TO THE EDITOR:
Basketball, academics and service to others. These are the first three things that come to mind when thinking about Carolina, and yet not many events on campus successfully include all three.
Uhuru Child is seeking to do just that. Uhuru Child is an organization dedicated to building schools in Kenya and making them sustainable by coupling them with social business in local communities. Social business is a newly pioneered idea by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Professor Muhammad Yunus. The social businesses are expected to make a profit, but all earnings exceeding the initial investment must go towards solving a social problem. The goal of Uhuru Child is to use this theory to support schools and empower individuals through education and social enterprises.
Where does basketball come in? On Saturday, Nov. 19, we will be hosting a 3 v. 3 basketball tournament to benefit Uhuru’s current project in Jikaze, a camp of people forced from their homes after the most recent post-election violence. A hundred percent of the profit from the event will go towards building a secondary school in Jikaze. If you would like more information, please contact us at uncuhuru@gmail.com.
Please come out on Nov. 19 to embody the spirit of Carolina by helping to provide education for those in need.
Alejandro Antonia
Junior
Biology
