A workshop to discuss the WelcomeCorps private refugee sponsorship program and to build interest in sponsoring refugees to our area and forming sponsorship groups through Quaker meetings in the PYM and NYYM regions. Participants will include representatives of the national WelcomeCorps program, and Afghan refugees speaking via zoom from refugee camps in Indonesia.
Meeting for worship is at 11 a.m. and the workshop to discuss sponsorship will start at 1 p.m.
Aug 5-12, 2024
Pendle Hill is exploring being a hybrid hub for Friends during the Friends World Committee for Consultation World Plenary Meeting. Please sign up on the event page to receive more information as it’s available.
Representatives from AFSC’s Policy Department will speak about the organization’s efforts to develop more comprehensive policy change strategies across levels of government globally, and ways we can keep up momentum for change when times feel hopeless. They will also speak to AFSC’s preparations for multiple election scenarios in the U.S., drawing on the organization’s global experience as well as its organizing and training expertise. Aura Kanegis, Imani Cruz, and Mike Merryman-Lotze will share stories from their work and talk about ways to look beyond politically expedient strategies that may undermine long term goals, setting a course for deeper and more substantive long-arc change.
Presenters: Aura Kanegis, Imani Cruz, and Mike Merryman-Lotze
Since 2019, members of the Ujima Friends Peace Center have partnered with Sankofa Artisan Guild to make reusable, environmentally friendly menstrual pads, pouches, and under garments for African girls’ whose educations are compromised due to “period poverty.” The group, now known as the PanAfrican Sisterhood Health Initiative (PASHI), is led by a group of Black Women elders most of who are community workers, keepers of the culture, educators, activists, counselors and lovers of the arts. The Friends Foundation on Aging supports funding for the project. [Read more…] about Ujima Friends Sewing for Africa
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