[Peace] Speaker from Burundi: Healing from Civil War

[Charlotte Green]

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) 

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