Archive for February, 2008
Thank you, Sullivan Ballou Fund!
We are still hastening to get enough funds to cover our three members’ imminent trip to South Sudan, but we are, incredibly, suddenly, $2,000 closer thanks to the Sullivan Ballou Fund of Minneapolis.
The Fund, founded by Bruce and Elissa Peterson, was moved by Gabriel Solomon’s work against child abduction A formal announcement ceremony is [...]
U of M approves sending three of us to South Sudan!
As reported today in the St. Paul Pioneer Press!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Great updates in the Pioneer Press and Minnesota Daily
Ruben Rosario continues his excellent coverage of this campaign in Sunday’s Pioneer Press. Click here to read his column. A great update in Monday’s Minnesota Daily (click here), and a long slot on Jack Rice’s show on WCCO radio on Wednesday.
If you’re visiting this site because of that coverage, welcome. For background on child [...]
Thank you, The Wake, Tam-Tam’s, and donors! We’re still fundraising for the March trip
Our fundraiser Saturday at Tam-Tam’s African Restaurant sponsored by The Wake Magazine was a great success. From T-shirt sales and donations, we raised about enough to cover one of the plane tickets for our plan to send three students to South Sudan over Spring Break! This exceeded our expectations.
We still need to raise [...]
KFAI promotes Saturday fundraiser!
Thank you to KFAI radio, 90.3 and 106.7 FM, for devoting a segment on the Thursday evening news program to child abduction in South Sudan and our fundraiser Saturday at Tam-Tam’s Restaurant. Save Yar Campaign members Tracy Baumgardt and Kait Dougherty were interviewed. To hear the segment, click here and fast-forward in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fundraiser Feb. 16 at Tam-Tam’s: Send three students to Sudan!
We’ve made great progress from Minneapolis and Washington, D.C. But there are limits to how much change we can effect in South Sudan from long-distance.
After building our knowledge base and network of contacts, after refining our plan for research and advocacy with the strong support of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program, [...]
Buy T-shirts
Long-distance advocacy has its limits. So the Save Yar Campaign is trying to raise funds to send three members to South Sudan to advocate, directly and in person, with government officials to work for the release of abducted children. When you order a T-shirt from Cafepress, the Save Yar Campaign student organization receives [...]
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