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APF Report

Iran Regional Committee and Sub-Committees report for APF – 2008

1-   Regional committee report regarding applying for a seat at APF.

2-   Regional Treasurer’s reports.

3-   Reports from News letter and Workshop Sub-Committees.

4-   Reports from Regional office, Legal registration and Web site Sub-Committees.

5-   Reports from LTC and Meeting list Sub-Committees.

6-   Reports from H&I and Ad-Hoc Committee for Regional Planning.

7-   Report from PI Sub-Committee

 The Delegates from Iran Regional Committee after attending the previous APF and EDM have reported back their thoughts and findings to the Iran Regional Committee.

After careful and long discussions at several Regional Committee meetings, the Group Conscience decided that it will serve our primary purpose the best and will also help us achieve NAWS Vision Statement, if Iran Region applies for becoming a Seated Member of the APF.

In this regard Mahmoud C. was elected as the Regional Delegate and Javad M. was elected as the Alternate Delegate for a 2 year term.

We the NA members of Iran hope that this is a wise decision in order to help the APF and the NAWS to carry the message of recovery.

Also to be Self Supportive and in line with our 7^th Tradition, it was decided that Iran Region donate $ 5000 to APF. We hope that the 2 Trusted Servants elected as Iran Regional Delegates can serve NA in their best of ability.

At the present we feel it would be best if NA Fellowship develops more in Asia and Islamic countries, so more Addicts have the chance to receive our message of recovery and NA keeps being recognized as respectful and viable program of recovery.

We would need to ask the Groups and Areas to try to do a better job on the 7^th Tradition and Fund Flow.

This committee started its activity with 5000 copies of each issue at the first couple of season, and has increased to 450000 copies of each issue at the present. We have had a close cooperation with De J. the editor of NA Way and have learned a lot from her. Also few of our articles have been reprinted in NA Way.

This News letter has also had a positive impact in Prisons and Re-Hab centers, and some of our members have received the message of recovery through this News letter.

This committee has held 66 workshops during its term of activity. Which are as follow:

-         10 Workshops for 7^th Tradition, Literature, 12 Concepts.

-         9 Workshops for Area Planning.

-         20 Panels of Q&A

-         17 Workshops for special issues and problems of the different Areas.

-         10 different Workshops upon request of the Areas.

The average of members attending each workshop was 150 which total to about 10000 members. The overall cost was about $ 8510 we are planning to focus on Training workshops for the future term.

In the first year of activity due to lack of experience and improper management system we had an unfortunate case of embezzlement of about $ 12765 which was of course reimbursed anonymously by some members.

After this incident it was decided that we change management and update our systems and software, things are much better now and are improving.

At the present there is a Manager and 4 other employees running the office. We have 14 Telephone lines and have a monthly turn over of $ 211700.

In the past 9 months we have bought from NAWS office branch in Iran and distribute among Groups: 492843 copies of different NA books, 1598227 copies of different IP’s , 823771 pieces of Key Tags, 64859 pieces of Medallions, 124248 copies of our Local Newsletter and 46500 copies of NA Way translated by NAWS office in Iran.

The work of this committee was finished last year and NA was registered by the number of 21065 as per the Iranian Law.

This was a great accomplishment as now we can deal with Government and different Organizations much easier and as a result our Groups can obtain meeting spaces without any problem.

This Committee has just been formed recently. We are going to post our Literature in Farsi, Meeting list, News letter, etc…. on this site.www.nairan.org   

This committee consists of 7 members and holds 2 meetings each week. The Sponsorship book was translated last year and now is being printed and distributed among the Groups by NAWS-Iran.

At the present we are working on Public Relation handbook and the new 4 IP’s: Group Business Meetings, Disruptive & Violent Behavior, Roles & Responsibilities, and NA Groups & Medication.

This committee has monthly meeting with the trusted servants from all 10 Areas and we try to update the meeting list and we print them in a list which is a big book now. At the present we have 11256 meeting each week in form of 2564 Groups.

This committee holds monthly meetings and workshops for the H&I Chairs of the 10 Areas. At the present we are sending panels to 130 Prisons, Hospitals, DIC and Re-Hab centers. Also 250 weekly meetings are held in different institutes. There are a total of 2600 members active in H&I committee all over Iran.

Due to tremendous request for services in Iran Region and also big turn over of funds, a committee was formed to hold Regional and Area planning and budgeting workshops. Which recently the first one was held at the Regional level and the result was over whelming

In the past 2 years we have focused on 3 different aspects in our PI activities. PI activities for Government officials and Society at large, holding workshops for member of PI committee from all over the country, and PI stalls in Seminars. We have a total of 1500 to 1600 members active in PI committees all over Iran.

In the past year we held 20 workshops for members active in PI committee and the average of attendance in each workshop was about 200 members.

We are now trying to familiarize our members with the new Public Relation Handbook and we are planning to gradually shift from PI to PR.

-         133468 members have received the NA message through 5^th step call.

-         8258 has been introduced to NA by Re-Hab centers.

-         13849 other ways.