Sudan: how you can help

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The Guardian and BBC have useful collections of links to aid agencies.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1242074,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3793577.stm

Both news organizations have extensive coverage of events in Darfur, in case you need to bring yourself up to speed.

Also, see the blog http://passionofthepresent.org

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1. kick

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2. a few more

American Jewish World Service: http://www.ajws.org/index.cfm?section_id=15

Amnesty was overlooked. They don't provide humanitarian aid, of course, but it is a way to help. http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/sudan/activism.html

Adding two more:

http://www.reliefonline.org

http://www.irw.org

[Kool Kitty]

3. Thanks for the links.

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4. You're most welcome. Another list of aid agencies

This one doesn't have urls

http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/108325857918.htm

Here are some of them

• Africare
  
  
• Action Against Hunger
  
  
• Caritas Internationales
  
  
• Adventist Development and Relief Agency
  
  
• Air Serv International
  
  
• Americares
  
  
• Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (UK)
  
  
• Care (Some of the links didn't work for me, but Care USA did.)
  
  
• Catholic Relief Services
  
  
• Concern Worldwide
  
  
• Cruz Roja Española (Spanish language, international)
  
  
• GOAL Ireland
  
  
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  
  
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  
  
• International Medical Corps
  
  
• International Rescue Committee
  
  
• Intersnos (Italy)
  
  
• Lutheran World Relief
  
  
• Malteser (Germany)
  
  
• Medair
  
  
• Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders)
  
  
• Mercy Corps
  
  
• Merlin (UK)
  
  
• Norwegian Refugee Council (Norway, in English)
  
  
• Oxfam (UK)
  
  
• Save the Children
  
  
• The United Methodist Committee on Relief
  
  
• UNHCR
  
  

[gottaB]

5. The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago has a Darfur fund

announced today.

http://www.ciogc.org/none.html?articleId=1448

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6. a few more

For Brits, an umbrella group: http://www.dec.org.uk

The Islamic American Relief Agency is helping refugees:

http://www.iara-usa.org/urgentappeals.htm


See the post at Al Franken's blog today.

http://www.airamericaradio.com/bin/blogExcerpts.cfm?blogId=1&prg=3

Congress is taking up the resolution to condemn the genocide.

There are links to help you contact your reps.

Or call 202 225 3121 and register your opinion.

[dolo amber]

7. This should be pinned at the top of the Latest page

What a pathetic, unnecessary situation...:(

Thanks for the links, gottaB. :)

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8. kick

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9. True Majority has launched a public awareness campaign

http://www.truemajority.org/actionregister

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10. hrw: What you can do about Darfur

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/24/darfur8954.htm