INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER

WOMEN TOWOMEN FOR PEACE



AUGUST 2010



Dear Peace-loving Women,



We hope that you are all enjoying a pleasant and peaceful summer and of course we also hope that we will see some of you this time next year.



Although individual members have been exchanging visits we haven’t made any official group visits this year as we are busy concentrating our efforts on preparing for next year. We are planning a travelling exhibition which will start in south west England, travel to Wales, then North to Yorkshire and finish in the South East in October. It will stay in one area for a month then move to the next area. We will hope to give the history of the organisation, and accounts and pictures of many of the exchange visits we have made in the last thirty years. As part of the exhibition there will also be our quilts and embroidered hangings. The Mersey Group are working on a new embroidered presentation which they are calling The Tree of Life.



So far about twenty women have expressed an interest in coming to Britain next year. We hope you will arrive on Monday, August 8th when you will be met and hosted by one of our members. Then at the weekend we will all travel to London and spend time together. The visit will end officially on August 17th After that you are free to make your own arrangements though I’m sure that some of us would be happy for you to extend your visit and stay with us. I know it is difficult to make plans so far ahead but if you think you might like to take part in this celebration please let Wilma or Jane know. Their addresses are :-



wilmaawalker@yahoo.co.uk.



ejharries@hotmail.com



Incidentally have you looked at our website which Wilma and her husband, Will organise for us so efficiently? You can learn a good deal more about our activities from this. The address is :-



http://womentowomenforpeace.org.uk



I hope that being a member of this peace group is proving a positive experience for you. It has certainly enriched my life over the past thirty years. I (Magda) have met so many wonderful ‘ordinary’ women and recognised how much we all have in common. When you share another woman’s kitchen or hold another woman’s baby in your arms you recognise how much we have in common and how unimportant are the differences between us.



I have just returned from a visit to York where I met three members of our organisation who had travelled together to Siberia many years ago. We call ourselves The Siberian Four. We spent so much time sharing the same railway carriage that we got to know each other really well. Each year we meet and spend a few days together and share our reminiscences. We really enjoy it.



We should love to hear from you.



With love and very best wishes,



Glennis and Magda