Saturday, May 30, 2009

What you can do to help.

There are so many different ways to help in the fight. GI-NET is a group that aims to get people involved in the fight to stop the genocide that is occurring in the world. They have a lot of programs to help get civilians involved. They have Stand which is a student club for High School and College students and they have over 800 chapters. As a whole they aim to "unite students around the world in a permanent anti-genocide constituency." They organize groups and and educate them about genocide, advocate to elected officials, and they fundraise. In 2004 they raised over $650,000 for the Genocide Intervention Network’s Civilian Protection Program in Darfur.

The GI-NET also has a hotline and a website where you can look up legislators in your area to complain about their lack of effort on the struggle in Darfur. The site evens goes as far enough to tell you exactly what steps you need to take to get the word out. Darfur Scorecard is really serious about the problems in Darfur [not like other organizations aren't] but they pulled out all of the reasons people might give as excuses to not do anything. I like this website because they give information for every possible way to tell your legislators.

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