Here are holiday treats for you, featuring a solution for last-minute holiday shopping, videos that share personal stories from those encountering a new land, resources for peacebuilding for Afghanistan, and a video slideshow of glimpses from a Friends Meeting’s fair to support AFSC. We hope you enjoy them!
From all of us at the American Friends Service Committee, we wish you a happy, peaceful, and healthy holiday season. We deeply appreciate your support.
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Simple Gifts – AFSC’s Gifts with Heart and Hope
Have some people on your holiday list who are hard to shop for? Simplify your giving and give a gift that supports AFSC’s programs for peace, justice, and human dignity. For every Gift with Heart and Hope, you receive a holiday card to notify your loved ones that a gift has been made on their behalf.
Immigration Stories
One weekend last October, ten people — immigrants and their allies — embarked on a 72 hour marathon of sharing stories, learning production techniques and creating works of media art. The ten short digital stories that they produced are a moving mosaic of immigrant experience in the U.S. This week, the stories will have a gala premiere at a theater in Denver. You can also watch them on AFSC’s web site: http://www.afsc.org/ImmigrantsRights/.
How to End the War in Afghanistan
Last week, AFSC’s Wage Peace: Afghanistan campaign held a strategy call with more than 100 peace supporters across the country. You can listen to the call recording online to learn more about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and what you can do in your community to end the war. Our web page also has resources about the cost of war in Afghanistan and better ways to build peace.
A Fifty Year Tradition of Support
Every year since 1952, on the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Kennett Friends Meeting in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, has put on a “Quaker Fair” to benefit AFSC. Selling homemade foods, pony rides and other items, they have raised thousands of dollars for AFSC’s work. Watch a short slide show about this year’s Quaker Fair. We are most grateful to these Friends and to others such as Gwynedd Friends Meeting (Pennsylvania), who hosted a recent volunteer-run “Recycle” holiday sale of donated items that raised more than $6,000 for AFSC.
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