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COMPASSION RESPONSE NETWORK CIRCULAR No 11

By David Keane, 7/November/2002
PO Box 582, Gosnells WA 6110, Australia
Email address: keane@nw.com.au
Healing site address: http://www.nw.com.au/~keane/healing/

Preparations for the Harare and Kinshasa projects are now nearing completion. There is an enormous amount of work required to facilitate it all. We are working through dedicated goodwill workers doing all this for free, so it is really amazing how much has been achieved. But we do ask for a little patience. The preparations are progressing steadily, but they do take a little time.

The broad outline for the Harare and Kinshasa projects has now been finalised and discussion is proceeding on details for developing a comprehensive plan of action and a public appeal target.

Both the Harare and Kinshasa projects will be continued for 6 months. Eighteen advanced AIDS patients will be selected for Harare and seven for Kinshasa, 25 AIDS patients in all. All patients will receive comprehensive blood tests every two months, that is before commencement of treatment and at the 2-month, 4-month and 6-month stages of treatment.

These blood tests will include;

1. Viral load count (bDNA or PCR tests),


2. CD4 cell (immunity) count,


3. Full Blood Tests (red blood cell, white blood cell, platelet),


4. Other blood tests as requested by the supervising doctors.

Leading experienced doctors have been attracted to the projects in both Harare and Kinshasa. They express great enthusiasm for the projects and firmly believe in these projects. Full safety protocol reports for all treatments are in the process of being prepared in both Harare and Kinshasa. In Harare the safety protocol report will be forwarded for consideration by the Minister for Health. In Kinshasa many notes on various treatments are being translated from English to French (the national language for the Democratic Republic of Congo). Each patient will have a detailed case study dossier prepared to comply with international comparative study standards. Besides recording blood testing, each patient will have regular check-ups and progress reports throughout the 6 months period. Essential blood test results and medical examination details will be openly published on the CRN website, but the name and personal details of selected patients will remain confidential, the patients each being given a project reference code.

In Kinshasa three treatments will be used;

1. zapper plus colloidal silver (2 patients)


2. Dr Bob Beck treatment of electrifier, magnetic pulser, ozonated water and colloidal silver (2 patients)


3. Tetrasil (as the improved product called Imusil) (3 patients)

All these treatments have now arrived in Kinshasa. Albert received sponsorship to attend the global sociocracy conference in Holland in mid-September, where he was able to collect the treatments and he safely couriered them back to Kinshasa on his return air trip home. He also bought many needed medical items in Holland, at prices many times cheaper than if they were bought in Kinshasa or sent there by private courier (ordinary mail being most unreliable).

In Harare, we will be treating 18 advanced AIDS patients, three being put on each of six different treatments. Three of these treatments have already arrived in Harare, these being the same three main treatments being planned for Kinshasa. The other three treatments for Harare are in final stages of negotiation. They are likely to include a herbal remedy (Essiac), a natural nutritional remedy (Ambrotose) and a sixth treatment still being negotiated. We will disclose fuller details of these three treatments in the next circular when arrangements have been finalised. We will be publishing comprehensive information about all treatments on the CRN website, by the time the projects commence.

All alternative treatments provided for CRN treatment projects are chosen because they each satisfy three criteria; they are reputedly effective against HIV/AIDS, they are cheap, and they are safe.

We remain detached from all claims of healing. Our position is this; let the treatments be provided to at least three advanced AIDS patients under top medical supervision for a period of six months, and let sufficiently scientific blood testing be carried out each 2 months of the 6-month treatment period, and then let the results show which of these treatments are worthy of further study.

On the matter of cheapness. CRN itself has few financial resources and yet is able to guarantee the free provision of treatment for all 25 advanced AIDS patients selected for the study. The costs for more extensive treatment projects can be assessed after the completion of the project. But many of these treatments need have no greater cost than the goodwill labour to grow the herbs and/or treat the patients.

We have examined all treatments for safety and regard them as safe. Members of Compassion Response Network are however not qualified as scientists or medical doctors. Our role is in goodwill networking, and we simply network what other doctors and scientists have said about these treatments. The supervising doctors in both Harare and Kinshasa are preparing comprehensive safety protocols and will be required to ensure maintenance of high safety standards.

Although the cost of treatments themselves has now been fully met by donations and CRN funding, various other expenses will be required to complete the projects. There will be the cost of blood testing. Some blood tests done in Harare will be free because of medical aid cover, and this is the main reason for selecting more patients in Harare for our survey. We plan to train and employ one full time nurse/carer in Kinshasa and two in Harare. These will need to receive full wages throughout the six to eight months of the projects. We are discussing provision of rental of room accommodation in either a treatment house or consulting clinic office. We will need to provide all patients with healthy nutritious food throughout the treatment period. And there will be other incidental expenses. Submissions for these costs are already presented, and the budget for the overall projects will be discussed in detail over the coming weeks, before we can launch a public appeal for the needed funds.

An exhaustive process of researching detailed legal requirements and preparation and discussion of our CRN constitution has now concluded. We have agreed on the final version for our Compassion Response Network Constitution. This Constitution has now been signed by seven founding directors; David Keane and Dan Hewitt of Australia, Marielle Jansen of Holland, John Buck of USA, Albert Mananga of Democratic Republic of Congo, Geraldene Cockcroft of Zimbabwe, and Sergei Belkovsky of Russia.

An application to register Compassion Response Network as a charitable public company has now been lodged, together with our CRN Constitution, with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. As of the date of issue of this circular, we are awaiting official acceptance of our registration. We will then also register with the State Department of Fair Trading as a charitable organisation. All funds for the public company must be used for the charitable purposes as set out in our list of objectives defined in the constitution. No member of the management board will be permitted to receive remuneration from the CRN fund, except for repayment of out of pocket expenses and no member of the management board will be permitted to draw a wage or salary. There will be strict accounting standards applied and a yearly audit will be mandatory.

The Vision, Mission Statement and Objectives have been written into the CRN Constitution. The Vision and Mission Statement had been decided months ago, and have been discussed in previous circulars (numbers 6 and 8). As a reminder they are;

The Vision of the Compassion Response Network is:

The Mission Statement or Main Objective for the Compassion Response Network is:

The Mission Statement and Main Objective are the same thing. Over the past month, members of our Inner Planning Circle have debated and agreed upon a full list of other objectives which are now written into the CRN constitution. The list of other objectives is as follows,

Compassion Project Objectives

1. To adopt projects of compassion in response to the invocative call of men and women of goodwill appealing on behalf of humanity in urgent need.
2. To identify with the millions in the world with AIDS and facilitate a compassionate response through direct action until their suffering is transmuted to hope. To facilitate AIDS treatment and testing projects of sufficient scientific-medical quality to attract the interest and commitment of major aid and charitable groups. To cooperate with major aid and charitable groups to provide effective long-term responses to the AIDS pandemic.
3. To facilitate the provision of free health care for basic health needs for the poorest of the poor.
4. To develop the emergence of a group agenda for financing a global education in the spiritual essential teachings.
5. To facilitate the emergence of people's participation movements.
6. To facilitate development of compassion response centres, in which service groups act as focal points for inviting men and women of goodwill to join together in common group endeavour to engage in projects of compassionate response to human need.

General Objectives

7. To strengthen communication links and networks between servers for goodwill and global unity around the world.
8. To encourage men and women everywhere to affirm the principles of goodwill and global synthesis, and to link together in regular meditation for world unity and synthesis; to be a meeting place for all races, religions and world views of all people who choose to build the new world civilisation on principles of goodwill, global unity and group participation.
9. To facilitate group activity by which the vision for solution of humanity's problems can become anchored upon Earth in practice. This will require working in common endeavour under the Law of Inclusiveness and identifying with the many in need through using a Meditation of Synthesis. Thus the group helps construct the Rainbow Bridge or continuous energy channel connecting God's will with a direct physical response to humanity in need.
10. To facilitate the union of esoteric and exoteric workers in the one spiritual undertaking, starting with the esoteric work and building the organisational aspect of practical goodwill activity on Earth. To develop projects of compassionate response, from a point of genesis as inspired through an intuitive understanding of God's Plan, through to a point of manifestation, thus demonstrating the Science of Manifestation.
11. To create and maintain a global organisational structure to facilitate direct compassionate response to human suffering in general.
12. To develop the Science of Sociocracy which provides a methodology for organisational management and for empowering people to participate in the decisions that affect their lives. (Sociocracy was founded through the pioneering work of Gerard Endenburg and is globally co-ordinated through the Sociocratisch Centrum Nederland.) To integrate Esoteric Science with the Science of Sociocracy and to unite the two in one spiritual undertaking. To integrate the methodology of Sociocracy into a global organisation to provide a compassionate response to human suffering.
13. To link with and cooperate with other organisations that also provide compassionate and goodwill responses to humanity's most urgent needs. To provide an information service concerning the activities of men and women of goodwill all over the world.
14. To publish and distribute such material which educates about the values of goodwill, world unity, group service, meditation, and compassionate response to need. To facilitate the free provision of such educational material to those who would not normally have access to such educational material.
15. To do all such things as are incidental to or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the objectives of the Compassion Response Network.

The other objectives listed in the CRN constitution are very general for a clear purpose. They embrace the facets of compassion work required to anchor the theory for peace and right human relations into practice. Our main objective or Mission Statement requires us to " directly provide a meaningful compassionate response to the most urgent needs of humanity." The other objectives list the broad types of compassion projects through which this is to be done.

The objective relating to AIDS requires us to concern ourselves with a far more extensive long-term agenda for helping people with AIDS than just 6 month treatment and blood testing projects. We are in it for the long haul, as a life-time commitment to step by step develop projects that will transform the nature of humanity's response to this pandemic.

Consider for example the observation that Geraldene (the project facilitator in Harare) made recently, when considering the dilemma of feeding patients while they are on our treatment projects; "Once the person is up and healthy again, there are no jobs available. We would want to avoid the mind set that food = sickness, health = hunger." There is such acute political and economic trouble, together with desperate poverty, unemployment and drought linked with food and commodity shortages, that this presents an extraordinarily significant problem. We have proposed the formation of a Compassion Response Centre in Harare in which many diverse needs of the people are taken into account. This is a very bold and imaginative idea about which we shall share more as it is developed.

The main reason we are focussing so strongly upon AIDS at the moment is not only because of the acute and desperate need. It is because this problem has awakened the invocative appeal of the common people for a profound compassionate response. We choose to aim directly, despite limited personnel, resources and finances to provide such a response. We must therefore develop the science of compassionate response to need. We attune to the invocative appeal of the many and must help mobilise the men and women of goodwill around the world to do something that will be effective. We must not underestimate the potency of goodwill, once it is effectively mobilised. It can transform society.

So also in future we are open to the possibility of projects in other areas of compassionate response, providing essential healing treatment to the poorest of the poor, providing simple education in right human relations and true values, developing people's participation movements and in other areas.

Overall we will be developing a scientific approach that once demonstrated to be practical, can be applied in a diversity of situations to assist ordinary men and women of goodwill to get creatively involved in such a way that they help transform society. We must begin from the spiritual or esoteric and seek out the causes for the world problems, and address these causes directly, in a way that anchors practical solutions into reality and provides a pathway for broad participation by men and women of goodwill.

Such is our broad agenda. Our work must grow, for the need is great.

There have been quite a few changes in Harare since the treatments have started arriving. Some treatments (Tetrasil and Essiac powder) are in limited supply so they are being put aside until we can commence the main project. Other treatments such as colloidal silver, zapper, and Beck devices can be used repeatedly and so these have been provided immediately to the many in need. Geraldene, our contact from Harare, writes,

"Now things have to start happening and the benefits of these treatments must get to the people as soon as possible as time is of the essence."

"We started making our colloidal silver on Friday and distributing it immediately.

Interesting noticing the changes it is making. I am asking people to bring their own brown bottles (old ones) where they can. We will then sterilise them and recycle."

"Prayers are being answered. Colloidal silver --- literally thousands of people want to take it. The prison would even be interested in giving it to the in-mates, as so many are HIV!! I feel that this all has to be done slowly and carefully. My intuition tells me not to jump in as I always do."

"I woke at 4.30 this morning feeling like its all too much!! I do not ever really get depressed, thank goodness, and I will never give up!! I thank God for my strength and resourcefulness."

"We have been planting a lovely vegie garden, the seedlings!!! We will keep them going carrying buckets."

"For the last 5 months I have been doing all the house work, cooking etc. We have 32 rooms including the offices. Washing, ironing for 4 people. Then at 6.30 pm someone comes for help, advice, counseling. After dinner at 9 its emails, letters to type, appointments tomorrow to plan."

"Its all too much!! I know I am doing far too much, always believing that God has a plan. When I had an income, and simple food was fairly easy to put on the table, basic petrol etc was met, then I could get on with my real work with the people. At the moment its like everything is spiraling out of control. Then I feel guilty. How can I complain when others don't even have enough money for bread or rent?

"I feel that if I can just fight my way through some of this lot. Then there is light at the end of the tunnel. The need of a sponsored office is urgent."

"We have lots of volunteers but most of these people have no office skills or very basic ones. I think the need for someone to run the office, filing, up-dating our vast data bank, taking phone calls, typing, bookkeeping, would really allow me space to get out there to the people. Jack does amazing work but his office skills are not too hot and being

disabled hinders what he can do. Jonathan does the computer section and also studies computers. He co-facilitates when we do workshops."

"I also do trauma counseling. Its unbelievable what is going on. The people here have so much love in their hearts and are so peace loving. They are just so afraid. Imagine you have little food, HIV, relatives dying or sick around you, grief, no money, no

prospects. Would you want to live or would you just give up? Would death not be a release from all the suffering?"

"I know of many, many people with reoccurring thrush, athlete's foot, skin rashes etc. These are people who I have worked with in PNI or with counseling and I simply tell them that I have Colloidal Silver. It might help, would they like to try."

"David my dream would be to fly you to Zimbabwe for 2 weeks. To really see first hand what is happening to the people or should I say what is not happening!!! It is devastating and people are so ill and dying, and it appears nothing is being done. There is no hope or help for them. It's so really bad. With PNI, nutrition, herbs, garlic, tapping the sternum (thymus) all sorts of tips that may help and now Colloidal Silver at least it gives the people choices."

"Great News...Dr Margaret Taruninga is on board! I have also organised with her to work in her surgery once a week using various treatments."

"It appears that my life has come to a total halt other than working with all the machines/treatments and turning out Colloidal Silver. I started at doctor Margaret on Friday and then was at her surgery all morning yesterday and today and then she comes to the Trust evenings from 5 to 7. I am getting really proficient at doing it all. The blood electrification I prepare and then Margaret just places the electrodes on and I do the rest, ozonator water on tap, Magnetic pulser."

"If we had more units then 6 people could be undergoing treatment at the same time. It would take Margaret and I perhaps 20 minutes to set them up and then Margaret could get on with the patients waiting in her surgery whilst I monitor and complete the treatment. I have taken a lot of information from each patient and also have very recent CD4 counts as well as recent viral loads on some of them. Its amazing the people are so excited about the treatments. They often report for a treatment the next day with a write up on what has gone on with their bodies in the last 24 hours."

"Margaret is an amazing woman and really dedicated in getting this to the people…she says the treatments make real sense to her and I agree."

"Things are getting far worse here. Just no bread, washing powder, petrol, so please keep us in your prayers."

"I am working in the surgery 3 mornings a week and every evening here at the Trust we work with treatments from 5pm sometimes till about 9pm in the evening."

"People are literally begging to get on to the treatments. All people undergoing the treatments have a CD4 (immunity) count of under 130 and some are very ill. With regards to the Colloidal Silver I have distributed quite a lot and am waiting for feedback. Whilst on treatments I have been introducing the patients to guided visualisation and meditations from a cassette. They are really appreciating it."

"I feel that it should be a top priority to generate funds to meet allowances for these dedicated people. This situation cannot continue for much longer and needs to be urgently addressed so that matters pertaining to the focus of working with the people can take priority."

"Margaret is drafting a protocol for the treatments. I will type it up later in the day. This is needed for approval of the Ministry of Health. Both Margaret and I know him very well so there should not be a problem. We need to know the possible side effects of each treatment. This is needed for the protocol."

I keep being amazed at how Geraldene survives. A few times over the past month she has shared in private letters to me that she just can't manage any more. Each time she has picked herself up and continues her work. But I know she has been pushing herself to the limit. Several times recently she has said, "it is just too much for me!" The financial situation is impossible. There are so few to do so much work. Very often she overworks so much that she can manage just a few hours sleep each night

Geraldene (the director of PNI) and Jonathan (the deputy director) live at the PNI Empowerment Trust headquarters. Neither have received wages for three years other than facilitation payments for workshops, which have been minimal. Jack has worked for no pay for the past 20 months. He stays Monday to Friday to save on transport costs. Geraldene has been feeding all three, but has now run out of money.

PNI Empowerment Trust has limited funds, which support the needy. It has a yearly audit, but has not been able to pay Geraldene or Jonathan any wages.

Jonathan is a computer trainer and consultant specialising in Linux. He is presently writing a manual for PNI counselor training and he attends to website maintenance and design. He has many ideas but the implementation of these is limited due to lack of funds. The computer resources are not adequate for him to realise many of these dreams.

Jonathan has medical aid paid by his mother, but Geraldene and Jack have not been able to afford to go on medical aid. Thus medical treatment is for them too expensive. This is particularly significant for Geraldene, who has a full cataract in her left eye and one growing in the right eye. She cannot afford to have them removed. We have tried to arrange treatment through the Fred Hollows Foundation, but they do not have any practitioners in Zimbabwe. Driving is difficult for her and night driving impossible.

The cost of running the office is too much. Not only do they not have any income, but prices have risen over 500% with inflation. Just this past month, Geraldene advises that she has had to sell her car and some of the household furniture, just to pay the bills.

Jonathan has an extensive list of all the items needed to run the office efficiently, but most of these items they cannot afford. They do not even have surge protection for their computers. When there is a storm they switch the computers off. An unexpected power surge could however destroy all their computers.

Geraldene owns the headquarters premises, so there is no rental. The trust does not have its own computer but uses one owned by Geraldene and two owned by Jonathan. Internet access has been generously donated to PNI, but land-line connection calls are expensive.

Geraldene starts the day at 5am to do letters, book-keeping etc before the start of day. Daytime activity is always hectic and there are often visitors. Then in the evening there are treatments from 5pm to 9pm. She shares how she hardly gets any sleep and it is all too much for her. She desperately needs to hire a girl-Friday, but simply has no money to afford it. A girl-Friday would run the office, do filing, answer the phone, make appointments, update the data bank, answer letters, do the banking, type minutes, relay messages etc. That would permit Geraldene to attend to field work, which she considers her important work, but which lately has been totally neglected.

How much would it cost to get the office running efficiently again? Geraldene has supplied some monthly figures in US dollars.

That is the figure for the PNI office running optimally. At the moment there are no wages and no medical aid to cover against serious sickness. Stationary, postage, phone and electricity need to be paid somehow, and there is very little incoming revenue because the Zimbabwe economy is paralysed, with unemployment and inflation and food scarcities skyrocketing. The land-line phone costs are essential as these provide Internet and email connections. Cell phone usage is presently cut to about US$10 a month, dramatically limiting the amount of field work communication, so essential for effective running of the programs.

This last month Geraldene has had to sell her car to meet costs. We could add a second hand car plus petrol to the field work needs. The need is just so immense.

Continuing support for office and computer needs is vital if the treatment and blood testing project is to succeed, when they are launched in a month or two. Even before the CRN treatment project, PNI was looking at winding up because it simply could not afford to pay for itself. It has always been a matter of time. The service group at PNI are overworked and close to complete collapse.

Besides regular monthly upkeep, there is need for new office equipment valued at at least US$2,000. To surge protect the house would cost about US$125. Geraldene needs a medium-range computer and the girl Friday a second hand 486 computer. There are a host of other items needed; desks scanner, guillotine, digital camera, and many other items.

We are not yet ready to launch our treatments public appeal. This information is shared simply to let you know how desperate the situation is in Harare. If no response is provided soon, the whole project may collapse completely. Anyone prompted to assist, please contact David at Compassion Response Network at keane@nw.com.au or Geraldene at PNI Empowerment Trust zenga@samara.co.zw.

Yours with Love and Light,
David Keane,
Secretary, Compassion Response Network.

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