Educational Support …

DRP Teaching Tools

DRP considers educating the public about the Darfur genocide one of its most important missions. As part of the DRP Speakers' Bureau, we are frequently requested to educate students at the college, high school and middle school levels. DRP has been in the forefront of developing materials to teach students about the roots of the Darfur conflict understanding that, once they are engaged and organized, students can be passionate advocates for justice and change.

Darfur Teacher’s Guide

As one of the founders of the New Jersey Coalition Responds to the Crisis in Darfur, Sudan, DRP helped develop a faculty Darfur Instructional Guide to teach students about the on-going genocide including a history of the conflict, the current issues surrounding the crisis and importantly, ways in which they as students can help advocate for Darfur. The teaching guide contains articles, photographs, maps and lesson plans meant to encourage activism. The guide is being updated to reflect the current situation but will be available in the very near future.

Instructional DVD

Also coming soon is a 10-15 minute DVD that middle and high schools can use independently as a teaching tool both within the classroom and for school-wide announcements that will help quickly and succinctly frame the Darfur crisis for students.

Tell Me You Didn't Know

A 2-act play written by Rev. Kim Dixon meant for high school students to educate their classmates about the genocide occuring in Darfur and to encourage activism on Darfur's behalf. If you are interested in recieving a copy of "Tell Me You Didn't Know" for performance at your school, please call the DRP offices for further information.

Mail Buddies

There is a feeling among Darfurian camp-dwellers that the world is blind to their suffering and has abandoned them. Particularly among the children who have suffered unimaginable trauma and lived in wretched conditions over prolonged periods, the signs of post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) and general despondency are heartbreakingly evident. Hopelessness kills just as surely as the diseases that course through the camps.

Mail Buddies is a program intended to heal the psychological effects of the Darfur conflict on its youngest and most vulnerable citizens by encouraging one-on-one relationships between elementary school children and their Darfurian counterparts. Through the exchange of letters (translated into Arabic), drawings and picture books, children in elementary schools can send a clear message of support and hope to the Darfurian children. Schools that participate in the program will be fostering empathy and cultural understanding among their students as well as encouraging global citizenship and responsibility. Mail Buddies also intends to provide educational materials (pens/pencils, paper, books) to camp children through school fundraisers.

If you are interested in learning more about the Mail Buddies program for your school, please call or e-mail the DRP office.