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Women's Peacepower Foundation, Inc. introduces Earrings and a Christmas Ornament. The Women's Peacepower Earrings are a beautiful handcrafted dove done in silver and can be yours for a $40.00 donation to WPPF. The Christmas Ornament is gold with blue and white detail and comes in a gold gift box for a $15.00 donation to WPPF. The donation cost includes shipping and handling.
If you are interested in either of these items please mail a check to WPPF, P.O. Box 1618, Zephyrhills, FL 33539. For more information email us at peace@womenspeacepower.org or phone Diane at 813-997-0005.


Women's Peacepower Foundation, Inc. is proud to announce our 2006 Women of Peace Award Recipients. We would like to congratulate all winners for their exceptional work to promote peace in their community and around the world.
1. Triveni
Balkrishna Acharya - Mumbai, India:
Acharya
raids brothels in red-light districts with police to rescue underage girls who
are trafficked from Nepal, Bangladesh, and North India and sold into
prostitution. She then helps the girls build a different life, starting with
psychosocial counseling and then integrating them back into society with the
supports they need.
2. Malalai Joya -, Farah, Afghanistan :
3.
Janny Beekman - Houwerziil, Netherlands:
Cindy Sheehan - Venice, California:
Sheehan
has become the voice and face of the anti-war movement after losing her son.
She began an organization, Gold Star Families for Peace, for others who have
lost their children fighting in Iraq and she now represents, inspires and
leads an entire movement.
5. Rev. Kathy Manis Findley - Little Rock, Arkansas
Rev.
Kathy Manis Findley, Little Rock, Arkansas: Rev. Findley has invested her life
in promoting nonviolence and has worked with survivors of sexual abuse, domestic
violence and child abuse, as well as being involved in city, state and national
initiatives for over 20 years. She founded The Center for Healing and Hope in
2002 to support survivors of violence and to provide violence prevention
education in the
community. She also founded the Interfaith Alliance Against Violence and the
National Association of Victim Assistance Professionals.
Elisa Young -Racine, Ohio
An
environmental activist for her area of Ohio, Young has organized groups of
neighbors to protest the plans for new coal-burning electricity plants along
the Ohio River. She has organized media tours like “The High Cost of Cheap
Coal” and panel discussions at conferences. She has also raised money for
a film project and worked countless hours to educate herself and others on
the
issues of pollution from coal-fired electricity plants. With no higher
education, she’s managed to gain the attention of media like The New York
Time and The Washington Post.
Valerie Nutter - Zanesville, Ohio:
Nutter
created the SUCCESS program for single mothers because she has lived her
life as a single mom of two children. She worked as a grocer store cashier
for eight years while putting herself through school, and then researched
and wrote a program to assist single mothers on public assistance to develop
the self-esteem and skills to get an education or a better job. Her project is
based on a three-year curriculum that helps women ages 13 to 30 better their
lives and situations.
8.
Nia Z. Sherar - Salt Lake City, Utah
Sherar’s
dream since childhood was to work with poor women and children in Africa toward
a violence-free world. She began her “Road to Non-violence Crusade” in 1997
when she founded the non-profit Opportunity Fund for Developing Countries (OFDC)
http://www.ofdc.org. Since
then she and other volunteers have raised almost a half million dollars to send
overseas to start microcredit projects for women and sponsor education for girls. She
often travels alone to remote, rural villages in Bolivia, Kenya and Nepal to
live with and learn from women and families.
9.
Diane Tillman - Seal Beach,
California
Tillman
is a founding member and chief author of the Living Values Education resources,
a series of activity books for use with children ages 3 to young adults, a
manual for children affected by war, and other publications, the proceeds of
which she donates to ALIVE, Living Values Education International, a nonprofit
linked with UNESCO and UNICEF.
10.
Peg Petersen - New Port Richey, Florida
11.
Sandy Coyne - Port Richey, Florida:
Coyne
opened three halfway houses for recovering drug and alcohol addicts, using her
own money to pay bills and help the people she mentors. She focuses on
community-level services for women and men in need to build trust and support
recovery.
12. Dori Brown - Tampa, Florida
Youth
Award
13. Kara Hull - Tampa, Florida:
Kara
Hull, Tampa, Florida: Hull is a bright young woman who has shown remarkable initiative in helping Tampa Bay’s abused children. Now age 16, she
has written, directed and produced a holiday each year since she was 8 years
old. All the proceeds go to The Children’s Home, which operates a variety of
family-oriented services, most notably a nationally recognized residential
treatment facility for children who have been abused, abandoned or neglected.
Upcoming Dates
May 31, 2007 - Deadline for submission of nominations for Women of Peace Awards.

U.S. national statistics show:
....Every 12 seconds a woman is battered
... every 3 minutes a woman is raped
...every 15 minutes a woman is murdered
...men's violence against women is the #1 cause of infant mortality and birth defects
...95% of battering victims are women

"If people only knew how hard it is to be wounded, to die, they would all be meek and gentle, would not split into parties, would not incite mobs to attack one another, and would not kill. But when they are in good health they know nothing of this. When they are wounded, no-one believes them. When they are dead, they can no longer speak." ~ Mihajlo Lalic
FOOTPRINTS
What Will You Leave Behind?
Everyone leaves footprints. Our prints are made by the impression of our lives
on the sands of time. A person is remembered for the weight of his or her
character. For marks of accomplishment. For depth of faith. For beliefs. For shapes
of kindness. For length of compassion. For width of personal warmth.
For generosity. For values. When we leave positive impressions behind, we enhance the
lives of our friends and loved ones. We give them footprints to follow.
It can be as simple as including the Womens Peacepower Foundation, Inc. as a beneficiary
of 1% of your estate through a bequest gift. This means you make a decision and plans
now for your estate that will one day provide a legacy for years to come.
Leave a Legacy of Love
~*~
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