FW: Hope and Project Hope

Rawi Hage is in Toronto appearing as part of “An Evening of Readings for Project Hope.”

Project HOPE (Humanitarian Opportunities for Peace and Education), is a non-profit volunteer organisation whose goal is to provide a participatory, educational space for Palestinian youth and children. Together Fundraisers are an Arab/Jewish Group in Toronto raising money for projects in Palestine.

An Evening of Readings for Project Hope: Moderated by Judy Rebick
January 20, 2008
Lula Lounge
1585 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, ON
Doors open at 6:00 pm, event starts at 7:00 pm
Tickets available at The Toronto Women’s Bookstore or through email at togetherfundraisers{at}gmail.

Book of Hopes and Dreams via Crafty Green Poet

THE BOOK OF HOPES AND DREAMS
is a charity anthology of poetry, which will raise funds for Spirit Aid’s operations in the Baglan Province on North East Afghanistan, providing mobile clinics, doctors, nurses and medical supplies for the region, where there has been virtually no medical facilities for the past quarter of a century.

As well as raising money for charity, the aim of The Book Of Hopes And Dreams is to help spread the spirit of optimism and activism as a counter-balance to the negativity and ennui that seem so prevalent today. The poetry in this book is generally unfashionably positive in outlook: full of the power of hopes and dreams. Read this book and you may well find yourself infected with optimism, even in the face of so much overwhelming evidence from the pessimists. If the infection takes hold, who knows what will happen? Maybe you will become one of those people who actually tries to do something to help to change the way things are – stepping boldly away from the majority, who prefer to just moan about it.

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