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Celia Dearing & Robin Budd It can easily go unnoticed in the light of more eyecatching architectural restructuring, but UEA is also in the process of a dramatic governance restructure. Teaching at UEA has being divided into four faculties - Arts and Humanities. Science, Health and Social Sciences - and within these facu lties, the proposed governance p lans have t h e potential to reduce stu den t
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Student voices are dJmtnlshing in campus governance
representation and student decision-making power. School Boards. which have previously been the most democratic and effective mouthpiece of student opinion and a great example of staff-student cooperation, wou ld have their meetings cut down from four times a year to only twice. Where the Boards were once open to all students and faculty members who wished to participate, - the fi rst meeting of School Boards this year will only be open to two students Boards to implement changes - see page 2
Ligusa crossroads cornmunity centre is situated in lower Nyakach division, Kandaria village in Sigoti . Lower Nyakach division is a poor section of Nyando; a district in Kenya. where the majority of inhabitants are infected with H!V or Aids. In lower Nyakach division 95o/o households have lost three of four of their family mem-
hers to HIV or Aids. Thousands of children are becoming orphaned and some are born infected due to mother-child H!V transmission. There Is also a high rate of sexually transmitted diseases such as Chlamydia and syphilis. This ·is due to low rate of awareness among the teenagers, lack of facilities to create the necessary awareness. poverty. and a promiscuous ltfe style which
is the result of poverty, depression and lack of hope. In addition to the constant threat of disease the lower Nyakach division suffers extreme poverty due to the lack of basic human needs like clean running water and a proper basic electric system. Women walk long distances in search of water and during dry seasons most households loose their animals to
drought. a condition that further increases their impoverished situation. Apart from animal deaths. agriculture becomes impossible and so most young men opt for migrating to the near by towns in search of jobs so as to take care of their families. Those in city jobs become elusive and the resu lt is a break down in families with most children and women suffering depression due to luck of
parental love and economic support. Due to the problems listed above, a group of students from the University of East Anglia have launched a major fundraiser drive to sponsor the construction of a community centre in lower Nyakach division. This centre aims to be self sustaining in the long term and mainly focuses on rehabilitating the community and bringing people back to
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the main stream of human society. The students are raising funds through personal donations. sponsored sport events and numerous parties held for the purpose of saving the lives of what they call 'some of the most wretched people of the earth.' The centre has a wide range of objectives which focus on reducing death
Tackling AIDS, see page 7
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