Lanka Solidarity is a collective formed this year by a group of multiethnic individuals based in North America who discovered a shared interest in understanding ground realities in Sri Lanka. It is hosting its first fundraiser for refugees displaced in the last year due to the armed conflict in Sri Lanka that has been going on for 26 years.
[The UN estimated that even before the conflict's end, 495,000 people had been displaced.](source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, May 2009)
Location: Leela Lounge,
Address: 1 W 3rd St.
Subways: 6 at Astor Place or Bleeker St and/or the B,D,F,V at Broadway/Lafayette
Date: Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

For more information on Lanka Solidarity's Mission & Vision, please visit: http://www.lankasolidarity.org/

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN SHOW YOUR SUPPORT:

1) Attend the fundraiser! - There is a $10 suggested donation, but don't let that phase you from attending. You can contribute or just attend and support them through dialog and being merry! Lanka Solidarity will be accepting cash donations to be distributed to charities and there will also be laptops set up for online donations to be sent directly to charities working for the relief of internally displaced persons in Sri Lanka.

This event is sponsored by South Asia Solidarity Initiative & Left Turn Magazine

Donations will be given to several charities working to provide relief to IDPs in Sri Lanka, including Doctors Without Borders & Global Medic.

2) Spread the word!

3) RSVP on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=106708149641 OR by sending an email to thanuy@gmail.com

4) If you have facebook, POST the facebook event link to your facebook wall: http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=106708149641