World University Service of Canada:
Development Education and Cultural Awareness
UBC WUSC receiving the 2003 Local Committee Award at the Annual General Assembly
From left to right: Melissa Kelly, Veronica Fynn,
Syma Khan, Glen Peterson, Willy Rangira,
Pascaline Nsekera, Winnie Cheung.
Meetings are Thursdays at 12:30 in the International House Boardroom. Everyone Welcome! Go to WUSC Ottawa for more information on World University Service of Canada.
Below: WUSC students Veronica, Kerrie and Pascaline, hanging out at Fairview.
Current Events:
If you have digital pictures for this page, please email them to me at ubc_wusc@yahoo.ca and I will be glad to post them.
Coming up very soon!
The 2004 Symposium on Global Citizenship and Refugee Awareness.
From January 30-February 1, in cooperation with UBC Africa: A weekend workshop filled with amazing events, such as Afrofest, the African cultural celebration; film night "Journey of Man"; presentations featuring UBC student refugees and experts such as Eyob Naizghi; and a chance to meet and brainstorm with WUSC members across Western Canada! Everybody is welcome, especially newcomers! To register, email
wusc_symposium@hotmail.com.
Symposium Agenda:
Friday January 30th: (Party Room, Student Union Building, UBC)
Afro-fest Cultural Night 7-11pm
Tickets: Students $5 in advance. Available at the International House front desk, and a certain number are reserved for those attending Symposium.
Saturday January 31st (International House, UBC):
830-930: Breakfast and mingling
930-1015: Welcome and Global Citizenship Workshop
Symposium participants will be broken up into small groups to discuss what Global Citizenship means to them.
1015-1030: Break
1030-1130: Eyob Naizghi: Executive Director at MOSAIC (Multilingual Orientation Services Association for Immigrant Communities)
MOSAIC is a non-profit agency that serves the settlement and integration needs of new immigrants and refugees
Questions to follow
1130-1230: Refugee students share their experiences
1) Alex Gorle (Sudan)
2) Pascaline Nsekera (Burundi)
3) Ahmed Khan (Sierra Leone)
1230-130: Lunch
130-300: Refugee students share their experiences (continued)
POWER POINT PRESENTATION OF KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP IN KENYA
3) James Wai (Sudan)
4) Ahmed Abdi (Somalia)
Questions to follow
300-315: Break
315-415: Dr.Sultan Somjee: African Ethnographer (African Indigenous Traditions of Peace)
415-515: African Djembe Drumming Workshop!!!!!!
515-6: Break
6-7: Dinner at International House ($5 dinner charge)
7-9: Film showing: “The Journey of Man” (room 110, Angus Building, UBC)
The Journey of Man overview:
Who are we? Where did we come from? What if tens of thousands of years ago, a small band of our ancestors managed to populate every inch of the globe – walking on foot across hundreds of miles of ocean, barren deserts and ice-locked tundras? In National Geographic's documentary JOURNEY OF MAN scientist Dr Spencer Wells decodes our genetic history, based on thousands of DNA samples taken from all over the world in the last decade. His astonishing revelations suggest that everyone alive in the world today is descended from one man – as little as 60 000 years ago. This astonishing genetic detective story leads viewers around the globe to unlock clues, hidden in blood, that trace humanity’s path and recreate the family tree of our modern world.
Sunday February 1st: (room 212a, Student Union Building, UBC)
WUSC Regional Meeting
Breakfast and lunch provided by UBC local committee