Care for Darfur

Please join us as we listen to a young Sudanese man, Adam Abakar, as he discusses his photographs taken during his harrowing journey in the trenches of the genocide that is happening right now in Darfur, Sudan.

Location: Chaminade High School, Media Center
7500 Chaminade Ave., West Hills, CA 91304

Date: Wednesday, June 25th

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Cost $10 general admission | $5 students
All added donations are welcome
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https://my.care.org/care/fundraising/cruzdenise-1100001

You can also purchase phone cards for him to call his family back in Sudan. It’s his only way to know if they are alive and well. He needs $10 African Dream or Gold Oro phone cards, which I think you can find at any 7-11 store.

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Proceeds go to CARE International, Darfur Relief

Sponsored by W.O.W. – Women On top of the World

Come meet Judy Bernstein, author of “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky,” a true account of Sudanese Lost Boys as they journeyed across Africa after witnessing the destruction of their towns and families. She is hosting Adam and will be selling books. Visit www.IRC.org for more info.

Special music performance by Ambe
Click here to visit ambemusic.com

Speaker’s Bio

Child of Darfur

I was born in 1980 in Sudan, in the southern part of Darfur. In 1999 I
went to Khartoum, the capital city of Sudan, as good education was not
available in Nyala. In 2002, I received my college diploma in computer
science. Early in 2002 I heard disturbing reports about things
happening in Darfur. I returned to Darfur and went to work for CARE
International as a translator working in the camps for internal
displaced persons (IDP Camps). While interviewing the people in the
camp, I came to realize exactly what was going on. I talked with some
of the IDPs myself just to learn the truth. I made it my personal
mission to document evidence of what is taking place in Darfur. I did
this secretly, without knowledge of anyone.

A year later I was offered a position as program assistant and
translator for Samaritan’s Purse, the first organization that was
working on the both sides of the lines between the rebels and the
Government of Sudan. We ran food distributions, water sanitation and
education projects. I was responsible for the education project and we
constructed more than 12 schools for children.

In January 2005 African Union Mission announced a vacancy for language
and communication assistant based in Elfasher, the African Union
headquarters, directly investigating the incidents of ethnic cleansing
by the government of Sudan. I worked for two years investigating the
genocide until I was caught by the government and had to flee.

Achievements: I have been involved with the student association of
Sudan to encourage education and the implementation of basic human
rights in some of the more deprived areas of Sudan. I worked to
encourage the IDP’s (internally displaced persons) to get their
freedom and rights and to fight against the marginalization of the
Darfurians and also to raise community aware of sexual exploitation in
the IDP camps. 1999 Sudanese national champion in table tennis.

Please watch this link. These kids are between 10 and 13 and were recently rounded up. 

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-38231

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Visit this website to follow their story as they head into Darfur and try to make a difference and help those in need.

The town of Abyei no longer exists. In a paper released today, ENOUGH consultant Roger Winter reports from the field about the attack by the Khartoum-controlled Sudanese Armed Forces in Abyei. The clash displaced the town’s entire civilian population and left its buildings in ashes. As this report goes to the press, the United States has not made a single public statement regarding Khartoum’s instigation of violence in Abyei, the resulting humanitarian emergency, the damage done to the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, or prospects for peace in Sudan.

“Abyei should matter to all who care about peace and democratic transformation in Sudan,” says report author Roger Winter. According to most Sudan experts, Abyei is a unique bellwether of war or peace between Khartoum and Sudan’s South. And now that direct combat between the military wings of the CPA signatories has occurred, the country faces a serious threat of a return to full-scale war through­out the country. The Bush administration and other interested parties must step up and make sure the international community is doing all it can to bring peace to all of Sudan.