- Focus more on advocacy and education
- Incorporating presentations of situations
- Figure out how we can help the situation
Today we are focusing on the Gaza strip
Giving a non-partisan overview of the situation and the plain facts - We’ll have a letter writing campaign
Send to representatives, asking them to open humanitarian aid to Gaza
That’s our “partisanship”
All is in accord with UNICEF’s official stand (2 UNICEF hospitals and schools bombed)
Events this Semester
- Water Tap Project
March 22 – 28 (World Water Week)
Need help tabling
Overview: paper water droplets sold at Newcomb or on the Lawn for 6 cents, drops will be displayed in Newcomb display case
All the money goes to UNICEF Tap Project - Joshua Tetrick
Speaker on Global Challenges and Careers
From Generation We: worked with UNICEF Commission in Nairobi
How to take passion for humanitarian crisis into a career
March 18 (don’t have a location yet) - Community Service Project
Exact time and project will be determined by next week
One weekend of going out and helping
Sometime in February hopefully - Video Series
Short film festival (3 or 4 movies)
Each movie under 25 minutes
Films will revolve around humanitarian crises
Uganda, West Bank, and others
$3 each
Half of the money goes to UNICEF, half goes to Initiative Recover (Prof Canfora)
Goes to building a school in Guida, Uganda
http://www.studiorecover.virginia.edu/recover.html - STAND Race for Darfur 5k
Run the 5k as a group
$10 per person if you sign up in a group
Saturday February 21
E-mail if you’re interested
https://eventcal.itc.virginia.edu/eventcal/event/display?event_id=1232861890001
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61035801584
Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Website for history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_israel_palestinians/maps/html/default.stm
- UNICEF calls for humanitarian space in Gaza
UNICEF schools and hospitals serving as shelters were bombed
8 aid workers have been killed
Providing school and aid kits, as well as water
Letter-Writing Campaign
- Writing letters to US Representatives
Asking US to use influence with Israel to ask for movement of humanitarian trucks into Gaza strip
Ashi has a template, but you can write your own as well
UNICEF can mail the letters, but please donate money for stamps! - You can drop off your letter in the SAC Mailbox 484
Compassion Meal
- Saturday February 7
- Lunch of rice and beans
- Enjoy a tasty, cheap lunch!
- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=51823357446&ref=mf
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