Aswea: A Haitian Soiree
Friday, April 18 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm at the Unitarian Church of the Palouse, Haitian food, music, a slide show, skits, and a silent auction will be enjoyed by all. This is a great chance to learn firsthand about life in Haiti!
Admission is $5 and tickets are available at BookPeople or at the door. The event is being sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, the Latah County Human Rights Task Force, and the Moscow High School Human Rights Club and International Club. Funds raised will go for travel expenses and human rights activities in Haiti.
Have you met Afelene Rosemond, teacher and human rights activist who is visiting Moscow from Haiti? She is from the rural community of Matenwa on the island of LaGonave off Haiti's coast. She arrived in Moscow January 8 and will stay until May 8. In Haiti, Afelene teaches preschool and is a member of a women’s group which uses popular theater to promote social change, especially surrounding issues of women’s and children’s rights.
While in Moscow, Afelene is learning English and has performed in a play at Lewis–Clark State College, and at the University of Idaho Women’s Center, and she is visiting preschool classes and dance classes for young children. Her goal is to be able to help members of her community interact better with people from the US who offer them assistance.
Her visit is being sponsored by Nancy Casey, who travels to Matenwa for several months every year. Also assisting the visit are Moscow High School teacher Leeanne Eareckson and her daughter Anne Gorman, who visited Matenwa last July, and Annie Cantrell, who is housing Afelene.
At the Aswea, food will include rice and beans and dessert. There will be songs by Afelene, informational posters about food issues in Haiti and particularly on LaGonav, and the program will include a short skit about those issues. The slide show will be about everyday life on LaGonav including the daily challenge of finding enough food to eat. The goal is for people to leave with a better understanding of Haitian life and thinking about possibilities of future exchange programs.
Admission is $5 and tickets are available at BookPeople or at the door. The event is being sponsored by the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse, the Latah County Human Rights Task Force, and the Moscow High School Human Rights Club and International Club. Funds raised will go for travel expenses and human rights activities in Haiti.
Have you met Afelene Rosemond, teacher and human rights activist who is visiting Moscow from Haiti? She is from the rural community of Matenwa on the island of LaGonave off Haiti's coast. She arrived in Moscow January 8 and will stay until May 8. In Haiti, Afelene teaches preschool and is a member of a women’s group which uses popular theater to promote social change, especially surrounding issues of women’s and children’s rights.
While in Moscow, Afelene is learning English and has performed in a play at Lewis–Clark State College, and at the University of Idaho Women’s Center, and she is visiting preschool classes and dance classes for young children. Her goal is to be able to help members of her community interact better with people from the US who offer them assistance.
Her visit is being sponsored by Nancy Casey, who travels to Matenwa for several months every year. Also assisting the visit are Moscow High School teacher Leeanne Eareckson and her daughter Anne Gorman, who visited Matenwa last July, and Annie Cantrell, who is housing Afelene.
At the Aswea, food will include rice and beans and dessert. There will be songs by Afelene, informational posters about food issues in Haiti and particularly on LaGonav, and the program will include a short skit about those issues. The slide show will be about everyday life on LaGonav including the daily challenge of finding enough food to eat. The goal is for people to leave with a better understanding of Haitian life and thinking about possibilities of future exchange programs.
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