Dear community members, Please mark your calendars for yet another multicultural dance performance: Where the Brahmaputra meets the Mississippi-2007.
"Where the Brahmaputra meets the Mississippi..." and cultures come together for an evening of dance and laughter, food and fine music. This event is a fundraiser where we come together across culture to learn, appreciate and celebrate cultural performance. 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. Proceeds from festivities will benefit girls and women in Assam, India through the Society for Promotion of Appropriate Development Efforts, Assam, India (SPADE) and locally through cultural programs in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood. To learn more about SPADE visit http://spadeindia.org Please note date change to April 28th, 2007. We hope you would come for the event and will bring lots of friends. More information to follow, please let us know if you can assist with this year's event. Call Mili 763-458-8661 or Cara 612- 722-6921. Thanks, >From this year's event coordinators Mili Dutta, representing SPADE and Cara, representing The Tree and The Well, Institute for Deep Cultural Studies Hope you got a chance to read the BBC article about missing women in Assam and the sex trade: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6430811.stm <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6430811.stm> http://www.geocities.com/asomonline/data/4-28-07_fundraiser_WEB.jpg <http://www.geocities.com/asomonline/data/4-28-07_fundraiser_WEB.jpg> [http://www.geocities.com/asomonline/data/4-28-07_fundraiser_WEB.jpg] moderator edited, assamonline
