Community Service

The issue that troubles me the most would have to be Darfur, in western Sudan. There are many different things happening that have to deal with Darfur. Some of the things that are going on that have to deal with Darfur would have to be the following: GENOCIDE, some of the worst human rights abuses imaginable, including systematic and widespread murder, rape, abduction and forced displacement in camps. There has been more than two million civilians that have been forced out of their homes. The Janjaweed Militia are the ones who are mainly at cause for the Genocide in Darfur. They are also the ones that are forcing the civilians out of their homes.
Darfur has been going on for four years. The conditions just continue to deteriorate. Again there has been two million civilians forced to leave their homes, and as many as 400,000 civilians killed. The civilians that were forced to leave their homes now live in camps for internally displaced person also known as (IDPs) that is spread throughout Darfur. Others are in refugee camps in Chad and in Central African Republic.
I graduated from El Dorado High School, and there was a small group who brought this to our high school. They did many different things to raise the awareness of the Genocide in Darfur. Some of the things that they did consisted the following: had fund-raisers, sold shirts, bracelets, and they had a presentation that the presented to the entire high school. It touched some of the that were working on it a lot. One of the girls that worked on it attends Butler, another one was an exchange student from Germany, she graduated with my class but then she had to go back home to Germany to continue two more years of high school. With Darfur being raised as a concern at my high school made me want to find out more information about it even though I was not involved then.
I believe that everyone should help to end this Genocide. It is horrific, we’ve got to do something. It is so wrong what they are doing to the innocent men, women and children. If you are interested in Darfur at all please let me know. Maybe we might be able to get a group started here at Butler.