Calendar @ 1st UU
in Columbus
and Beyond
2006 Just Works camps
(more info at www.uusc.org)
Guatemala camp
January 14-22, 2006 (Intergenerational 18+)
UUSC and Equal Exchange are offering an experiential learning opportunity in Guatemala: A look at fair trade within the coffee industry. $600 (Full – sorry!)
Katrina Relief, Louisiana
February 6-10, 2006
Save the date. Check back for details. $300
Participants will spend the week working on three projects: A clean-up project for the Resurrection School, a multi-cultural elementary school; a multi-task project for a PICO-WIN group, supported by the UUA-UUSC Gulf Coast Relief Fund; and a clean-up and multi-task project for a congregation in New Orleans.
Our goal is to work on projects that will assist people who remain in or want to return to New Orleans.
Katrina Relief, Mississippi
March 6-10, 2006
Save the date. Check back for details. $300
UUSC Mohawk camp
April 17-21, 2006 (Teen camp 14+)
Fonda, N.Y. $300
Freedom Summer 2006: A civil rights journey
July 8-15, 2006 (Intergenerational 14+)
Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery. $500
UUSC Lakota camp
August 2006 (Teens 16+)
South Dakota. $400
JustWorks camps are short-term projects that help volunteers examine and understand the root causes and damaging effects of injustice. By working directly with people in the communities they serve, participants experience community struggles firsthand and gain skills for fighting injustice in their own communities. The JustWorks program is part of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's ongoing involvement with human rights issues in the United States and abroad.
Since 1996 the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee has operated more than 40 JustWorks camps across the United States. Our program has provided hands-on learning for more than 2,000 people of all ages from around the country, as well as overseas, to work on issues of racial, social, and economic injustice.
How to Get Involved
For more information or to request an application, please contact any JustWorks staff at 800-388-3920. Anna Bartlett can be reached at ext. 227, Nguyen Weeks at ext. 201, and Kim McDonald at ext. 217. You may e-mail us at justworks@uusc.org. Latest updates, camp information, and a review of this year’s camps may be accessed on this webpage.