Rebuilding Hope: A Documentary About Southern Sudan | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Rebuilding Hope is a riveting and moving portrait..Jen Marlowe provides an essential, human window into the fagility of Sudan’s southern peace.” Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch.

One of the speakers is Samuel Garang Akau, a refugee from Southern Sudan, was resettled in the U.S. at age 19. Akau is a 2006 graduate from Stanford University and co-founder and director of New Scholars, a start-up NGO developing youth entrepreneurs and leaders, currently focused on Southern Sudan and Kenya.

This special San Francisco evening will include Speakers:
Samuel Garang Akau, a refugee from Southern Sudan, was resettled in the U.S. at age 19. Akau is a 2006 graduate from Stanford University and co-founder and director of New Scholars, a start-up NGO developing youth entrepreneurs and leaders, currently focused on Southern Sudan and Kenya.

Mohamed Suleiman is a Darfuri. His village, Umbarow, was burned and destroyed by the Goverment of Sudan and Janjaweed. Suleiman lost members of his family in the Darfur genocide; his mother and siblings still reside in Darfur. Suleiman is President of the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition.

Date: Sunday | August 1, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Free Event
Location: Russian Center
2460 Sutter St, between Divisadero & Broderick
San Francisco

RSVP or for more information: email: info@darfursf.org | phone: 415.221.8400

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.