 March/April 2000 (XXXVIII 2) |
y now, PYM members have received our annual Right Sharing of World Resources appeal letter and understand that hereafter this Appeal will be handled by the main RSWR office in Cincinnati, Ohio. We wish to assure PYM members that the PYM Right Sharing of World Resources Working Group is continuing in its role of educating ourselves and others about the basic inequities that exist around the world, raising consciousness about the need "to live simply so that others may simply live," and encouraging support of RSWR grassroots projects in the developing world that help people to help themselves.
Members of the working group volunteer to visit Meetings to facilitate the Right Sharing Game, to put on Simple Meals in support of Right Sharing projects, to share information about Simplicity, and to give details of various RSWR supported projects. Roland Kreager, General Secretary of RSWR, assures us that we will receive educational information which will enable Meetings to be in closer touch with individual projects. We serve a Simple Meal and sell Guatemalan crafts at Yearly Meeting sessions in March. We sell Guatemalan crafts many times during the year - wherever we are invited. All proceeds go directly to support a most successful scholarship program for Mayan Indians in Guatemala. This is strictly a PYM Right Sharing project — independent of the main RSWR.
Carla White 215-844-5174 Peg Baker 610-444-0962 Keitha Herron 610-363-9611 Margaret Petty 610-543-6910 Corinne Dieterle 610-828-7781 Our Working Group meets for planning sessions approximately four times a year. We invite anyone interested to join us. Your participation would enable us to take on more activities over a wider area of PYM Meetings. New ideas and energy are welcome! Please, if you wish to join our Working Group or help at Yearly Meeting Simple Meal lunch March 24 or need information on RSWR, contact any of the members listed in the table.
Membership on the PYM RSWR Working Group has been a special experience for all of us. It has given us an opportunity to reflect more deeply on the Friends Testimony on Simplicity and to become more aware of the needs of others.
Carla White, Chestnut Hill Meeting (PA)
Margaret Baker, Kennett Meeting (PA)
Co-clerks of PYM Right Sharing of World Resources Working Group
Last modified: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 08:18 AM