Last Activity

After a long year, the club, "United For Africa" is taking a vacation. The club will have its last activity next thursday at Taj India Restaurant for a final good bye with all members.

Keep in mind that we will host a big conference here at The College Of Saint Scholastica next year. We are not yet sure about the dates but we will keep you update.

Thanks for your ideas, supports and participation in the well development to the club. We will see you next year.

Club dinner
We have $150 for the club to do something together. We will be going to Taj India for supper on May 3 at 6:30pm.

Easter sale
We made $158 but after taking out the cost of buying things we have made $118. We are donating to Duluth Darfur.

Darfur Dinner
Decorations are needed for the even on April 27th at 5:00pm. It was asked to members to come at 3:30pm and help decorate. Anything related to Africa including flags, pictures, tools and so on will be acceptable. It would be very nice if people stay after to clean up afterwards. Help needed to transport the food from the GDR to Somers Main Lounge. The evening is in 2 parts: dinner at Somers Main Lounge at 5:30pm and cultural performance in the Mitchell at 7:30pm. The cost of dinner for students is $10 and just the performance is $5. If you know professors or anybody who is interested in attending please let them buy them from Rhonda Lee or Gary Gordan. The cost is $20 for the general public and that is just the meal. The food is a buffet and it is both vegetarian and meat. KMC, which is another club in the school, is doing the entertainment and they need more dancers because it’s a bigger event and they need more people to fill the stage. For the dinner please wear your traditional clothing. If you don’t have one ask somebody in the group.We need vans for the club dinner and to transport food from the cities for the Darfur Dinner.
The potluck was pushed to April 26 at 6:30pm. There will be a PowerPoint presentation.

New committee members
The new members should meet and decide on when to meet next year and to see how things are done. April 19 at 7:00pm come to the committee meeting. Discuss if maybe another current committee member should be on the committee next year so as to be there for guidance.

There was not too much of new information for the last meeting. We went over what we have discussed the last meeting. So if you want to refresh your memories, go back to the last letter that I posted.

Meeting - Monday, March 26, 2007

We discussed about a lot of things during the meeting. For the couple months, the club has a busy schedule.

Rally For Darfur
It takes place in Minneapolis on Friday 03/29/07 Amnesty is doing it and will try to collaborate and see if you can do it with them.

Potluck with Colleges
For the up-coming conference we need to collaborate with other schools (UMD, LSC, UWS). It will take place on Thursday April 19 @ 6:00 pm in the ICC. Rhonda is going to work on the invitation letter and she will sending it to all committee members and feel free to send it to people you have contacts with that can help in the conference.

Nomination For Next Year
The club voted on the new leadership members.

Movie Showing
"Dairy of Darfur" a student from one of Duluth’s high school would like to show this movie this week. He is aware of the situation in Darfur and would like to help, he has been in touch with a member in Amnesty International to do a collaboration.

Potential Funds for the Conference
Student Senate is willing to offer $40,000 to the CJL if the clubs collaborated and did something (activity) on campus, the conference is one activity.

Update on Conference
Sent Kelly our ides 3 weeks ago and still waiting for the final response about our ideas. But we had gotten an email from Kelly confirming that she has gotten the email. Conference date has been decide on and it will on April 18-20, 2008.

Easter Basket Raffle
The club will have the basket out in the union on M-W-F from 10:00 – 1:00 this coming week. Drawing day for the Raffle will be on April 4. Proceeds will go to Darfur Solar pots but we need to decide whether to give 100% or 50% and keep the other half for the conference.

Stephane - Meeting Discussion 05/03/07

At first, we discussed about what happened the past week which was "The Peace and Justice"'s week. They had lectures such as "Why Afica Matters" and also showed couple documentaries. United for Africa was involed in the process to make it happen, The leaders of the club wanted to thank everybody for their participation.

Continuing with the Darfur theme. This project in collaboration with several other clubs on campus and also at UMD in addition to groups in the community. The contact person is Gary Gordon ggordon@css.edu. The plan is to host a dinner. Money from this benefit will go toward the providing women and children in refugee camps due to the genocide in Darfur, Sudan with solar cook kits. The dinner will combine African food and culture (art, music and dance). Each family will be provided with two pots for every $25.00 raised.

Want to see something different than what the media portrait Africa, go to http://www.4theloveofafrica.com/index.htm and it is provided by Mr. Kevin A Urban.

Easter basket raffle is scheduled for March 26 to April 4. All funds received will go toward the From Duluth to Darfur initiative.

The next SMT conference is slated for April 18 to 20, 2008. St. Scholastica is hosting the event. So we need any possible help to make that event a success.

We encourage everybody to attend panels around campus. They will help people to realize what is going on aroung the world.

Women's History Month at least 2 African women would be featured in our Did You Know...campaign. This week the ladies in the spotlight are Anti-Apartheid leader Nomzamo Winifred 'Winnie Mandela' Zanyiwe Madikizela, South Africa and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia.

For more information Rhonda Lee RLee@css.edu, Awah Foncha AFoncha@css.edu.