Genocide Intervention Fund

Genocide Intervention Fund: "A year ago, a group of Swarthmore students decided to take on an unusual extracurricular activity: stopping genocide.
Mark Hanis, one of the students, is Jewish and all four of his grandparents survived the Holocaust. He was troubled by the way generations of Americans acquiesced in one genocide after another � only to apologize afterward and pledge �Never Again.�
So Mr. Hanis and fellow students started to raise money to help provide security to stop the slaughter in Darfur. In particular, they wanted to help pay for African Union peacekeepers.
Their Genocide Intervention Fund has now raised $250,000 and is about to hand over the first installment to the leaders of the African Union. The money may be used to pay for female African police officers to protect Darfur women from being raped."