If you're interested in attending this, give Jacki Willox on 0409 796 534.
dinner and discussion
children & war
HON. BRONWYN PIKE
PARIS ARISTOTLE
DR NOURIA SALEHI
Tuesday, 2 July 2002 @ 6.30 for 7.00pm
@ the AFGHAN GALLERY RESTAURANT 327 Brunswick St Fitzroy ph: 9417 2430
your support will help children in Afghanistan
GREAT AFGHAN FOOD.....BYO.....$45 ($35 conc) PER PERSON
ph: 9328 4637 fax: 9326 8747 or by return email
>From the Gun to the Pen
After 23 years of war in Afghanistan, many young Afghans have known only a
playground of war and weapons, not toys.
With little or severely disrupted schooling and education and training
opportunities, Afghanistan's youth is unprepared and
insufficiently skilled to provide the kind of massive rebuilding that is
required. Significant numbers of women have lost
fathers and husbands as part of the ongoing war and have seen their
children lost to the war zones. Many women have
become heads of family households left without male breadwinners. Many
children became the breadwinners for their
families by joining the war when no other opportunity existed. Some as
young as 10 years old have been at war and
have had no education, no basic literacy and numeracy skills and no
experience of peace. Our aim is to build a program
for the Vocational Education and Training of Afghan youth to assist in
their personal and community transition from war to peace.
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