Deciding hours

The next few hours will be deceisive for the ELAYS I guess... The email I am showing to you was written tonight. It is a symbol for our determination to make ELAYS happen...

"ELAYS is a great project, it is promising, high-flying and could be the start of a new era of cooperation between two continents... I mean if that is not something cool, I don't know what is.. And WE are doing this together! We have to focus on the simply stunning result we're going to achieve next year with the project. People will be inspired and changed. Paradigms will be modified and even personal revolutions will be initiated by ELAYS, I am sure!

Besides we gotta need funds for this project. Sad but true. Fact is, that we have already contacted the people that are going to sponsor us. That means we only need to send them the information and they will give us money, not with a probability of 100% of course, but we can assume that some will be sponsoring us.

The ELAYS team we have here is full of super motivated and skilled individuals (I read through the biographies and notices that everybody else speaks at least one language than me...). It feels good to have such labour-pool in our backs, there Alessia surely agrees with me. The team is ready work, that it proofed during the last weeks. They achieved a lot, even with short notice, without complaining (too much) :). I think, with them ELAYS is going to be the success we are all hoping for!

What we need now (before Christmas) are two things basically:

1. OFAS' support (some 40k CHF would look good in our budget)
2. Send out the Concept to our sponsors (about 40 institutions)

To achieve this pretty much everything is already done. I just received notice from Yoko that the french version of the concept still needs some work, but still the German version and especially the English version are practically ready to rumble.
Our potential in all different ways is HUGE, we only need to exploit it, focusing on the essential things.

Tomorrow I want to bring a fully completed dossier to the post office: addressing OFAS in Bern! We need to stick to this date (30th of November) as Jero reminded us in his email as well.

After tomorrow the concepts will have all our attention. We have the letters, we have the Short Description, we have the concept. What are we waiting for guys?? The only thing I know is that the potential sponsors are going to forget about ELAYS if we don't bring our PROJECT to their attention again soon. As soon as they receive our dossier, I am sure that they will be happy to help us, even with short time. People will want to be part of this. They will try everything in their might to make it happen.

The essence of my mail is that I am very grateful and happy to work with you all together and think that we can make this happen. There will be, for sure, some more stress and inconveniences coming up... BUT shall that be the "impossible to tackle" obstacle for us, for the ELAYS? With all my heart, NO! Please guys, let us work hand in hand to reach the best outcome for us, for the team, for the participants, for the implementation of the "social youth ventures" that only exist on paper yet...

Puh... that was some mail. Sorry that I stole you another 10 minutes to read all this, but it came from my heart. Please understand this mail as a motivation for the future and not as anything else!"

Have a truly good night,

Nathan

News :)

Hi everyone!! :)

After a very intense morning and part of the night working on the conceptof the ELAYS I decided to write to you about all the news :)

These last weeks we managed to

• finish all the different Short Descriptions of the project
• call different organisations/foundations/potential sponsors etc.etc. in order to gain support
• define our partnerships with Ashoka and Peacechild

These are some of the things we did ...impossible to write everything ;)

These days we are going to finish the whole dossier and translate it in different languages in order to send it out to the different organisations/foundations (etc.) we contacted.

We are really happy about our work, a lot of the people we contacted these days to gain support seem really interesetd to the ELAYS. Reason why we are looking forward to send them the dossier and receive their comments,feedbaks and of course obtain their collaboration.

The next days will be crucial for our project!!We ll be updating you as soon as we have important news.

Thanks a lot for your interest and thanks to our team!!Everyone is doing a great job!

Alessia (co-president ELAYS)

ps I hope that I ll have time the next few daysto present to you all the organising team.

Short description 2!!

Hi everyone!!
I just wanted to inform you that we had a lot of feedbacks on our 1st description and we managed to rephrase and correct it :)

Yesterday we sent it to Dennis and we hope that it will be ok and that he can send it to his colleagues as soon. He has already contacted some of them and they seem to be interested!!Great!!!:D

Next step : prepare a short description /letter for the sponsors till Friday morning!!
That s quite a big work to do but we are happy to do it ;)

Well I hope you're happy to see that the organisation process goes on ;)

I'll write to you as soon to tell you all the news about the newly formed team!!

Alessia ( co-president ELAYS)