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title: "Thank you from the Congress Team - IVU - International Vegetarian Union"
description: "Thank you from the Congress Team: from IVU News Oct 2000 - from Lisa Rogers of the Congress team Everyone at the Toronto Vegetarian Association would like to extend a huge thank you to all who came to the Congress in July, and everyone who volunteered their time, helped us promote the event or"
url: "https://ivu.org/history-of-ivu.html?view=article&id=5709:news-oct2000-team&catid=241"
date: "2026-11-06T00:18:57+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Thank you from the Congress Team

![Thank you from the Congress Team](https://ivu.org/images/legacy/history/banners/news-oct2000-team.png)**Thank you from the Congress Team** *from IVU News Oct 2000*

\- from Lisa Rogers of the Congress team

Everyone at the Toronto Vegetarian Association would like to extend a huge thank you to all who came to the Congress in July, and everyone who volunteered their time, helped us promote the event or participated in the program. Thanks to all of you that this event was a great success for our group. We sincerely hope that those who came left feeling rejuvenated and inspired. I know I certainly did!

Attendees at the Congress came from Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Korea, the UK and the USA.

Thanks also to IVU for granting us this opportunity to expand our experience as a group and to get Torontonians excited about a worthwhile project.

We look forward to seeing everyone in Edinburgh in July 2002. see: [http:// www.ivu.org/congress/2002](https://ivu.org/hv-congress-2002-congress-2002-index.html)

A note on this archive. The history section of this website is drawn from a body of legacy content originally compiled by John Davis, former manager of the International Vegetarian Union. It represents his curation of historical material, and in places includes passages written by him directly.

Over the years, the IVU website has migrated between several different hosting servers. In the course of these migrations, a number of PDF files were unfortunately lost, and **some links to PDF documents may no longer function**. Where this is the case, we have chosen to leave the original link text in place, as it may itself carry information of historical value.

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