Teachers for Darfur

Positive Action on Darfur from Brown and Sarkozy

2007-07-20T03:51:00.000-07:00

Check out this article from the Guardian, Friday 20 July.

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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2131165,00.html

Genocide - Never Again by Sally Holt

2007-07-09T13:36:00.000-07:00

In 2006 a group of year 10 students from West Bridgford School, Nottingham visited the Holocaust memorial centre in north Nottinghamshire. As part of the visit we were given the opportunity to place a pebble in remembrance of the millions who died in the Holocaust. As we placed those pebbles and thought of the message we were being given; ‘Genocide – never again’ we felt that we needed to do more than just say the words. It was from this point that our view was shared by other past pupils who were already attempting some fundraising for the region of Darfur.

Since then we’ve raised awareness as well as funds in a range of ways including, assemblies to our peers, non-uniform days and cake sales and have also established links with a school in Rwanda, forging close connections with these pupils via the Pen-Pal scheme.

We’ve been hugely fortunate to have fantastic support in the form of one of our teachers; Ms D’Arcy who has visited the school in Rwanda and helped us immensely in our efforts.

As we progress into Sixth Form we want to set higher targets and reach out to more people in our efforts to help both Darfur and Rwanda with our message; Genocide anywhere is unacceptable and nobody can look the other way and allow this to happen. Genocide – never again.

One of our biggest projects to date has been building a house for a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda, Anne-Marie and her son Patrick who touched Ms D'Arcy's heart during her stay in Rwanda. We needed to raise £10,000 and along from various other students we managed to the rise to the challenge and the grand total given was £12,000!

Anne-Marie has recently moved into her new home. It was such a great moment to see all the funds we raised being used for something which meant so much to someone and we know how much this will improve Anne-Marie's quality of life. This project has given us the ideas and contacts for many other projects and we're hoping to be involved in some new, large scale projects in the near future which we're all very excited about.

DARFUR: WILL HISTORY FORGIVE US?

2007-05-31T02:24:00.000-07:00

A briefing on the political and humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan.

200,000 killed, millions displaced.

There is something you can do.

The briefing will include ideas and resources that teachers can use with students.

Speakers: Stephen Twigg (Director, Foreign Policy Centre); Jo Leadbetter (Oxfam); Ishmael Jarbo (from Darfur);

Mari Williams / David Fisher (Teachers for Darfur), Mark Rusling (Young Fabians).

Monday June 25 6.30pm
House of Commons Committee Room 8

RSVP: markrusling@hotmail.com

Please arrive in good time to pass through House of Commons security

Presented by Teachers for Darfur, Young Fabians, and the Aegis Trust

teachersfordarfur.blogspot.com www.youngfabians.org.uk www.aegistrust.org

Teachers for Darfur Briefing

2007-05-17T15:47:00.000-07:00

Date for your diary:

Monday June 25th
House of Commons
6.30pm
Stephen Twigg
Jo Leadbetter (Oxfam)

2007-05-17T14:22:00.000-07:00

LEARN ABOUT DARFUR

Talk at Hampstead Theatre Sunday 20 May at 8pm

£10 (concessions available)

Hear Ruth Messinger, Dr Mukesh Kapila, Stephen Twigg, and Clive Lawton speak about what's happening and get more concrete ideas on what you can do.

To book call Hampstead Theatre 020 7722 9301

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Act for Darfur

2007-05-17T14:00:00.000-07:00

COME TO THIS FREE EVENT IN HALF TERM

Act for Darfur - Tomorrow Is Too Late

Includes guest speaker Jonathan Freedland and workshop designed for educators

8.00pm-9.30pm Wednesday 30 May

The Hampstead Synagogue, Dennington Park Road, London NW6 1AX

BOOK actfordarfur@wjr.org.uk

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Near West Hampstead Jubilee Line, National Rail and Silverlink services

Buses 328, 139, C11. Limited Parking

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