Information on The Association NELK *** free membership ***

NELK stands for Network Ecological Rural Cores (www.nelk.nl).
NELK aims at a responsible life in rural surroundings, wherever in the world.
NELK consists of people who gladly live rurally or would want to live as such, and who strive thereby for all the manners and forms of self-providing, and at the same time handle nature in a careful manner. In the beginning of the NELK new set-up oriented to growing, in 2005 the number of members was approx. 80, of which 6 addresses from outside the Netherlands. We want to increase strongly this number by publications.

Of the vaster issues, at present particularly the network-function of NELK is emphasized. This means to make known to other members what you are busy with, what you intend to do and which are you knowledge and abilities. If by this your interest is awoken, they could get in touch with you, or you could get in touch with them, in order to learn from each other, to help each other, or possibly to cooperate unlimited. NELK also aims to help with finding or building suitable areas and living/workplaces, both for individuals and for groups. At least once a year there is a meeting at an interesting place where we hold the year meeting as well. Individual members place every now and then convocation notes for special or regional meetings or activities.
NELK tries to manage into its doings with voluntary contributions. As long as this succeeds, the membership is for this reason free.

Companies and agencies that want to join NELK can be exclusively represented by an individual as a member who can indicate that he/she is a contact person for an organization.
If you want to become a NELK member, please send an e-mail to the president: Jan Husslage

e-mail: ARCHIEFNELK@YAHOO. COM
with the subject: "application new member",
mention here: family name, letters and nick name, birth year, phone number (s), mail address with mail code, e-mail address, category A, S or L (see under), and your profile: a description of yourself consisting at least of information on what are you busy with or what is you interest, which plans or wishes you have and in which domain you have knowledge and skills.
If by e-mail: you can add photographs up to 100kB.

Categories of members:
"A" signals an interested that does no self-providing activities in the garden, on the field or in the forest.

"S" signals a Urban Core, living in a city or a village doing self-providing activities in the garden, on the field or in the forest.

"L" signals a Rural Core that means the one living in a rural area doing self-providing activities in the garden, on the field or in the forest.

Before accepted as a member, one of the governing board members will call you for a short acquaintance (this, in order to prevent personal information abuse).
If you can only be reached through a mobile telephone, then we kindly ask you to call us. You will receive more information by e-mail or by mail after you donation has been received. Your data will be made available for all the members: free of charge in the common PO Box on the Internet, screened on with a watchword.

Alternatively, by papers post to members who are offering a donation
on giro 5958774 for Association NELK, G. van Asperen in Vredenheim.

Members will also receive irregularly NELK-Newsletter containing messages sent by mail and a selection of messages that have appeared in the internet-post bus.
The Internet PO Box is at present the daily communication medium of NELK, wherein the members (and the governing board) send messages that can be of interest for the members. This is no chat box, you send messages to individual members to their personal e-mail address. For different subjects there have been made separate folders, in which the administrator gathers the messages after receiving them in the INBOX. In the INBOX you will find general information and lists on which it is mentioned which messages are there, when they have been received, and in which folder you can find that. You can also put notes concerning free offer, sell or rent knowledge or other matters. Company like and simultaneously commercial offers can be only placed in the specially created folders.
Beside the members PO Box, there is the Internet site WWW.NELK.NL accessible for everyone on which general information appears and where historical and current read through publications of NELK are to be read and to be examined.
Nb. the site will be updated soon; the publications are temporarily not available.

With kind regards,

Jan Husslage, President, 06-18544066

(Translated from Dutch by Cristina Samson, sworn translator)

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