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Save Darfur

The Save Darfur Coalition's mission is to raise public awareness about the ongoing genocide in Darfur and to mobilize a unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region.

Background

Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years.  At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter.

The Bush Administration has recognized these atrocities – carried out against civilians primarily by the government of Sudan and its allied Janjaweed militias – as genocide.  António Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has described the situation in Sudan and Chad as “the largest and most complex humanitarian problem on the globe.”  The Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militias are responsible for the burning and destruction of hundreds of rural villages, the killing of tens of thousands of people and rape and assault of thousands of women and girls.

FOR MORE ABOUT DARFUR: www.savedarfur.org

 

 

 

Tab Tops for Ronald McDonald House!

All Proceeds from recycling the Tab Tops will benefit the three Ronald McDonald Houses in St. Louis.  Approximately 1,267 tab tops make one pound, it all adds up!  Last year alone, friends of the Ronald McDonald House organization collected over 24,000 pounds of tab tops, raising over $12,000 to cover some of the costs associated with providing a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children recieving treatment in St. Louis. 

For more information on the TAB TOP PANDEMONIUM, go to: http://www.rmhcstl.com/events/tab_tops/index.php