PELLA — Dominic Diing, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, will be on Central College’s campus Thursday-Friday, Oct. 29-30. He will give a speech about building hopes, inspiring futures and transforming lives to better life Thursday, Oct. 29, in Cox-Snow Recital Hall at 7 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public. In addition to speaking Thursday, Diing will have lunch with students Friday, Oct. 30, and visit classes.
Diing is founder and president of Aid and Care Inc., a non-profit organization established to help and improve the lives of those poorest Africans living in areas affected by war and natural disasters. Aid and Care fights poverty through programs providing education and medical provisions and seeks to help survivors of wars in Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Diing wanted to come to Central’s campus and speak to students and thank them for their work last fall.
Last year, two Intersections classes taught by Russ Goodman, associate professor of mathematics, and Mark Mills, associate professor of mathematics, were moved by the common reading book for Intersections, a required class at Central for first-year students. In 2008, the Intersections classes read A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, a book about how author Ishmael Beah survived the war in Sierra Leone. Goodman’s students held a rummage sale to raise money for a group from Aid and Care Inc. that traveled to Africa last winter to bring aid to struggling villages. Students in Mills’ class held a redeemable can drive and sent the collected money to Aid and Care.
