COA Presents...
COA Second Annual Benefit Dinner
United to Heal: Working together Towards Global Health Solutions, Sunday March 8, 2009
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Students recognized for leadership
By Jillian Bogater (The University Record Online)
While addressing the Campus Political Leadership Luncheon, President Mary Sue Coleman recounted a recent fireside chat in which she met a student involved in the student organization Children of Abraham.
"It was powerful to hear his story," Coleman said of how the students, despite their differing faiths, worked together to gather medical supplies for people in developing nations. "It illustrates the power of what we can create at the University of Michigan." ...Read More
New Home, We’re All Moved In!
OUR NEW HOME:
Children of Abraham officially has a new warehouse! The building will serve both as a sorting platform and as a storage unit for hundreds of boxes of medical supplies. Most importantly, we will begin sorting as soon as possible! Tentatively, sorting sessions will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings.
The move-in took 20 volunteers nearly 5 hours and three trips with an 18’ truck to move all the boxes. Thank you to everyone who donated their time and energy to the move-in!
General members should expect e-mail updates concerning upcoming sorting events. If you are looking to get involved with COA, please contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Noha Moustafa, about getting on the e-mail list at mnoha@umich.edu...Read More
COA in the News!
Interfaith Group Aids African Doctors
By: Alice Rhein, Ann Arbor News Special Writer
When 19-year-old Egyptian native Moustafa Moustafa sets his mind to something, he gets it done. That’s how the Ann Arbor chapter of the Children of Abraham began.
Moustafa, who moved with his parents to Grand Rapids when he was 8, decided that he wanted to expand the interfaith service organization that a mosque and a Methodist church had started in Indiana.
This month, the Ann Arbor group of nearly 30 volunteers shipped its first 40-foot container of medical supplies to Tanzania...Read More