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to build a home moves to uganda // carolyn green News Editor There has been a major change to the direction of the To Build A Home fundraising project. ASWWU Fundraising announced in Tuesday's CommUnity that the project has been moved to Uganda. ASWWU Fundraising chose To Build A Home as WWU’s annual fundraising project in September 2013. The mission of the team is this: “At WWU, we have chosen to help children who have nothing. Our goal is to provide the basic necessity — a loving home. Regardless of where we focus our efforts, this need does not change, and we are committed to build[ing] a home.” The plan was to build a home on land belonging to ADRA Peru for 12 orphans who had nowhere else to go. ADRA Peru has decided to go a different direction with the aid that they want to give the community in Checacupe, Peru, and invited WWU to continue working with them in communitybased intervention goals, which is where they wanted to place their efforts. After much consideration, ASWWU Fundraising officers, along with many volunteers who have been part of the To Build A Home project, decided that maintaining the integrity of the
original goal — building a home for children who have nothing — was what they wanted to work towards. The official statement from the Fundraising Team reads: “Students, faculty, staff, and donors, Due to a change of direction from our original partners, ADRA Peru, ASWWU will be changing location with our project. ADRA Peru has decided that community based interventions is the direction they want to go and that changes the original aim of To Build a Home, which was to provide a home for children who don’t have one. While community interventions are also important, ADRA Peru’s change means we will no longer be able to build a structure that provides a home for children. We are looking forward to working with our new partner in Uganda, an orphanage named Christalis. We thank all of you for your continued donations and support.”
“The board of Christalis and their major donors have decided to match, dollar for dollar, whatever ASWWU can fundraise.”
Choosing another project was a lengthy process, but the team finally decided on helping Christalis, an organization that gives a home to orphaned and abandoned children in Uganda. Christalis was founded in 2005 by Shalini Davis who saw the need for an orphanage while she was on a mission trip.
tin man // lauren Lewis Staff Writer The Walla Walla University Tin Man Triathlon is only a few weeks away. It will be held on Sunday, May 18, starting at 9 a.m. in the WEC. The mini-triathlon starts with a 500yard swim, a 20-kilometer bike ride, and a 5-kilometer run. Students can participate individually or in a team, which has three different gender options: all-female, allmale, or co-ed. The 10-lap swim will be
Christalis owns 2.5 acres of property but has been unable to build a home so far because of their lack of funds. Currently, Christalis rents a building much too small for the 30 children and their caretakers to live. This is not an adequate situation because the owner of the home can evict them at any time, and this has happened in the past. ASWWU Fundraising has committed to helping raise the funds for this building to be built so that Christalis can have a permanent home for their children, without the fear of eviction.
The board of Christalis and their major donors have decided to match, dollar for dollar, whatever ASWWU can fundraise. With ASWWU's goal of $100,000 and the match, $200,000 can be put into the To Build A Home project in Uganda. Because of the Ugandan economy and the organization of Christalis, a home will be able to be built for $50,000 in Uganda, about half of the price of a home to be built in Peru.
wwudrama presents held in the WWU swimming pool. The 12-mile bike ride route will be out to Forest Road and back to the WEC. And lastly, the 3.1-mile run will take runners in a box route to 12th Street and back to the WEC. Detailed instructions will be given to participants at the event. All bikers must bring their own helmets, and appropriate costumes are encouraged. Winners will receive cash prizes ranging from $25–45. Participants can sign up online at aswwu.wallawalla.edu. Shine your shoes and continue training — we’ll see you at 9 a.m.!
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Visitors are welcome! Join us at 9 p.m. on Thursdays in WEC 217. “The children remain in the home until they are adults, and the home parents and sponsors do everything they can to help the children become self-supporting once they are in their 20s, but the Christalis home will always be their real home,” said Lydia Kore, a member of the ASWWU fundraising team. For more information about To Build A Home in Uganda, contact Kiana Myers, Lydia Kore, Austin Roberts, or email aswwu.fundraising@ wallawalla.edu.