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is a Madison WI area organization that raises funds and supplies for selected relief projects which it has been supporting through the Mennonite Central Committee. To become a member or for more information contact Phyllis Hasbrouck at 608-223-9571, or by email at doers@terracom.net, or by mail at DOERS PO Box 259525 Madison WI 53725-9525. For a 2003 article about us, see the link below: Oct. 27, 2001: Blanket collection for Afghan refugees collects and sends 711 blankets and $5500 for food. Over 100 people attend. Dec. 1, 2001: Kit collection for refugees worldwide makes, stuffs and sends 456 kits (relief, health, school, newborn & sewing), 22 boxes of other items, and another 216 blankets and $1039 for Afghan refugees. A simultaneous art sale generates $1273 for RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan. Over 100 people attend. May 11, 2002: Ethnic Afghan Dinner with speaker Doug Hostetter, who trucked aid into northern Afghanistan while the bombs fell, raises $5150 for seeds and tools for returning Afghan farmers. (Due to continuing drought, this money was spent instead on a prosthetics clinic in Afghanistan.) 175 people attend. June, 2002: continuing donations have brought the total raised for Afghans to $21,026. Nov. & Dec. 2002: Holiday Handicraft Sales and Rug Raffle. Profits plus donations bring in $1690, enough to sponsor 15 Afghan widows to enroll in a 3-month course in sewing and literacy, with graduation gifts of a sewing machine and a work table. Feb. 15, 2003: Energy Fair to enlist people in the effort to save lives in the future by cutting back on CO2 emissions now! May 8, 2003: Collection of aid for Iraqi children. Nov. 2003: Fund raising for a water project in Iraq. |