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Report Back from Afghanistan: Perils and Promise

A Presentation by Fahima Vorgetts of Women for Afghan Women

Tuesday, June 9th 6 – 9 p.m. Free and open to the public

Refreshments provided

Fahima Vorgetts travels to Afghanistan regularly in her role as Director of the Afghan Women’s Fund. She will have just returned from Afghanistan with news and images of current “on – the – ground” conditions there. Fahima travels even into the far rural areas of Afghanistan, and meets and works with people from all walks and levels … from government representatives, to tribal elders, to village women. Get the “behind the headlines” scoop. What’s working, what’s not? How is reconstruction progressing? What about safety and security conditions? Are more troops the answer?

Learn about the history and struggles of the people of Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban and women’s struggle for equal rights.

Learn about projects the Afghan Women’s Fund undertakes to improve the lives of women and children … such as schools, literacy and empowerment classes, clinics, income producing projects, wells, etc.

Hear how you and/or your group or organization can participate.

Handicrafts and other items will be available for purchase. All proceeds to benefit projects of the Afghan Women’s Fund.

Location: Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ, 15 W. Church Street, Frederick

Sponsored by: Evangelical Reformed United Church of Christ and Women In Black Frederick

For more info: email info@wibfrederick.org

Healing the Wounds Of War: March 1, 2009, 4-6 p.m.

War and Fear, Violence and the Poor.....

Martin Luther King became an opponent of Vietnam precisely because he could see how it shifted the focus from the problems on the home front. He said:

"Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such."

Coretta Scott King, (1922-2006)

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,
Therefore, we are saved by hope.

Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;
Therefore, we are saved by faith.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.
Therefore, we are saved by love.

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own;
Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

--Reinhold Niebhur

-WIB Frederick

Peace depends on me, on, you, on all of us.....

Peace is too important to be left to politicians.

Peace is too important to be left to warriors and soldiers.

-WIB Belgrade