The Friends of Canon Gideon Foundation USA (FOCAGIFO) is hosting a picnic, 6–8 p.m., Sunday, July 12, at St. Mary’s Sewanee. This year’s goal is to raise funds for the Hope Institute near Kampala, Ugangda, to furnish a classroom with desktop and laptop computers.
Sewanee politics department professor Amy Patterson will talk at 6:45 p.m. about her recent trip to Africa and the needs of HIV orphans and other vulnerable youth in Uganda.
A picnic supper will be served on the porch at 7:15 p.m. Bazzania Girls Band will introduce a new song.
The event also celebrates the Sewanee community’s increasing involvement with FOCAGIFO. Paige Schneider and Mila Dragojevic, professors in the Sewanee politics department, have visited the school this summer; five Sewanee students are doing summer internships there.
Since last July, funds raised in Sewanee have helped purchase a Toyota van for the Hope Institute. They have also paid for pediatric ophthalmology testing for a child and enrolled her in a special boarding school for the blind near Kampala.
For more information contact Sally Hubbard at 598-5338 or email <sally@hubbard.net>.
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