Sonali Kolhatkar serves on the Advisory Board of Cafe Intifada. Emma Rosenthal Cafe Intifada _____________ Sonali Kolhatkar wrote: >Dear friends, > >We invite you to the regional launch of RAWA’s child sponsorship program on >April 13, 2005 at 12:00 noon EDT in Baltimore, Maryland*. Please join us >either in person or online at www.charityhelp.org/media. > >Afghan Women’s Mission is partnering with CharityHelp International to launch >a program which enables people to sponsor Afghan children’s education. The >program also allows sponsors to build a relationship with the child they >sponsor. > >Afghanistan has countless children who have been orphaned through 25 years of >war and poverty. Many of these children are cared for in orphanages run by the >Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in Pakistan and >Afghanistan. Earlier this year Afghan Women’s Mission traveled to Afghanistan >and visited these orphanages. We found a warm, safe environment under RAWA’s >administration, but there are still many needs that go unmet. It is within our >grasp to express solidarity with the people of Afghanistan through this >sponsorship program. > >Our new sponsorship program has the extraordinary capability to help thousands >of children by combining the benefits of low-cost computers, recent advances >in communications and internet technologies, and the rapid growth of >communication services in Afghanistan. > >Through the use of these technologies, you and the child you sponsor will be >able to get to know each other through letters and pictures via email. > >We can only succeed with your generous help. Please join us in making a >difference through this innovative and exciting new project. > >Afghan Women’s Mission >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * The launch of this sponsorship program will be held at the Radisson Plaza > Lord Baltimore, 20 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD from 12:00 noon to > 2:00 pm. If you cannot be there at this time, you will be able to monitor the > activities occurring during this event, while it is happening, by visiting > the media section of CharityHelp’s website which is at > www.charityhelp.org/media. For those that can not make the event during the > day, we are going to have a second showing in the evening from 7:00 – 9:00 > pm. This launch will be followed by our national launch of this program in > June 2005. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Click on the link below to visit our website ><A HREF="http://afghanwomensmission.org";>http://afghanwomensmission.org</A> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >If you wish to unsubscribe, please click on the link below: > >http://www.afghanwomensmission.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(Or copy and paste the link into your browser) >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/mGEjbB/5WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
