Youth Action International YAI Events

Youth Action International (YAI) at Amherst College and Mount Holyoke College has invited Kimmie Weeks '05 and Sarorng Sorn to give a talk on Monday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall (Fayerweather 115). "Children and War" will focus on the effects of war on the lives of children. Kimmie Weeks was a child during the Liberian Civil War; at Amherst, he founded YAI, a global non-profit working to develop and implement programs to help alleviate the suffering of children affected by war or living in difficult conditions. Sarorng Sorn was seven during the Cambodian genocide; now a graduate student at UPenn, she is the director of programs of the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia (CAGP). For more info, contact Seguin Strohmeier at sstrohmeier10@amherst.edu or Trevor Lewis at tlewis10@amherst.edu.