[Peace] Fwd: Speaker from Burundi - June 25

[Barbara kessel]

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From: Mariellen Gilpin <mariellen.gilpin at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 3, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: Fwd: Speaker from Burundi
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 From: Charlotte Green <chgreen48 at yahoo.com>

 Florence Ntakarutimana will give a talk entitled, "Healing from Civil
 War: Bringing the enemy sides together in Burundi" on Wednesday, June
 25 at 7 PM at the Urbana-Champaign Friends Meetinghouse, 1904 E. Main,
 Urbana.  Refreshments will be served following the presentation.

 How can a country heal after twelve years of civil war, which killed
 3% of the population? How can another greater round of violence be
 avoided?

 Florence Ntakarutimana will talk about grassroots efforts to move
 towards a peaceful future in which desires for revenge are turned into
 reconciliation.  Florence is the program coordinator of Healing and
 Rebuilding Our Community (HROC) in Burundi.  Florence's speaking tour
 is sponsored by African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI), a Quaker
 organization supporting peacemaking activities in the Great Lakes
 region of Africa (Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and
 Uganda).

 Donations will be accepted for Florence's work in Burundi.  Checks may
 be made out to Friends Peace Teams with AGLI/Burundi written on the
 memo line.

 Co-sponsored by African Great Lakes Initiative, Urbana-Champaign
 Friends Meeting, and Channing-Murray Foundation

 For more information, contact Charlotte Green (chgreen48 at yahoo.com) or
 Sandy Bales (sbales at uiuc.edu)