Vote “YES” and Save a Life

Every student on campus pays a one-time WUSC fee every year. That fee currently helps Brandon University sponsor one student from a refugee camp in Africa to come to our institution and obtain a post-secondary education. While in refugee camps people face poverty, violence, and abuse. Sponsorships like the one your WUSC fee assists with create opportunities for these students to achieve their dreams, claim their right to an education, and save themselves and their families. For over 25 years, Brandon University has sponsored one student every year. We need your help to break that tradition.

We want to sponsor TWO students every year. We want to save TWO lives every year. During BUSU General Elections March 10th and 11th (advanced polls March 1st and 2nd) we will be posing a referendum question that asks you, the students at BU, to help save another life. In order to achieve this we need you to vote “yes” to increasing the WUSC levy.

Changing the World…One Life at a Time: Stories From Camp to Campus

Margaret Akulia:

Before WUSC’s Student Refugee Program (SRP) – war had forced Margaret Akulia and her family to leave Uganda once. When it broke out again in 1980, she was forced to flee once more, making her plans for university education impossible.

After WUSC’s SRP Program – Margaret Akulia was placed at the University of British Columbia. She is quoted as saying, “WUSC has allowed me to pursue my dream and vision of becoming a global crusader and social justice activist”.

Shukria Dini:

Before WUSC’s SRP – Shukria Dini was 18 when her home country, Somalia, was torn apart by civil war in 1992. She and her family along with about 16 other refugees fled to nearby Kenya. After WUSC’s SRP – Shukria Dini was sponsored by the University of Winnipeg and can be quoted as saying, “Education is the best gift and organization can provide to refugee students like me”.

Ajmal Pashtoonyar:

Before WUSC’s SRP – Ajmal Pashtoonyar was only an infant when his family fled Afghanistan to nearby Peshwar, Pakistan.

After WUSC’s SRP – Ajmal Pashtoonyar was successfully placed at the College of the North Atlantic, Burin Campus, in Newfoundland and Labrador. He is quoted as saying, “The SRP not only gave me the opportunity for education, but also for contacts and life experiences that have really changed who I am”.

Photo Courtesy of WUSC Brandon