director. They'll also be helpful point

people.

| Best wishes and looking forward to being in touch,

| Josh

| Josh Ruxin

| Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health

| Center for Global Health and Economic Development

| Mailman School of Public Health and

| The Earth Institute at Columbia University

| 2910 Broadway

| Hogan Hall, 100B

| Mail Code 3277

| NY, NY 10025

| +1-212-854-7521

| +1-212-854-3748 (fax)

| Jnr4@columbia.edu

| _____

| From: Sonia Sachs [mailto:ssachs@ei.columbia.edu]

| Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:38 PM

| To: rsconyers@physiciansforpeace.org; jnr4@columbia.edu; rxd166

| Cc: joanna.rubinstein@unmillenniumproject.org

| Subject: RE: Rwanda

| Josh and Ranu. As I mentioned to you last week, Dr. Glen Geelhoed from

| Physicians for Peace will be in Rwanda and would like to visit the

Mayange.

| Glen Geelhoed is a highly respected surgeon from GW, with lots of

experience

| in Africa; he is a colleague of Peter Hotez who speaks of him very highly.

| Could you contact Ron Sconyers, CEO of PFP.

| Thanks.

| Sonia

| Cc: Dr. Josh Ruxin

| Ranu Dhillon

| _____

| From: rsconyers@physiciansforpeace.org

| [mailto:rsconyers@physiciansforpeace.org]

| Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:20 PM

| To: Sonia Sachs

| Subject: Rwanda

| Sonia, we have a team leaving for Kigali and Gisenyi, Rwanda on March 3

for

| about two weeks. It will be led by Dr. Glen Geelhoed from GWU. I'm not

| sure how far Mayange is from these two locations, but if reasonably

| accessible and helpful to you in any way, Dr. Geelhoed would be glad to

| visit Mayange. We are also taking a professional still photographer and a

| professional video crew on this visit. Again, if we're not talking

hundreds

| of miles away, they'd be glad to come to Mayange for a day to do some

still

| and video photography for your use. Just let me know what you think.

| On another front, we may not be able to do the videoconference with

Jeffery

| on the 3rd. The facility we are renting does not have any DSL, cable or

any

| high speed internet access. It looks like it will be cost prohibitive to

| install something temporarily. I'll know for sure on Monday.

| Hope you have a good weekend. Spring weather today, snow predicted for

| tomorrow. Oh, my.

| Ron

| Brigadier General Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.)

| Chief Executive Officer

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Thanks Nancy!

I had just responded to Ron Sconyers with the affirmative on the Mayange visit and am waiting to hear back from Jupa, our on-the-ground coordinator as to what would be the best day to visit there and to send an advance team to be sure they know we are coming.

I also attach a series of answers to questions that had been coming in to which the responses would be available at the "Packing Party" prep date here for those who might be available to attend.

I would think the later of the dates rather than the earlier, so that both teams will not be feeling their way along as newcomers, and by the time of our arrival in Kigali, I can be sure that the transport and other on-the-ground details are arranged. I do not think I would move the whole team with me to Mayange, but hand-pick a few representatives and the photographers, and take one van load rather than two--which will be needed for ground transport to Gisenyi later. I will hear form Jupa later regarding integrating the Mayange visit into the Kigali agenda and then carry forward the whole team at the week's changeovers to Gisenyi where we have another forty kilometer two-hour side trip to a humanitarian site near Lake Kivu.

If the are any questions about the attached letter or other arrangemnts I can answer before I make plans with Jupa for the Kigali fixed agenda, let me know!

Cheers!

GWG