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 enough money to cover two more plane tickets and the cost of visas and meals during the 11-day visit.

• You can buy a T-shirt (as pictured at right, except in “serene green”) for $20 by stopping by our base of operations — the Global Studies student lounge, Room 246 of the Social Sciences Building, University of Minnesota West Bank campus (map). If you can’t make it over, email Hilary Duerksen at duer0046@umn.edu to arrange a pickup.
• To sponsor a specific part of our trip, stop by the Global Studies lounge, or call us at 612-624-8384.
• We’ll also set up information-’n'-donation tables around the U. of M. campus in the coming weeks and will announce the locations on this blog.
• Otherwise, general donations can be mailed to this address.

Thanks to our allied student organizations who participated, James Faghmous of GAPSA, Ben Marcy of CHANCE, and the many members of the United Nations Student Association and Amnesty International Legal Support Network who form the core of our volunteer force. Thanks also to KMOJ, KFAI, and the West Bank Community Coalition for their advance promotion of the event. And thanks most of all to the friends, relatives, classmates, and supporters who donated.