Face to Face with Afghanistan

Executive Director, PARSA

Telephone: 360 871 5082

On August 17th, I invite you to join my husband, Dr. Norm Gustavson and I, for an informal evening talking about the challenges facing Afghanistan today.

I am the Executive Director of PARSA, a small international non-profit organization, and I look forward to sharing my personal experiences of working in Afghanistan with an agency that works with the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan. Norm is the country representative for the American Friends Services Committee (AFSC), an agency that provides programs that promote peace. As a psychologist, he is developing new strategies for psychosocial programs for Afghans to address trauma and family violence. We will share poignancy, heartbreak, joy and humor that is working and living in Afghanistan.

In our experience, media coverage in the United States follows the events in Afghanistan, but rarely represents the full picture of Afghanistan today and the opportunity that we see emerging for Afghans and for the international community as we attempt to respond to the global threat of terrorism.

I extend a special invitation to the PARSA donor community, as it is your contributions that sustain PARSA and that have allowed me to do the advocacy work at high levels of government on behalf of the orphans this year.

August 17, 2007

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

University Heights Center

5031 University Way NE, Seattle, Washington

Telephone: 206 527 4278

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference, and the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”

Our special thanks to the donors of PARSA and AFSC for caring enough to make our work possible.