An Evening with Shared Interest: Promised Land Film Screening October 30, 2008

Join Shared Interest as we screen the unreleased documentary called Promised Land.

About Shared Interest:
Shared Interest is a leading New York-based
non-profit social investment fund that mobilizes resources for South Africa's economically disenfranchised communities to sustain themselves
and build an equitable nation. Since 1994, Shared Interest has benefited more than 1 million black South Africans, 75 percent of whom are women,
through its support of microlending, small businesses, agricultural cooperatives, and low cost housing organizations.

About Promised Land:
Promised Land invites viewers to take an inside look at the critical story of land reform and racial reconciliation in the new South Africa. The film explores how the country is rebuilding itself after years of living under the racist, violent system of apartheid. Beginning in 1913, Blacks in South Africa were forbidden from owning land. They were forcefully removed from their land and re-settled into so called 'homelands' which were located in the most undesirable areas in the country. Over the course of ninety years, an estimated 6 million blacks were disposed of their land.

Official Website: http://www.sharedinterest.org