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<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT
size=3>Breakfast for Haiti Supports Quake Relief</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN
lang=en-US></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=en-US>The Breakfast for
Haiti fundraiser will be held on Sunday, February 21, from 9am until noon at the
1912 Center in Moscow. Tickets will be sold at the door for a suggested donation
of $10. All the money raised will be used for earthquake relief in Haiti and
will be sent directly to the Courageous Women project created by the people of
Haiti. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN
lang=en-US>Courageous Women will use the funding for direct humanitarian aid for
orphaned children and homeless families in Matenwa, a village on the Haitian
island of LaGonave that was ravaged by the recent earthquake. More information
about Courageous Women is available at </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
color=#000080><U><A
href="http://www.matenwa.org/CourageousWomen/index.htm"><FONT
face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN
lang=en-US>www.matenwa.org/CourageousWomen/index.htm</SPAN></FONT></FONT></A></U></FONT><FONT
color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN
lang=en-US>. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3>The
breakfast is sponsored by the VP Foundation, a Moscow-based non-profit
organization that serves as the fiscal agent for Courageous Women, a grass-roots
development project in Haiti that focuses on educating and supporting women and
children. The VP Foundation will transfer all the money raised at the breakfast
to the Courageous Women group in Matenwa. </FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN
lang=en-US>The breakfast fundraiser in Moscow will include a meal of pancakes,
eggs, yogurt, fruit, applesauce, coffee, tea and juice, as well as a program of
entertainment and information. Musical entertainment will include a cello duet
from </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3><SPAN lang=en-US>Lois Blackburn and
Tim Kinkeade, and performances from Trillium and from Tom Drake and Friends. In
addition, the Palouse Potters Guild will assist people to make their own pottery
bowls in the adjacent Fiske Room for the empty bowls
project.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3>Also at
the breakfast, Nancy Casey of Moscow, who has visited Matenwa for the last 8
years and worked with the Courageous Women group there, will provide a
presentation about Haiti today. In March, Casey plans to go to Matenwa with a
group of Moscow women to help in the relief projects there. They will continue
the long-term partnership between Moscow and Matenwa aimed at supporting the
women and families of that impoverished region.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman, serif"><FONT size=3>The
other Moscow women planning to visit Matenwa include Janice Boughton, a medical
doctor; Louise-Marie Dandurand, a plant pathologist; and Ryan Law, an
artist.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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