The Second Annual AFRECS Conference was held at the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, CA, on President's Day weekend, February 17-19, 2006. The conference began with a dinner on Friday, February 17, at 5:00 p.m. The official program began at 7:00 p.m. that evening. The conference ended after the Sunday worship service at St. Andrew's Saratoga.
Follow the links below to learn more about the meeting and its workshops.
Conference Invitation from the AFRECS President and Executive Director
Sermon by the Rev. Andrew Klatte delivered at the close of the conference
Conference Follow-up:
One of the conference workshops at this year's conference was on Diaspora
skills transfer for South Sudan. It was presented by John Majok of
the Academy for Educational Development (AED). The Diaspora Skills
Program is a pilot project being implemented by the AED (www.aed.org)
and under contract with the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID).
John Majok would like to encourage all who are interested in the
Diaspora Program to visit its
website at
http://cit.aed.org/forcast_sudan.
To be considered for volunteer opportunities, please register and
submit your credentials to the Sudanese North American Diaspora Database
(SNADD) at www.snadd.org.
AFRECS Conference in the News:
February 20, 2006: American Friends of Sudan Meet, The Living Church Foundation
February 21, 2006: AFRECS Press Release
If you need more information about the conference, please contact us at
info@afrecs.org.