DarfurFast!

ANYONE, IN ANY PLACE, CAN PARTICIPATE IN DARFURFAST!!!

DarfurFast is a fundraiser for people in Darfur sponsored by STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition.

On December 5th, students around the world will ask their peers, families, and communities to join them in DarfurFast – an event that asks participants to fast from one item for the day and donate the money that they would have spent on those items to protecting civilians in Darfur.Three dollars– less than the cost of a latte at Starbucks – is enough to fund protection for one woman for one year.

As the situation in Darfur worsens and more people are forced into IDP camps, firewood near the camps grows increasingly scarce. Every day, women and girls are forced to wander further into the desert in search of firewood for cooking, exposing them to rape and attack from waiting militias.

GI-Net's Civilian Protection Program, the only program of its kind in Darfur, works with Darfuri community leaders, displaced women and girls, the African Union, and the UN to protect the women living in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps.
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DONATE TO PROTECT CIVILIANS IN DARFUR AT
http://www.standnow.org/darfurfast/donate
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The program offers safer cooking options by providing alternative-fuel stoves, guarded firewood patrols, and incoming-generating projects for women so that they can afford to buy firewood instead of having to gather it.

While most humanitarian aid organizations have been forced to pull out of Darfur due to increasing instability, GI-Net’s Civilian Protection Program ensures the protection of the brave women and girls as they try to provide cooking supplies for their families.
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Just three dollars can fund the protection of one Darfuri woman from rape and attack.
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In the past three years, STAND’s DarfurFast has raised more than $400,000 for civilian protection in Darfur. This year, we intend to raise even more. This holiday season, students will bring DarfurFast home to their families and communities and ask them to join in solidarity for Darfur by pledging to participate in DarfurFast.

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Learn how YOU can participate in DarfurFast by visiting STAND’s website, http://www.standnow.org

or EMAIL darfurfast@standnow.org to ask questions!

DONATIONS CAN BE MADE ONLINE HERE: http://www.standnow.org/darfurfast/donate