Friends, Prosper Ndabishuriye of Burundi came to the International Practice of Peace Open Space Conference just outside Seattle in November 2003. He inspired some of the high school students he met with an idea: to come build houses in Burundi. From that seed, Mike Seymour, President of the Heritage Institute (a progressive educational organization), traveled to Burundi to understand more about what was possible and begin to connect youth in the US and Burundi.
Prosper and Mike will be traveling to various places in the US this winter and would like to connect with schools, churches or other people interested in peace-building work. Here is his travel schedule: January 26-29 Orlando, Fla. January 30-February 4 Washington, D.C. February 5-8 New York City February 8-10 Boston area February 19-22 Oakland & Bay area February 23-March 25 Greater Seattle area If you know of organizations that would be interested in hosting them, please contact Mike Seymour at:m...@hol.edu or 360-542-1289. What Prosper and Mike are doing is remarkable! Your support can truly make a difference. A bit more information is below. You can also look at the web site for Prosper's organization: http://jrmd.org/. Many thanks for your support, Peggy Opening a Space for Peace in Burundi and Central Africa Come hear from Prosper Ndabishuriye one of those rare individuals whose character and times make for a heroic story of courage and healing of a people in the face of death. Prosper took the daring step during the height of the Tutsi & Hutu ethnic wars in Burundi in 1993 to bring a team of both ethnicities together to help refugee families from both sides to reconcile through the rebuilding of their homes<60% of which had been destroyed over decades of ethnic conflict. Since that time, a non-governmental organization dedicated to rebuilding hearts and homes (Youth in Reconstruction of a World in Destruction-www.jrmd.org) has enabled over 1500 families to regain a home, and Mike Seymour, President of the Heritage Institute (a progressive educational organization) in a partnership that is helping another 315 families to have homes. This partnership is also making possible the AfricaAmericaExchange (www.hol.edu/aax) connecting students and schools in the USA and Burundi in letter and email exchange as well as parallel curriculum around peace and sustainability. * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
