<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Alleviating Poverty and Deforestation
in Central America</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Planting Hope</span></b><span style="font-family:
Arial">, a documentary from Sustainable Harvest International, will be shown on
<b>Friday, September 17, at 7 pm</b> at the UU Church of Ellsworth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>UUCE member Flo Reed founded SHI in
1997 after serving in the Peace Corps in Panama.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>She now serves SHI as president and will share some of her
personal story of involvement with SHI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Randy Morrison, of the SHI staff will present the short film and lead a
discussion afterwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i><span style="font-family:Arial">“Planting </span></i></b><span style="font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Hope</span><span style="font-family:Arial">
captures life in rural Honduras from the perspectives of SHI field trainer, Juan
Carlos, and graduate farmer, Don Cheyo. Juan Carlos has worked for SHI for ten
years and exemplifies the commitment to community and sustainable farming that
is at the heart of SHI’s mission. Watch as he visits rural villages to provide
assistance and advice to farmers transitioning to sustainable techniques. They
are abandoning the traditional slash-and-burn farming that destroys, on
average, 33.8 million acres each year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">SHI graduate farmer, Don
Cheyo, provides a tour of his farm and insight into how his life has changed
since working with SHI. He talks about the importance of the forests and his
family’s new financial security. He shows images of the healthy soils that have
been created with sustainable techniques.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Most importantly, he shows us that there is hope for change and
stability in a degraded landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He has become a community leader in sustainable farming and helps teach
others that production booms with sustainable techniques.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Everyone is welcome to
attend this informative event and participate in the discussion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-family:Arial">- Martha Dickinson for the Peace and
Social Action Committee, UUCE<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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