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Grassroots on the
Ground in Africa
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entrepreneurship training and seed funding to help women victims of
conflict and genocide launch their own ideas for social change.
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Global
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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Conflict
Global Grassroots is
embarking upon an extensive research and advocacy project to understand
the underlying reasons and implications of sexual and gender-based
violence during conflict in Africa. Spanning eleven countries and six
major themes, Global Grassroots will launch its most ambitious advocacy
campaign to date, endeavoring to protect and prevent such violence against
women and to help survivors reclaim their lives.
Darfur, Sudan
Since 2003, Sudan’s Arab government and its Janjaweed militias have
been destroying villages and displacing, raping, torturing, and
killing Darfur’s black African citizens. Experts estimate as many as:
450,000 are dead
2.5 - 3 million are displaced
3.5 million depend on food aid
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WATCH
The Devil Came on Horseback
The Devil Came on Horseback tells the story
of an American witness to genocide, former U.S. Marine, Brian Steidle,
who served as an African Union military observer in Darfur for six
months. A film by Annie
Sundberg and Ricki Stern, produced by Break
Thru Films in association with Global Grassroots & Three
Generations.
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Order a DVD:
10% goes
to Global Grassroots.
For home-use only
Organize a Screening:
To arrange a screening
with your community group, go to:
www.thedevilcameonhorseback.com/action
Watch the trailer
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 The
Devil Came on Horseback:
Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
A
memoir written by Brian Steidle & Gretchen Steidle Wallace.
This intense, vivid report
and call to action from the heart of violent Darfur, by a former Marine
working as an unarmed military observer for the African Union, is a
powerful memoir of a young man's awakening to conscience and the first
extensive on-the ground account of the genocide in Sudan. Recently
honored as Noteworthy/Newsworthy among Hudson News' Best Books of 2007.
NOW in PAPERBACK!
Click here to order
your copy
Bulk discounts available
Contact
info[at]globalgrassroots.org
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 The HOPE for Darfur Music
Album
just released on iTunes. This 100% only
downloadable album was produced to create a way for musicians to
participate in the HOPE Campaign.
100% of the proceeds from the download of this album
will be donated to Global Grassroots thru the HOPE Campaign for Darfur.
HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) is a
humanitarian company focused on raising awareness and funds for pressing
issues and is committed to green, energy conscience and resourceful
business practices. We do this by empowering individuals to get involved
through creative events, art, technology & action.
Learn more:
www.hopeartists.org
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Three Generations
is
compiling evidence of the genocide in Darfur by archiving survivor
testimonies.
Three Generations is Global Grassroots' charitable partner in the production
of The Devil Came on Horseback with Break Thru Films.
Learn more:
www.threegenerations.org
 Darfur/Darfur
Global Grassroots is
fiscal sponsor of
Darfur/Darfur, a traveling,
digitally-projected photography exhibit, giving viewers a unique chance to
experience the imagery of Darfur in a multimedia environment that reveals
the horrors of warfare and celebrates a richly multi-cultural region.
Learn more:
www.darfurdarfur.org |
