Change for Change raises cash, awareness for 'Troubled Detroit'
Halston Herrera
Issue date: 4/17/07 Section: News
The University of Michigan-Dearborn's Change for Change organization has closed out the semester with educational presentations and fundraising competitions.
On April 2, the organization arranged a discussion titled "Troubled Detroit." The event was sponsored by the Student Organization Advisory Committee, Amnesty International, the Professional Health Society and the Bioethics Society.
The organization CATCH has been the featured recipient of all fundraising efforts through the organization.
Founded by former Detroit Tiger's manager Sparky Anderson, CATCH contributes to the improvement of life for pediatric patients at Children's Hospital of Michigan and Henry Ford Hospital.
Student Abdullateef "Muhi" Muhiuddin acted as emcee for the program. A photograph slideshow set to music displayed images of Detroit's economic, political and segregated systems.
UM-D Professor Ahmad Rahman gave the historical and political struggles Detroit has endured over several years.
"The issue is not simply black and white. There is complexity in the world. No one is all racist, no one is all liberal," said Rahman.
Rahman elaborated on the economic struggle caused by "white flight" from Detroit. The difference he said is that while other cities were merely experience a loss of white population, it was the white business population leaving that hurt Detroit the most.
Dr. Teresa Holtrop of the CATCH Pediatric Mobile team lectured next, on health concerns in the city.
"I view Detroit as a place with tremendous challenges, but also tremendous opportunities," Holtrop said.
She also elaborated on lead poisoning statistics in Detroit. The decreasing population of the city leads to less housing demand. This in turn leads to more vacancy and decay in old houses within in the city that release lead poisoning into the environment.
"Lead poisoning involves so many sectors of society. It is not only a health concern," Holtrop said.
On April 2, the organization arranged a discussion titled "Troubled Detroit." The event was sponsored by the Student Organization Advisory Committee, Amnesty International, the Professional Health Society and the Bioethics Society.
The organization CATCH has been the featured recipient of all fundraising efforts through the organization.
Founded by former Detroit Tiger's manager Sparky Anderson, CATCH contributes to the improvement of life for pediatric patients at Children's Hospital of Michigan and Henry Ford Hospital.
Student Abdullateef "Muhi" Muhiuddin acted as emcee for the program. A photograph slideshow set to music displayed images of Detroit's economic, political and segregated systems.
UM-D Professor Ahmad Rahman gave the historical and political struggles Detroit has endured over several years.
"The issue is not simply black and white. There is complexity in the world. No one is all racist, no one is all liberal," said Rahman.
Rahman elaborated on the economic struggle caused by "white flight" from Detroit. The difference he said is that while other cities were merely experience a loss of white population, it was the white business population leaving that hurt Detroit the most.
Dr. Teresa Holtrop of the CATCH Pediatric Mobile team lectured next, on health concerns in the city.
"I view Detroit as a place with tremendous challenges, but also tremendous opportunities," Holtrop said.
She also elaborated on lead poisoning statistics in Detroit. The decreasing population of the city leads to less housing demand. This in turn leads to more vacancy and decay in old houses within in the city that release lead poisoning into the environment.
"Lead poisoning involves so many sectors of society. It is not only a health concern," Holtrop said.
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