From: Rustam Karimov/ Imkoniyat
To: Mary.Axe@colorado.edu
Subject: from Rustam Karimov
Dear Mary Axe. Thanks a lot for Your letter which you send me by e-mail. It's very pity, that it's impossible to realize Your project from Sister Cities International but , I quess,you had an objective reasons. I want to thank You from all scouts of Tajikistan and from me in person for Your attention , which You and your colleagues pay to us. I'll try to be detailed in my answers to Your questions: 1. Scout Association of Tajikistan is a social, nongovernment, educating organization for the kids, teenagers and adults. We are opened for everybody and we don't look at age, gender, nationality, religion and social background. The members of our organization are: boys and girls age 6 to 21 and older. Scout Association of Tajikistan officially registered in Ministry of Justice (registration certificate No F 228). Our organization is the only one teenage organization left after falling of the Communist Party in the Former USSR and Tatikistan. Date of foundation of Scout Association of Tajikistan is November l-st, 1991. Scout Association of Tajikistan have a constant friendly and partner relationships with World Organization of Scout Movement (Geneva-Swetzerland) and with director of this organization dr. Jak Morallion and with director of World Scout Association in NIS dr.Bondar Alexander Stepanovich (tel/fax 7-095-214-32-33). World Organization of Scout Movement constantly helps us with literature and supply with all necessary stuff. We counted about 3000 active members of our organization. 2. The representatives of our association repeatedly taking part in seminars and conferences organized by the World Scout Organization and UN in territory of NIS as well as abroad, where they receiving necessary knoledges to work with kids and teenagers. 3. Scout Association of Tajikistan along with Dushanbe leaders, ministries of education and ecology, national committee of UNESCO in Tajikistan, held a lot of projects regarding propaganda ofhealth education, protection of nature and environment etc. We also held teenage exibitions, concerts, scout camps, conferences, seminars, "round tables", devouted to the significant dates and problems of teenagers and kids. Our guys for the past 3 years vizited summer-labor scout camps in Volgograd (Russia). This year our delegation took part in 18-th World Scout Meeting in Jamboree (Netherland), but unfortunately, our delegation was the smallest one (only 7 people) 4. American Juridical Organization (USID) gave a grant to our organization this year for the juridical education of the members of our organization as well as representatives of the poor families (mostly in human rights field). We already work to accomplish this project for the last 3 months. In April '95 institute of the Soviet-American relationships (ISAR) USID gave a grant for our organization to organize first holiday in our republic Earth-Day which for opinion of our american colleagues went great. At the end of my ~etter, I want to mention that our organization unite besides kids an teenagers also representatives of science, culture, art, literature and architecture who also actively helping to develop Scout movement in Ta;ikistan. Dear Mary Axe, me and my colleagues have a big desire to cooperate with representatives of Your city, to develop sense of friendship and mutual understanding between our countries. Hope for Your reply , further suggestion and instructions. With best wishes, Rustam E.Karimov President of Scout Association of the Tajikistan.
Tajik Scout Jamboree
Dear brother and sister Scouts, and dear friends!During the first CIS Scout Jamboree in Armenia, in June, 1996 we, The Scouts' Association of Tajikistan, decided to conduct the first International Tajik Scout Jamboree, in the summer of 1997. The Scouts' Association of Tajikistan, with great pleasure, declares itself ready to organize said Jamboree, which is to be held from August 1 to 10, 1997 in one of the most interesting regions of northern Tajikistan, the Leninabad region- including the Kayrakkum reservoir for aquatic activities. The Leninabad area is a region of stability, economically and infrastructurally one of the most advanced areas of Tajikistan. For Scouts, the Jamboree will be a place for beginning new acquaintances and friendships. During the course of the Jamboree, the participants will receive an opportunity to be acquainted with the historical and cultural sights of northern Tajikistan, and travel to the cities of Khudjand, Ura-Tube, Isfara, and Kanibadam, the history of which totals more than 2500 years. The participants of the Jamboree will live in "camping houses" on the site of a recreation area.
Arrival at the Jamboree site is possible by planes from Moscow to Khudjand or from Tashkent, Uzbekistan with an additional travel time of 3 hours of bus. Please plan your travel together with us for the most successful choice of a route.
Participants can be any young person from age 12 on. Participants will be asked to contribute US$250.00. If they so desire, participants can homestay with the families of Scouts and schoolboys in Khudjand or Dushanbe prior to or after the Jamboree.
Please send your reservations, as well as requests for further information by fax: + 7 (3772) 21-05-55 (in Dushanbe) or by E- mail: rustam@jc.td.silk.glas.apc.org or dushanbe@boulder.td.silk.glas.apc.org.
As soon as you confirm your participation in this Jamboree, we shall begin
work on the details of issuing you the invitation and Visa to visit Tajikistan.
Payment of the contribution is to be made on arrival at the Jamboree. Applications
will be accepted until June 1, 1997.
Yours In Scouting,
Rustam E. Karimov
President of the Scouts' Association of Tajikistan
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