Parliament of Worlds Religion 1999 Capetown SA

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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1999 GIFTS O F SERVICE TO
Lifeline Network for Peace
Founded in 1982, Lifeline Network for Peace has created an international network of humanitarian aid and human rights advocacy, particularly focusing on the needs of women and children.
As part of an inter-faith coalition advocating peace in the former Yugoslavia, Lifeline Network with its sister organization, World Alliance for Humanitarian for Bosnia facilitated the collection and shipment of humanitarian aid to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia and the placement of war-wounded Bosnian refugees in the United States.
In February 1994, the founder and President of Lifeline Network for Peace, Beverly Britton, made several trips to Bosnia-Herzegovina where she delivered medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, taught massage therapy to stimulate weight gain in low birth-weight babies, taught stress management for pain control and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), started the International Children's Peace Quilt Project with war-wounded and orphaned children and helped open the underground Velmos Hospital in East Mostar.
On December 1995, Lifeline Network hosted a meeting in Sarejevo with representatives from ZAR and Zena 21, coalitions that represent 60 BosniaHerzegovina women's organizations, discussing the women's post-war needs, self-help and empowerment strategies, meditation skills and support systems for enterprise outreach. The outreach included the setting up of a Bosnia-Herzegovina Women's Roundtable Network to connect the women's organizations through an on-line computer service such as International Global Communication's PeaceNet. Lifeline Network for Peace
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