{"id":11999,"date":"2011-09-15T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11999"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:32:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:32:01","slug":"brock-urged-to-give-to-african-famine-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/09\/brock-urged-to-give-to-african-famine-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock urged to give to African famine relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12203\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12203\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-12203   \" title=\"Layout 1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/brock-band-aide-concert-poster-web-version1-662x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for the Brock Band Aide Concert happening in the Sean O'Sullivan theatre Wednesday, Sept. 28.\" width=\"258\" height=\"398\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster for the Brock Band Aide Concert happening in the Sean O&#39;Sullivan theatre Wednesday, Sept. 28.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A senior administrator is putting out a call to the Brock community encouraging them to donate to victims of the famine in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President Academic, is urging students, staff and faculty to dig deep to support the joint Brock\/Niagara College fundraising campaign called &#8220;East African Famine \u2014 Feed a Mouth, Save a Life \u2014 Niagara Responds.&#8221; East Africa is in the throes of a famine that has affected 13 million people and killed thousands. Nearly half a million children are at risk of dying from malnutrition and disease (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/africa\/07\/20\/iyw.howtohelp.somalia.famine\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN story<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Canada is a privileged country, and global inequality has never been more dramatic, Knuttila said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a moral and ethical responsibility to the rest of the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a tragedy of epic proportions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Knuttila is one of several members of the local fundraising group. Money raised will support a humanitarian coalition of five Canadian organizations: CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Quebec, Plan Canada and Save the Children Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Donations can be made online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpforcharities.com\/humanitarian\/group\/profile.php?profile_id=382182271314988980\" target=\"_blank\">the Niagara page at The Humanitarian Coalition website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Relief effort at Brock raised $4,589.32 by the Sept. 16 deadline for matching funds by the Canadian government.\u00a0Our friends at Avondale raised $425 with their $1 hot dog sale for the relief fund \u2013 an event they will be repeating on Friday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/international-services\" target=\"_blank\">International Services and Programs Abroad<\/a> is also co-ordinating a Brock Band Aide Concert on Wednesday, Sept. 28. Members of the Brock and Niagara community will perform a lunch-hour show from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Sean O&#8217;Sullivan Theatre. Donations will be accepted at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior administrator is putting out a call to the Brock community to donate to victims of the famine in East Africa. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[159,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11999"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12003,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions\/12003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}