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Alive Mind Woman and Beyond Belief is proud to support Beyond the 11th, a charitable organization dedicated to supporting Afghan widows affected by war and terrorism by funding programs that provide life-sustaining financial and emotional support.
 
Beyond Belief is a documentary about the work of Beyond the 11th. For a limited-time, your purchase of Beyond Belief supports Beyond the 11th and their mission. Click on the Buy Now button below and $3 from your purchase will automatically be donated to this important foundation as part of the Alive Mind Affiliate program.
 

 
“We are honored that Alive Mind is donating proceeds from the film to Beyond the 11th and grateful to Beth Murphy of Principle Pictures for creating such a beautiful film. With the purchase of each DVD, we are helping to raise both money and awareness for the plight of widows in Afghanistan.”
- Susan Retik, founder of Beyond the 11th
 
BEYOND THE 11th

Beyond the 11th exists because of the resilient spirit of Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik, two mothers who were widowed on 9/11. Patti was eight months pregnant with her second child when her husband Patrick was killed while traveling on United Flight 175. Susan was seven months pregnant with her third child when her husband David was killed on American Flight 11.
 
Patti and Susan were profoundly moved by the support offered by friends, family and strangers from around the world. They were cared for financially and emotionally and today they remain deeply grateful to all who helped them.
 
When the story of the 9/11 plot emerged, Patti and Susan, along with the rest of the world, learned that those responsible were trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan. The military campaign to remove the Taliban and terrorist groups from the country drew attention to the plight of the Afghan people. Decades of conflict and strife ravaged the country, leaving tens of thousands of women without husbands to provide for them, a cultural necessity in Afghanistan.
 
As Patti and Susan struggled to recover from their loss, they felt a growing kinship with the overwhelming number of widows in Afghanistan. They recognized the incredible generosity they received and the absolute scarcity of help for their counterparts in Afghanistan. In 2003, Patti and Susan founded Beyond the 11th to help provide financial and emotional support to these widows and their children and to give them hope for a better future.
 
The situation for widows in Afghanistan is desperate. While the collapse of the Taliban has resulted in general improvement in the lives of women and girls, these new opportunities are still out of reach to the Afghan widows who lost their only means of support. Illiterate and unskilled, they struggle to provide the most basic of needs - shelter, food, and clothing - for their families. International relief organizations estimate that in Kabul alone, there are 30,000 - 50,000 widows, struggling to support an average of five children on less than $16 per month. In other parts of the country, the situation is even worse.
 
For more information on how you can help widows in need visit Beyond the 11th.
 
BEYOND BELIEF
 
Beyond Belief is about two ordinary women, Susan Retik and Patti Quigley, who both lose their husbands in the tragedy of September 11th. Rather than turn inward, grief compelled these women to focus on empowering widows in the country where the terrorists who took their husbands’ lives were trained: Afghanistan. Beyond Belief follows Susan and Patti as they make the courageous journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages. On the journey from the ruins of the World Trade Center to Kabul and back, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy. Khaled Hossini, author of The Kite Runner, calls the film “A moving and beautiful film!” and ABC News “a remarkable true story.”

Beyond Belief DVD
Price:	$26.98
Item #:	ALV-DV-8
Availability:	USA & Canada
Running Time:	92 minutes
Technical Aspects:	Dolby Digital, 4:3, NTSC Region 0, Closed Captioned
DVD Extras:	Original Trailer, Interview with director Beth Murphy
Language:	English