“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” -Alvin Toffler

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Dorsainvil Foundation. Haiti Donations. October 2016

Dolores Dosainvil is a Lifetime member of BEMA. Give it will go to the local community. 

Charles D Sharp CEO. BEMA



Dorsainvil Foundation is collecting funds and supplies for an emergency trip to Haiti to assist in the hurricane Matthew relief efforts. If you are interested in donating to an organization where 100% of everything collected goes straight to the people of Haiti, please consider our group. 

Visit our website at www.dorsainvilfoundation.org or email Dolores Dorsainvil at ddorsainvil@dorsainvilfoundation.org or Pierre Dorsainvil at pdorsainvil@dorsainvilfoundation.org or call 202-256-3545. Thank you!



Our survival. Cooperate, coordinate, collaborate, and partner. Just listen and implement.

Enough.  We have to come together. To cooperate, coordinate, collaborate, and partner (CCC&P) for the survival of our families, and communities.  Our immediate and international community

We have the financial resources to sustain each other, our nonprofits, and private industry.  But we’re all in different silo’s, different objectives, and ego’s that need satisfaction.

One of our members brought this to my attention.  Is this statement true for some?

Not only in the America’s, throughout the diaspora from the U.S., Caribbean, Central & South America, the continent of Africa, Europe, Asia wherever Blacks of African Descent have migrated.


The number of disasters shall increase as a result of climate change.  Coordination of planning, preparedness, response, recovery, and sustainability has to be ‘stepped up’ in our communities worldwide.  Current events affecting our communities are an indication of that lack of CCC&P.  From New Orleans, Haiti earthquake, West Africa (Ebola Crisis), and now Haiti hurricane crisis.  Just listen and implement Enough.


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Saturday, October 8, 2016

Homelessness. An international issue.

Homelessness is not only a local issue, but national security and international issue requiring a structured analytical approach with all members of the community, local culture, and the new culture within the homeless community to be at the table.

20th Century traditional homeless models cannot be resolved with 20th Century solutions.

Time for a change, no more business as usual. 

Lets’ resolve 21st Century homelessness with forward thinking 22nd Century solution.



Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Phoenix-based Semiray fined $65,000 for hazardous waste violations

Our communities worldwide can implement an environmental oversight organization to fine private industry and use the funds in the local communities affected   CDS. CEO BEMA



For Immediate Release:   October 5, 2016

NEWS BRIEF: Phoenix-based Semiray fined $65,000 for hazardous waste violations

SAN FRANCISCO –Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined Semiray, an industrial processing facility, $65,000 for violating federal hazardous waste laws. 

Semiray, located on East Washington Street north of Sky Harbor Airport, services the aerospace, military, electronics, and commercial manufacturing industries, and its activities create metal plating wastes. 

Following three Notices of Violation issued by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the City of Phoenix from 2010 to 2012, the EPA inspected the facility.

During its 2014 inspection, the EPA identified several hazardous waste violations, including:
  • Storing hazardous metal plating wastes without a permit
  • Failure to properly maintain the facility to minimize the possibility of a release of hazardous waste to air, soil, or surface water
  • Failure to train workers, increasing their risk of exposure and the likelihood of improper waste management
Following the EPA’s inspection, Semiray personnel completed hazardous waste training and upgraded portions of the facility’s wastewater treatment plant at which hazardous plating wastes had been improperly stored.  

The federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program oversees the safe management and disposal of hazardous waste. 

Under authority delegated by the EPA, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality enforces this hazardous waste management program in the State, and today’s enforcement action is part of EPA’s responsibility to ensure the State effectively implements its program.  
For more information on the RCRA program, please visit:
https://www.epa.gov/rcra

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