An invitation to dinner

[Andrea Whitmore]

Welcome, Potential Diners,

Yes, this is a dinner invitation but it's also a fundraiser to send Melissa Franklin, a graduate of Haskell Indian Nations University, to Gaza in support of a water purification project. Can you attend? Please do (great food, great company) -- but if you cannot, there's a way to help at the end of this email. Here's information about Melissa and the event posted on our website (www.cjme.org):

June 16 - Fundraising Dinner Event for Woman Traveling to Gaza

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By admin - Posted on 04 June 2011

Melissa Franklin will join a US delegation of artists in support of the Maia Project, which brings clean, safe drinking water to the children of Gaza (http://olympiarafahmural.org/donate-2/). The Maia Mural Project will design and paint murals on water purification buildings in Gaza this July 2011.

   In support of Melissa's travels to Gaza, several KC groups are hosting a fundraising dinner event on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 6:30 pm. The event will take place at Holy Land Cafe, 12275 W 87th Street Pkwy, Lenexa, Kansas. (87th and Monrovia, which is about 2 blocks west of Quivira)

   The cost for the dinner is $25, which includes exquisite Middle Eastern food -- a choice of entrees, a salad, side dishes, and Baklava desert. Proceeds from the fundraising event will go to pay for Melissa's travel expenses.

   Melissa Franklin was president of the American Indian Studies club at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, worked at the Jim Thorpe Recreation Center on campus, and served as a mentor with an Upward Bound summer program at Haskell. Melissa traveled to Palestine in August 2009 with an Indigenous Youth Delegation, the first of its kind. Melissa is Comanche, Wichita, and Sac & Fox of Oklahoma.
Event hosts:

• Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, one of the fundraising event hosts, proud to support Melissa in her ongoing efforts to support justice and rights for Palestinians
  
• Muslim-American Society (MAS) Freedom

Date: 

Thu, 06/16/2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: 

Holy Land Cafe, 12275 W 87th Street Pkwy, Lenexa, Kansas 87th and Monrovia, which is about 2 blocks west of Quivira)

• Friends, you can tell me you're coming via email, or if you happen to get a facebook invitation, respond that way.

• If you cannot attend but would like to help, you could send a check (any amount helps $5, $10--whatever you can send is welcome) to CJME with Melissa in the memo line to:

CJME c/o Ginger Kenney, 9000 Mullen Road, Lenexa, KS 66215
Sure hope to see you June 16. Best wishes, Andrea