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Just Aid Rocks - Fundraising Event

27 May '10

Don’t miss an evening of great entertainment by Still Living at Home and Fabulous George and the Zodiacs!

The annual Coast Hotels Just Golf Tournament & Dinner Party is the principal fundraiser for Just Aid. This year’s tourney is on August 25 at the University Golf Club. Check it out at the Just Golf page and register at: http://www.justaid.ca/registration.htm.

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What is the Just Aid Foundation?\

Established as a registered Canadian charity in 2006, the mission of the Foundation is to: assist individuals and groups adversely affected by the failure of democracy in Burma; raise public awareness of the situation in Burma; provide financial, technical and other support to individual and community initiatives intended to improve the living conditions of people in Burma, as well as Burmese people on or near Burma’s borders and in displaced communities elsewhere; and provide financial and direct assistance to individuals and organizations engaged in delivering or receiving any form of health care, in assisting others to access health care, or in health promotion.

Why Burma?

An army coup overthrew the last democratically-elected government in 1962. The ensuing military regimes have been among the world’s most brutal violators of human rights. The country is in an almost permanent state of civil war. Summary executions, forced labour, torture, compulsory relocation, land confiscation, and the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war have been widely documented. The result is an estimated one million internallydisplaced people, particularly in the ethnic states of Burma, and more than a million (some say closer to two million) refugees in neighbouring Thailand, India, Bangladesh, China, as well as in nearby Malaysia.

Visit their web site: http://www.justaid.ca