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03/23/2014 at Noon: Talk on the Rape Survivors Support project in Burundi

Rosalie Dance will talk about the Friends Women’s Association and their Rape Survivors Support project. The Friends Women’s Association operates a medical facility in Burundi. The clinic provides care to HIV+ women and delivers basic medical treatment to the general population.

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The Friends Women’s Association is part of the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI.) AGLI strengthens, supports, and promotes peace activities at the grassroots level in the Great Lakes region of Africa (Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda).

02/23/2014 at Noon: Recent Travels to Central America

Better Hoover presents again! Bette Rainbow Hoover has been working for peace with justice in Central America since she founded CASA de Maryland www.casademaryland.org in 1985.

Recently she traveled to Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras. On a delegation of health workers to Guatemala, she met with Mayan midwives who have formed women’s circles in 26 remote villages. Continue reading 02/23/2014 at Noon: Recent Travels to Central America