Shine A Light – Supporting Refugee Girls’ Education
WUSC is proud to share with you our new Shine A Light campaign. This new endeavor aims at helping girls in refugee camps to overcome the challenges they face in accessing education.
Expected to help with domestic chores and the care of siblings, the girls in the camps often miss school or discontinue their studies altogether. Many girls can only find time to study after dark in camps that lack electricity. The first phase of our campaign focuses on raising money for safe, cost-effective solar lamps to enable girls to study at night. Once we’ve reached our goal of providing 1000 girls with access to solar-powered lamps, your donations will help the girls obtain remedial training to make up the schooling they missed out on, provide them with needed school supplies and finally offer scholarships for promising young refugee girls in Kenya and Malawi.
There are many ways that you can help. Also consider creating a video testimonial if you have been inspired by the great work of the Student Refugee Program or WUSC’s pursuit of education to change the world.
All the best in your final exams for Winter 2009
By the time you see this you will probably be in the middle of your final exams already, but since this is not an important update, we hope you will let this one slide. Seeing as we too are students, it is no surprise that even WUSC members are busy with their studies.
Anyway, we hope that your diligent efforts into studying will pay off when you come to sit your final exams. Remember to take time to rest, eat and breathe when necessary. You have to keep up your energy if you want to do well.
WUSC at Trent University would also like to take this time to especially wish all the best to those members who are wrapping up their academic careers here at Trent University. WUSC certainly appreciates all of your contributions to building up the organization and the work we do. While this is not the final farewell, we hope that you will continue to support WUSC or the initiatives of similar organizations wherever life takes you.
Once again, all the best in your final exams. Thanks to student members, campus faculty, advisors and members of the community for another successful year within WUSC at Trent University.
OCIC Upcoming Forum Invitation – Inclusion & Participation For All
The Ontario Council for International Cooperation (OCIC) will be hosting a forum under the theme “Inclusion and Participation for All: Building Diverse and Engaged Communities for Social Change” this coming Friday. They have been very kind to invite members of our local WUSC Committee to attend and we would like to show our support.
Ontario Council for International Cooperation
Spring 2009 Peterborough-Northumberland Regional ForumLocation: Peterborough, ON
Date: Friday, March 27th, 2009
Time: 10:30am – 4:30pmDetails of Forum
- The year 2015 was meant to mark the eradication of poverty. While groups and organizations continue to work at engaging the public on local and global justice issues, it is now apparent that the Millennium Development Goals set out by world leaders in 2000 will not be achieved. Increased and sustained public support for international cooperation is essential to creating the change we would like to see in the world.
- This forum will present opportunities to increase and deepen understandings of and approaches to global education and public engagement through a lens of inclusion. It will address challenges to just and equal participation, and will look critically at the role of power dynamics in social justice organizing. Through this lens, the forum will provide opportunities to examine and reassess the roles that groups and organizations can play in addressing social justice issues and creating effective social change.
Details of Speakers
- Uzma Shakir – a community-based researcher, advocate and activist. Her work focuses on issues of race, erosion of civil liberties and critical multiculturalism.
- Amai Kuda – a singer/songwriter, community activist and the mother of a young child. Through parenthood, community work and art, Amai is a vehicle for creation and for change.
- Penny Hartin – the current Chief Executive Officer of the World Blind Union, an organization which works on behalf of blind and visually impaired persons in some 170 countries around the world.
For full details and more information on how to register, visit www.ocic.on.ca or contact Kris at public.engagement@ocic.on.ca or 416-972-6303. Registration forms and subsidy applications are available.
Design talent and skills needed for IT Committee
The IT/Communications Committee is looking for some new talent to take WUSC at Trent University to entirely new levels! If you have been considering joining the organization, but are unsure about where you can express your skills and talents, then consider joining the IT/Communications Committee.
Our committee is probably one of the smallest within the organization, but it does play an important part. Most of what we do overlaps with the activities of other committees and, as a collective, are able to get WUSC moving. However, as with all team-based groups, we need more people with new energy who will contribute their skills.
You may be asking yourself several questions about what is required of you in order to get started in the IT/Communications Committee. So we compiled a short FAQ to answer some of the common questions you may have. Feel free to ask any other questions you may have!
Before we continue, we would like to mention that you can volunteer your time by helping WUSC at Trent University in a variety of other capacities that have nothing to do with IT/Communications. Please check out our Volunteer page for descriptions of what each committee is responsible for doing, then determine your niche.
‘Black Explosion’ Fundraiser on 24-Jan-2009
WUSC at Trent University will be having a party on 24th January to kick off the new year! The theme for this night is ‘Black Explosion’ and the party will be held at the 2nd Floor Lounge at 10:00pm until 2:00am. See the poster for details on admission cost.
We look forward to your support in this fundraising endeavour.
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