Dine for Darfur

On Thursday, February 7th, STANDWestern will be hosting, with the Alex, a benefit night in solidarity with the people of Darfur. The event will start at 6:30pm with the first seating for a dinner of traditional sudanese food with the second seating at 8:00 and dj bnutz to follow. The tickets are $20 with a $2 discount for one letter written to a public official expressing concern over the crisis in Darfur or $5 for two or more letters. Please reserve tickets by e-mailing western@standcanada.org or call 519.280.2082.

About Darfur:

For almost five years civilians in Darfur continue to suffer as the Sudanese government and their Janjaweed proxies restrict international humanitarian access, bomb and strafe civilian targets with aircraft, raze villages, abduct children, murder men and boys as potential rebels, and engage in a campaign of mass rape. Since the outbreak of hostilities in 2003, the crisis in Darfur has resulted in well over 200,000 largely civilian deaths, the displacement of more than two million people, and the suffering of millions more. The decision by the Government of Sudan to conduct ethnic cleansing as a counter-insurgency campaign has attracted significant international condemnation but relatively little action to date.

About STAND:

Students Taking Action Now Darfur (STAND) Canada is a national student organization dedicated to inspiring student activism and advocacy addressing the crisis in Darfur. Its goal is to strengthen and focus the voice of Canadians – beginning with students – demanding leadership from the Canadian government to end the atrocities in Darfur.