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Andrea Whitmore
Jun 13, 2011, 4:35:39 PM6/13/11
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Hi Friends,
So far, about 30 people have signed up to attend the fund-raising dinner to send Native American Melissa Franklin to Gaza in July. We have room for more--the food will be delicious and the company friendly. Won't you join us?
Melissa is traveling to Gaza under the auspices of the Maia Water Project that is in part sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation in Olympia, Washington, and the Middle East Children's Alliance in Berkeley, California (headed by Barbara Lubin, one of America's heroines for her work to save children in the Middle East). For more about the project: http://www.mecaforpeace.org/news/maia-mural-project
The part that Melissa will be involved in includes painting murals on the concrete water purification stations that MECA and others have installed in Gaza and other places where safe drinking water is scarce. Melissa and other artists will be joined by children and youth in Gaza in an effort to bring beauty and joy to their restricted, impoverished lives. For the children, the art will therapeutic. For the visitors, a chance to know some of the gentle people in what remains, sad to say, the largest out door prison in the world (yes, despite Egypt's on-again, off-again "opening" of the Rafah crossing).
The dinner is $25, part of it to pay for the yummy food and part for Melissa's travel expenses. The event will take place at 6:30 this Thursday, June 16th, at the Holy Land Cafe, 12275 W 87th Street Pkwy, Lenexa, Kansas. (87th and Monrovia, which is about 2 blocks west of Quivira). Please come. If you can let me know you're coming, that would be great, so that the restaurant knows how much food to prepare.
Hope to see you soon. Andrea
So far, about 30 people have signed up to attend the fund-raising dinner to send Native American Melissa Franklin to Gaza in July. We have room for more--the food will be delicious and the company friendly. Won't you join us?
Melissa is traveling to Gaza under the auspices of the Maia Water Project that is in part sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation in Olympia, Washington, and the Middle East Children's Alliance in Berkeley, California (headed by Barbara Lubin, one of America's heroines for her work to save children in the Middle East). For more about the project: http://www.mecaforpeace.org/news/maia-mural-project
The part that Melissa will be involved in includes painting murals on the concrete water purification stations that MECA and others have installed in Gaza and other places where safe drinking water is scarce. Melissa and other artists will be joined by children and youth in Gaza in an effort to bring beauty and joy to their restricted, impoverished lives. For the children, the art will therapeutic. For the visitors, a chance to know some of the gentle people in what remains, sad to say, the largest out door prison in the world (yes, despite Egypt's on-again, off-again "opening" of the Rafah crossing).
The dinner is $25, part of it to pay for the yummy food and part for Melissa's travel expenses. The event will take place at 6:30 this Thursday, June 16th, at the Holy Land Cafe, 12275 W 87th Street Pkwy, Lenexa, Kansas. (87th and Monrovia, which is about 2 blocks west of Quivira). Please come. If you can let me know you're coming, that would be great, so that the restaurant knows how much food to prepare.
Hope to see you soon. Andrea
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