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The 800,000 Project: Current Status

In preperation for the

2008 RWANDAN COMMEMORATIVE EVENT

where you can participate in a nationwide event with 800,000 others!!

Details to come...

Project Goals

  • CHECK! Construct 800,000 pages in memorial books.

  • CHECK! Produce CD of music in response to the genocide to accompany exhibit.

  • Fill each page with individual handprints. (CURRENT FOCUS)

  • Raise $800,000 to create an endowment for Rwanda's development and healing.

  • Exhibit book nationally and internationally.

    Progress

  • 100% of the 200,000 sheets of paper needed to make the 800,000 pages have been folded.

  • 6 high schools came on board to bind books:
    Grier School, Tyrone, PA
    Bishop Guilfoyle, Altoona, PA
    VPAA @ Salem High, Virginia Beach, VA
    State High, State College, PA
    Bedford High, Bedford, PA
    Valley High, New Kensington, PA

  • All 2500 books are bound! The last book was bound in Bedford on Thursday, April 20th, 2006.

  • Songwriters and musicians in Harrisburg finished cd for installation.

    OVER $3000 HAS BEEN RAISED TO DATE!!



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