[kan-l] Aid for Women

[Teresa Crawford]

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This email came from some friends from the US who are in Macedonia looking into the work of local groups.  If you have any questions about their work or how to help please contact teresa at advocacynet.org or CRABGRASS and Tova Green directly at crabgrass at igc.org.  Crabgrass has worked with women in Kosova for years.  See their website www.crabgrass.org


*********************APPEAL FOR AID SPECIFICALLY FOR WOMEN********************

>From: crabgrass at igc.apc.org (Tova Green)
>Subject: Fran and Jan in Macedonia
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>I just got a call from Fran and Jan on their cell phone.  They were in
>Skopje, Macedonia where they have been since Thursday.  They have also
>spent some time in Tetova, a small city in Western Macedonia whose
>population is largely Albanian.  Fran was in high spirits tonight.
>
>She and Jan connected with many of the women we worked with in Pristina.
>Vjosa, the doctor who was a co-founder of the Center for the Protection of
>Women and Children, and many of the staff members, are now in Tetova.  They
>already found and rented a building to establish a Center there.  They
>needed money for the first month's rent and Crabgrass was able to pay half
>of it.  The building has a patio for psychosocial meetings, and will have
>two examining rooms inside.  It's across the street from a big, beautiul
>mosque.
>
>Vjosa has asked for people who can train local women in counseling,
>listening, and working with trauma to come to Tetova immediately.  One
>trauma counselor from Croatia who speaks Serbo-Croatian is on her way.
>
>Vjosa and Aferdita, a journalist from Pristina, will be in New York and
>Washington next week to appear on talk shows.  They hope to take back 2 or
>3 suitcases of condoms, diaphragms, NEW women's underwear (especially large
>sizes), socks, and gynecological medicines.  If you can help with this let
>me know and I'll let you know who will be collecting these things in New
>York.
>
>If you can send money to Crabgrass or know others who can, now is the time!
>I will make sure it gets to Fran and Jan, who will find groups that need
>our help.
>
>Thanks you for your concern and support.
>
>Tova Green
>
>Crabgrass, Working for Social Change is based in San Francisco.  Our
>mailing address:
>3181 Mission St. #30, San Francisco CA 94110, U.S.A
>
>Crabgrass projects include cleaning the Ganges River in Varanasi India
>(working with Friends of the Ganges U.S. and with the Sankat Mochan
>Foundation in India), organizing the 2nd Women and Water Conference in
>Kathmandu, Nepal in 9/98, and work to support refugee, women's and anti-war
>groups in the former Yugoslavia.
>
>Fran Peavey and Tova Green can be reached by phone at 510/428-0240.




contact information:
teresa at advocacynet.org
(315) 471-7790 voice mail
Syracuse, NY 13210

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Submitted by: Teresa Crawford <tmcrawfo at mailbox.syr.edu>