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Top photo Woman of the Mae Lah Refugee Camp gather around the wells

October 3, 2007 Packet & Times
Couple's eyes on Myanmar/Burma
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September 26, 2007 Packet & Times
Protests raise Hopes
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Dec. 3, 2007 Toronto Star Gemstones support a good cause
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Oct. 3, 2007 Packet & Times
Couple's eyes on Myanmar
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Sept. 26, 2007 Packet & Times
Protests raise Hopes
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Dec. 2004 Simcoe Life Magazine
Tales of Life/A Charitalbe Mood
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December 3, 2007 Toronto Star
Gemstones support a good cause
By Joe Fiorito

Cathy Downham was in Toronto recently. She dropped off a carpet someone had given her for auction, and then she headed uptown to see about some gemstones; we met at Metalurge, Carol Slavik's jewellery store, on Yonge near Summerhill.

The destination for the money from the sale of the carpet, and the profit from the gemstones, is a small school and clinic in a refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border.
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Dec. 2004 Simcoe Life Magazine
Tales of Life/A Charitalbe Mood
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