WELCOME TO BIRMINGHAM SISTER CITIES

Hello Scotty,

I want to thank you again for your submission of an Annual Awards application for the 2011 year. The selection process this year was very competitive due to the high quality of applications received by SCI.

For this reason, it is my great pleasure to write to you today to congratulate Birmingham Sister Cities Commission as the recipient of the Best Overall Award for a population of 100,001 – 300,000.

An official letter will be sent to you through the mail but I wanted to make sure that you were made aware as soon as possible. The award winners will also be posted on our website by the end of the week and honored at the Annual Awards Luncheon at the Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL this July.

Thank you for your continued support of Sister Cities International and your annual sister city programs. Congratulations!

All the Best,

Letter from Japan (click to read)

UAB Report: KC Pang, our MAN in China!

2011 BIRMINGHAM-KARAK, JORDAN-ROSH HA’AYIN ISRAEL

We have an active program and group of volunteers. We are always looking for people with an interest in working on our relationships. We serve the greater Birmingham Community.

The City of Birmingham began its Sister City Commission on April 23,1982, when we established a Sister City relationship with Hitachi, Japan. The program is affiliated with Sister Cities International. The commission has as its purpose and goal to cultivate economic,social and cultural cooperation between the people of Birmingham and the people of selected cities around the world. Sister Cities is a people-to-people exchange program designed to enrich the cultural, educational, social and economic life of communities around the world. .

Sister city, county and state affiliations between the United States and other nations began shortly after World War II and developed into a national initiative when President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the "People-to-People" program at a White House conference in 1956.