Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of the European Parliament is flying in from Rome to give the Keynote Speech at the Rebuilding Alliance First Annual Peacemakers Dinner
WHEN: Saturday, October 4 5 pm to 9 ;m. WHERE: at the Red Rock Chateau Silverado, Orange County, CA 92676 To reserve by phone, call Joanne at (714) 396-0178 DonateNow: All donations are tax deductible in the U.S. Rebuilding Alliance Tax ID #56-2392452 To join us in person, please go to: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaID=167241&CFID=11837450&CFTOKEN=74529992 To support us from afar, please go to: http://www.rebuildingalliance.org We wish you Eid Mubarak and Shana Tova! Thanks to the generosity of the Simaan Family, who are hosting and donating the dinner, 100% of all donations from this benefit event will support The Rebuilding Alliance and its projects, bringing the world together to rebuild Palestinian communities & make them safe. This is the Rebuilding Alliance's 5th year. Here are some of our achievements: • In Gaza, despite the siege, we rebuilt a home for the family Rachel Corrie sought to protect -- and they are now forming the Rachel Corrie Charity in Rafah and holding a Ramadan soccer tournament, to bring their community together. • When President Carter was barred from entering Gaza, we helped him connect with Gaza's NGO. President Carter answered the questions they video-taped, then personally thanked us on the Carter Center website. • In East Jerusalem, we helped Combatants for Peace build the first Abir's Garden Playground, brought them to the State Department and Congress to register Abir's case in the Annual Human Rights Report, and are working to invoke the Leahy Law to make Israeli Border Police stop shooting children. They'll be building the next Abir's Garden in Si'ir village. • In our very first West Bank project in 2003, we helped the village of Al Aqaba build a new kindergarten. Ever since then, we've been working to make it safe. We paid for the lawyer to help the village take its case to the Israeli High Court when demolition orders were issued against the whole town. Our kindergarten gave 17 consulates, UN agencies, and NGOs the confidence to invested in Haj Sami Sadik and his village too - constructive resistance at its best! Now we brought Al Aqaba Mayor Haj Sami Sadik and BIMKOM co-founder Shmuel Groag on tour to tell their story and personally ask you and Congress to care about Al Aqaba. When this village sees its own master plan approved, it will set a precedent for the other Palestinian villages slated for demolition, and fix a glaring failure of the Oslo Accords. • With help from colleagues at MEPAC, we wrote the Peacemakers Resolution, H.Res 1369, that unanimously passed the House last week under the sponsorship of Congresswoman Barbara Lee. It is not perfect, but it is a start. • We WON the “Employer of the Year Award” for hiring and training people with disabilities, and someday we'll find seed funding to extend this program to provide jobs for returning vets and other disabled people in war zones. In all this time, we've relied only on grassroots donations. Since forming our 501c3, we've never received a grant greater than $10,000 - but we held on and kept going. Our staff of 1 fulltime, two part-time give this their all -- and so does our board. Four new board members joined the Rebuilding Alliance Board of Directors and together they worked all summer to update our bylaws and create our strategic plan. If our work means something to you, please ______________________________ The Rebuilding Alliance is a 501c3 nonprofit organization (EIN 56-239 h2452). 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