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Get Your Summer TAN: Join the Tharwa Activist Network (TAN)
Every day, media around the world report on continuing unrest in the Broader Middle East and North Africa region. Divided by religious, ethnic and political affiliations and pulled down by ruling regimes whose main focus is the continuation of their own power rather than meeting the needs of their constituents, the peoples of this region find themselves with little reason for optimism for their future.
Under our logo, you can see the words Diversity, Development and Democracy. We at Tharwa believe that these three core principles represent the Three Basic Pillars for positive change in the Broader MENA region.
Diversity must be shifted from being a force for division and dissent and even violence into a source of strength and wealth.
Development is necessary to give the region’s increasingly young demographics a viable future, one that can witness the gradual integration of the region into the fabric of the developed world. They younger generations of the region need to see real opportunities for employment, for growth and for advancement, on individual and communal levels.
And finally, we believe at Tharwa that Democracy is the only form of government that offers the citizens of a nation the freedoms and basic human rights due to every human being. We believe that democracy can only be created by groundswell movements of activists advocating for their own futures. It is our job at Tharwa to support these activists.
But, in order to provide this support, we need your support. Democracy activists are fighting an uphill battle. They are competing with extremist propaganda that encourages people to feel more isolated and helpless. They are struggling against governments that need little excuse to arrest anyone they perceive as threatening their authority. They are struggling to catch the attention and support of the international community, at a time when their own communities and nations are being represented abroad by violence and conflict rather than potential and hope.
One of our activists reported a story that indicates how difficult their travails can be. In Syria, many impoverished neighborhoods are overrun with garbage and waste. Their children must climb over piles of refuse to get to underfunded schools. So a group of people living in such a community decided that if their municipal government wasn't doing its job, cleaning up the waste, they'd mobilize their neighbors and clean the streets themselves.
They had barely started when city officials stopped them. They didn't have permits to clean garbage from the street outside their own home. They weren't allowed to gather in a large group without a permit. And so they were forced to disband and go home. The garbage now still covers their streets.
Determined and committed democracy activists want to better their communities. Tharwa activists want to mobilize their neighbors to help themselves. They want to mobilize communities separated by sectarian and ethnic differences to speak with each other, to communicate. And we want to help them do these things.
Check out our success stories under Tharwa's Impact. Even a small donation can make a very big difference in giving these activists and advocates the training they need to mobilize their communities, the support they need to write articles and reports that bring to light corruption and challenge taboos and the strength to move forward in their search for a better future for themselves, their families and their children. You can help us make a difference in a part of the world too often torn apart by strife and governed by despair.
So, make a donation now, and become a member of the Tharwa Activist Network.
Your membership qualifies you to get periodic updates on Tharwa activities, a copy of Tharwa’s Quarterly Newsletter, Pillars of Freedom, and invitations to special Tharwa events.
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