NAWS 04-2020
Hello everyone,
We hope you are keeping well.
CAR Survey
Don’t forget that individual responses to the CAR survey are due soon. We are extending the deadline through the end of the day Sunday, 5 April. You can find links to the survey in Arabic, English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish from the survey button on the NA Meeting Search app or on the survey page www.na.org/survey.
Contribute Link
We emailed you all just over ten days ago to let you know that we had reduced office hours and were struggling financially. Since then, we’ve been forced to close the office entirely due to state order in response to COVID-19. And as so many meetings have gone online around the world, literature orders have been reduced to a trickle.
We have set up an easy contribution button www.na.org/contribute, and we hope you will consider pitching in to help World Services stay afloat. Many of us on the Board have set up a monthly recurring contribution in the amount of our clean time and have encouraged our friends and sponsees to do the same. Thank you to those who have already answered the call! Together we can.
Literature
As more and more meetings go online in response to the global pandemic, we wanted to remind you that recovery pamphlets and booklets are available in 53 languages at www.na.org/ips
In addition, we are doing what we can to get physical shipments of literature out as we receive orders.
Online Meeting Resources
We have posted a page with online and phone meeting lists and resources to help members host meetings in virtual spaces https://www.na.org/?ID=
Send us any resources you have that may help so that we can post them for others.
Periodicals
One cost-saving measure we are implementing immediately is to discontinue paper mailing of periodicals. This will both save us money and allow us to continue making our periodicals accessible while working from home and practicing physical distancing. Thank you for understanding. If you need to update your email information, you can do so at www.na.org/subscribe.
Service Day
The second annual Service Day is coming up on 1 May. You can download the flier from our events page www.na.org/nawsevents. Many of us have had to stretch ourselves to meet our personal recovery needs and the needs of our NA communities in these past few weeks. A Service Day celebration could be as simple as hosting or participating in a conversation about how we can all support each other and carry the message in the context of this current crisis.
Thank you everyone for continuing to make the message of recovery available to addicts. Our determination as a Fellowship is a bright light in a dark time.
In service,
World Board
