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DESCRIPTION:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nShamsia Razaqi; Co-Founder of Omeid International 
 Orphanage in Santa Cruz!\n\nLocal School Adopts Program!!!\n\nCommunity 
 Presentation: “The Children of Kabul”\nwww.omeid.org\n\n“Omeid” is 
 the Farsi word for “hope.” Omeid International is focused on restoring 
 the hope that has become extinct in the lives of Afghanistan’s orphaned 
 children. Over the past few decades’ hope has been lost in the struggle 
 to survive and resist the everyday ravages of war. OMEID International 
 believes that by restoring hope to the lives of these orphans of war we can 
 begin the healing process, and start rebuilding the country and its 
 people.\n\n\nShamsia Raqizi, an Omeid International co-founder, Vice 
 President and Chief Operating Officer will be in Santa Cruz on Monday 
 October 26, 2009 to conduct school and community presentations.  She will 
 be speaking in an assembly at Rio Del Mar Elementary School to 4th, 5th and 
 6th graders.  Rio Del Mar will be adopting OMIED as a service learning 
 project for the remainder of the 2009-2010 school year.  We hope the 
 relationship will continue and develop into pen pal and curriculum based 
 projects in the future.\n\n Shamsia will be doing a community event at the 
 Resource Center for Nonviolence at 7:30 in the evening on October 26, 2009. 
 She will present video and still photo images of Kabul, the children and 
 the orphanage.  This event is an educational presentation and a fundraiser 
 for OMEID International.\n\nOur mission is to restore hope to the lives of 
 Afghanistan’s children of war, by removing them from a state of anguish, 
 isolation and persecution toward a future of hope, opportunity and justice. 
 We are a 501 c 3 human rights based non-profit, public charity based out of 
 the Bay Area in California, and Kabul Afghanistan.\n\nThe ultimate goals of 
 our project are not only to house and protect orphans, but also to provide 
 all the tools for proper development. These include access to regular 
 medical and psychiatric care, education and nutrition. We want to prevent 
 the rise of another Taliban, by providing another way out- by providing 
 hope and breaking the cycle of violence.\n\nEVERYONE IS 
 INVITED!\n\nwww.omeid.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/21/18626249.php
SUMMARY:"Children of Kabul" Community Presentation With Omeid International!!!
LOCATION:Resource Center for Nonviolence\n515 Broadway\nSanta Cruz, 95061
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/10/21/18626249.php
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