Heightening Darfur Awareness: An Essay Competition

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Mar 24, 2006 12:00 am

Heightening Darfur Awareness:

An Essay Competition

It has been estimated that in Darfur, as many as 10,000 persons die each month. More than 2 million people have been displaced from their homes.

Bânai Israel is seeking to heighten awareness of the current genocide in Darfur. Students in seventh and eighth grade are invited to enter an editorial writing contest to explain why the genocide in Sudanâs western region of Darfur matters so much today. The objective of the contest is to make young adults active participants in the fight against prejudice and intolerance. Since genocide is preventable, it is important to raise awareness, believe the organizers of the essay competition.

Bânai Israelâs Israel Advocacy and Social Action Committees, sponsors of the contest, are asking youth to look at what the United Nations has called âthe worldâs greatest humanitarian crisis,â and spread the word by composing an editorial that could appear in a newspaper.

The contest is open to all seventh and eighth graders from Bethlehem, Middlebury, Newtown, Southbury and Woodbury. Entries need to be postmarked by June 2.

For more information contact Patrice Gans, 203-263-0396 or PBGans@sbcglobal.net.

Flyers are available at Bânai Israel, PO Box 350, Southbury CT 06488.

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