10 Minute Writing Exercise 2/8/11

In highschool, I was in the Students Taking Action Now:Darfur club (STAND). This club was to help stop genocide wherever it my occur. It always spraked my interest because there were so many issues in the genocide that were not being taken care of. I remeber specifically not just about the genocide but the refugee camps. There was not enough supplies for the women to cook for her children such as firewood so she would have to go off the site to collect it. The men did not go with them because they would be killed but the women and children were brutally beaten and raped. Even some of the guards who were suppose to be protecting them would only help them for a sexual favor. There is now a project to help these women and children that helps them not have to leave the camp as much. The project helps raise money for solar cookers so the women do not have to leave the camp for firewood.