Mekedm

Heartland Alliance's Youth Leadership Network is a youth-led program that brings refugee youth and their American peers together for leadership training, community service projects, and peer-to-peer impactor workshops, in order to build friendships, cross-cultural understanding and respect. The mission of the Youth Leadership Network is to discuss issues in our community, be active and give back to our community, to form new friendships in our community, and to advocate within and beyond our community, while having fun.

Featured in the Fall 2008 edition of Heartland Alliance News

• Download an MP3 audio file of the story of Mekedm, a refugee youth and one of the "lost boys" of Sudan

Chris Connelly

Musician Chris Connelly has spent the past two decades playing with many of the groundbreaking bands in punk and industrial music, including Ministry. His newest work features introspective music and poetry that reflect on war and the world's refugees. Proceeds from his latest CD, Forgiveness and Exile, to be released this fall, will benefit the Marjorie Kovler Center.

Featured in the Fall 2008 edition of Heartland Alliance News.
(www.chrisconnelly.com)

• Download an MP3 audio file from Chris Connelly