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1 “One thing I know… The World has forgotten us.” -Amos Aguny Kur

2 Every day in the Sudan

3 In the region of Darfur

4 Villages are being destroyed

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10 As many as 2.5 million have fled their homes

11 Becoming refugees in their own country

12 400,000 have been killed

13 As the Janjaweed militia rapes and murders its own people

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18 Ethnic Cleansing

19 Genocide

20 Ryan Spencer Reed - Photojournalist Darfur is crying out

21 Darfur in perspective… Population of St. Louis, Missouri: 352, 572 Total deaths to date in Darfur: 450,000

22 Imagine the city of St. Louis being wiped out… …and no one saying anything

23 Population of the State of Kansas: 2.6 million Number of people displaced in Darfur: 2.5 million

24 Imagine the entire population of Kansas… …with no safe haven

25 Would You Speak?

26 Every day, fear paralyzes the people…

27 More children are left fatherless,

28 And more mothers are unable to feed their infants

29 We cannot stand idly by…

30 We have learned from Rwanda…

31 The severity of the consequences… “when good men do nothing”

32 Former President Clinton on Rwanda: "All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror… Never Again.”

33 From the U.N., to the U.S., to the grassroots public… …we must show Darfur that we will not be bystanders.

34 “Speak up for the poor and helpless and see that they get justice.” Proverbs 31:9

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41 “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people, but the silence over that by the good people.” Martin Luther King Jr.

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47 “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi

48 “Sudan has become today’s world capital of human pain, suffering and agony. What is at stake is our humanity.” - Elie Wiesel

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50 10,000 civilians a month are still dying in Darfur

51 One person every four minutes

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53 “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King Jr.

54 “If the responsibility to protect means anything, then it ought to mean something in Darfur.” - British House of Commons

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59 We said “Never Again”…

60 Now is our chance… to make it real.

61 As teachers, we have a unique opportunity…

62 To take action,

63 To educate our students,

64 And to get involved.

65 “To teach real peace in this world, we shall have to begin with the children.” - Mahatma Gandhi


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