Dear KWIC members and friends, please find details below on a few more
community events happening this week that you might want to check-out!

1. African Great Lakes Initiative with visiting Burundi Activist:
October 21, 2009
2. Public Meeting on the Military Coup in Honduras: October 22, 2009
3. Lunch with the Experts: "Preparing for the Green Economy" - October
22, 2009
4. Information Session on Foster Parenting - October 21, 2009
5. Youth volunteers needed! The Global Youth Day Working group meets
this week on Wednesday, October 21st at 3:30pm upstairs at the Ptbo
Public Library (in the children's section). If you're interested in
social and environmental justice issues and would like to help organize
our annual spring youth conference, please join us this Wednesday, email
Julie at k...@trentu.ca or call 748-1680 for more information!

ps. Join us for the Spooktacular Bowl the World for Global Education
Bowlathon - KWIC's annual fundraising bowlathon on Saturday, Oct. 31st
from 1 to 3pm at Lakeview Bowl! Great fun and great prizes. Registration
and pledge forms at www.kwic.info....

More Community Events this Week:

1. Wednesday, October 21st, 7pm at Sadleir House at 7 pm, in the Senior
Common Room ( via the staircase opposite the library on the second
floor)

Florence Ntakarutimana from Burundi will
be in Peterborough for a short visit. She will speak about her work
in healing from trauma, a program she runs for the African Great
Lakes Initiative (AGLI). A survivor herself of trauma, Florence deals
often with cases where people need to live closely with neighbours
who have hurt or killed members of one anothers' families.

Florence is the co-author of "Now I Am Human: Testimonies from the
Healing Companions Program in Rwanda and Burundi." This can be found
on the AGLI website, <http://www.aglionline.org>www.aglionline.org.

The visit is sponsored by Peterborough Allowed Meeting of the
Religious Society of Friends. The Friends invite anyone interested to
attend the talk, to give you an opportunity to meet Florence and hear
of her work with trauma, conflict resolution, and addressing HIV/AIDS.

2. Thursday, October 22, at 7pm in the Junior Common Room at Traill
College, Scott House.
Karen Spring from RightsAction  will be speaking on the ongoing
military coup in Honduras, answering important questions, such as
Who are the coup plotters and perpetrators?  What are their economic
and
political interests?  Who are their national and international
supporters?
What is the state of militarization and repression in Honduras?
Who is President Zelaya?  What were the policies and programs of his
government that
so angered the coup plottters?
Who are the people and organizations that comprise the “National
Front
Against the Coup” that is leading the pro-democracy movement? What
vision do they have for their future?
What can North Americans do to support the pro-democracy movement?
For more info: http://www.rightsaction.org  Free event. Donations
welcome.

3.  Lunch with the Experts: "Preparing for the Green Economy" - October
22, 2009

Some seats are still available for Lunch with the Experts - a
discussion on "green jobs" and emerging new career and job
opportunities. Event will be held at Peterborough Golf and Country Club.

Guest speaker - Michael Kerford as well as four Trent/Fleming
panellists.  

The above event is part of a series of events over two days marking the
launch of Trent's new virtual Centre of Knowledge in the Environment.
Web Link follows:    

http://www.trentu.ca/newsDetails.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fAdmission...

Book your spot now by calling Cindy Turnbull (705) 748-1011 extension
7246 or email cindyturnb...@trentu.ca

John Knight at Trent University will also be happy to answer any
questions you may have about the two day event. johnkni...@trentu.ca or
748-1011 extension 7374

4.  Information Session on Foster Parenting
Wednesday, October 21st, 7-8:30 p.m.
at the Peterborough Public Library (345 Aylmer St. N.)
Resource Workers and members of current foster families will be on hand
to
answer any questions you might have about becoming a foster family to
children or youth.

*If you have questions about fostering, but are unable to make the
meeting,
please call Maryanne Hicks or Cathy McGill at (705) 743-9751.

Kawartha Haliburton Children’s Aid Society. Celebrating National
Foster
Parent week, October 18th - 24th, 2009

Julie Cosgrove, Coordinator Kawartha World
Issues Centre
Phone: 705-748-1680
Email: k...@trentu.ca
Website & Community Calendar: k...@trentu.ca

Celebrating 20 years of global understanding and local action.

The Kawartha World Issues Centre is a charitable global education and
resource centre which promotes understanding and dialogue of world
issues to enable people to engage in positive social and environmental
change.