Calvin Grad to Attend G8 Summit

June 29, 2005 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Jason Fileta, a May 2005 graduate of Calvin College, has been selected by the
ONE Campaign as a member of a 100-person delegation to meetings surrounding the
G8 Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Fileta, a Wheaton, Ill., native who studied sociology and third-world
development at Calvin, will be one of 25 Bread for the World representatives
attending the ONE Campaign's Edinburgh events, educating attendees about issues
of global hunger and disease and world poverty.

The ONE Campaign is a collaborative effort between faith-based and nonprofit
organizations - Bread for the World, CARE, DATA, International Medical Corps,
International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Oxfam America, Plan USA, Save the
Children US, World Concern and World Vision among them - to influence leaders
in the world's richest countries to combat hunger and poverty in the world's
poorest countries.

The campaign focuses around this year's G8 Summit, hosted by Britain's Prime
Minister Tony Blair, July 6-9 at Gleneagles in Scotland, which brings together
leaders of the world's industrial democracies - the USA; Canada; Great Britain;
France; Germany; Italy; Japan and Russia - to negotiate aid packages and other
solutions to global poverty, hunger and disease.

One of several leaders of Calvin's Social Justice Coalition (SJC), Fileta
targeted world hunger as his issue and organized several events to raising
awareness about it.

Fileta will begin his work as a ONE Campaign delegate on July 2 by attending
Philadelphia's Live 8 concert, one of ten concerts to be staged worldwide and
tied to the campaign. He will then head to Scotland for the G8 Summit.

After his return from Scotland, he will begin working as a field organizer for
the Christian Reformed Church's office of social justice and hunger action,
establishing social justice coalitions at colleges all over the country.

For the full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2004_05/fileta.htm

Contact Fileta at jason.alfonse.fileta@gmail.com or 630-690-8406

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Received on Wed Jun 29 10:50:24 2005