12 — Friday, Ociover 8, 1999 ~

Outreach students Saw pove

HOW many of us have
experienced genuine
poverty?

A 1995 graduate of
Handsworth Secondary school
spent 12 weeks this summer liv-
ing and working alongside
some of the world’s poorest
people, learning first-hand haw
social and economic conditions

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Nortn Shore News

impact upon the health of a
cOMMEMOY,

Tasnin Nathoo, along, with
other members of the UBC
British = Columbia’s Global
Outreach Student Association
(GOSA), spent her summer
working on a health project in

the Guatemalan community of

Barcena.
With a

population of

70,000, the community is
largely supported by industry
in the tree made zones sur-
rounding Guatemala — City,
including 70 maquilas (gar-
ment factories). “The median
income of maquila workers is
$3 Cdn. a day, with the major-
ity of workers being women
and girls as voung as 10-years-
old. Abysmal working condi-

tions and long hours in the fae-
tories, combined with wide-
spread poverty, inadequate
garbage collzcuon and water
sanitation, and a high level of
pollution are responsible for
major health problems in che
community,

The students created and
implemented 2 series of sustain-
able health «programs — in

schools, worked with the local
public health dispensary to vac-
cinate over 1,200 women and
culdren against tetanus, nolio
and other diseases, and initiated
a garbage collection campaign
in the community.

They also participated in 3
campaign to improve the situa-
tion of imaquila workers
through seminars on workers”

’§ effects

rights, political advocacy, and
nutrition programs,

Nathoo will be at the Lynn
Valley branch of the Nortis
Vancouver District, Public
Library on Wednesday, Oct. 20
at 7:30 p.m. te present a slide-
ralk oon her experience in
Guater:ala, For more intorma-
ticn, please call. Ollivia
Anderson at 990-5805.

THE foltowing people
appeared in North
Vancouver court in
connection with
drinking and driving
related offences:

Audrey Marie Casper, 36,
of Norrh Vancouver, was
fined $500 and had her dri-
ver’s licence suspended for
12 months after she pleaded
guilty to impaired driving.

eoce

Jerry Mariin
Notenbomer, 32, of no fixed
address, was jailed 155 days
and had his driver’s licence
suspended for 18 months
after he pleaded guilty to:

& impaired driving on Ma

24, #41998 in Nort

Vancouver District;

4 possessing cocaine on
Sept. 20, 1998 in North
Vancouver City;

breaching probation by
consuming narcotics on
Nov. 9, 1998 in North
Vancouver City;

® failing to go to court on
May 5;

@ taking a vehicle without
the owncr’s consent on Sept.
2, 1997 in North Vancouver
City. ;

Bruce Sipkema, 30, of

Oakville, Ontario, was fined
$750, received 12 months’
probation and had his dri-
ver’s licence. suspended. for.

12 months after_he-pleaded--

guilty to impaired driving. -

lyon

by van a

A cyclist.was hit by a
van on Sept. 3¢ on
the Lyan. Valley an-
ramg of the Trass.
Canada Highway near
Boulevard Crescent.

The cyctist,:a 44-year-old
North Vancouver,.woman,
was taken to Lions: Gate
Hospital with an: apparent
jaw injury. 2

She had surgery the next
day, according to North
Vancouver RCMP Const.
Heidi Hoffman, =

Hoffman said the cyclist
does not remember the acci-
dent. The cyclist’s name was
not: released,

The dziver of the 1974
Volkswagen van, Howard
Allan Cook, 41, of North
Vancouver, was charged with
driving without due care and
attention and failing to
remain at an accident scence.

—~Anna Maric
D'Angelo

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