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Former child soldier from Congo speaking to students
The Huron Expositor • November 4, 2009 Page 29
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The participation of St. Anne's
Catholic Secondary School in the
"Me to We" organization, which al-
ready inspired a group of 18 students
to travel to Kenya this past summer
to help build a school, will again be
highlighted Nov. 6 with a presenta-
tion from a former child soldier from.
Central Africa:
Michel Chikwanine, who was born
and raised in the Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo, is now a speaker with
Me to We, headed by well-known
Canadian activists Craig and Marc
Kielburger. The organization, which
operates in conjunction with interna-
tional aid group Free the Children,
works with schoolchildren across
the country to inspire them to think
about the world around them.
Chikwanine will address the St.
Anne's student body, as well as rep-
resentatives from other schools in
the Huron -Perth Catholic District
School Board, at 1:30 p.m. on Friday,
Nov. 6.
"Michel has endured obstacles and
challenges that no one should ever
have to face in their lifetime," states
a news release from Jodi Kuran,
principal of the Clinton secondary
school.
"He was, most recently, a passion-
ate speaker at We Day in Vancouver
where 16,000 youth gathered to take
action and change the world."
It was a similar presentation — that
time by Marc Kielburger — that in-
spired last summer's school -building
trip by 18 St. Anne's students and
three adult chaperones. The stu-
dents raised $8,500 following a 2008
visit from the Me to We co-founder,
then travelled to
assist Free the
Children in the
construction of
an elementary
school in Kenya's
Maasi Mara re-
gion.
On Monday,
Oct. 26, during
a regular Hu-
ron -Perth board
meeting, Kuran
and fellow chap-
erone Father
John Jassica of
Goderich, along
with two of the
student partici-
pants, presented a video and spoke
about their experiences.
"I've been to a lot of great places of
the Church and of the Faith but, to
me, this was a life -changing experi-
ence," Fr. Jassica told trustees. And
participant Andre Egli spoke about
realizing how little most Kenyan
people have in comparison to the av-
erage Canadian, and about re-evalu-
ating what's important in his life.
The video is being shown at feeder
elementary schools for St. Anne's, as
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