Hi Mrs. Hoke! This last week I put information about the genocide in Eastern Congo as my facebook status. I've gotten a couple comments from friends who wish to help make a difference as well.

I recently reset my facebook status, and put a lot of information about the genocide in the Congo. Along with it I put a few links to websites and posted a video. I've already gotten a couple comments of friends that want to help! And a lot of likes!

A message worth hearing from Britain's newspaper, The Guardian:

"But on Holocaust Memorial Day we can pause to look at how we treat those around us. We can all make the choice to challenge exclusion when we see it happening – we can choose to stop using language that dehumanises others and we can stop our friends and family from dehumanising and excluding ­others. Otherwise, it might be add… Continue

There is no good reason for anyone to commit genocide, rape, or any kind of killing or other act of genocide. I will probably never understand why people do it, and I really don't think I want to understand. And I don't get how they could do it to little kids, it's just wrong.
Hearing and reading about people committing genocide sometimes makes me sick to my stomach, no one has the right to do it, and no one deserves to be the victim of it. There's a video called "Living Darfur" it's a music vid… Continue