March 7th, 2010 | 
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A letter was received from the EC Representation in Cyprus. We believe this is a great opportunity for WiA and our goals.
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1. Attendance and Apologies
2. Minutes of Last Meeting
3. Report regarding the Bulent Ecevit Rehabilitation Centre, Gonyeli and possible actions that WiA can take (Leonie and Tina)
Present: Tina Adamidou, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Heidi Trautmann, Leonie Brittain, Mirianthi Loizou, Jenny Fryda, Chrissi Christodoulou
Apologies: Netha, Cigdem, Esra, Asli, Zehra, Leslie, Melissa, Navodi, Silviya, Olga, Gulsen
Present: Tina Adamidou, Heidi Trautmann, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Cigdem Durust Falay, Silviya Kuneva, Jenny Fryda, Chrissi Christodoulou, Mirianthi Loizou, Myrianthi Charalambous, Louisa Yiapana, Léonie Brittain, Anthoula Papadopoulou, Esra Kasapoglu, Navodi Samodhya Luwis hewa, Dima Abdoul Samad, Gonul Yazici, Muge Coker, Dogus Derya
Apologies: Antonia Lyra, Asli Soyumert, Gulsen Isilsoy, Yeliz Shuruz, Margi Slade, Melissa Reynolds, Netha Kreouzos, Zehra Nalbantoglu, Karen
Limnitis Meeting: there was a short report on the meeting at Limnitis on September 26, 2009. Women had invited members of the group to attend; 8 women went. The attendance from the village was small. They may be inexperienced in organizing meetings as well as dynamics in the village. We met a woman who lives in the village and is an experienced activist from London. She is keen to help organize future meetings and activities. The position of women in the village as well activities around the opening of the Limnitis borders, collaboration between the women of Limnitis and Kato Pyrgos were amongst issues discussed. The benefits and the concerns of the opening of the borders and what the women wanted to see created the framework for the discussion. Some ideas for activities on the day of the opening were put forward. It was agreed that the Limnitis women will contact the K. Pyrgos women and women from the group will attend if need be.
We noted that this was an informal meeting open to all women in Cyprus in order to discuss the way forward in helping to create a women’s movement in Cyprus.
The chair, Tina Adamidou, reiterated that this was not a meeting organized by Hands Across the Divide (HAD). Some of the founding members of HAD organized this informal meeting to invite the views of all women in Cyprus. It was envisaged that this would be the first of a series of meetings involving women from both the north and south of Cyprus and it was hoped that sub groups would be formed to take forward actions from the meetings.
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