Ultimate Frisbee Game Raises Money for Displaced Sudanese

    Greenville College 's Campus Activity Board (CAB) teamed up with St. Paul's Free Methodist church for a 24-hour ultimate Frisbee game called “24 for Dafur.” Held on Scott Field during Homecoming Weekend, October 15-16, the event raised money and blankets sent to the Dafur region of Sudan . Proceeds, totaling $3,000 and over 50 blankets were 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.