This is our annual fundraising event. Want to invite all to Minneapolis. Thanks, Mili
Please mark your calendars for yet another colorful multicultural fundraising event: April 28th, 7pm Where the Brahmaputra meets the Mississippi-2007 . We hope you would come for the event and will bring lots of friends. "Where the Brahmaputra meets the Mississippi..." and cultures come together for an evening of dance and laughter, food and fine music. The event is a joint fundraiser for two program and all proceeds will be shared jointly– one local group and one in India. The Brahmaputra snakes its way South from the Himalayas and engulfs the banks of Assam, India every year during the spring monsoon. As the river flows many girls are forced to leave their villages and are exploited as maid servants making 500 rupees ($12) a month. The Society for Promotion of Appropriate Development Efforts (SPADE) is a volunteer organization in Assam training young girls as nursing assistants, finding them employment where they earn a livable wage and are offered safe places to live. The festivities will benefit girls and women in Assam, India through the Society for Promotion of Appropriate Development Efforts, Assam, India (SPADE) and locally through programs by the Tree and the Well, Institute for Deep Cultural Studies To learn more about SPADE visit http://www.spadeindia.org/ To learn more about the The tree and the Well visit http://treeandthewell.org/
