[AFRI-Discuss] Request for additional travel support for African region ATLAS III participants

Raymond Mamattah mamattah.raymond at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 15:03:40 UTC 2019


Hello Olevie,

As shown in the email subject and well explained in the email, we need more
support in order to easily get our visas.

Regards,
Raymond.



On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 2:51 pm, Abd-El-Raouf Olévié Kouami <
olivierkouami at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all.
> It's a good intiative due to the past experiences but the the content of
> your email didn't reflect the object IMHO.
> Do you need more support for visa purpose or are you requesting for more
> participants from pour region Africa?
> Thank
> Olévié
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 25 juil. 2019 à 14:30, Raymond Mamattah <
> mamattah.raymond at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>> We the below mentioned Penholders, on behalf of the ATLAS III awardees,
>> refer to the announcement of the ATLAS III travel support selected
>> participants, among which are 19 people from Africa.
>>
>>
>>
>> Aside being selected, the intended purpose of training future leaders for
>> At Large cannot be achieved if the selected participants can not get visas
>> to attend the scheduled conference and training during the ICANN 66 at
>> Montreal in Canada.  It must be indicated that getting visas to Canada from
>> our various embassies across Africa is cumbersome. In this regard, we wish
>> to make the following suggestions on behalf of all the African 19
>> delegates, which can make it easier for us to get our visas:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1.    ICANN or the host entity to write directly to the various
>> embassies of the selected participants well in advance to introduce the
>> participants.  There must be acknowledgement for receipt of this
>> introduction letters from the embassies.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2.    The various invitation letters must clearly indicate that ICANN is
>> fully sponsoring the participants, listing that airfare, accommodation and
>> stipend will be fully provided to each participant.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is very important because the embassies would like to know if the
>> participants can have enough funds for the trip. In fact, it’s even a
>> requirement for the participants to provide their bank account statement
>> showing evidence of enough funds, hence if it’s indicated that the
>> participants are going to be fully sponsored the better.
>>
>>
>>
>> It must be noted that acquiring the visa can take close to 12 weeks in
>> some countries, hence, the earlier the processes are started, including
>> implementing the above mentioned suggestions, the better for the African
>> delegates to get their visas and attend the trainings.
>>
>>
>>
>> We are counting on your utmost support in this regard.
>>
>>
>>
>> Raymond Selorm Mamattah
>>
>> Remmy Nweke
>>
>> Peters Omoragbon
>>
>> (Penholders on behalf of Afralo ATLAS III awardees)
>>
>>
>>
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