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Dear Dr. German Pineres
Thank you very much for your reply message. I greatly appreciate your support regarding the proposal for regional network of JICA Alumni Association. Many of the JICA Alumni Associations are located in South American countries and I think it would be a great idea if we work on the idea simultaneously. Since I have been contacting other alumni associations, it has transpired that this idea is not new. Such a regional forum is already working among south east asian countries. This year they are going
to have their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Here in Pakistan, we organize a variety of activities e.g. study visits, seminars, home stay programme for Japanese Volunteers, awareness activities, etc. We also hold activities of special interest like music programmes, origami, cooking, painting and ikebana workshops, and special days. Besides, we have a special focus on public welfare activities. We hold Free Medical Camps in villages where government healthcare facilities are not available. A couple of years back, we vaccinated all members and their families for 3 doses of Hepatitis B. We have a large executive committee where members are encouraged to come up with novel ideas and we try to diversify our activities as much as possible.

Our founder President, Prof. K. A. Abbas, is a leading paediatrician and he lays special emphasis on health related activities.
I shall be grateful if you could send us the record of congress on child abuse. We would surely like to hold some activity on this subject.
We would be more than happy to share our experiences and to join hands in activities of common interest.

With best regards and wishes

Yours sincerely

Abdul Sattar Khokhar
Vice President
JICA Alumni Association of Pakistan
C/O JICA Pakistan Office
2nd Floor, COMSATS Building,
Shahrah-e-Janhuriat, G-5/2
Islamabad-44000, Pakistan

Dear Mr.
Abdul Sattar Khokhar
Vice President
JICA Alumni Association of Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan

Thank you very much for your message. I am glad to have notice from you as Vice President of Pakistan Association. We also hope you and all the members of
your association are doing well.
Let me express you our support for the outstanding effort of contacting sister JICA Alumni associations.
We believe that creating a regional network will be an important step in order to generate a worldwide one.
We could cooperate performing a similar labour in Central and Southamerican countries keeping in contact with you.
On the other hand, I would like to have notice about your work; maybe we could help each others on different issues. Our Association have been performing
a variety of activities on critical aspects that could lead to improve our society. Particularly this year we have organized a congress concerning child abuse.

Sincerely,
German Pineres
President
JICA Alumni Association of Colombia
Bogota -Colombia

JICA Alumni Association of Pakistan is working on the proposal to have good relationship with sister JICA Alumni Associations in other countries. In collaboration with JICA Alumni Association of Bangladesh, we are actively working on the idea of having a regional forum for JICA Alumni Associations in the Asia region. In future we plan to extend the network to other regions as well.

I would like to invite your comments and views on the idea of cooperation and networking between sister JICA Alumni Associations.