Modesto Bee
May 16, 2003, Friday, ALL EDITION
SECTION: LOCAL NEWS; Pg. B3

Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly will speak this weekend in Modesto and Turlock about her experiences providing humanitarian aid to Iraq.

Kelly, 49, of Chicago recently spent five months in Iraq — part of 15 trips to the country since 1996. She helped start Voices in the Wilderness, which opposes sanctions against Iraq, violating sanctions herself to bring medicine and toys into the country and facing arrest and fines.

In “Report Back From War-Torn Iraq,” Kelly will speak of her experiences and raise funds for humanitarian aid for the Iraqi people.

Kelly will speak at 3 p.m. Saturday at Christ Unity Baptist Church, 1320 L St., Modesto; at 2 p.m. Sunday at California State University, Stanislaus, Mary Stewart Rogers Building, Room 130, 801 W. Monte Vista Ave., Turlock; and at 7 p.m. Sunday at Church of the Brethren, 2301 Woodland Ave., Modesto. Free admission. Call 529-5750 or 526-9588.