Three High School North freshmen have become active in the movement to help stop the genocide in Darfur. Their group, Marhaba Darfur, has set up stands at area businesses including Emack & Bolio’s, It’s A Grind, Rite Aid, Heavenly Ham, and Princeton Shopping Center.##M:[more]##
Aly Gideon, Nitya Sivakumar, and Jenna Simanovsky have raised $900 to benefit Darfur victims through www.savedarfur.org, an organization that sends food, water, and clothing to refugee camps surrounding Sudan.
“We also collect signatures for a petition to help us approach principals in WW-P schools, and schools throughout New Jersey, because we want to show a power point presentation explaining the genocide in Darfur at middle and high schools,” says Gideon. “Besides collecting money and signatures, we also just want to get the word out there and educate people on the genocide in Darfur, because as scary as it is, both kids and adults have no idea that this genocide, which has claimed over 400,”000 lives, is going on.”
