Intermallamerica.com and Internet Kiosk Launch Candles For Peace Program; Jerusalem Candle Lighting Ceremony to Usher in New Millennium

Intermallamerica.com and Internet Kiosk Launch Candles For Peace Program; Jerusalem Candle Lighting Ceremony to Usher in New Millennium

HOUSTON, Sep 16, 1999 -- Houston-based Intermallamerica.com and Israeli-based Internet Kiosk Ltd. today announced the launch of their joint initiative called "From Millennium to Millennium: Candles for Peace."

At noon Jerusalem time on Dec. 31, 1999, Christian, Jewish and Moslem children will begin gathering on the hills overlooking the world's holiest city to pray for peace. On behalf of people around the world, they will light memorial candles that will burn brightly throughout the day and night carrying their prayers for peace into the New Millennium.

The goal of this event is to become the largest candle lighting ceremony in the history of the world and to send a message of peace that will burn brightly for a thousand years. The event is being promoted internationally and anyone can participate by having the children light a personalized Memorial candle bearing their prayer for peace in Jerusalem on their behalf during this momentous occasion. Details are available online on the event's web site at http://www.candlesforpeace.org.

In July 1999, the co-sponsors entered into a strategic alliance and joint venture agreement to open global Internet access to products and services offered from or in the Holy Land, Asia and Australia. The Candles for Peace event and the Global Youth Village are the first cooperative projects to emerge out of the agreement.

"It is our belief that the Internet represents a powerful medium not just for the promotion of peaceful relations between people of the all countries," says Cheryl Austin. "We are humbled by the opportunity to help make Candles for Peace an event which can send such an important grass roots message of hope to our world leaders."

Thirty percent of all profits will be donated to children's charities around the world with a special emphasis on the Middle East.

Israeli children's charities will receive 10%. The event sponsors will ask the Israeli government to select one or more charities to receive this donation. Palestinian children's charities will receive 10% of all profits as well. The event sponsors will ask the Palestinian Authority to select the charities to receive this donation.

Other worldwide children's charities will be selected by the event sponsors to receive an additional 10% of all profits. To date, the sponsors have identified UNICEF as one of the charities to receive this donation. Others will be included as well with the total number dependent upon the success of the event and the size of the available donation.

The sponsors will also dedicate a significant amount of the profits, as well as their resources to the creation of a Global Youth Village on the Internet, which will become a forum for peaceful communication and interrelations between children of all religions, ethnicity, nationality, political persuasion and color.

A Big 5 accounting firm will be retained to audit all revenues and expenditures generated from Candles for Peace and to certify that the appropriate charitable donations have been made.

Intermallamerica.com is a Houston-based company that offers turnkey e-commerce solutions to businesses worldwide. It is in the top one-half of one percent of the most heavily trafficked sites on Internet. Its state-of-the-art interactive Internet shopping portal, The Great InterMall of the Americas (http://www.intermallamerica.com), serves over 175 merchants in the U.S. and abroad.