Support, Support, Support

After watching Emergency in Darfur Part 1- Crisis, I was able to understand how the displaced citizens of Darfur receive aid. While watching this film, I was shocked to see the displacement camps, where thousands of refugees are forced to live in, because the rebels burned down their old villages. The crisis is not getting any better, and the children of Darfur are getting ill due to the lack of food, water, shelter, medicine, and because the people are prone to dieses. Women are often obducted and rapped, when the rebels invade. I learned that the International Medical Core or IMC is an American humanitarian aid organization, which focuses on training local villagers ways to remain healthy, and to be self-reliant. The international Medical core specializes in treating children under the age of five, and woman of all ages, in order to make sure that the villagers are healthy, while living under these horrible circumstances. I learned that there are medical facilities located in western and northern Darfur, but due to severity of the genocide the facilities are unable to help everyone. During the film there was a short interview on Jill John-Kall, who had previously worked in Uganda, and Chad, and began working in Darfur in 2005 as a field medical coordinator, and  two years later in 2007 she became medical director for International Medical Core in Darfur.  IMC provides medical kits, free medicine, and many other services in order to help victims of the genocide. What amazes me is how the children of Darfur are able to remain so strong after all that has happened to them, and still be able to have fun and faith. Instead of letting the genocide get worse, I suggest that we as Americans get involved, because our government is know to procrastinate. As citizens we need to get active, and generate awarness among our communities, and work places in order to help support the genocide. Design a campaign, and raise money with friends and family for a specific charity or the International Medical Core and make a difference.