Friends of Quaker Congo - Martin Gilbraith

Dear Friends,

Quakers from Manchester and Warrington AM and Cambridgeshire
AM are working in partnership with Quakers in
the Eastern part of the DR Congo. We are trying to raise
really useful amounts of money so as to support the hospital,
trauma clinic and micro enterprise projects run by
women. We have a web site on which we post updates
about how things are going and would like to invite all those
interested to sign on so that you receive these updates.

Please visit us at http://www.quakercongo.org.uk to see what's
new - updates and additions this month include:

news - news items from Mkoko Boseka on developments
within CEEACO, and from Janet Gilbraith on fundrasining
activities of Cambridgeshire Area Meeting

donate - we have now raised £11,160.47 toward our target
of £27,000, largely from Quakers in the Cambridgeshire and
Manchester & Warrington areas but with a substantial contribution
from Quaker Peace & Service Trust New Zealand.
So we are well on our way, but we have £15,839.53 still to
raise!

downloads- Quaker Congo Partnership' s A3-size
poster and A4-size, 3-folded leaflet are now available to
download in pdf, to print and use for local publicity where
you are - for higher resolution versions please contact us

links - new links include 'Rape in a lawless land', a powerful
video report from the Guardian of the testimony of
women and girls abused by marauding militias in eastern
Congo; Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who estimated
that 75% of the rape cases it dealt with worldwide were in
eastern Congo; Tim Butcher's book 'Blood River', and
Thierry Michel's award-winning film 'Congo River'

If you come across any sites that you think may be of interest
to our visitors, please let me know to suggest that I
include new link.

From our Newsletter, winter edition.