Amani Matabaro Tom Growing up in Congo, the grim reality of war has long been a part of Amani's life. In 2006, two of his cousins, like many other women in Congo, were raped and abducted. Amani decided to do something to help them begin to heal, and regain their independence and self-esteem. He created a sewing workshop for them as a means to learn a valuable skill and be able to focus on something other than the atrocities they had suffered. The workshop was a big success and soon other women from the community began to join. Read more
	Maia Boitano Maia's involvement with Darfur began when she read Elie Wiesel's account of his Holocaust experience, Night, and attended a lecture he gave at a nearby university. Dr. Wiesel encouraged her to start a group with her classmates to discuss ways to end the genocide in Darfur. Maia left the lecture, immediately began learning all she could about Darfur, and devised a plan for how she could help. Read more
	St. Catharine Academy High School St. Catharine's work on Congo began when Roseanne Riolo, an English teacher at the Academy, read an article in Glamour magazine about the violence being committed against women in DRC. She shared this article with her students, and what started as a "women's awareness" lesson soon spread across the entire school community into a Congo Awareness / Mercy Outreach campaign. Read more
	Elizabeth Hankins Elizabeth's involvement with Darfur started with a unique approach: fiction. She began writing a novel, The Calling, about the plight of Southern Sudan. Read more
	Paul Clay-Rooks When Paul learned about the devastating and rampant sexual violence taking place in Congo, he decided to walk 200 miles from his hometown of Lynchburg, VA to Washington DC over his Spring Break in an effort to raise awareness about the violence and funds for its victims. Read more
	Ntama Jacques Bahati Jacques is transforming his own experiences of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into a call for action within his new community in the United States. Read more
	"Change the world. It just takes cents" TM Organization As a part of the curriculum on world studies, the 8th grade students at Herzl RMHA Upper School in Denver, Colorado elected an in depth study of the Sudan conflict. Read more
	St. Francis of Assisi Middle School St. Francis of Assisi School strives to make social justice and peace education a centerpiece of the academic experience for all middle school students. The result has been a curriculum called Familiae Pacis, or Peace Families, which teaches compassionate listening, interconnectedness, and service to others. The goal is to show students the immense power they have to be agents of positive change. Read more
	Brenda Butler and La Amistad Learning Academy Brenda Butler, a teacher from Orlando, Florida, began educating about Darfur as an extension of her Holocaust Studies class. She teaches at La Amistad Learning Academy, which helps young people dealing with difficult life circumstances. Read more
	Tim Salem Tim Salem was doing course research for a class he taught when he learned about the atrocities in Darfur. As Assistant Principal he visited a number of his school's classrooms giving presentations on Darfur. Read more