Gender-Based Violence Prevention in Liberia Presentation at ARC
December 20th, 2007
Field Visits: Perspectives from ARC’s Field Program in Liberia
Featuring Eve Lotter, ARC volunteer
The American Refugee Committee (ARC) works with more than 300,000 people in Liberia. Join us to hear from ARC volunteer Eve Lotter, who supported ARC’s gender-based violence prevention programs in Liberia for the past 7 months. Eve will share stories of people who are taking back control of their lives in Liberia as the country rebuilds. She will also discuss ARC’s programs in the region and share footage from ARC’s participatory video project “Through our Eyes.”
WHEN: Friday, January 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00 PM
WHERE: American Refugee Committee (ARC) Headquarters, 430 Oak Grove Street, Suite 204, Minneapolis. ARC’s office is located in the Loring Park Office Building–see map here:
**RSVP REQUIRED: call Beth Schmieg at 612-607-6464 or email rsvp@archq.org
ARC’s Field Visits provide an inside look at ARC’s activities and programs around the world. To learn more about ARC, please visit www.ARCrelief.org .
PARKING IS LIMITED: Please plan to arrive early, as parking is limited. Additional parking is east and across the street from the Loring Park Office Building. The lot is accessible from Oak Grove Street — look for the balloons marking the parking lot entrance.
More information about the January 4 Field Visits event can be found here:
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Eve Alexandra Lotter holds a MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) in Liberia was generously supported by the Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program. Eve has been a research fellow with the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota and has volunteered with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission Diaspora Project spearheaded by Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN REFUGEE COMMITTEE: The American Refugee Committee (ARC) is a Minnesota-based, nonprofit, nonsectarian international humanitarian relief organization. For 28 years, ARC has worked to save and improve the lives of refugees and others uprooted by tragedy throughout Africa and Asia. ARC currently assists nearly 3 million refugees and displaced people in 9 countries around the world. ARC was also named “2007 Best Charity of the Twin Cities” by Minnesota-based City Pages.
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