‘Camp Darfur’ planned for NDSU

“Camp Darfur,” an interactive awareness and education event about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, is scheduled at NDSU on April 28 from noon to 11 p.m. and April 29 from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. in the Memorial Union Great Ballroom.

Camp Darfur includes five canvas tents that chronicle genocide from Armenia through Darfur; historical facts on Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur; and video clips that share stories of refugees living in camps in Chad.

Camp Darfur curators Gabriel Stauring and Katie Jay Scott recently returned from 10 days in Chadian refugee camps, and will provide first-hand accounts of life for hundreds of thousands of displaced Darfurians.

A screening of “Sand and Sorrow” is set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, in the Memorial Union Great Ballroom. The HBO documentary film by Paul Freedman is narrated by George Clooney. For more information, visit www.sandandsorrow.org.

A showing of “African Soul, American Heart” is scheduled for Wednesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Great Ballroom. The documentary tells the story of Fargo resident Joseph Akol Makeer, a Sudanese Lost Boy, who finds success in his adopted country while dreaming of helping orphaned children in his village in south Sudan. For more information, visit africansoulamericanheart.org.

Camp Darfur’s presence at NDSU is sponsored by the NDSU Diversity Council; Cooperative Sponsorship Committee; Department of English; Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Emergency Management; the Office of the Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Division of Fine Arts; Department of History; Department of Modern Languages; Multicultural Student Services; and Office of Student Activities.

For more information, contact Kevin.Brooks@ndsu.edu or visit www.stopgenocidenow.org/campdarfur.