April 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Sudan: The Gloucester County Times: Kenya RPCV Tina Spadafora spent time in Sudan. "It was one of the saddest places I've been to in my life," she said, describing the many starving and ill people who inhabit the refugee camps.
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April 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Kenya: Sudan: The Gloucester County Times: Kenya RPCV Tina Spadafora spent time in Sudan. "It was one of the saddest places I've been to in my life," she said, describing the many starving and ill people who inhabit the refugee camps.
Kenya RPCV Tina Spadafora spent time in Sudan. "It was one of the saddest places I've been to in my life," she said, describing the many starving and ill people who inhabit the refugee camps.
Kenya RPCV Tina Spadafora spent time in Sudan. "It was one of the saddest places I've been to in my life," she said, describing the many starving and ill people who inhabit the refugee camps.
Students tackle evils of genocide
Thursday, April 21, 2005
By Martin C. Bricketto
mbricketto@sjnewsco.com
Caption: Sudanese women and children sit in front of a tent in the Kalma camp on the outskirts of the southern Darfur town of Nyala in 2004. Sudan accepted greater UN scrutiny after the European Union backed down from an attempt to seek explicit UN condemnation of Khartoum's role in human rights abuse in Darfur. (AFP/File/Jose Cendon)
WASHINGTON TWP.-- Governments across the world have focused on the Darfur region of Sudan in Africa over the past year, trying, with reportedly mixed results, to stop a genocide that has claimed the lives of thousands of people.
Now, 50 students from Orchard Valley Middle School are lending their voices to the fray, and refusing to let age hamper what they hope they can accomplish.
"Even though we're just kids, we can make a difference," said seventh-grader Caitlin McIntyre.
[Excerpt]
A math teacher at Orchard Valley who has worked in that part of the world helped illuminate the seriousness of the situation for students. Tina Spadafora was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya and spent time in Sudan.
"It was one of the saddest places I've been to in my life," she said, describing the many starving and ill people who inhabit the refugee camps.
Spadafora said the students running the awareness efforts were courageous and cognizant of an important fact.
"We have the power to do something about it," she said.
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