During the weekend the Board approved several points:

Since RSWR's separation from FWCC 2½ years ago it has grown and is now a strong, Quaker organization.  From this position of strength, the Board committed the organization to further outreach, especially to programmed Friends, and the expansion of the education and grant making program.
The education ministry of RSWR was launched.  Sally Miller, the newly appointed Education Coordinator, was present.  Sally was asked to focus her efforts in the following areas: 1) Further develop the RSWR website as an easily usable resource; 2) Prepare curricula for both youth and adults; 3) When the RSWR video is completed, prepare a study guide for its use; 4) Develop the means to support Friends in the use of the resources available via RSWR.
Ted Hawkins, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, was appointed to the Board. Colin Saxton, Northwest Yearly Meeting, was re-appointed as Clerk.  Mary Eagleson, New York Yearly Meeting, was re-appointed Recording Clerk. Clyde Baker, Illinois and Western Yearly Meetings, was re-appointed Treasurer.  Roland Kreager, Ohio Valley and Wilmington Yearly Meetings, was re-appointed General Secretary.
The 2002 budget of $272,000 was approved.
The Board affirmed its interest in a stronger presence among Friends in Kenya.  The General Secretary was asked to attend the Friends United Meeting Triennial to further develop this initiative.
Nine projects, totaling $34,450, approved in previous years for multi-year funding, were affirmed.
Eleven new projects, totaling $49,575, were approved. - These twenty projects represent approximately half of the 2002 projects.  The balance will be approved at the next meeting of the Board.

Project Lakota Update
By Greg Woods

The dust blowing as we try to paint, the stars twinkling above as we talk about our lives, the sounds of swimming on free days, the worship at sunset in the Badlands with nature alive around us, sounds of Lakota words over the airwaves, the hugs goodbye, grateful smiles, the air rushing through the open windows as the car speeds along the dusty Rez roads. These are scenes that stay with me from the summer I spent at the workcamp on Pine Ridge Reservation. 

We stayed on the Reservation from July 11 to August 18 in Bill Koenen's and Emily Iron Cloud's front yard in Porcupine, South Dakota. This year's workcamp participants were led by Mike Gray, AFSC-IMYM project coordinator, and Candy Boyd, a member of St. Louis (MO) MM.

The workcamp participants worked on several different projects throughout our time on Pine Ridge. The one that we spent the most time on was the Self-Help project. We helped with the finish work for eight houses, including painting the exterior, laying tiles, hanging doors. We first volunteered with this project last summer, when they began building the homes.

Bill's and Emily's house was built with the help of the workcamp two years ago, and it is not yet finished, but we are making progress every year. This summer, we finished the walls in the living room and painted them and did some electrical wiring and hung a door. Two other projects, both in Porcupine, consisted of tearing down old siding and putting up new siding at a house and painting the playground equipment at the school. Although we did a lot of work during the summer, some days we took a day off and played. We went swimming and toured the Black Hills, the Badlands, and one day went to the Oglala Lakota Nation Pow-wow.