What we would like you to do in your host country community:

• If you are living in a non-English speaking country, please volunteer to the ESC (esc@fawco.org) to provide a translation of the project page into your host country language. This does not have to be an official translation, but should be an accurate one. Perhaps there is a host-county national in your club who would be willing to take on this task. The American Women's Club of Sweden has already completed the first translation which was presented to Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden during the 2003 conference. A copy of all the translations will be made available for free on the ESC section of the FAWCO web site.
  
  
• We hope that the translations will be completed by June 2003 in order to enable us to mail them by the end of August so that the information can arrive in time for the new school year. We will, however accept translations at any time.
  
  
• In the final phase of this project, we are asking you to disseminate this information within your communities, making it available to your members and to your local schools, both international and host country.
  
  
• A press release describing this project is posted on this site. Feel free to use all or part of it to get the message out into your communities.
  
  
• Once the translations have been made, the ESC will send copies to the ministry or department of education in the countries where FAWCO has member clubs or where translations have been made available. A copy will also be sent to the United States Department of Education.

The success of this project now lies in your hands. The research work has been done, and now we need you to see that it reaches the people who can most benefit from it. The year 2003 has been chosen as the European Year of People with Disabilities. LD is an invisible difference, and therefore often goes unnoticed or disregarded. You now have the opportunity not only to raise awareness on an international scale, but also to bring positive help to those who might most benefit from it.

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