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Clubs focus on global issues
Tim Takechi, Staff Writer
Issue date: 10/17/06
Last Updated: 12/26/07
Some politically active students are striving to bring awareness to issues such as genocide, international poverty and human rights violations to the campus community.
Campus organizations such as Amnesty International, College Republicans, International Justice Mission, Latin American Club and Young Democrats push for students to think about and act on issues that affect the outside world.
Sophomore Corey Fereday is president of the Whitworth chapter of Amnesty International, a global grass-roots organization of 2 million members who support human rights consciousness around the globe.
The Whitworth chapter seeks to write letters to politicians, participate in fundraising and make the campus actively think about issues of human rights violations, Fereday said.
The club focus' on raising awareness about the importance of education and showing its role in freeing children from poverty and bondage throughout the world, Fereday said.
Currently the club is working to write letters to U.N. officials pleading that immediate U.N. action be taken to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Fereday said that even students at Whitworth can make a significant impact toward a far away war-torn African nation.
"Even though we're just students in a small school, the main importance of [Amnesty International] is to be active and show that we care about the wider world," Fereday said. "It's in our best interest as a global community to look out for each other."
The Latin American Club aims to do just that. Co-president and senior Katey Robinson said it is important for Americans to understand the situations people south of the border face on a daily basis.
"We're trying to connect the campus community with the wider issues of social justice in Latin America," Robinson said.
A program the Latin American Club supports is "Las Marias," which plans to provide sustainable agriculture for women's groups in Honduras, Robinson said.
Campus organizations such as Amnesty International, College Republicans, International Justice Mission, Latin American Club and Young Democrats push for students to think about and act on issues that affect the outside world.
Sophomore Corey Fereday is president of the Whitworth chapter of Amnesty International, a global grass-roots organization of 2 million members who support human rights consciousness around the globe.
The Whitworth chapter seeks to write letters to politicians, participate in fundraising and make the campus actively think about issues of human rights violations, Fereday said.
The club focus' on raising awareness about the importance of education and showing its role in freeing children from poverty and bondage throughout the world, Fereday said.
Currently the club is working to write letters to U.N. officials pleading that immediate U.N. action be taken to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Fereday said that even students at Whitworth can make a significant impact toward a far away war-torn African nation.
"Even though we're just students in a small school, the main importance of [Amnesty International] is to be active and show that we care about the wider world," Fereday said. "It's in our best interest as a global community to look out for each other."
The Latin American Club aims to do just that. Co-president and senior Katey Robinson said it is important for Americans to understand the situations people south of the border face on a daily basis.
"We're trying to connect the campus community with the wider issues of social justice in Latin America," Robinson said.
A program the Latin American Club supports is "Las Marias," which plans to provide sustainable agriculture for women's groups in Honduras, Robinson said.
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