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- Join the Eco-Cell Project. Got any old cell phones lying around your room? Donate your old phones, and money can go to GI-NET and STAND!
- Dinners for Darfur are the most comprehensive approach to educating your community and giving them the tools for action.
- Virtual house parties will get your friends and family involved in the cause with minimal effort.
- Screen “Hotel Rwanda” or a similar film demonstrating the need to stop genocide.
- Selling stylish GI-NET t-shirts is an ideal way to spread the anti-genocide message. If you are willing to commit to selling at least 30 shirts, we can give them to you for just $7 a shirt. We recommend that you sell them for $12 a shirt, but you can set whatever price above $7 you think makes sense for your event. Then you can make a donation with the money you raise. To order the shirts at the $7 rate, send us a check directly, noting how many shirts you would like, the style/sizes you require, and the address you would like them sent to. Do not order through our t-shirt distributor's website if you want the discounted rate! Contact us if you have any questions.
- The Save Darfur Coalition also has green wristbands that have become one of the emblems of the Darfur movement. Purchase a few, then ask for a donation of $2 or $3 and help make Darfur activists more visible!
- Set up a donation box around your school, workplace, dining hall or place of worship. Distribute information about genocide (you can request flyers from us).
- Ask local musical groups to perform at a “battle of the bands.” Charge admission or set up a donation box at the event.
- Have a bake sale or car wash. Explain prominently that the event is to help protect victims of genocide in Darfur.
- Organize a tournament involving poker, video games, a dance marathon, etc. Charge admission from the participants of the event. You can either give a small portion of the proceeds to the winner, or have it be a “benefit tournament” with all winnings sent to the anti-genocide cause.
- Local businesses often look to promote philanthropic causes. Educate them on the aspirations of GI-NET and see if they would be willing to make a donation.
- If there is a Darfur-related event outside your area, encourage your religious organization or other group to sponsor your travel expenses.
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Imagine if, where governments had failed, private donors had succeeded by jamming the radio towers in Rwanda that were inciting and guiding perpetrators during the 1994 genocide. On December 3, your STAND chapter can help do what we couldn’t do in Rwanda by taking action to protect civilians.
Current humanitarian aid projects and peacekeeping efforts in Darfur and Burma have been unable to protect civilians. You can join thousands of students and take protection into your own hands right now.
