Dear Editor and friends of Nasa Borba:
My name is Igor Galo, a Spanish young journalist that work for some =
Spanish mass medias (EL DIARIO VASCO journal, FLASH magazine and =
TELEDONOSTIA Local TvChannel) and also for two international medias (LA =
NOTICIA de Colombia and AROUND THE WORLD, international magazine).
I write you because Me and some european, African and American =
journalist have created, 5 years ago, "The San Sebastian International =
Pen Friend Club", and through this letter we would like to invite yours =
readers to join us. The Club is not create to earn money. It is no to =
make money. It wants to promove the peace, culture and friendship around =
the world. We think, as journalists, that the Club can help to our =
world.
As journalist, we know that is very difficult to publish all the news =
that reach every day to a redaction, but I think that would be =
interesting that you publish something about THE SAN SEBASTIAN =
INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB, because I am sure that a lot of your =
readers will be interested in know about The CLUB, and we will be very =
happy to have more friends in your country and around the world.
Because of this we send you information about us and we ask you if it =
would be possible to publish some report or news about THE SAN SEBASTIAN =
INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB in your publications, in the ONLINE =
EDITION and also in the PRINTED EDITION (to reach the people that =
haven=B4t Internet and E-Mail). We have received your address in your =
country=B4s embassy in Madrid (Spain).
Although We send you in this message the note press with the main =
features of the CLUB, we can send you by mail a special dossier with =
photocopies (xeroxs) of the news published about us around the world =
during the last year and the official magazine of the club.
If you want to received it, please write us as soon as possible to this =
e-mail:
e-mail: igorga@milenium.com
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OR SEE our page in www
www.milenium.com/~igorga
MAIN FEATURES OF THE SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB
*We are more than 86.000 friends in 100 different countries around the =
world.
*The official languages of the club are: English, Spanish, French, =
Basque, Italian, Portugues, German, Polish, Croatian, Russian and soon =
arabic and japanese.
*SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB is a nor profitable =
foundation, not created to earn money.
*The Club is open to everybody.=20
*SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB is the better way to know =
other countries and cultures, to make friends around the world and to =
interchange ideas, emotions, sentimients, ans so on... by letters. A lot =
of the firneds use the Club as a way to interchange postal stamps, =
postcards, bank-notes, coins, magazines, ideas, ...
*People interested in join SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB =
have to write a letter to:
SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB
P.O.BOX 1420
20080 SAN SEBASTIAN
SPAIN EUROPEAN UNION
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E-MAIL igorga@milenium.com
And send inside an enveloppe just 1 International Answer Coupon =
(avalaible in all the postal offices of the world) to pay the cost of =
each new menber (enveloppes, fotocopies and magazine). Only if you use =
the mail. If you use EMail, don=B4t worry.
ATENTION: People interested in receive information about THE SAN =
SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB have to send us, by E-Mail or by =
traditional post, a letter writing down their E-MAIL (if they had it) =
and always the POSTAL ADRESS, because the magazine of the club, and =
other documents and letters from others countries, had to be sent by =
regular MAIL. (No E-Mail).
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NOTE PRESS OF THE SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB
DATE: DECEMBER 1996
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1-Funded in 1990 in San Sebasti=E1n (Nothern Spain), it is a young but =
very active with strong growth of pen friends.
2-Its purpose is to promove the peace, friendship and to look for the =
respect between the different cultures of the world.
3-Its youngest menber is 8 years old, the oldest 78 years.
4-Through the SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB thousands of =
people change postal stamps, postcards, coins, bank notes from different =
countries or others things of collectioners.
5-The official languages of the CLUB, right now, are: Spanish, Basque, =
French, English, Italian, Portugues, German, Polish, Russian, =
Serb-Croatian, and soon Arabic and Japanese.
6-The Club is not funded to earn money. (It is a no profitable =
founsation). But new friends have to pay its own postal stamps.
7-The SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNACIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB has the most modern =
technology. With these systems the CLUB can serve quickly and well to =
theirs menbers.=20
8-The age of 60% of teh menber is between 10-30 years old. The age of =
ther 30% are between 30-55 years old and the 10% menbers are 55 years =
old or more.
9-We have a lot of students in the Club, because SAN SEBASTIAN =
INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB allows the students:
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-Practice the languages who have learnt in the school, and to learn new =
languages.
-The develop their hobbies and to begin new hobbies.
-To know more about History, geography, Languages, literature, =
religion, music, ...
-To know new languages and cultures, and to spread the frienship. Some =
menbers of the club have became so closed each other that they had the =
possibility to visit theirs country friends.
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IF YOU JOIN TO THE CLUB, YOU WILL RECEIVE IN YOUR POST BOX SOME =
ADDRESSES OF PEN FRIENDS WITH THE FEATURES THAT WE WANT. ALSO YOU WILL =
RECEIVE HUNDREDS OF LETTERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD OF OTHERS FRIENDS IN =
THE CLUB
NUMBER OF MENBER ACTUALLY: >87.000
NUMBER OF COUNTRIES WHERE THERE IS PENPALS OF THE CLUB: 107
President of the Club:
IGOR GALO ANZA
PRESIDENT
SAN SEBASTIAN INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB
P.O.BOX 1420
20080 SAN SEBASTIAN
SPAIN
CELULAR PHONE 34 09 80 93 36
E-MAIL igorga@milenium.com
So, please, help us in our work and publish, if it is possible some =
about us in your ONLINE edition and in your PRINTED EDITION. And, =
please, ask us all the doubs you coul have.
MASS MEDIAS THAT HAVE PUBLISHED SOME NEWS ABOUT THE SAN SEBASTIAN =
INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIEND CLUB DURING 1996
If you want to receive photocopies of this news published about us, say =
us and you will have them as quick as possible.
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*AJOBLANCO Espa=F1a
*EL ECO FILATELICO Espa=F1a
*FILATELIA Y NUMISMATICA Espa=F1a
*LA NACION Costa Rica
*LA REPUBLICA Costa Rica
*EL ESCELSIOR M=E9xico
*EL LATINO Canad=E1
*DIARIO Nicaragua
*HOY Panam=E1
*BOHEMIA Cuba
*EL HERALDO Colombia
*CROMOS Colombia
*EL COMERCIO-SOMOS Per=FA
*CARETAS Per=FA
*HOY Uruguay
*LA GACETA Bolivia
*DIENA Letonia
*TEEN Croacia
*16 Russia
*THE CHIRSCHUST DAILY Nueva Zelanda
*DIARIO LATINO El Salvador
*EL PLANETA Espa=F1a
*CLARIN ON LINE Argentina
*SING TAO ON LINE Hong Kong
*VANCOUVER PROVINCE Canada