Deborah Lancaster is going to India and needs donations to help a group of untouchable women learn to quilt to help support their families.
Please take a look at her blog page and donate even a few dollars via Paypal if you can:
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I am going to India in 2 weeks to teach quilting to 'untouchable' ladies
(really, they are quite the same as you and I; it's the Hindu caste system
that teaches this); my intent is to help them learn a skill so that they can
better support their families, and you can find out a bit more info on my
web site, deborahlancaster.com.
There are 6 ladies who make the core group – this will be the third time I
have taught them – and we share great love between us, in spite of having no
language in common, really; other ladies are brought in from the villages to
learn with us for a week.
Deborah Lancaster
The total market value of illicit human trafficking is estimated to be in
excess of $32 billion (U.N.)
Each year, more than 2 million children are exploited in the global
commercial sex trade (UNICEF)
27 million men, women and children are held as slaves. (Kevin Bales,
Disposable People)
1 in 5 women is a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. (U. N.
Development Fund for Women)
More than 1 million children live in detention, the vast majority awaiting
trial for minor offenses. (UNICEF)
~~~http://www.ijm.org/
