Dollars for Darfur Benefit Concert
The Dollars for Darfur Concert is a fundraiser/concert event which will be held at Pioneer Middle School's very own Cafeteria. Pioneer Middle School itself is located at
5350 SW 90th Avenue, Cooper City, Florida 33328.
Information
See our other pages for information on the event. But, you might be asking, 'What is Darfur?' or 'Why should I care?'. Well, most everybody has heard about the Holocaust, at one time or another. In Darfur, as you are reading this page, thousands of people are being killed. Because of the color of their skin. As Wikipedia states:
"The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a government-supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes, and the non-Arab peoples of the region. The conflict began in February 2003.
The conflict has been described by the Western media as 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide.' In September 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 50,000 deaths in Darfur since the conflict's beginning, mostly by starvation. In October, its head gave an estimate of 71,000 deaths by starvation and disease alone between March and October 2004. While a recent British Parliamentary Report estimates that over 400,000 people have already died, the United Nations estimates that over 100,000 have died in the past eighteen months of the conflict. More than 1.8 million people had been displaced from their homes. Two hundred thousand have fled to neighboring Chad."
Many people have seen the movie "Hotel Rwanda", where the Hutu decide to kill all of the Tutsi who live in their country. Genocide is "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: 'Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.'" Quite a definition for something so horrible.