Surfing in Gaza – Part V
The Boards Made it through to their intended recipients!
Now Americans David and Dorian are heading tomorrow morning with Ayelet Daniel from OneVoice Israel to deliver a lot more boards for the Palestinian surfers to be able to teach others to surf, with coordination from Mowaffaq Alami, from OneVoice Palestine in Gaza.
They are also hoping to surf together in Jaffo later this week!
Surfing for Peace will have an official launch on October 18th in partnership and coordination also with the OneVoice Summit – www.OneMillionVoices.org – and the campaign to reach One Million Voices to End the Conflict! David and Dorian may be bringing world-famous surfer Kelly Slater to surf with them here, along with an entourage of world-famous musicians who will perform that night at the OneVoice Summit in Tel Aviv. David may perform his OneVoice song that night also. 
Suddenly there is a lot of media commotion and CNN, ABC, and others are trying to do a story on this.
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