Things You Can Do

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1) Learn more about Darfur and What is Happening There:

(Go to any one of the following links)

• Save Darfur (for general information)
  
• UNICEFUSA (multimedia presentation on the genocide)
• USHMM (Google Earth Satelite Images of Destruction)
• PBS (Child Survivor Drawings)

After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, U.S. Senator Paul Simon said “If every member of Congress had received 100 letters from people saying we have to do something, then I think it would have been different.”

You can send a letter to the following representatives by clicking on the following links. You might thank them for the support they have already given Darfur, and encourage them to do all they can to get 20,000 UN peacekeepers on the ground in Sudan.  (If you are under 18, please get parent approval before writing.)

Things you should include in your letter:

1. Thank them for what they have done so far for Darfur.
2. Encourage them to put pressure on the U.N. and China to put the 26,000 UN peacekeepers on the ground.
3. Tell them to push for finding the additional helicopters for that force.
4. And to continue to fund food relief efforts to keep the two million people who are living in refugee camps alive.

EMAIL INFORMATION:

• Contact Senator Clinton
• Contact Senator Schumer
• Contact Congressman Higgins
• Contact President Bush

US MAIL INFORMATION:

• Representative Brian Higgins
  431 Cannon House Office Building
  Washington, D.C. 20515

• Senator Hillary Clinton
  476 Senate Russell Office Building
  Washington, D.C. 20515

• Senator Charles Schumer
  313 Senate Hart Office Building
  Washington, D.C. 20515

There are several very reputable worldwide organizations helping over two million Darfurian refugees who have been forced out of their villages.  The United Nations has described this situation as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. A refugee camp in Chad Donations from the public have cut the malnutrition rates in half over the past year!  Every dollar counts.  Go to the following to learn how you can help:

• Doctors Without Borders in Sudan
  
• UNICEF in Darfur
• International Rescue Committee

Tell your friends, family, or church.  Write a letter to the editor of your local paper.

Springville Students for Darfur
267 Newman Street
Springville, NY 14141
716-592-3270, ext. 2305
Andrew Beiter, Advisor
abeiter@springvillegi.org

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