> >Dear Friends of KOMINFORM, > >Thanks for your sympathies with Afghan women. Your support means a lot to the >most sorrowful and bereaved women's organization struggling for freedom, >democracy and women's rights under the oppressive rule of the fundamentalists >in Afghanistan. > >As you may know, we are attempting to raise funds to celebrate International >Women's Day on March 8, 2000 in Pakistan. We hope to arrange a bigger function >than last year, which had more than a thousand people participate in it >(http://www.rawa.org/mar899re.htm). It is a great opportunity to give a loud >cry to women's plight in Afghanistan. But our wish can only be realized with >your prompt help. > >So many women in Kabul and other cities are eager to participate in the >function, but most of them cannot afford to pay for transportation. The major >hurdles we face lie in transporting participants from many remote cities and >providing their accommodation for a few days. Your donation can help cover >these costs and support the participants in their efforts to help Afghanistan. > > >If everyone who receives our appeal acts upon it and raises money, we will >achieve our goal of $35,000, enabling us to transport and accommodate up to >2000 women. > >Again, we know that this is more than you can afford yourself and we realize >that your time is valuable which you will have to spend to try and raise the >money, but your sisters in Afghanistan will be very grateful for your efforts >no matter how much of the $35,000 you are able to raise. And if you are unable >to raise anything at all, we still greatly appreciate your continued support. > >For our American supporters, please make your check or money order payable to: >"Support Afghan Women" (not RAWA). 100% of your contribution will be sent to >RAWA. Mail cash, individual checks or money order to: > >Support Afghan Women >PMB 226 >915 W. Arrow Hwy. >San Dimas, CA 91773 >USA > >Our supporters in other countries can follow this option only if they send a >check/money order from any American bank otherwise we may not be able to >en-cash them non-American checks. >For more information on how to send your donation please visit: >www.rawa.org/appeal8.htm > >We will publish a complete list of received donations in a special bulletin, >which will be published after the function. Kindly let us know if you don't >like your name to be mentioned in the bulletin. > >We would also appreciate receiving your SOLIDARITY MESSAGE for the occasion. >Please send your messages soon (better before Feb.20) so that we have time to >translate them into Persian and Pustho to be read out at the function and >distributed among the participants. (View the messages we received last year >at http://www.rawa.org/mar899me.htm) > >We hope KOMINFORM would kindly take our appeal into consideration promptly. > >8th March Celebration Committee, RAWA > >Palwasha Rafat (Mrs) > > > > > >============================================================= >~ Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) >~ Mailing Address: > RAWA, > P.O.Box 374, > Quetta, Pakistan >~ Mobile: 0092-300-551638 >~ Fax: 001-760-2819855 >~ E-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >~ Home Page: http://www.rawa.org >~ Mirror site: http://members.xoom.com/ra_wa > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
