July 7, 2003—National Campus Life Network (NCLN) is pleased to announce the start of an aggressive summer outreach program aimed at establishing more university campus pro-life clubs made possible by a $6,500 special project grant from Toronto Right to Life.

This grant will enable NCLN Executive Director Elaine Barber to pursue the following projects throughout the summer:
• Establish strong provincial representatives who are equipped and trained to provide campus groups in their province with resources, materials and strategy seminars.
• Print the “Right to Know Booklet” which summarizes the pro-life position in an intellectually honest way appealing to the academic secular university student.
• Expand Campus Kit resources to include professionally printed brochure and banner for each campus club.
• Create a new website that is more useful and efficient for students to network with each other and get valuable information.

“Toronto Right to Life has always been very supportive of our work and we are very grateful to them,” commented Elaine. “They recognize the importance of campus pro-life activity and have done all they can to help us build campus groups not only in the Toronto area but throughout the country.”

“This grant will enable us to train provincial representatives,” commented NCLN financial advisor Alex Cassar, “but we still need support from the pro-life community across Canada to donate resources to ensure our provincial representatives will be able to do their work.”

The Purpose of NCLN: to support and unify life advocacy groups on Canada’s post-secondary campuses.
Why is this important? The university campus is often the place where the very ideas that oppose life and the family take root. If left uncontested we can hardly be surprised when these attitudes and ideas become firmly planted in our future doctors, lawyers, mothers, fathers and families. Indeed, statistics tell us that the very women who are most likely to have abortions are those in the post-secondary age range, 18-24. NCLN works with pro-life students across Canada to challenge these ideas and seeks to build a culture that recognizes the true dignity of the human person.

For more information about NCLN and its summer promotional efforts please contact Executive Director Elaine Barber at 416-483-7869 or e-mail director@ncln.ca