The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Issue date: 6/27/07 Section: News

Media Credit: Aaron Montoya Carley Knaff, junior health and exercise science major, left, and Rachel Robichaux, senior technical journalism major, right, model their Deliver Darfur t-shirts on Friday, June 15, 2007, near the Gifford building. The two students along with friend Erin Wilson, senior marketing major, created a group known as Deliver Darfur that promotes awareness of the genocide currently ravaging the region of Darfur and its people that live in the country of Sudan in Africa. Since March, Knaff, Robichaux and Wilson have been raising money for the people of Darfur by selling t-shirts, bandanas, and handbags printed with attractive designs and their group's moniker.

While the destruction and slaughtering taking place in Darfur lies a world away from the Choice City and the minds of average college students, two CSU undergraduates are bringing the battle to campus.

Senior Rachel Robichaux and junior Carly Knaff are fighting to end genocide in war torn Sudan - by selling t-shirts.

Deliver Darfur is a student organization the two women founded this year in an effort to raise money and awareness about genocide in the Darfur province of Sudan, Africa's largest country. The non-profit group sells t-shirts and bags printed with their logo, aimed at attracting the attention of their own generation.

"We were frustrated," said Robichaux, a pre-med and technical journalism double major. "So many people our age don't even know what's going on there, and we knew if nothing happens, it was going to turn into another holocaust."

According to BBC News online at www.bbc.co.uk, the conflict in Darfur, which began in 2003, is largely between the African farmers and the Arab herders. The Sudanese government, accused of allying with the Janjaweed, an Arab rebel group, have launched a military campaign on the region, continuously slaughtering, raping and stealing from the Africans.

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