Dear Readers,

We want to thank you very much for your letters and feedback to Women in Action. It is really gratifying to hear from you. We have had several enthusiastic responses to the idea of a workshop on desktop publishing, three of which we are printing on the next page under "Letters from our readers." We hope these will stimulate more of you to write and let us and the rest of the network know your thoughts and reactions.

As usual, it was very difficult to choose the articles for this issues of Women in Action. So many materials pour into our office every day filled with ideas and experiences of women organizing in every corner of the globe! We wish we could share them all with you. We've tried in this issue to give some examples of how women in different parts of the world have been successfully organizing around issues of shelter, childcare, women's rights and health. We are also sharing some reflections on women and the debt crisis and on women, human rights and development. Then there are the usual resource listings and conference announcements. We would like to draw your attention in particular to the Sixth International Women and Health Conference to be held in the Philippines in 1990.

Here at the Isis International offices in Rome and Santiago, we are busily working away at finishing up a couple of major resources: a Directory of Third World Resources that is being put together from all the responses you sent in to our questionnaire. This will contain information about hundreds of groups and publications and we hope that it will be very useful in networking and making contact among groups and organizations.

The other resource that is nearing completion is the Isis International Multimedia Kit on Women and Communication. This is intended for use by local women's groups and shares the experiences of women in Chile, India, Italy, Jamaica, Peru and the Philippines in using communication media for their actions and organization. We will be giving you more details about these in the coming issues. Maria Eugenia Jelincic who was working on this in the Rome office of Isis International is now in Nicaragua and she continues to work on it there. Other activities coming up are a training workshop in Central America on the techniques and methodologies of audiovisual communication.

We also want to let you know that we are still studying the possibilities of opening a new Isis International office in Asia to which we intend to transfer our activities and publications in English in 1990.

You will be hearing from us again soon. In the meantime, we are looking forward to hearing from you!