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March 19th

On the Blockade of Iraq/Gaza
Date:	Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Time:	7:00pm
Location:	Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th St. 5th Floor, Manhattan
Directions:	1,2,3,4,5,6,7,Q,N,R,A,V,F, and PATH trains to 14th St
More:	Join the International Action Center and Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, for a special evening meeting on the anniversary of the occupation of Iraq. Hear from Barbara Nimri Aziz, author of the powerful eyewitness account: "Swimming up the Tigris" about the years of Blockade of Iraq and the impact of 18 years of U.S. war, and hear from Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition on the blockade of Gaza today and continuing occupation.

March 28th

Commemorate Yom al-Ard with Palestinian Musical Group Hanin and Al-Awda
Date:	Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Time:	4:00 PM
Location:	5602 6th Ave. Brooklyn, NY
Direction:	Take the N (Express) to 59th St or the R (Local) train to 59th or 53rd St and walk one block East to 6th Avenue
More:	A not-to-be-missed performance by Palestinian musical group Hanin. Commemorate Yom al- Ard and support Palestinian culture and identity!

April 19th

Support Palestinian Political Prisoners!
Date:	Sunday, April 19, 2009
Time:	4:00 PM
Location:	Solidarity Center, 55 W. 17th St. Manhattan
Direction:	F to 14th St-6th Ave, L to 6th Ave-14th St, 4/5/6, N/Q/R to 14th St-Union Sq
More:	Al-Awda NY and the Jericho Movement mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day with an event of performance, education, film and more!

May 17th

Annual Al-Nakba March, Rally and Commemoration
Date:	Sunday, May 17, 2009
Time:	2:30 PM
Location:	Times Square, 42nd and Broadway, Manhattan
Direction:	1/2/3/7/N/Q/R/S/A/C/E to 42nd St.
More:	Join the Break the Siege on Gaza Coalition-NY and Al-Awda NY for a march and rally to commemorate 61 years of displacement and oppression and stand for return and liberation for Palestine!

May 31st

A Day of Palestinian Culture and History
Date:	Sunday, May 31, 2009
Time:	TBA
Location:	TBA, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Direction:	TBA
More:	Join the Break the Siege on Gaza Coalition-NY and Al-Awda NY for an unforgettable cultural and educational day of music, skits, presentations and more for the whole family!

TAKAFUL: Family to Family Sponsorship Project

Support a Palestinian Refugee Family in Gaza today
For $100 per month / $3 per day
Your donations go directly to needy families as direct Financial support

Refugee Support
Support refugees

Contact us: 1-800-856-8147 www.refugeesupport.org info@refugeeupport.org

Click here to sponsor a family now!

Through Family Sponsorship, your family now has the unique opportunity to help alleviate the suffering of impoverished families in Gaza Strip, Palestine, and show solidarity to those who are impacted the most by the dire humanitarian crisis.

Family sponsorship is a community development initiative that aims to change lives by delivering long-lasting, self-sustaining improvements to help lift generations out of poverty. Your sponsorship will empower parents and children caught in the cycle of poverty.

With your support of $3 per day, delivered in direct monetary assistance (Cash), you are giving your sponsored family the option of sustaining essential life needs, be it food, health, education or merely coming out of crisis.

Your own family will experience the joy of building bridges with your sponsored family as you begin to build a relationship with them. Your children will learn invaluable lessons about caring, sharing and selfless kindness. You will have the option of contacting your sponsored family, and even visiting them as a show of your solidarity with their struggle for dignity, national and human rights.

Family-to-Family sponsorship aims to alleviate the suffering of impoverished families, and provide minimum support to the family unit to sustain itself.

The network also aims to help the families further by supporting education related projects that would provide an incentive for children and youth to continue their educations with the Back to School Schoolbag & Tools program and the Kasid University scholarship program. Please see our website for more details.

Click here to sponsor a family now.

Please Visit Our Website for other Projects: Back to School Schoolbag, Kasid University Scholarship Fund

ABOUT US:
The Palestinian Refugee Support Network is located in the US, Canada, Europe and Palestine. The project is being launched in the United States & Canada by Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition - New York; Al-Awda Vancouver; New Jersey Solidarity - Activists for the Liberation of Palestine, and Palestinian Orphan Association in Germany. Both Al-Awda New York and New Jersey Solidarity are tax-exempt, non-profit organizations in the US. Al-Awda Vancouver is a non-profit organization in Canada. Palestinian Orphan Association is a registered organization in Germany (Weisen Kinder Helfe Palestina e.V).

Our main goal is to develop the family-to-family sponsorship project (Takaful) in coordination with Al-Karmel Cultural and Social Development Association, and Hanan Cultural and Social Development Association in Gaza Strip, Palestine.

The network aims to work with civil organizations in the Arab world and internationally in order to support Palestinian refugees in their just struggle for independence, sovereignty, self-determination & the right to return.

The network aims as well to develop a solid basis for solidarity with the Palestinian people based on their national and human rights.

Al-Karmel & Hanan Cultural and Social Development Associations serve primarily children, women, youth and the disabled, especially those in the most poverty stricken remote communities in Gaza. Since 1993, Al-Karmel's main work has been focused on the economic, education, cultural and social progress and the overall alleviation of suffering in marginalized and deprived communities.

Visit our Websites
www.refugeesupport.org
www.al-awdany.org
www.newjerseysolidarity.org
www.alkarmelgaza.org
www.hanancoo.org

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