Word: idf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 2500 undergraduates have signed up to skip dinner tonight to help the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HAC) and the Harvard and Radcliffe International Development Forum (IDF) raise money for the construction of a health clinic and dispensary in Kenya...
...organizations will raise $3203.50 for the construction of the clinic said Albert F. Park '88, who helped to organize the fast. By skipping dinner, each student will contribute $1.35 toward the building of the clinic, said Park, a member of IDF...
...Both IDF and HAC are working under the Overseas Development Network (ODN), an international charitable organization founded by a Harvard student and based in Cambridge that frequently coordinates such activities. Bike Aid, another ODN program, will match the amount the fast raises dollar for dollar. Members of Bike Aid, including several Harvard students, participate in a summer-long ride across the country each year, and last year raised over $200,000, an official at ODN said yesterday...
...IDF representative Stefan Klasen '91 said the purpose of the fast is to raise both money and awareness about the situation in Kenya...
...Jews in Germany, the police and other authorities did nothing. Civilians watched the beginnings of terror, uncaring. All of these groups had the same attitude: why should we do anything or feel responsible, we are harming no one. Such a parallel in no way equates the inaction of the IDF with the inhuman genocide administered by the Nazis. But it does show that some Israeli officers were guilty of the same indifference that helped destroy an earlier society...