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Start Date & Time
June 20, 2009
All day event.
End Date & Time
November 30, 2009
All day event.
Location
Online.
Event Cost
Free
Event URL
http://shinealight.wusc.ca
RSVP Info
Name: Mark Leclair
Phone: (613) 761-3711
E-mail: mleclair@wusc.ca
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Education
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Education is a powerful tool, without which few of us would reach our full potential. In refugee camps very few girls have the opportunity to pursue their education beyond primary school and without education these young people have no way out.
Let’s Shine a Light on what girls can achieve if they overcome the challenges they face in accessing education in the refugee camps. With your help we can provide these girls with the tools they need to learn, to strive, and to succeed.
For over 30 years, the WUSC Student Refugee Program has been providing opportunities for young refugees to pursue higher education in Canada. Among the students sponsored by WUSC, men greatly outnumber women because few girls finish high school. This is a situation we aim to change.
Expected to help with domestic chores and the care of siblings, the girls in the camps often miss school or discontinue their studies altogether. Many girls can only find time to study after dark in camps that lack electricity. The first phase of our campaign focuses on raising money for safe, cost-effective solar lamps to enable girls to study at night. Once we’ve reached our goal of providing 1000 girls with access to solar-powered lamps, your donations will help the girls obtain remedial training to make up the schooling they missed out on, provide them with needed school supplies and finally offer scholarships for promising young refugee girls in Kenya and Malawi. |
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World University Service of Canada (WUSC)
WUSC Overseas
Our development projects in the Balkans, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Haiti, Malawi, Peru, Sri Lanka and Vietnam deliver meaningful results in:
* Education and health - including basic and higher education, water and sanitation, and HIV and AIDS.
* Sustainable...
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