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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 06:41 AM
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Have a request for school supplies needed for a school in Iraq.
Here is the information. It's a trusted source, so I'm assuming it's not a hoax. This came from Bill Bright, who I've met at a couple conventions (and the message came to me from a mutual acquaintance).

There is a US soldier in Iraq named Cheryl Kopec who is collecting school supplies for a very poor school in Iraq. It is within a Shi'ite community inside what they call the "Sunni Triangle". There is a lot of sectarian violence there (see http://www.iwpr.net/archive/irq/irq_27_2_eng.txt) and the Shi'ites in that particular area are culturally disadvantaged. Students in the Hatim Al Hathal school are sharing desks, four kids per desk and are even short on pens, paper, and other ordinary school supplies. It is located in the Hatimiya village, which is the poorest of the poor and there is no working sanitation, the water is dirty, and there is only limited amounts of
electricity each day.

Cheryl told us through email that she has no problem with her address being
publicized, and that she will distribute any supplies sent to her to the
school. So if you'd like to send a few notebooks, pens, pencils, paper, etc,
(or a soccer ball -they don't have those either and they like soccer
although they call it "football".) please send them to:

Cheryl Kopec and Team Leaders
V Corps,
205th MI Bde
223rd MI Bn, B Co
APO AE 09391-1378
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 06:50 AM
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1. Thank you
This sounds like a great project for local peace activists to take on!
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 07:38 AM
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2. I have just packed my box....
Sending 3 boxes of colored pencils, 3 dozen pens, notebook paper, markers, acrylic paint, brushes and soap. Also last year's National Geographics, the world map from same, a couple of binders and all of the decent sized pencils I could find in the house plus a manual sharpener. (I'm a writer - I've got more pens and such than a sane person has any right to have.)

As I filled the box, I kept coming back to the phrase in my head, " I wept that I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet." I keep stumbling across things that make me feel incredibly lucky, as bad as the political situation is here, to have been born here and not elsewhere. There but for the grace of probability and dust go I......

Thus, I added and added and finally had to get a bigger box and added until it was full.


Please help keep this kicked, even if you can't or won't contribute. While it may be a Shia school, the only chance these kids have to break free from the cycle of violence is education.

Politicat (who only wishes there was more she could do.)
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omshanti Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:28 AM
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3. Kick!
I'll send some writing paper and crayolas.

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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:54 AM
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4. The RNC think tank could've used the Crayolas
I guess they will have to use something else for their strategy sessions.
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 10:55 AM
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5. Kick it like a soccer player, baby....
:kick:
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 11:48 AM
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6. I also received this from a Yahoo group list.
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politicat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-01-03 12:41 PM
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7. really? Which one?
Wondering if we happen to be on the same one.....

Politicat
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