May 9 Sing Out for Peace and Justice benefit for San Jose Peace & Justice Center

odw is a co-sponsor and we are responsible for selling tickets. We have tickets for the May 9 Sing Out for Peace and Justice benefit for San Jose Peace & Justice Center. It promises to be a great event to lift our spirits in this time of stress.

International dinner at 6 p.m., followed by the new Pete Seeger film at 7 p.m. and a sing-along of Seeger favorites afterward. (The Peace Center's building fund was greatly enhanced by several benefit concerts Pete Seeger performed here in the 1980s and 90s.).

We'll be at Teamsters Hall on N. 4th St. near Gish Road (1452 N. 4th St.) -- with handicap access and easy parking.

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Please call us: Barby 379-4431 or email us: odw@magiclink.net

May 24 6:30 pm our developing world (odw) potluck and fundraising wine tasting and program on Vietnam and Laos

13004 Paseo Presada, Saratoga corner Paseo Lado (look for lavender door)
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June 6 7:00pm our developing world (odw) and Friendship with Cambodia

Steps toward genocide and steps to stop it, by Bhavia Wagner and an our developing world (odw) update on what Cambodians are doing to help poor and/or disabled. Donations for rice for disabled trainees, disabled by landmines, cluster bombs or polio.

Supporting MinMaHaw School -- Fund raising party

our developing world(odw) is hosting a delicious catered Burmese dinner Saturday February 9 at 6:30pm to raise funds for a school for Burmese refugee children in Thailand

A video of the school will be shown.
Limit the first 40. Wheel chair accessible

Send checks to odw for $30 with Burmese in the memo

BADA( Burmese American Democratic Alliance ) http://www.badasf.org has setup the Children Education Fund project to help many many schools that are in need of help in the Thia-Burma border area. Among many schools there (nearly 60 in the Mae Sot area alone), Minmahaw school (information below) is the one that we intend to raise funds for.

Photo of MinMaHaw schools students (19 of those, others are visitors and two volunteer teachers from Australia ).

The school is basically a small rented one level house with some furnitures. All 19 students -- some boys and mostly girls, use the house for boarding as well as for schooling. We will have more pictures and a DVD shown at the dinner.

The main goal of the school is to help further the education of the children of political prisoners, activists and opposition party, NLD members in Burma . All 19 students were recuited from Burma and will be trained for two years at the school so that they can pass University level entrance to apply/enter western universities. They will be trained in Computer, English language and speaking skills and other subjects to successfully pass the exams. They all seem eager to learn and hungry for education and opportunities.

One of the girl there used to stay with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. In fact, her mother and her sister are currently living and helping Daw Aung San Suu Kyi with her house work. And they are from all over the Burma.

Since it was just started, school not only needs financial support, but also volunteer teachers; and training, possibly conducting lectures over the internet from here. Two people in the photos are two Australian volunteers teachers who are helping run the school.

The school was founded and supported by the exiled NLD members. And BADA has been supporting $300 a month for a year and committed to support until end of this year. We have recently received all the receipts and expense report of all donations we made last year.

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