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SMILE AGAIN Fashion Show

Albany Campus Ambassadors partnered with Smile Again to produce a charity fashion show and Designer Quieesha Burns to benefit the survivors of the Gatumba genocide in Central Africa where over 150 people were killed in a little over an hour. The goal of this fundraiser is to return the smiles to the faces of the survivors of the genocide. ​

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During the night of August 13, 2004, in a refugee camp in Burundi, Africa called Gatumba, hundreds of victims from the Democratic Republic of Congo were mercilessly slaughtered by armed factions. 166 were killed and 116 others were maimed and injured. Families were traumatized and almost all of those murdered and injured were of the “Banyamulenge Tribe”. Prior to the genocide, this tribe had been forced from their homes in the southern Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The conflicts are continuing today in southern Kivu where women and girls are being raped and assaulted and others are still being murdered..

 

 

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Quieesha Burns knew she could increase the impact of $100 with her creativity and talents.

 

Burns, 21, is a Henninger graduate studying business and fashion at Cazenovia College.

 

What would you do with $100? Forty four students in Mercy Works' Synergy program were each given $100 to benefit someone else. Karysa Humphrey, of Auburn, talks about how she spent her money. Watch video

 

 

Burns searched the Internet for programs that provide clothing to women. She found one — Dress a Girl Around the World, a program of Hope 4 Kids International. Dress a Girl encourages people to make dresses to donate to needy girls and women.

 

Burns designed a dress pattern and made three dresses from it. She also made a fourth from a pattern she already had. Four Young women in the Synergy program modeled the dresses Burns had made. She spent more than the $100 on material, but felt good about the outcome, she said.

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