Meredith College students are sponsoring Darfur Awareness Week, March 26-30, to bring attention to the current genocide crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

Each weekday from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Cate Center Lobby, these students will have a Darfur Awareness table offering general information about the crisis. They will also provide opportunities to help, such as writing letters to government representatives.

On Tuesday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m., a showing of excerpts from the documentary “Darfur Diaries: Message from Home” will be held in the Oak Room of Belk Dining Hall. This event qualifies as a convocation/cultural event in general education.

Student organizer Erica Oakley describes this documentary as “a riveting film about the lives of Darfurian refugees and the atrocities that are occurring in Darfur, predominately at the hand of the Sudanese government.”

The session will end with a Q&A featuring Meredith faculty member Jeffrey Martinson, who teaches international relations, and Scott Sutton, a local activist who lived on the Chad/Sudan border for 11 years. Sutton will share stories of growing up in the Darfur region prior to the crisis.

For more information on Sutton, visit his blog at www.dyinginthedust.blogspot.com/.