| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10/12/04
CONTACT: Greenville College Students Will Host 24-Hour Ultimate Frisbee Game to Raise Money for Displaced SudaneseGREENVILLE , ILL. – Greenville College 's Campus Activity Board (CAB) will team up with St. Paul's Free Methodist church for a 24-hour ultimate Frisbee game called “24 for Dafur.” To be held on Scott Field during Homecoming Weekend, October 15-16, the event will raise money and blankets to be sent to the Dafur region of Sudan . The event will begin at 5 p.m. this Friday evening, continue through the night, and will end Saturday evening at 5 p.m. Everyone is welcome to participate and participants are urged to find sponsors who will donate a pledged amount for each hour played. Those wishing to support this effort may also donate blankets. All proceeds and blankets will be sent to Sudan through the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). The MCC, a non-government organization with a strong presence in Sudan , is coordinating a response to the displacement of the Sudanese by providing blankets and survival kits for those in need. According to the United Nations, 1.45 million Sudanese have been internally displaced. Two hundred thousand Sudanese seek refuge in the neighboring country of Chad from the fighting between the rebels and government sponsored Janjawed militias. The militias stand accused of killing and raping thousands of villagers in what is being called one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world today. Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with more than 1400 traditional undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree completion students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church , the college is located in Greenville , Illinois , 45 miles east of St. Louis . --30--
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