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Fundraising mailing for the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO). Many young black South Africans fled the brutal oppression that followed the Soweto uprising in 1976 and went to Tanzania, itself e poor developing country in southeast Africa. The government of Tanzania offered an extensive tract of land as a site for a refugee camp. This camp became a school to educate fleeing young South Africans so that a core of black South Africans are ready and trained to participate in various agencies of government, industry, and commerce once apartheid is finally abolished. With help from UNESCO and a number of Western European countries - particularly Scandinavia, Great Britain, and Germany - the students themselves built what is now the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, named after a young man executed by the South African government in 1979. The mailing says the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College has approximately 1,000 students and urgently needs material aid and funds; every day more and more young people come to the school as the repression and strife grow in South Africa. The mailing includes a list of needed items. Our goal is to raise $25,000 in funds and material aid by August, 1988.

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[Dear Friends: We would like to take a minute of your time to tell you about a very unusual refugee camp]

LIST OF ITEMS NEEDED URGENTLY

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