Letter Writing Campaign

SRR decided to postpone the support group (see last post) until the beginning of next semester. We did not have enough responses this this time, due to lack of timing for preparedness on our part, and it's also approaching finals time when UBC students refrain from all activities other than studying! The support groups will start up in September and we look forward to having a successful semester of support.

We still had the room booked, so we decided to have a last minute letter writing campaign about Stephen Harper's maternal health initiative for the G8 summit. We read some articles, including this one explaining Hillary Clinton's response to Harper's abhorrent decision not to include family planning in his initiative: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/03/30/clinton-contraception.html. After a discussion, we got to work writing individual letters to Harper. It was a successful and enjoyable event. Here is a photo of our finished letters, about to be sent off!