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Read the latest note from our Executive Director in our December 2011 newsletter. If you'd like to signup to receive newsletters, click here.
Read the latest note from our Executive Director in our December 2011 newsletter. If you'd like to signup to receive newsletters, click here.
December 28, 2011
Dear Friends,
It's been a very long six months for DAWN. Certainly far too long since we sent our last newsletter! When I returned from Kenya in late July, I became immersed with my work at Oxfam around the massive emergency in East Africa, where 13 million people across five east African countries have been facing the worst drought in sixty years and millions in southern Somalia were suffering from famine, both which still continue to this day.
Like so many other African diaspora, I found myself personally and professionally pulled between my life here and the needs there. I couldn't focus on much else and the crisis became all I could think about. My heart and mind were heavy with the massive needs of 13 million people. As a result, DAWN had to switch gears and we laid low with our outreach and marketing while our programs continued.
I realized that for real change and impact, my heart and attention must continue with DAWN and the diaspora, fully and completely. That's why I've decided to leave my policy work in DC and make it official. We are finally becoming a full time non-profit organization and will expand nationally in the new year.
As of January 2012, I'll be based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home to one of the largest Horn of Africa and Liberian diaspora communities in the United States, and continue building DAWN's foundation. Our DC chapter will continue and we look forward to starting chapters in other cities, like New York and San Francisco.
As I read this month's special newsletter, I'm very proud of DAWN's accomplishments and thankful to be around so many strong women. In five months, we were featured in more media, we launched a new event for our Twitter friends, presented at a major conference, and held two community service project fundraisers ! All the while celebrating our fourth birthday!I thank you for believing in us and supporting DAWN over the years.
If you would like to help us with our expansion, as a volunteer, advisor, or future donor, please contact us at info@dawners.org! 2012 is the year for more great things to come and we are ready for it! Like our saying goes, we must be Fearless in Our Excellence!
Thank you,
Semhar Araia
Executive Director and Founder of DAWN
Dear Friends,
It's been a very long six months for DAWN. Certainly far too long since we sent our last newsletter! When I returned from Kenya in late July, I became immersed with my work at Oxfam around the massive emergency in East Africa, where 13 million people across five east African countries have been facing the worst drought in sixty years and millions in southern Somalia were suffering from famine, both which still continue to this day.
Like so many other African diaspora, I found myself personally and professionally pulled between my life here and the needs there. I couldn't focus on much else and the crisis became all I could think about. My heart and mind were heavy with the massive needs of 13 million people. As a result, DAWN had to switch gears and we laid low with our outreach and marketing while our programs continued.
I realized that for real change and impact, my heart and attention must continue with DAWN and the diaspora, fully and completely. That's why I've decided to leave my policy work in DC and make it official. We are finally becoming a full time non-profit organization and will expand nationally in the new year.
As of January 2012, I'll be based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home to one of the largest Horn of Africa and Liberian diaspora communities in the United States, and continue building DAWN's foundation. Our DC chapter will continue and we look forward to starting chapters in other cities, like New York and San Francisco.
As I read this month's special newsletter, I'm very proud of DAWN's accomplishments and thankful to be around so many strong women. In five months, we were featured in more media, we launched a new event for our Twitter friends, presented at a major conference, and held two community service project fundraisers ! All the while celebrating our fourth birthday!I thank you for believing in us and supporting DAWN over the years.
If you would like to help us with our expansion, as a volunteer, advisor, or future donor, please contact us at info@dawners.org! 2012 is the year for more great things to come and we are ready for it! Like our saying goes, we must be Fearless in Our Excellence!
Thank you,
Semhar Araia
Executive Director and Founder of DAWN
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