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Board members prepare for web presentation at November meeting

PTPL — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:36:09 +0000

On October 20, board members Antoinette Russell and Lynne Gray met with Melody Watson, who designed this website, for another training session on blogging, and to plan for the November 10 board meeting.

As a part of the planned presentation, it was decided to prepare this simple blog post, to be published during the board meeting, as a teaching tool.

People to People Liaison is committed to education and believes that this website can only further our mission. To that end, we are working to improve our understanding of how web technologies can be used to educate others on our organization's mission.

Article features two PTPL board members

PTPL — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:20 +0000

A recent GoTriad article featured the art exhibit "A Journey to Africa Through the Arts." Art collected by two People to People Liaison board members, Eleanor Gwynn and Anne McKee, collected during their travels to Africa, remains on exhibit at the Greensboro Public Library, Central Branch, through October 31, 2009.

Read about this fascinating collection of African art and artifacts, and how these collections came to be, here.

Congo Week II at NC A&T State University

PTPL — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:04:02 +0000

You are invited to celebrate Congo Week II: to learn about the history, the tragedy, and the potential for a peaceful Congo. Over thirty countries and one hundred fifty universities worldwide have banded together to raise awareness about the conflict in the Congo. This movement, started by NC A&T students, has now many others around the world joining in solidarity and organizing events on their respective campuses and communities for 2009, the second year of this observance.

Visit www.congoweek.org to learn more about this global movement.

Here are the Congo Week events taking place on A&T campus:

Post Celebration Thank You Letter

PTPL — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:33:00 +0000

Dear Friends,

We are standing for many voices of voiceless women and men, children and parents of Congo to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your invaluable committed effort to support our people in Congo.

We were deeply touched last Sunday with the celebration of The Journey to Africa Through The Arts. There is no way we can put into human language what we feel. But let this brief note be our way to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to all, the PTPL Board, dancers, drummers and all who came out to celebrate the work of People to People Liaison.

May God richly bless you,

Bahekelwa & Matumaini

Celebration a success!

PTPL — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:28:00 +0000

The People to People Liaison Celebration on Sunday, October 11 was a fantastic event featuring The E. Gwynn Dancers from North Carolina A&T State University and dancers from The E. Gwynn Children's Saturday Academy.

Through authentic African music and art the audience found itself temporarily transported to Africa and immersed in African culture. What a wonderful afternoon of celebration which helped to shed light on a worthy cause to enrich the lives of young men, women and children stricken by war, hunger, disease and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"A Journey to Africa Through the Arts" showcased African art including wood carvings, masks, artifacts and jewelry, dolls, garments and baskets from African countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. The wonderful artwork is on loan from private collections of some PTPL board members.

Even if you missed the celebration, you still have an opportunity to view the art exhibit which will be on display until October 31, 2009. It is a must-see!

You also still have an opportunity to make a contribution. Just go to the click and pledge website or send your check to P.O. Box 751, Greensboro, NC 27402.

Celebration - October 11

PTPL — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:20:16 +0000

People to People Liaison
Invites You Experience and Enjoy

An Exhibition of African Art and Artifacts

and
A Performance by the E. Gwynn Dancers
and Drummers of NCA&T

Celebrating Our Work in Making A Difference

in the Lives of Displaced Families and Refugees in

Democratic Republic of Congo

Sunday, October 11, 2009
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Nussbaum Room
Greensboro Central Library

219 North Church Street
Greensboro, NC 27401

Barbara Clawson's '80s-era travel inspires her current commitment to PTPL

PTPL — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:25:21 +0000

Why did I join the board for People to People Liaison? My immediate positive response to the invitation to join the board was based on my experiences in the Congo in the eighties when I was involved with the Presbyterians and the development of a health center in Mbujimayi. That gave me the opportunity to travel to the Congo four times to attend the board meetings, to meet the staff, and to visit

Congo Week, October 19-25, 2008

PTPL — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:07:52 +0000

One of the goals of People to People Liaison is to educate people about the lives of people in Eastern Congo. Congo Week (October 19-25, 2008) is a week set aside to do that very same thing. "Break the Silence", the theme of Congo Week, refers to the long-simmering war in the Democratic Republic of Congo that

Children to Children

PTPL — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:41:43 +0000

Organizations – like people – learn from experience. PTPL’s Children to Children program was such a learning experience. The idea of the project was to make children in Greensboro and refugee children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania more aware of each other.

Tyson Hammer (at the time a Grimsley High School senior and now a student at the University of North

BBC News profile of Democratic Republic of Congo

PTPL — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:58:15 +0000

The BBC online coverage of Democratic Republic of Congo is comprehensive. Approaching their coverage from