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...proceeds of the charity dinner will be donated to the H2O Africa Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing clean water to several parts of the continents, and Project ACWA, a student-run grassroots effort to provide clean water to a village in Ghana...
Shokane said that she believed student movements, participation, and initiatives like the charity can bring a lot to Africa, including both the physical and moral support...
Achebe added that by holding this event, HASA hopes to give everyone at Harvard a chance to contribute to improving the water situation in Africa...
...remind us of either illegal copies of movies made in some lost developing country or the extremely successful Disney franchise Pirates of the Caribbean. Some gravity, however, is called for: This year alone, pirates with land bases in Somalia have attacked over 100 ships off the coast of Africa. Most notably, they have held a Saudi tanker with over 100 million dollars in oil and a Ukrainian ship full of Soviet-era tanks (the destination of which remains unknown). According to CNN, as of December 5, almost 300 crew in 14 vessels adrift at sea remained hostage to Somali pirates...
...chose Chicago as the place to build his career because of the strength of Jesse Sr.'s support there. Nevertheless, the younger man has emphasized and established his own bona fides in politics and in activism in the African-American community. In the 1980s, he loudly opposed South Africa's apartheid regime, spending his 21st birthday in a Washington jail cell after participating in protests outside South Africa's embassy in that city. By 1995, he was ready for his first major step in national politics. He was immediately successful. He won his first bid for a congressional seat...