HIZ still in hearts of former students

by J.M. ADKISON sports editor

Every fall semester, a group of Harding students travels to the distant country of Zambia not simply to expand its horizons or learn about a different culture, but to forge relationships with the Zambian people and help those in need.

And just because these students are back on Harding’s campus does not mean they have quit helping their faraway friends.

On Saturday, March 25, the Harding in Zambia (HIZ) students from fall 2010 will be hosting a concert at the Underground coffeehouse to benefit their friends in Zambia. It has now become tradition for the returning HIZ students to host an event in the spring to raise money and awareness for the numerous outreach programs the students work with while overseas. These students who return from Zambia with a passion to still help those in need in Zambia join the organization of past HIZ students known as Hearts After HIZ.

“Every spring the old [HIZ] group passes on [the responsibility to create an event] to the returning group,” junior Sammi Clem said.Clem went to Zambia in the fall of 2009 and organized a photography gala last spring in the Administration building with the help of her fellow HIZ 2009 students.

But now it is the HIZ 2010 students’ job to take the reins of Hearts After HIZ and help their Zambian friends in their own way.

“The purpose of this concert is to raise awareness for the need in Zambia and show Zambia through the way we saw it,” junior Zachary Daggett said. Daggett said he and other HIZ 2010 students began preparing for the concert at the end