Before Camp Darfur reaches your Community

Camp Darfur is the perfect opportunity to increase your group’s membership and action taken by your community. Use this as an opportunity to involve the media, schools, local government and community partners. The more partners you have the more people we will have visit the camp! Here are things to think about:

1. Location, Location, Location – high traffic and easy to find! Is it going to rain? Do you have a back up location?
2. Create a program for the day(s) – Communities hosting CD have been very creative in their programming!
   • Compare food in a refugee camp with what a high school or college student might eat in a day
   • Create a Die-In to simulate an attack
   • Include various speakers
   • If you are at a high school or college, schedule classes to visit the Camp at specific times
   • Have music during the day or night
   • Invite community members to spend the night like a refugee
   • Screen a film or video footage from the camps
   • Invite local organizations to table throughout the day
3. Invite local survivors of genocide to speak to your audience
4. Contact your local media – most have community calendars, write a letter to the editor, send press alerts/releases
5. Contact local schools: teachers/professors can plan to bring their students at a specific time and develop a lesson plan and/or assignment given enough time (specific ideas include: any genocide-related classes, history, sociology, international affairs, African studies, literature)
6. Invite your local Legislators and/or city or school government
7. Utilize online communities – create a facebook or myspace page or add it to your profile, post the event on all online calendars, send event details to local mailing lists two weeks prior to your event
8. Print: Sign up sheet for your group, action items, flyers about your program/event

Set up and tear down

1. Our tents need to be tied down. Please check with facilities about staking tents into the ground. If we cannot do this, please provide us with an alternative including sand bags, cement blocks or other secure and heavy objects. Please provide our team with a hammer/mallet for staking.
2. CD includes multimedia that will need 3-4 electrical plug-ins including extension cords if necessary. We show DVDs and play video from our trips to refugee camps in Chad.
3. CD needs one small table or shared area for our information and action items.
4. Setting up CD: It takes 1 hour with 6-8 volunteers provided by you. It takes 2 hours with any less. Please plan accordingly and let us know what time to show up before the event.
5. Disassembling CD: With 6-8 volunteers this will take one hour, longer with less volunteers.

If you would like a SGN Team Member to speak at your event or have more questions,
please don’t hesitate to email us! You can contact KTJ Scott, ktj AT stopgenocidenow.org