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Boston Benefit Fundraiser: Doctors Without Borders / Afghanistan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alberto Balestrieri)
Mon Dec 3 15:38:02 2001
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From: Alberto Balestrieri <aruspice@MIT.EDU>
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Join us Saturday, December 15th, 6:00 to 9:30 PM
Mass College of Art, Boston
for the benefit fundraiser A Night of Light to support:
Doctors Without Borders/ M=E9decin Sans Fronti=E8res (MSF) - AFGHANISTAN
Recipient of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, Doctors Without Borders'
international staff returned in mid-November to the Mazar-I-Sharif and
Herat regions of Afghanistan. MSF is providing humanitarian assistance for
Afghan children and their families. By December 1stover 50 international
staff had been placed in Herat, Mazar-I-Sharif, Taloqan, Faizabad, and
Jalalabad. Working independently from all warring parties with their
Afghan staff of 400, MSF has now vaccinated over 7,000 displaced children
in Mazar-I-Sharif and Sar-I-Pol while providing vitamin A and screening for
malnutrition. To the east, medicines are now getting to hospitals with
mobile clinics afoot. More info is available at:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
A Night of Light will be held at Massachusetts College of Art's Tower
Building Auditorium, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston (MBTA Green Line E) from
6-9:30 PM. Twenty-dollar contributions will be accepted at the door.
Program
Guest Speaker Jalch Joublino-Kadem, Honorary Consul, Republic of Ecuador
Rumi Poetry, Manajee Zarghamee
Karim Mohamed Arabic Music Ensemble
Ran Blake, Jazz Pianist
Michele Pinet, Harpist.
Julie Ince Thompson, Dance performance
Sponsors
ArsLibri, Boston Art Dealer's Association, Brattle Square Florist,
Cambridge Art Association, Elias Fine Art, The Revolving Museum, South
Station Office of the Marketing Director, WGBH-Channel 2, Zebra Print
=46OR EVENT INFO ONLY CALL 617 330-1779
Other ways to support this Doctors Without Borders Fundraiser
I welcome all those who wish to join me in sending pre-event pledges. Any
and all contributions are welcome. Also, we seek names of professionals in
the research, design, and business community willing to pledge donations in
the name of their organizations. Please contact: Alberto Balestrieri, 617
253-5494 / aruspice@mit.edu
Checks should be made to 'Doctors without Borders' noting 'Afghanistan' in
the memo portion of your check. The MSF New York office will provide
receipts for your tax-deductible contributions. Simply indicate your name
and return mail address.
Donations may be sent to: Doctors Without Borders, C/O AKPIA, MIT 10-390,
77 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA 02139. Your pledges are best received by
December 12th.
YOU MAY CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT
Assistant Director
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
at Harvard University and MIT
MIT 10-390
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel: 617 253-5494
=46ax: 617 258-8172
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<bold><fontfamily><param>Times_New_Roman</param><bigger>Join us
Saturday, December 15th, 6:00 to 9:30 PM
Mass College of Art, Boston
for the benefit fundraiser <italic>A Night of Light</italic> to
support:
Doctors Without Borders/ M=E9decin Sans Fronti=E8res (MSF) - AFGHANISTAN=20
</bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Times_New_Roman</param><bigg=
er>Recipient
of the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize, Doctors Without Borders' international
staff returned in mid-November to the Mazar-I-Sharif and Herat regions
of Afghanistan. MSF is providing humanitarian assistance for Afghan
children and their families. By December 1stover 50 international staff
had been placed in Herat, Mazar-I-Sharif, Taloqan, Faizabad, and
Jalalabad. Working independently from all warring parties with their
Afghan staff of 400, MSF has now vaccinated over 7,000 displaced
children in Mazar-I-Sharif and Sar-I-Pol while providing vitamin A and
screening for malnutrition. To the east, medicines are now getting to
hospitals with mobile clinics afoot. More info is available at:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
<bold><italic>A Night of Light </italic></bold>will be held at
Massachusetts College of Art's Tower Building Auditorium, 621
Huntington Avenue, Boston (MBTA Green Line E) from 6-9:30 PM.=20
Twenty-dollar contributions will be accepted at the door.=20
<bold><italic>Program
</italic></bold>Guest Speaker Jalch Joublino-Kadem, Honorary Consul,
Republic of Ecuador
Rumi Poetry, Manajee Zarghamee=20
Karim Mohamed Arabic Music Ensemble
Ran Blake, Jazz Pianist
Michele Pinet, Harpist.
Julie Ince Thompson, Dance performance
<bold><italic>Sponsors
</italic></bold>ArsLibri, Boston Art Dealer's Association, Brattle
Square Florist, Cambridge Art Association, Elias Fine Art, The
Revolving Museum, South Station Office of the Marketing Director,
WGBH-Channel 2, Zebra Print
=46OR EVENT INFO ONLY CALL 617 330-1779
<bold><italic>Other ways to support this Doctors Without Borders
=46undraiser
</italic></bold>I welcome all those who wish to join me in sending
pre-event pledges. Any and all contributions are welcome. Also, we
seek names of professionals in the research, design, and business
community willing to pledge donations in the name of their
organizations. Please contact: Alberto Balestrieri, 617 253-5494 /
aruspice@mit.edu
Checks should be made to 'Doctors without Borders' noting 'Afghanistan'
in the memo portion of your check. The MSF New York office will provide
receipts for your tax-deductible contributions. Simply indicate your
name and return mail address.=20
Donations may be sent to: <italic>Doctors Without Borders</italic>, C/O
AKPIA, MIT 10-390, 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge MA 02139. Your pledges are
best received by December 12th.
YOU MAY CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT </bigger></fontfamily>
Assistant Director
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture=20
at Harvard University and MIT
MIT 10-390
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139
Tel: 617 253-5494
=46ax: 617 258-8172
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