Interior Design Exhibit To Highlight Refugee Issues

by Gloria Lin

This December, an Interior Design exhibit project will be held highlighting the emotional aspects of refugee issues.

The University of Manitoba Interior Design students are exploring many different aspects of this in their work. Students will be using photographs of refugees taken by Turkish photojournalist Bikem Ekberzade. Ms. Ekberzade hopefully will be speaking at the event. more>>

Third Annual Africa Awareness Symposium To Be Held At UBC

by Mengly Taing

The theme for the Third Annual Africa Awareness/Afro-Fest will be "Rethinking Africa and the Diasporic Connection: The Role and Responsibilities of the [Western] Academy." The symposium, to be held at the University of British Columbia (UBC), is scheduled for January 24-28, 2005, with the conference to follow from January 28-30, 2005. more>>

Online Volunteer Mary Han

by Gloria Lin

Mary Han is an online volunteer for the Northern Ugandan-based community service Agoro Community Development Association (ACDA). She has worked with ACDA since July 2004. In cooperation with Mr. Tom Fred Obonyo, Mary works by completing assignments via email. She recently helped revise the 2004/2005 annual proposals for the organisation.

In addition, she recently donated two large sacks of disused textbooks to the people of Northern Uganda. This valuable gift of educational materials included English literature, psychology, maths and physics textbooks in the hope the students of Agoro may find them useful towards rebuilding their lives. When asked how people may help other communities, she said "It doesn't take a large corporation [to help]. …It only takes a will and a sense of responsibility to execute what you are set out to do. "