100 Day Fast for Darfur

On April 7th, 2008, the 14th anniversary for the start of the genocide in Rwanda, we will begin the 100 Day Fast for Darfur. This tag-team fast will coincide with the one hundred days it took to kill 800,000 people in Rwanda, as the world stood paralyzed. It is our way to stand in solidarity with the victims and survivors of Darfur, today’s ongoing genocide, and demand immediate protection for the millions of innocent civilians that are in grave danger of displacement, starvation, rape, and death. We fast to demand urgent action and not only urgent words, and we fast to support greatly needed food relief.

The fast will go from April 7th through July 16th.  It is a midnight-to-midnight fast, so that there are one or more people fasting during the entire 100-day period.  The suggestion for the 100 Day Fasters is to go without food for a 24 hours (or more) period, but we leave it open to individual participants to make decisions on food intake, based on their own health.  We then ask you to donate $25 or more to the World Food Program (WFP), supporting the amazing work they do to keep the people of Darfur alive.  If you cannot donate the $25, please donate as much as possible and/or find someone in your community to sponsor your fast period.  We also ask that you and all around you send a message to President Bush (or your own leader, if from outside the USA), asking him to change his legacy regarding genocide.

To sign up to the 100 Day Fast for Darfur, visit our calendar (http://stopgenocidenow.org/fast) and chose a day or more.  Then, send date(s) chosen, your name, city and country, and amount pledged towards food aid for Darfur to fast@stopgenocidenow.org.  Let us know if it is OK to post your full or partial name on the calendar.  If you can, please send us a short note about why you are joining the fast.  If you can send a picture of yourself that we can post, that would be great also. As soon as you sign up, we will send you information on how to donate and participate in more action.