Pro-Life Student Groups Announce Winner of Pro-Life Activism Awards
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Human Life Alliance (HLA) and Students for Life of America (SFLA) announced the winners of the second annual Campus Impact Award last week.
Designed
to encourage students to develop pro-life activism on campus, this
year's award winners include clubs that sponsored a major first time
event and two unique African American student outreach projects.
"It was difficult to select a winner this year," stated
HLA Executive Director Jo Tolck. "Student clubs from around the
country worked on a variety of projects -- many faced great opposition.
We're proud of each and every one of them."
First Place: Northeastern University Right to Life (Boston, Massachusetts).
This newly created pro-life club hosted its first "Respect Life
Week" on campus. Among the many events designed to generate campus
wide discussion of life issues were a memorial of innocents, pro-life
pamphlet distribution, tabling and fetal model displays.
Second Place: Students for Life at Clarion University (Clarion, Pennsylvania).
Creation of a campus collation designed to explore the impact of abortion
on the African American community was the main outreach. Co-sponsoring
organizations included Minority Students Services, Brothers of Christ
and the local NAACP chapter. HLA's "Did You Know?" publication
was distributed to create an early demand for information, which culminated
in a screening and discussion of the pro-life documentary "Maafa21."
Third Place: Dukes for Life at James Madison University (Harrison,
Virginia). A unique approach to communications and advertisement allowed
Dukes for Life to develop a pro-life Facebook event for their campus.
Students used HLA materials to create pro-life campus bulletin boards
and posters to co-sponsor an event with the Student Black Alliance
to focus on the genocidal consequences of abortion in the African
American community.
SFLA Executive Director Kristan Hawkins said, "These students
for life clubs have worked hard to present a pro-life message on campus.
In many cases they must stand up to classmates and professors who
ridicule them and belittle their deeply held belief that all life
is worth protecting, including life in the womb."
Winners received cash prizes of $500, $250 and $250, respectively,
to develop ongoing pro-life efforts on campuses.
Umbert the Unborn: A Womb With A View –
Creative Approaches to Pro-Life Issues - Gary Cangemi
Finding the Path to Purity in a Polluted World
– Emily Parke Chase
Remembering Terri Schiavo: My Families’
Battle to Save My Sister’s Life – Bobby Schindler