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The Golden Rule peace boat is a National Project of Veterans For Peace, aiming to advance opposition to nuclear weapons and war.
This speaker event is sponsored by the Peace and Social Concerns committee of the Port Townsend Friends Meeting.
(submitted by Caroline Wildflower)
Kathy Railsback, Co-Clerk of Friends Peace Teams'(FTP) African Great Lakes Initiative, will speak on her work co-facilitating trauma education workshops for South Sudanese refugees with FPT partners in East Africa. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Kathy has traveled to the region roughly a dozen times over the past 11 years. In 2023, she won a service award to work with FPT partners in Kenya and Uganda to offer trauma education workshops for approximately 600 refugees and to train dozens of South Sudanese facilitators.
Article on Kathy’s work from the Friends Peace Teams website: Trauma Education with South Sudanese Refugees in Uganda & Kenya
For more info contact Kathy Railsback: railsback.kathryn@gmail.com or 208-949-3004