I am part of the Young MacDonalds' Team set up by Jim Carruth for a terrific project to buy  start-up 'farms', each costing £482,  in Africa to enable people to provide for their own families. My fund-raising will be:

Poetry in the Persian Tent

 11am-12pm, 22nd-26th August 2012 in the Persian Tent cafe, behind St John's Church, Princes Street Edinburgh. £10.00.

 A series of poetry readings over 5 days  at the Edinburgh Festival Of Spirituality and Peace.  Three different poets will read each day: leading poets, well-kent faces and up-and-coming names from Scotland and beyond. Booking has not opened yet. For further info, please click on:

https://sites.google.com/site/stephgreen1/poetry-in-the-persian-tent

What better way to hear a sample of the best of what's going on in the poetry world in Scotland, and raise funds for an important, life-changing charity? If you can't come along to the readings, then please donate as generously as you can through this page.

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