African Activism

What does a refugee camp look like? View photos of the work Nayana Bose ’90 does as an external relations officer for the United Nations’ Refugee Agency.https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150159768172726

Susannah Sirkin ’76, longtime deputy director for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), has worked extensively on studies of sexual violence in war zones. She is currently focused on ending rape in war through PHR’s new program, which is training legal and medical practitioners in the proper forensic documentation of sexual assault in order to help prosecute cases of sexual violence in East and Central Africa. Read about the project here.http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/issues/rape-in-war/

MHC President Lynn Pasquerella ’80 is part of an international team working to improve the lives of Kenyans. Read the Quarterly article about her work.http://issuu.com/mhcalumnae/docs/winter2011_quarterly_final/16

See video of Chiedza Christine Mufunde ’12 explaining to an international audience at the White House what’s needed for women in Zimbabwe to enter political life. She was the only student on a panel high-powered women including feminist writer/activist Gloria Steinem and U.S. Rep. Nita Melnikoff Lowey ’59 during The Women in Public Service Project kickoff colloquium in December 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8aWRJhHhZc

Alumnae active with Coalition for Courage Coalitionforcourage.org , which was cofounded by Elizabeth Berges ’94 and Arden O’Donnell ’97, include board members Amy Scobie- Carroll ’97 and Bethany Sager ’96. Read mini-bios of all four here. http://coalitionforcourage.org/?page_id=11

Read about alums’ trips to Zimbabwe with Coalition for Courage:
- Heather Baukney Hansen ’94https://alumnae.mtholyoke.edu/wp/mhaq/2012/03/coalition-for-courage-helps-kids-affected-by-aids-poverty
- 1994 alumna Bridget McBride writes about the washable sanitary pad project she organized. http://coalitionforcourage.org/?p=76
- Bethany Sager ’96 http://coalitionforcourage.org/?p=1340

Tariro: Tariro.org founded by Jennifer Kyker ’02; Tariro’s program coordinator and manager is Fadzi Muzhandu ’05.

The Chicken Project: founded by Mufaro Kanyangarara ’07 and Getrude Chimhungwe ’08 http://issuu.com/mhcalumnae/docs/2007_summer_r1_1.1/11

LifeWaterAfrica: LifewaterAfrica.org founded by Gail LaBroad LaRocca ’74

December 5, 2012