GREENVILLE, PA. Thiel plans events for Earth Week

Some events will feature international musicians.
GREENVILLE, Pa. -- A speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will highlight the Earth Week program at Thiel College this month.
This year's event will focus on "Women and Children of the Earth," and some activities began last week. Kennedy will be on campus April 26.
A breakdown of upcoming activities includes:
UTuesday: Workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for hundreds of area grade-school pupils. They will learn about various customs, ways and struggles of women and children in different cultural contexts around the globe. Farooka Gauhari will speak at 7:30 p.m. on "Women's Role in Rebuilding Afghanistan" in the Lutheran Heritage Room, Howard Miller Student Center. She is the first Afghan woman to publish an English-language memoir, "Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey," her personal account of her gradual decision to take her family and leave a country where she had once been flagged as an American agent. Also, Ugandan musician and composer Samite will perform, "Music for Children of the Earth," at 9 p.m. in the Lutheran Heritage Room. His music merges traditional and contemporary music in a celebration of Ugandan culture. He is the founder of the nonprofit organization Musicians for World Harmony.
UWednesday: Arn Chorn-Pond, an internationally recognized human-rights activist, community organizer and musician who survived the Cambodian genocide, will speak on "Human Rights and Children of War" at 7:30 p.m. in the Lutheran Heritage Room. He spent four years in a labor camp and survived by playing the flute in a music ensemble created by Khymer Rouge leaders to play the regime's songs. His story is told in the Academy Award-winning documentary film "The Flute Player."
UApril 26: "Crimes Against Nature: Our Environmental Destiny" will be the theme of Kennedy's presentation at 7:30 p.m. in William A. Passavant Memorial Center. Kennedy, law professor and senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, is a prominent environmental attorney and an authority on the laws that have protected America's air, water, public lands and wildlife for the past 30 years.
All the events are free and open to the public.