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Men of the ManKind Project and our many supporters,

Every so often our world is faced with tragedies brought about by natural disaster – the tsunamis in Thailand in 2004 and Samoa in 2009, Hurricane Katrina in the USA in 2005 – and, as you know, this week a series of earthquakes measuring 6.5 to 7.3 in magnitude near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, an area with a gross population of over 3 million souls.

There has been devastating loss of life and there are now hundreds of thousands without basic shelter, food, water, and emergency medical supplies. Haiti is one of the world's poorest and least developed countries in the world, with a gross domestic product per capita of US$ 790, or $2 per person per day. [wikipedia]

The ManKind Project reaches out to the hearts of those so tragically impacted. We offer our prayers and blessings, from all our diverse beliefs and traditions and from nations and communities around the globe, that the suffering will subside quickly as millions of men and women from across the world mobilize to help those in need.

We have the opportunity to do many things in this time of crisis, and we call on our membership to take action as a New Warriors in the world. Three of our institutional values are compassion, generosity and respect. As men among men, and as global citizens, we can put those values into action in the spirit of give-away that we have all shared and witnessed in our work.

The ManKind Project does not advocate for any single course of action, we invite you to connect with your personal vision of what the world could be, what you can do to help, and take action to make that real today. Men, Women and Children are waiting.

Most of us have never, and will never, experience the terror and devastation facing those in Haiti today. But with open hearts and open eyes we can help ease some small fraction of the pain. The world needs good men. We are some of those men. We're not alone. We recognize and honor the heroic efforts of women and men from all nations of the world today, working to make life better in so many tragic circumstances.

Here are a number of links where you can donate money to organizations already on the ground in Haiti. Reach into your heart to help a human being survive. It is up to you. It is up to each of us.

If you can do more, do it. Live big.

http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/
Google’s Haiti Relief page (with direct support via Unicef and CARE via secure transaction)

http://www.ifrc.org/
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

“I’m starting this critical mission with a $100 donation so that our Brothers, Sisters, and their children might get some clean water and life-saving medical attention – please join me! – With Love for all that you do, Martin”

On behalf of the ManKind Project Staff and Elected Leadership,

Martin Marks, MKP Vice Chair
Keith Jarvis, Information Systems Officer
Boysen Hodgson, Marketing and Media Team Chair

By L. Steven Sieden; April 24, 2009
Seattle Examiner

A couple years ago, I would not have believed this to be possible. Then, last year I completed the ManKind Project's New Warrior Adventure Training weekend along with 39 other men. What was most important to me was that eight of us new brothers from the Seattle area formed an I (for Integration) Group so that we could really delve into the newfound concepts we had experienced during the weekend.

That group, like so many I Groups worldwide, has continued to flourish as we meet every Thursday night for three hours. We don't shoot the bull, play cards or watch a game. Instead, we expand our awareness and claim our true feeling. We don't have a leader or facilitator. Each night, one man who feels the energy claims the role of "king" and runs the group following a sacred ceremonial protocol.

By Christine Arpe Gang
Special to The Commercial Appeal
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Small groups of men meet weekly in several locations in Memphis to talk about what it means to be a different kind of warrior; one who fights against the social, psychological and emotional isolation that they say often comes with being a man.

They are part of the Mankind Project, an international organization that provides training to help men get in touch with their feelings in order to live their lives with integrity and accountability.

By Hilary Prendini Toffoli, from Financial Mail

The ManKind Project (MKP) came to SA from America eight years ago. It was one of the men's movements spawned by Iron John, the bestseller by American poet and activist Robert Bly that promoted nurturing brotherhoods and got Bly on to the cover of Newsweek in the 1980s.

Behind these networks lay what one reviewer described as "a brooding conviction that the emotional isolation and violence of American men masks a hunger for fathering and male mentoring, lost in a time of soaring divorce rates and single-parent households".

  Peter Clothier

"I have just returned from a men's training weekend. Okay, I think it's true to say that these weekends have come in for a lot of misinformed rumors and a good bit of nervous mockery in recent years -- particularly amongst those who might have reason to fear them the most. I'll tell you upfront that this one, the New Warrior Training Adventure, when I first experienced it in 1992, was a life-saver for me."

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