The Post-Gazette yesterday covered the Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition’s involvement in the Tents of Hope campaign, along with the myriad other initiatives in which they have been involved. The mission of the Tents of Hope project is to support a one-year process in which people respond as communities to the crisis in Darfur by creating tents that are both unique works of art and ongoing focal points within communities for learning about, assisting and establishing relationships with the people of Sudan. An excerpt of the article appears below.
Pittsburgh residents’ efforts to focus international attention on the genocide in Darfur might seem relatively simple — a painted tent, a signed postcard, a protest bus trip to Washington, D.C. — but they mean everything to the war’s victims, according to a Darfuri activist with the national Save Darfur Coalition.
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“When they know people around the world are thinking of them, it gives them hope,” [Niemat] Ahmadi told about 50 community and student leaders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill yesterday. “They need this hope and this will be a great hope for them. They know there are still bad people who make them suffer, but this will give them hope.”
The full story appears here.
The opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Save Darfur Coalition.
