.      A Cultural Event  

SWAN uses the book Lucy Shook's Letters from Afghanistan as a tool for fundraising.  Lucy Shook spent five years in Afghanistan working for AID in the mid ‘60s.  Her letters home articulate her desire to help the peasant people with whom she associated. The book provides a springboard for presenting to the public the need of greater assistance to developing countries.  The 45- minute multi-media program “Letters from Afghanistan” takes excerpts from Shook’s letters and combines them with home movie footage and slides from her work in Afghanistan forty years ago.   It is an enlightening and heartwarming program.  An overview of outreach efforts follow, and the presentation finishes with a music video of the children that have been helped through the projects of Opportunity Fund for Developing Countries.  If you are interested in hosting an event, please contact us.