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Project Change Educating Through Awareness

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1. Project Change Educating Through Awareness 2. This is Suleiman. He is 10 years old. He lives in Darfur. Suleiman suffered burns to more than 90 percent of his body after his brother detonated a device found near their house as they planned to celebrate the victory of their football team in an accident that left one of their friends dead. 3. Suleimans friend Is only one Of 4 0 0 , 0 0 0 D E A D From a Genocide that no one knows about. 4. In September 2004, President George W. Bush declared the crisis in Darfur genocide the first time a sitting American president had made such a declaration regarding a crisis that was still ongoing. Despite the worlds growing outcry, however, the violence persists in Darfur and the number of dead and displaced continues to increase. Currently, as many as 3 million people have been displaced within Darfur, with an estimated 263,000 refugees living across the border in Chad. Overall, the UN estimates that more than 3.2 million people in Darfur are still affected by the conflict.