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Liberty University Students Bring Hope, Help to Folks Across the Globe Throughout Summer time Trips

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Lynchburg, Va. (PRWEB) June 26, 2013

Shortly right after Liberty University celebrated its 40th Commencement, Libertys Center for Global Engagement (CGE) sent six teams of students, leaders, and recent graduates, to show Christs adore and meet the requirements of men and women about the world.

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Much more than 100 students and leaders have, or are, participating in short-term trips by means of CGE this summer season. In Could, groups traveled to Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Colombia, Cameroon, and two undisclosed places in Europe. An upcoming trip to Uganda departing this week will include members of the Lady Flames Field Hockey Team.

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Teams engaged in connection developing, prayer walks, sports camps, HIV/AIDS education, and drama. They also distributed educational resources and medical supplies. Amongst those they served have been a lot of kids, refugees, and orphans.

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Each and every year, much more and more students embrace the universitys mission of Coaching Champions for Christ and take it worldwide by way of quick-term trips and internships. Students are provided ample chance to explore global culture and demands via the Center for International Engagement, which also offers trips over Christmas break and spring break, as nicely as events, a lot of of which take spot during its semiannual International Concentrate Week.

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Dustin DuBose (08, 12 M.Div.), associate director of Libertys Office of Student Leadership, was a leader on CGEs recent trip to Ethiopia. He mentioned Liberty is a distinctive institution since its focus is on a lot more than just education.

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We are not just focused on the four years you are here, we are focused on the planet, on the now and then, the here and there, he said. Its excellent to see the willingness of Liberty students to spread out to the ends of the earth and serve in these locations. That is what tends to make Liberty unique and what makes our students distinctive, that we are not just focused on our demands, on acquiring an education we are serving other folks although carrying out it.

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DuBose and the Ethiopia team worked with a sports camp in a rural component of the country run by Sports Friends. He said in spite of language barriers, the group had an instant connection with the believers there and were able to show enjoy to the youngsters at the camp. He vividly remembers one boy whose loved ones had died from AIDS and whom he learned was also infected. Through the selflessness and love of 1 of Libertys students, this kid became a believer.

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To see our student loving on him, to be there with him and even crying with him, showing him the really like of Christ it was extremely humbling.

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Ivet Mendoza, a student on one of the Europe teams, was able to watch God function in peoples lives as she shared His enjoy in the pink light district of the city. 1 encounter with a woman named Anna especially burdened her.

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We approached (Anna) and it turned into about an hour-lengthy adore encounter in between Jesus and her. I felt and I saw Him fighting for her, loving her. I couldn’t think we have been truly being utilized for anything so beautiful, Mendoza said.

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Mendoza continued to pray for Anna and two weeks soon after returning to the U.S. was delighted to hear from 1 of the men and women she worked with that Anna encountered one more brief-term team and asked them to pray with her. Anna had been so impacted by her American friends she truly approached the second team herself, asking if they have been American. She shared with enthusiasm how her American close friends had told her about Jesus.

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For the very first time, Liberty sent a group to Zimbabwe, which was an answer to prayer for alumnus Albert Mavunga. Mavunga returned to his house country in 2008, following graduating from Liberty, to commence Smile for Africa, an organization that operates with orphans and kids affected and infected by HIV and AIDS. The trip was in partnership with WorldHelp.

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The team went around the country distributing literature and medical supplies, visiting orphanages, clinics, shelters, and schools. They also helped Mavunga by operating on a farm he has constructed to assist sustain his function.

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Perhaps the greatest influence the group had on Mavungas organization was not even planned. When unexpected complications delayed some of their function, the group was capable to invest the time with the fourth most strong particular person in Zimbabwes government, the Minister of Info. This connection led to an invitation from the president to go to the capitol, where the team met more members of Zimbabwes cabinet (the president was unable to attend). They were even invited to stroll in the VIP section of the countrys very first national parade. Mavunga told the team that these connections brought Smile for Africa 15-20 years ahead in terms of credibility, mentioned Ian MacIntyre, a team leader.

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MacIntyre (09, 13 M.A.R.), CGE monetary administrator, mentioned the trip opened his eyes to the significance of youngster sponsorship. The difference in circumstances for these with and with no sponsorship was drastic, he explained.

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He mentioned he is thankful for his role with Liberty and the Center for International Engagement due to the fact he gets to see Libertys students make a distinction in the globe.

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There is no telling the impact that Liberty has had for the kingdom of God. We send students all more than the globe we invite the students to be a element of that. I really think that Liberty is altering the world with the Gospel message through the Center for International Engagement.

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Liberty University, founded in 1971, is the largest private, nonprofit university in the nation, the largest university in Virginia, and the largest Christian university in the globe. Much more than one hundred,000 students attend classes on its 6,800-acre residential campus and study in its thriving on the internet education plan.

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Salesian Missions Highlights Life-Altering Educational Applications for Refugees About the Globe to Mark Planet Refugee Day 2013

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New Rochelle, NY (PRWEB) June 27, 2013

To mark Planet Refugee Day 2013, Salesian Missions highlighted Salesian programs about the globe that give life-changing education and assistance for refugees in want.

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Every year, June 20 marks World Refugee Day, a day that honors the plight of millions of refugees and internally displaced people about the globe. The United Nations noted that at the end of 2012, there have been 43.7 million refugees globally, virtually 80 percent of whom are girls and young children.

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The day, very first established in 2001, is held annually and is coordinated by the UN Refugee Agency, UNHRC. The concentrate of Globe Refugee Day is to honor the courage, strength and determination of females, men and youngsters forced to flee their properties below threat of persecution, conflict and violence.

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Every year, World Refugee Day reflects on certain struggles faced by refugees. This years theme is 1 loved ones torn apart by conflict is also many.

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On Planet Refugee Day, let us reaffirm the significance of solidarity and burden-sharing by the international neighborhood, says U.N. Secretary-Common Ban Ki-moon in a recent statement about Globe Refugee Day. Refugees have been deprived of their properties, but they must not be deprived of their futures.”

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Salesian Missions has provided highlights of applications assisting refugees around the globe. These applications had been created by Salesian Missions and funded by the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

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SRI LANKAN REFUGEES IN INDIA:

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Given that 1983, ethnic violence in Sri Lanka has forced tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils from their homeland in search of safety and a new life in Tamil Nadu, India. Since 2010, Salesian Missions has been providing a plan for young male and female Sri Lankan refugees who have been living in refugee camps in 15 target districts in India.

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In June 2013, 860 refugees graduated from this vocational and entrepreneurial plan. Half of these students attended a Salesian technical and vocational coaching center, finding out job capabilities in electrical, woodworking, personal computer technology and related trades.

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Nonetheless, half of the studentswomen living in refugee camps and caring for childrenneeded a much less classic opportunity. Unable to leave to attend school, Salesian Missions created a program to bring to them inside the refugee camps. The ladies received coaching for expertise such as jewelry-producing and sewing and also had been supplied entrepreneurial workshops. The program also helped the women developed a organization cooperative, and through a micro-credit program equipment was made offered to them (such as sewing machines). As a group, they are able to give their solutions and merchandise to neighborhood organization, taking benefit of their news expertise while still taking care of their households.

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AFGHAN REFUGEE College Youngsters IN PAKISTAN:

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In Pakistan, a Salesian Missions system is serving Afghan refugee school youngsters and their families in Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan Province, Pakistan. The programwhich started in 2012 and recently received continued fundingcenters on reinforcing primary education systems at six schools in extremely volatile Quetta, Pakistan. The concentrate of the program includes every thing from teacher education and resource improvements for kid finding out, to infrastructure improvement and internet-ready pc labs.

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The objective of the Quetta plan is to mainstream struggling Afghan refugee schools so they may turn into a part of the Pakistani education community and benefit from its shared institutional sources. Close to 2,200 students ages 4 to 13 are benefiting from Salesian Missions extensive approach to strengthening their education. A lot more than 70 teachers have been professionally educated for their function with the refugee youth population and motivated to make a difference in their improved schools. Schools that once had walls in danger of falling have been repaired, supplying a protected spot for eager, vibrant-eyed children to get an education.

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Additionally, the system administration has ensured by means of advocacy and policy dialogue with Government and NGO Partners that the education students obtain in Pakistan will be recognized by the Government of Afghanistan, should their families return property.

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COLOMBIAN REFUGEES:

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In recent years, much more than 450,000 folks have fled the violence of Colombia to neighboring Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama and Costa Rica. Salesian Missions New Beginnings initiative, which began in 2011, worked with a lot more than 1,000 Colombian refugees in these 4 nations supplying vocational and human improvement training as properly as job placement solutions.

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Several of the Colombian refugees have no marketable capabilities. They cant uncover jobs and the lack of coaching makes it challenging to start their own enterprise or join with other folks to kind cooperatives. Without jobs, it is tough to locate stability for their households and construct new lives. The New Beginnings plan allowed these victims of violence and chaos to begin more than and build a stable, hopeful future for themselves and their households.

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By way of the system, each refugee student received 260 hours of technical training as nicely as 40 hours of human development workshops. These education applications coupled with the job placement services operate to assist Colombian refugees to start off over and create productive lives in their new communities.

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ABOUT SALESIAN MISSIONS:

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Salesian Missions is the U.S. improvement arm of the international Salesians of Don Boscospecializing in programs and services for at-risk youth in far more than 130 nations. The Salesians are broadly regarded the worlds biggest private provider of vocational and technical education.

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For far more details about Salesian Missions, go to http://www.salesianmissions.org. For more news from Salesian Missions, go to http://www.missionnewswire.org.

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