Protest, Cricket Match proceeds to World Vision, write to BCCI,

[Guest guest]

Namaskar Mitra,

 

please send in yr protest to the Board, email id is bcci (AT) vsnl (DOT) com. Address it to

BCCI, start the mail by congratulating Jagmohan Dalmiya on a favorable Supreme

Court Judgement. My earlier mail below is only for information. Please frame

your protest mail as you think best.

 

with prem sanjeev

 

Namaskar Mitra,

proceeds from the Tsunami Cricket Relief matches in Australia are to go to

'World Vision' a Christian evangelists also known as service organization.This

link tells you more-

http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/news/tsunami/

To know about World Vision, an international Christian relief and development

organisation working to promote the well being of all people - especially

children.

http://www.wvi.org/wvi/home.htm

below is a forward from a friend. with prem sanjeev

Dear Friends,It has been brought to my attention that the International Cricket

Council is holding a benefit match to help tsunami victims -- ticket sales are

already proceeding in full swing. While we should applaud the ICC's social

commitment and compassion, we should strongly question their choice of aid

agency to receive the proceeds from this benefit match. They have chosen

World Vision International, an organization with a patently transparent

conversion agenda and track record in third world nations. I am amazed that

the representatives of their Executive Council including Mr. Jagmohan Dalmia

meekly went along with this.It would be more powerful for Hindu, Buddhist and

progressive organizations of all faiths to protest this -- rather than isolated

individuals. We should unite and stridently question what possessed the Cricket

Council, a promoter and symbol of diversity and multiculturalism, to designate

a beneficiary like World Vision for its fundraiser. To offer aid to an

organization with an explicit agenda to uproot people from their native belief

systems is to doubly victimize the victim. Let what the tsunami left behind of

the region's cultural and spiritual diversity not be washed away as

well!Regards, ChitraSOME USEFUL WEBLINKS:1. News Announcement of Tsunami Ticket

Saleshttp://www.icc-cricket.com/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2005/JAN/147952_ICC-MEDIA_04JAN2005.html2.

International Cricket Council Board ofshttp://www.icc-cricket.com/about/executive.html(Jagmohan Dalmia, India

)3. Asian Cricket Council Announcement of the benefit

matchhttp://www.asiancricket.org/h_cricaid.cfm4. Media registration

instructions provide some contact

emailshttp://www.icc-cricket.com/db/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2005/JAN/147959_ICC-MEDIA_04JAN2005.html5.

To write to them directly from their

websitehttp://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/contact-us.htmlor write to ICC Corporate

AffairsThe Clock TowerLord's Cricket GroundLondon NW8 8QNEnglandTel. +44 (0)20

7266 1818Fax. +44 (0)20 7266 1777email: enquiry (AT) icc-cricket (DOT) com