Uganda Rising Film Showing

Coffeehouse Fundraiser

Namuwongo Program Presentation

The link below is to a PowerPoint presentation created as part of the Terry Project (www.terry.ubc.ca) here at UBC. It outlines the work that FIC volunteers did this past summer in Namuwongo, Kampala, Uganda. Great information and lots of pictures! Take a look to get a better idea of our work abroad.

FICUBC Terry Powerpoint

Fundraiser @ The Gallery Lounge

First of all, a big thank you to everyone that helped to organize our exhibiton in the AMS Art Gallery this past week! All the volunteers, sponsors, and “photo purchasers” are greatly appreciated!! It was a very important event for our young club and helped to raise a great deal of awareness and funds. For those that bought photos we will be contacting you next week to arrange pick up. The remaining photos can be purchased at…

Our group’s next event in the Northern Uganda Campaign is a fundraiser this Thursday Oct 19 @ 7pm @ The Gallery Lounge in the SUB, featuring a night of drinks and acoustic live music and some African drumming for good measure…

Come out, have a good time, and support the cause.

FICUBC will be hosting an Art Exhibition at the AMS Art Gallery in the SUB October 10-15, 10am-5pm daily, as part of our Nothern Uganda Campaign. The exhibition will feature diverse visuals including Ugandan newspaper headlines and photographs.

There are three main aims of this event: 1) To raise awareness of the conflict in Northern Uganda among the UBC student population, 2) To encourage participation in this year’s Guluwalk (www.guluwalk.com), and 3) to raise funds for our partner youth organizations currently operating in Northern Uganda.

The photos on display will be available for purchase at a price of $25, with all proceeds going to our fund for Northern Uganda. For more information on how you can sponsor a photo (so that we can produce as many as possible to be sold) please click on the link below:
Northern Uganda Campaign Photo Sponsorship

Vancouver Guluwalk!

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2006 GuluWalk Details

GuluWalk Date: Saturday, October 21, 2006.

Registration Begins: 3:30pm

GuluWalk Start Time: 4:30pm

Post Walk Events: Candlelight Vigil

Start Location: Trout Lake Park

Walk Route: Along Broadway to Burrard, Across the Burrard Street Bridge and up Burrard to Robson, Down Robson to the Vancouver Public Library.

End Location: Vancouver Public Library

This is an inclusive event for all ages and abilities. If you are not able to join us for the entire route, email info@guluwalkvancouver.ca for alternate start time and location details.

GuluWalk Events & Updates

There are a number of great pre-walk events in the works, including a fundraiser for GuluWalk with a screening of Uganda Rising at the Ridge Theatre (3131 Arbutus St) on Monday, October 16, 2006 at 7:00pm.

This event will feature the screening followed by an indepth panel discussion on the conflict in northern Uganda with the producers of Uganda Rising and the Liu Institute’s Dr. Erin Baines. Visit www.guluwalk.com/events for all of the details.

GFIC International Conference “Connecting Global Youth, Confronting Global Challenges” a Success!

GFIC’s international youth conference on development was held this year in Montreal, Canada at Concordia University, where the movement was originally founded in 2004.

The following is an excerpt from Concordia’s student newspaper, The Link:

“Africa needs more than lip service to rise into the 21st century. This view was put forward last Saturday and Sunday when over 300 delegates from around the world congregated in Concordia’s H-110 auditorium to show exactly how youth can stop talking–and start acting–during the second annual Global Forum on International Cooperation Conference.

‘We don’t want to be like every other forum that talks about these issues, we want to follow this up with action,’ said political science major Awel Uwihanganye, who is also director-general of the GFIC.

Conference delegates met with members of non-governmental organizations, learned about volunteer opportunities in Uganda and other parts of the African continent, and were given the opportunity to start local Forum on International Cooperation chapters at their universities–all in the name of bringing development to a continent that has been supporting the world’s largest colonial powers for centuries.

Panelists and speakers included Liberal MP Marlene Jennings, Uganda’s former deputy High Commissioner to India Nimisha J. Madhavani and Omar Aktouf, a management professor at HEC Montréal. Aktouf was also a candidate for the Union des Forces Progressives in the last provincial elections.

Concordia’s department of political science, the Concordia Student Union, and FIC Concordia were partners in the event.”

For the full article visit The Link’s website: http://thelink.concordia.ca/

For further coverage from the Daily Monitor, Uganda’s leading daily independent newspaper, visit their site: http://www.monitor.co.ug/

Go Global Fair

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FICUBC participated in the University’s Go Global Fair that shows the various countries UBC students attend on exchanges and volunteer abroad programs. All the booths were great and the African section was bumping with loads of drumming sessions

Just a reminder to those who expressed an interest in FICUBC @ the fair, our next general meeting will be this Thurs Oct 5 from 1-2pm in our office in the SUB (down the hall from the Ubyssey on the left).

FICUBC @ Clubs Days 06

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Forum on International Cooperation UBC (FICUBC) had a booth at this year’s Alma Mater Society Clubs Days event. It was very well attended and we had almost 200 interested students sign up to hear about FIC activities and events.

This Thursday Sept 28 @ Internationa House from 7-9pm will be our first new member orientation of the year where you can learn more about about group and get involved in some of our events this fall.