How Students can be Advocates and make a Difference

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• How Students can be Advocates and make a
  Difference

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Whats really happeningin Darfur?
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Darfur Underlying Tensions and Dispelling Myths

• myth The crisis in Darfur is an Arab v. African
  conflict.
• fact Identity was more fluid before the
  conflict differences have since become
  exaggerated.
• myth Its a conflict over water resources.
• fact Drought and desertification exasperated
  tensions between herders and farmers.
• myth Its nothing more than a tribal conflict.
• fact Darfuri rebels are dissatisfied with
  the government due to Darfurs geographic,
  political, economic isolation.

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The Actors

• Government of Sudan led by President al-Bashir
• Janjaweed Militias supported by Government of
  Sudan
• Rebel Forces multiple and fractious, oppose
  Government of Sudan and Janjaweed militias
• Civilians
• as many as 2.5 million displaced
• up to 400,000 killed
• International Community
• international organizations United Nations,
  African Union
• proponents of intervention US, UK, France,
  several EU members
• reluctant states China, Russia, South Africa
• NGOs
• Advocacy groups (Save Darfur Coalition, Genocide
  Intervention Network, ICG)
• Humanitarian groups (Oxfam, RI, IRC)
• Human rights organizations (Amnesty
  International, HRW)

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Whats happening now in Darfur?

• An estimated 500 people are killed each day
• As many as 400,000 have been murdered since
  2003.
• An estimated 2.5 million people have been
  displaced.
• The largest refugee population in the world is
  found in Darfur.

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What ifour generation united to make a
difference?
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What if

• students used online social networks to
  organize their schools and a national fundraising
  effort to stop the genocide?

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Dollars for Darfur National School Challenge

• Visit the official Dollars for Darfur website to
  donate or to start your own fundraising campaign
  http//www.savedarfur.org/dollarsfordarfur
• Dollars for Darfur group pages Facebook and
  MySpace
• Ask friends from other schools to set up a
  fundraising page and join Dollars for Darfur
  groups

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Heres the Challenge!
Last Year
This Year

• Goal 200,000
• Students raised 306,000!
• 2,000 schools registered on the Dollars for
  Darfur website

• Goal 375,000
• Lets get 2,500 schools involved!
• Insert name of your school Goal Raise the most
  out of all the schools!

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Where does the money go?

• 50 humanitarian aid organization
• 50 Save Darfur Coalition for media outreach,
  public education, targeted coalition building and
  grassroots mobilization.

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Examples of what aid to Darfur can provide

• 35 Two high-energy meals a day to 200 children
• 50 Vaccinations for 50 people against
  meningitis, measles, polio or other deadly
  epidemics
• 70 Two basic suture kits to repair minor
  shrapnel wounds
• 100 Infection-fighting antibiotics to treat
  nearly 40 wounded children
• 250 A sterilization kit for syringes and
  needles used in mobile vaccination campaigns
• 500 A medical kit containing basic drugs,
  supplies, equipment, and dressings to treat 1,500
  patients for three months
• 1000 Emergency medical supplies to aid 5,000
  disaster victims for an entire month
• 5500 An emergency health kit to care for
  10,000 displaced people for three months

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Advocacy and Awareness Efforts

• Humanitarian aid and support is crucial
• Reforming policies through advocacy efforts is
  critical to solving the problem
• Save Darfur Coalition (SDC) has worked to bring
  attention to the crisis in Darfur through
  lobbying action and media outreach

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• "Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be
  great you can be that generation."- Nelson
  Mandela

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• For more information and to be involved visit
  http//www.savedarfur.org/dollarsfordarfur

www.savedarfur.org