| Group tackles living wage
As the national minimum wage increase makes headway on Capitol Hill, one on-campus group is making sure students know how the increase could affect Baylor. Students for Social Justice is having two movie and discussion nights, with showings Thursday and next Tuesday regarding the need to raise the minimum wage. The group will show Where There is a Will There Will be a Living Wage. The movie is a documentary created by students at Texas A&M University who are running their own campaign that focuses on staff at the university who get paid minimum wage. "It's powerful for what we are doing at Baylor," said Anali Gatlin, a Waco senior and co-leader of Students for Social Justice. "The group wants to increase discussion about the living wage at Baylor," said Courtney Ray, a Fort Worth senior and member of the group.
Meeting a Challenge
It's no secret that the ranks of the elderly are growing nationwide, and that phenomenon comes with significant challenges in the mountains of Northwest North Carolina. Local leaders, with help from the state, are working to meet those challenges. That's good, because their efforts and many more will be crucial in the years ahead. The elderly population is growing as life expectancy rises. As that happens in Northwest North Carolina, the rugged terrain is a challenge in itself. Residents who have spent their lives living free and proud in remote valleys are suddenly finding they need day-to-day help with necessities such as meals. Often, the volunteers providing that help are elderly themselves, so their days of service are numbered. And as young people raised in the mountains move away for better jobs, more retirees move in, making the aging trend more noticeable in the mountains.
Swaziland: Keep School Doors Open to AIDS Orphans, Vulnerable Kids
AIDS orphans aren't the only children suffering in Swaziland. Those who have lost one or both parents to the epidemic have it rough, but so do tens of thousands of other Swazi children vulnerable to food shortages, scant medical care, and unsettled home life. The bureaucracies of government welfare departments and humanitarian non-governmental organisations call them "orphans and vulnerable children" (OVC), while traditional authorities, such as chiefs, like to refer to them as "children of the communities", because by custom all destitute Swazi children are the responsibility of their home areas. .
Uganda: Movers & Shakers - Kyenjojo District Flag Bearers
Tom Butime Rwakaikara is the MP for Mwenge North. He is a comrade in the NRA/M gorilla war of 1981-1985. He was minister minister of state for communication before transfering him to state minister for Karamoja affairs a post he declined. He is a down-to-earth man and very developmental. He is a retired Colonel in the Army. Aston Kajara is the minister of state for Karamoja affairs and also MP for Mwenge South. He was one of the people who worked hard for Kyenjojo to get a district status so that services like education, health and water get nearer to the people. Mr Kajara is an advocate for unity in his constituency. .
S.F. earthquake survivor dies
Eileen M. Perry, one of the few remaining survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, died of natural causes Feb. 2 at the Sunrise Assisted Living Center in Claremont. She was 101. Though Perry was only 1 year old at the time, and had no personal memories of the April 18, 1906 quake, she told stories of the event into old age, her daughter Shirley Souza said. Perry's family was living in a San Francisco apartment when the quake struck, killing more than 3,000 people, with subsequent fires razing nearly the entire city. "I'm sure there must have been damage (to their apartment), but they survived," Shirley Souza said. "Afterwards, I guess they became frightened of earthquakes, so they moved to Minnesota." The family stayed there for just a year before returning to the Bay Area.
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