Stop Genocide Now activists head to Africa along with Dream for Darfur in hopes of helping refugees:
Stop Genocide Now representatives, Gabriel Stauring and Katie-Jay Scott return to Eastern Chad, Africa as a part of the Dream for Darfur Olympics program. Stauring and Scott will not only visit refugee camps in an effort to bring attention to the genocide in Darfur, but also to urge China, the host of the 2008 Summer Olympics, to use its political power to instill a full protection force in Darfur, by persuading the Sudanese government to abide by UN Resolution 1769.
Furthermore, Stauring and Scott’s return to Africa will again ignite Stop Genocide’s sixth installment of their interactive-activism program i-ACT6. On August 1, 2008, i-ACT6 will again connect individuals in the United States with the faces, names, and lives of Darfur refugees who escaped the genocide in their homeland, through the Stop Genocide Now website. Daily video and journal posts from Stauring and Scott will be posted to the website directly from refugee camps in Chad, enabling i-ACT participants to connect with those in Africa and Stop Genocide Now activists.
“We want to continue putting a face to the numbers and allowing the voices of the victims to be heard,” said Stop Genocide Now founder Gabriel Stauring.
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