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Clay Project Records
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The Princeton Clay Project is an initiative launched in January of 2016 by two first-year undergraduate students, Avigail Gilad and Chiara Ficarelli, to raise funds and awareness for the Amal Scholarship Fund, which awards scholarships for Syrian refugees at the Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan to attend college. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Jordanian government established the camp in 2012 to receive refugees fleeing the Syrian Civil War, whose numbers soon exceeded tens of thousands. The goal of the fund, and by extension the Clay Project, is to sponsor the four-year cost for Syrian students to attend Al al-Bayt University outside of Mafraq, Jordan.
In its first semester, the Clay Project collaborated closely with several other campus and local organizations, including the Princeton Refugee Project, the Nassau Presbyterian Church, and the Muslim Students Association. Among other events in its inaugural semester, the Clay Project organized a mug-making marathon, a 2.5 mile walk, and co-sponsored a screening of the documentary film Salam Neighbor.
The Clay Project Records document the initiative's first semester of fundraising activities for the Amal Scholarship Fund. The collection consists primarily of photographs and flyers of the initiative's mug-making marathon, its 2.5 mile walk, and its screening and discussion of the film Salam Neighbor. Also included are screenshots of the group's website and other promotional materials. The collection contains records were used by the general public (posters, newspapers and facebook page) and by the board (project outlines); comprised of 10 photographs (digital), 5 screenshots of online records, 4 electronic versions of posters, 5 scans of newspaper articles.
The collection, which arrived without any arrangement, is arranged into five series.
The records were transferred to the University Archives in April of 2016 as part of the Archiving Student Activism at Princeton (ASAP) initiative (AR.2016.021).
This collection was processed by Jarrett M. Drake in 2016. Finding aid written by Jarrett M. Drake in 2016.
No materials were separated from this collection.
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- University Archives
- Finding Aid Date
- 2016
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Collection Inventory
Contains flyer, map of route, and photographs of the Clay Project's walk and fundraiser held on April 2, 2016. The event was co-organized by the Nassau Presbyterian Church, the Center for Jewish Life, and the Pace Center for Civic Engagement.
The files remain in their original order.
Physical Description4 digital files
The files remain in their original order.
This folder contains photographs and flyers of the Clay Project's first event, a mug-making marathon hosted on March 26, 2016, at the Wilson Ceramic Studio, an event that resulted in the creation of over 100 ceramic mugs to be sold to raise money for the Amal Scholarship Fund.
Physical Description8 digital files
The files remain in their original order.
Contains pictures of an article about the project published on April 8, 2016, in the Daily Princetonian.
Physical Description4 digital files
The files remain in their original order.
Contains materials pertaining to a film screening and discussion of Salam Neighbor, hosted April 7, 2016, and yoga event, hosted April 30, 2016.
Physical Description3 digital files
The files remain in their original order.
Contains screenshots of the Project's websites, logo, events calendar, and initial outline of projects.
Physical Description7 digital files