The Suitcase Clinic is pleased to announce the following items are up for auction at our first annual Benefit Dinner:
The Benefit Dinner is on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at the historic Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Downtown Berkeley. We would like to thank all of the organizations for generously donating the silent auction items!
What: 2010 Berkeley Poverty & Homelessness Symposium
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010
When: 4 – 8 pm (Food will be served)
Where: Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Student Union
Event: povertysymposium.berkeley.edu
In an effort to promote awareness of poverty among students and other members of the community, the Suitcase Clinic, Cal Habitat, and Cal Corps Public Service Center are hosting a poverty alleviation conference on April 11th from 4 to 8 PM in UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom. The goal of this event is to not only provide more insight into the issues that cause and perpetuate poverty, but also to empower individuals with opportunities to make poverty more manageable in society.
Key-note speakers include:
Osha Neumann, a lawyer for the homeless at East Bay Community Law Center as well as an artist from the Albany Bulb, Elisabeth Wilson MD, MPH of UCSF Family and Community Medicine and program director of PRIME-US, Kriss Worthington, a Berkeley City Council Member.
In addition, a panel comprising of members of the homeless community and experts on topics concerning poverty will discuss the issues of representation, education, healthcare, and housing and their effects on the homeless population. An art gallery will be a large part of our program as well, and various student groups, organizations, and homeless people will provide art that pertains to homelessness. Last but not least, we welcome and encourage the students, faculty and staff of UC Berkeley and other campuses, members of the homeless community, and members of the entire Berkeley community to attend the event. It will introduce channels for the community to get involved in ameliorating the problems faced by homeless and low income individuals and families.
