Dennis to Cabot: Peace Tiles Knowledge-sharing
Summary: Travel funds for Kenyan arts-based peer educator Dennis Kimambo to attend a summer skills-building and networking workshop in Vermont, USA this summer.
This summer Peace Tiles founder Lars Hasselblad Torres will host a summer "arts and education" workshop in Cabot, Vermont. The purpose of this gathering is to share ways the Peace Tiles process has been used at the community level to promote social inclusion and education, and awareness-raising at the global level. At the same time, it will be a fun, relaxed opportunity to share and explore techniques in mixed media arts.
Among the participants will be outstanding educators and activists from across the US and Canada who have found their own ways to apply to process to different contexts. One such outstanding educator is Dennis Kimambo, a peer educator from Kenya who, among many other exciting things, is finding ways to use the Peace Tiles process in prison settings to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS prevention.
I would very much like Dennis to be able to join us. To make this happen, we need to jointly raise about $2,300 to cover visa and airfare as well as a modest travel stipend. I hope you will join me in helping to raise the funds necessary to bring this dynamic educator to the US for our summer workshop, August 3-5, 2007. I am convinced that Dennis' presence with us will both enhance our learning and social time, as well as help to strengthen a Peace Tiles link the to grassroots in Kenya.
To learn more about Dennis, please visit the Omidyar Network at: http://www.omidyar.net/group/peacetiles/news/52/
Deepest thanks,
lars
Progress
| Amount collected: | $2,300.36 |
| Campaign goal: | $2,300.00 |
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Comments on this campaign
Happy to help Lars :) I love peace tiles and all the love, compassion, understanding, education, and bridge building that they represent.
This is great, Lars! I'll send it around to some folks here in Atlanta to see if we can get more help. I hope to be there myself so I can participate and meet Dennis. Thanks for doing this.
Thumbs up :)
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