Students for Students International announces its sixth annual Auction for Education
Chapel Hill, NC, April 9, 2009-Students for Students International at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill will hold its sixth annual Auction for Education on Saturday, April 24, 2010.
The Auction will be held at the FedEx Global Education Center in Chapel Hill. The evening will feature a performance by Oasis, a popular international dance group at UNC, and a presentation by two members of the S4Si executive board who traveled to Zanzibar last summer to select the current Scholars. There will also be an address by keynote speaker Mr. Derreck Kayongo, an Advocacy Coordinator for CARE International.
The doors will open at 7:00 p.m. and dinner will begin at 7:30 p.m. The event will be catered by Palace International, a Durham restaurant featuring fine East African cuisine. The Auction includes items from around the world and around the Triangle. All proceeds will benefit the S4Si Scholars.
Dress is cocktail attire.
For additional information and to purchase tickets to the Auction please visit:
http://www.s4siunc.org/get_involved/auction_for_education
The mission of S4Si is to create educational opportunities for high-achieving students in the developing world, with the belief that education is essential to community leadership and a country’s development. We are a university-based, nonprofit organization that provides these opportunities through collaboration with the local communities of our Scholars.
When a girl in the developing world has received seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children.