Santa Barbara City College intercultural communications students have joined with their fellow UCSB students to sponsor a campus- and community-wide awareness and advocacy campaign for humanitarian relief efforts in Darfur and South Sudan.
“Ask Me About Sudan,” which will run through Nov. 24, features a number of outreach efforts on the part of the student-led coalition:
» Now through Nov. 24: SBCC Luria Library display, “Tents for Hope.”
» Tuesday through Nov. 20: “Shop for Peace Marketplace” on SBCC West Campus walkway (vendor space available).
» Wednesday: Video of “Darfur Now” at 6 p.m. in SBCC’s Physical Science Building, Room 101 on East Campus.
» Nov. 23: Run for Sudan, Shoreline Park at noon (click here to sign up).
» Nov. 24: closing presentation, “Sudan: Hear the Voices of the Voiceless,” at 7 p.m. at UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion featuring Nyoul Tong, Sudanese refugee and war child, and Adam Sterling of the Washington, D.C.-based Genocide Intervention Network.
The community is invited to attend any of the events and may make cash contributions, donate a product or service or sponsor/participate as a vendor at the Nov. 18-20 marketplace. For more information, contact Tina Kistler, SBBC associate professor of communications, at kistlert@sbcc.edu or 805.965.0581, ext. 2571.
Joan Galvan is Santa Barbara City College‘s public information officer.