To whom it may concern

To the supporters of “Romani Library”  http://www.npage.org/article89.html

Dear sympathizers and well-wishers, dear members of IRWA

Opre Roma! Its your job to keep IRWA alive, not mine. My job is available to any Rom, student, Roma-activist who speaks and writes English and at least two other European languages, preferably German among them. I will quit this job, better sooner than later, because I have to take care of my wife Mariella Mehr who’s health is weakening. I am 74 years old and tired. Why should I waste my energy on a Roma issue, that Roma don’t consider worthwhile to spend their own power?

There was some echo on my mails about IRWA:

1. Charles Smith died in November 2005

2. Dragoslav Dedovic’s mail address is: d.dedovic@gmx.de

3. Veijo Baltzar’s address is:           Veijo Baltzar

Ingvalsbyntie 620, FI-10300 Karjaa, Finland

                                                           Mail: veijo.baltzar@gmail.com

4. I was authorized to accept contributions to the costs of maintaining IRWA’s Website. Please use the account of Mariella Mehr for contributions:

I will give the account details upon request by mail (uli@ntc.it)

5. I was asked to update the website of IRWA: http://www.romaniwriters.com/

6. I have agreed to do this from today until 31.07.2009

7. I have received some comments, opinions, suggestions, complaints, ideas etc. which I have answered vaguely as follows:

Apparently there are no Roma within my reach who

-          Know the addresses of institutions that could/should support IRWA

-          Know the right people in these institutions

-          Are willing and capable to write letters/request to them

-          Can visit them, persuade them of our cause

I am not willing to take notice of more comments, opinions, suggestions, complaints, ideas etc I have published the idea and the concept of IRWA long before its founda­tion in the HomePage of Mariella Mehr (http://www.mariellamehr.com/) and I have created the first edition of IRWA’s WebSite (http://www.romaniwriters.com/) and I have paid all fees for it. As a Gadje (non-Roma) I have done my job and Veijo Baltzar has done his job. He has materialized the project and rose the funds for the first three years from Finland. All others were talking and bullying and just wanted to harvest ripe fruits, as Veijo Baltzar stated it correctly.

I want to know about projects, not ideas. Yes, I have asked for ideas, but the ideas presented are cheap. We should … is not enough. We need a project and this is a lot of work, consisting of

-          A definition of a goal

-          A list of activities to reach it

-          A schedule of activities and persons to perform the work involved

-          A list of funds and/or loans granted to pay for the activities/persons

I am willing to put everything (free of Copyrights) - e.g. poetry, texts, stories that are produced by Romani Writers - in the WebSite of IRWA and whatever you, Roma, think is worthwhile publishing there, provided it reaches me before July 2009 and I don’t have to consider it as the type of bullshit as received in the last few weeks.

H.U.Ellenberger-Mehr    again webmaster of     http://www.romaniwriters.com/