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From: Madison-Rafah Sister-City Proj <[log in to unmask]> 06/01/04 12:28AM >>>

Peter:

Can you please get this out to the CU list?  And any
other lists you have that you think would be
interested. 

Thanks,
Barb O.

PLEASE CIRCULATE AND CROSS POST WIDELY

MOSAIC COMMUNITIES: Multinational Housing Cooperatives
in Israel USA speaking tour comes to Madison on June 6
at 7 pm at The Crossing, 1127 University Avenue.   

Yasser Akawi, Board member, and Fred Schlomka,
Executive Director. will talk about the philosophy and
work of Mosaic Communities, including
details of the pioneering project in the town of Ramle
in Central Israel. Currently operating a youth program
in Ramle for Arab and Jewish teenagers, the
organization is developing plans for an integrated
Arab/Jewish residential facility to be opened later
this year in the center of town. 

The building will also house a community center which
will host the youth program and other projects that
bring Arabs and Jews together. This pilot facility is
planned to be a model for other similar facilities
around Israel, thereby bringing hope to all residents
of the country at a time when hope is in short supply.

The presentation will include details of the long-term
goals and strategies of Mosaic Communities and an
invitation to join the Pennies for Peace Campaign, an
innovative grassroots fundraising program managed by
Friends of Mosaic Communities – USA.

The program is sponsored by Madison-Rafah Sister City
Project and will also feature an update on the housing
crisis in Rafah brought about by the massive Israeli
home demolitions of the past three years including the
past month when approximately 2,000 more people became
homeless in Rafah, bringing the total to over 14,000.

Short biographies of the Mosaic speakers are given
below.

We hope to see you there!

Thanks,
MRSCP

**************************************************

Yasser Akawi has a Masters Degree in non-profit
management from Hebrew University and has worked for
the Van-Leer Institute and Physicians for Human
Rights. He currently is the Social and Political Forum
Coordinator at the Alternative Information Center in
Jerusalem and a board member with Mosaic Communities.
Yasser comes from a small village in the north of
Israel and currently lives in Jerusalem.

Fred Schlomka has had a varied career in business and
the non-profit world on both sides of the Atlantic.
Last year he was awarded a Fellowship by the Echoing
Green Foundation in New York and now works full time
for Mosaic Communities. He is also a board member of
the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Fred
comes from a long line of Palestinian Jews, has lived
in Europe and the USA for many years, and now lives
with his wife and two children in the town of Kfar
Saba in Central Israel.



	
        	
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