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Tracy McGrady and Ted Leonsis Team with Georgetown, Duke Students to Build Darfuri Refugee School
To commemorate UN World Refugee Day on June 20, Georgetown and Duke Universities’ students and alumni, businessman Ted Leonsis, and NBA star Tracy McGrady, have jointly announced that they have raised funds to sponsor a Darfuri refugee camp school in Chad. Georgetown and Duke Universities launched a partnership to support the Darfuri schools at their January 30 basketball game at the Verizon Center. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were among the fans in attendance, along with Leonsis and McGrady.
Centaurus High School Students Form Ties with Darfuri Refugees
Students at Centaurus High School in Lafayette, Colorado have joined the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program to connect with their peers in refugee camps in Chad. After teaching a lesson on genocide, language arts teacher Terry Fostvedt noticed her students were especially interested in the crisis in Darfur. “They were understandably overwhelmed and shocked by the information about what’s going on,” said Fostvedt.
Huntington Beach High School Hosts Rally for Darfur
On March 11, 2010, students at Huntington Beach High School in California held a rally on campus to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur. The event, which was sponsored by the school’s Operation Save Darfur Club, featured a speech and book signing by the authors of They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, a memoir by three Sudanese “Lost Boys” who fled to the United States to escape the violence in Darfur. The rally was part of a larger “Week for Darfur” series held in collaboration with the HB Reads program and Orange County for Darfur.
Tracy McGrady’s Darfur Dream Team Raises $600,000 for 12 Schools Serving Refugee Children
This week the Darfur Dream Team's Sister Schools Program marks the first anniversary of its launch with the announcement that the program has succeeded in raising more than $300,000 to support six schools in Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad. The program has also received another $300,000 in pledges to support six more schools in a second camp.
ESPN’s Darfur Dream Team Coverage Nominated for NAMIC Award
By Laura Heaton
Nominations for the NAMIC Vision Awards, recognizing news and entertainment leaders committed to producing multi-ethnic and culturally-relevant programs, were announced last week, and Enough was excited to learn that the ESPN Deportes feature highlighting the Darfur Dream Team is up for an award.
College Basketball Powerhouses Come Together for Darfur
This Saturday US college basketball powerhouses Georgetown and Duke
will face off in one of the most anticipated games of the season. While
the two teams battle on the court, students and alumni from both
universities will put aside their rivalry and come together to support
the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program, an initiative which
links American middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities
with sister schools in 12 refugee camps in eastern Chad.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL POWERHOUSES COME TOGETHER FOR DARFUR
Breaking News: D.C. press is reporting that President Obama will attend the game.
This Saturday college basketball powerhouses Georgetown and Duke will face off in one of the most anticipated games of the season. While the two teams battle on the court, students and alumni from both universities will put aside their rivalry and come together to support the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program, an initiative which links American middle schools, high schools, colleges, and universities with sister schools in 12 refugee camps in eastern Chad. Click here to listen to a Mic Check radio podcast about the event.
The Darfur Dream Team was conceptualized following NBA star Tracy McGrady’s trip to Darfuri refugee camps in Chad with John Prendergast and Omer Ismail of the Enough Project. Their journey is chronicled in the documentary film 3 Points: Peace, Protection and Punishment. McGrady and Prendergast will attend the upcoming game and unveil a video announcing the Darfur Dream Team’s partnership with Georgetown and Duke. Students and alumni from the two universities have pledged to raise funds to support two Darfuri refugee camp schools.
Over 350 U.S. schools have already signed up to support this initiative. Click here to donate to the Sister Schools Program or visit www.darfurdreamteam.org to learn more.
This post originally appeared on The Hub.
Stella Kenyi is the coordinator for the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program.
Video produced and directed by Robert Padavick. Editing and animation by Jeff Trussell.
USD Students Screen 3 Points, Kick Off Fundraising Drive
The University of San Diego, or USD, Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies and the USD chapter of STAND, a student anti-genocide coalition, recently co-sponsored a screening of the documentary film 3 Points: Peace, Protection, and Punishment.
Students responded well to the film, calling it "inspiring," "motivational," "eye-opening," and "educational entertainment."
Rachel Maddow Spotlights T-Mac's Darfur Dream Team
by: John Prendergast, cross posted from Huffington Post
Last week on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, NBA star Tracy "T-Mac" McGrady and I had the chance to discuss the ongoing crisis in Darfur.
Along with Derek Fisher of the Lakers and Baron Davis of the
Clippers, Tracy is one of the three co-captains of the Darfur Dream
Team Sister Schools Program. This initiative links American schools to
schools in the Darfur refugee camps in Chad, aiming to help provide a
quality education to the refugees of Darfur (www.darfurdreamteam.org).
Darfur Dream Team On The Rachel Maddow Show!
UPDATE: 31 U.S. schools have signed up for the Sister Schools Program since the show aired.
On her Wednesday show, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow interviewed Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady and Enough’s John Prendergast about why they founded the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program. Appearing in a primetime segment, McGrady and Prendergast discussed the challenges that persist in Darfur, where nearly 3 million people are displaced from their homes due to violence that began there in 2003 and continues today.
