- Welcome & Introductions. Our meeting was condensed into 20 minutes of announcements.
- SLAVERY STILL EXISTS: After announcements, our group walked over to the PLC building to support the Slavery Still Exists lectures beginning at 7:30pm. The lectures taught students about the issue of human trafficking globally and locally. Human trafficking means the recruitment, harboring, or transportation of persons for the purposes of forced labor, indentured servitude or forced prostitution. An estimated 27 million human beings are enslaved in the world today. Of these 27 million, 80 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are children.
- UPCOMING EVENT: Michael Kaplan, Director of Cascade AIDS and speaker at our recent AIDS in Africa conference, will be speaking in Eugene on April 29th. Contact Matt Jones matt@uoglobalhealth.org if you want to go. We’ll be carpooling to the event!
- UPCOMING EVENT: Seattle Pacific University is holding a micro finance conference for students and professionals this May 8-9th. If there is enough group member interest, we’ll be taking a roadtrip up to Seattle for the weekend! Again, contact Matt if you’re interested.
- UPCOMING EVENT: On May 7, in place of our normal meeting we will meet in front of the library and walk to Mac court to hear Greg Mortenson, co-author & subject of the famous book, “Three Cups of Tea.” Get your free tickets here (http://www.tickets.uoregon.edu/3cups) before the meeting!
- PIN APPRECIATION: Every Monday in front of the EMU. Wearing a pin? You get a free cookie. We’ll have sign-ups for pin appreciation each Thursday meeting before Monday’s tabling. Contact Vanessa Williams vwillia1@uoregon.edu if you want to table, but can’t make it to a meeting!
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