The Afghan Women's Association International was hardly a blip on the women's not-for-profit screen a year ago today. Millions of American women had empathy for the ordeal the Afghan women were enduring, but very few ways to channel their concern. Then suddenly, through a devastating act of terrorism, the light of inquiry was focused on Afghanistan and the plight of the Afghan people, most particularly the Afghan women. The work that several women's organizations had been laboring to produce suddenly began to get public and mass media attention, even the work of a small group of Afghan refugees in Fremont, CA, who had worked for over ten years to bring supplies and money to women, widows and orphans inside Afghanistan. AWAI and its founder Rona Popal are now being helped and supported by other women's orgs...Global Exchange, Equal Access, the Feminist Majority...to do the work of bringing not just supplies, but in addition funding and resources to start businesses, and resources to begin mass education and information programs.There was a program hosted by the Afghan community in Fremont, CA...to commemorate the time that brought the Afghan community and its neighbors into "communion" and to honor all of those people who have come together to use love to fight fear, and to recognize the miracles that have emerged from that effort.