The funeral service for Akilah Amapindi, Class of 2004, will take place on Saturday, August 13, at 2:00 p.m. at the Martin Street Church of God, 148 Glenwood Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. Directions to the church are available at the church's Web site, http://www.mstcog.org. The church's phone number is 404-688-8545.

Akilah, 23, died in Atlanta on Sunday while attending the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). A sociology major at Kenyon, she had worked as a radio reporter in Namibia, southwestern Africa, where she apparently contracted malaria and a parasitic infection, according to news reports.

NABJ has established a fund to help Akilah's family cover medical costs and other expenses, and the organization may establish a scholarship in her name. Donations may be sent to: National Association of Black Journalists, Akilah Amapindi/Student Memorial Fund, 8701-A Adelphi Road, Adelphi, MD 20783. Checks should be made out to the National Association of Black Journalists or NABJ, and on the memo line donors should write "Akilah Amapindi/Student Memorial Fund."

At Kenyon, Zeta Alpha Pi, the service sorority that Akilah helped to found, will be establishing a memorial fund when school resumes later this month, according to Grace Twesigye, Class of 2006, the group's vice president. The student affairs staff is discussing plans for a memorial service on campus.

Messages of condolence may be sent to Akilah's mother, Unnah Harper, at 117 Regis Drive, Staten Island, NY 10314.