{"id":66044,"date":"2007-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/north-kingstown-resident-rallies-support-at-uri-for-darfur\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T00:00:00","slug":"north-kingstown-resident-rallies-support-at-uri-for-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/12\/north-kingstown-resident-rallies-support-at-uri-for-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"North Kingstown resident rallies support at 溏心vlog免费B站 for Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. – December 3, 2007 \u2013 As a nursing student at the 溏心vlog免费B站, Bethany Larkin is learning how to help people heal. Now she is also trying to help heal the wounded African nation of Darfur. Her advocacy began after taking an emerging infectious disease colloquium at the University with professors Roger LeBrun and Howard Ginsberg. As she learned about the human rights violations and genocide, Larkin knew she had to get involved. After learning about Darfur she joined two groups that send out email blasts encouraging people to take action. From these websites, savedarfur.org and africaaction.org, Larkin got the idea of sending a banner to President George W. Bush to protest what she says is the indifference of the United States government to the suffering in Darfur.<\/p>\n


\nThe North Kingstown resident has asked students to \u201csign\u201d the banner with red handprints that serve as a symbol of the cruelty. The handprints are the national symbol of the genocide intervention network. Larkin will be setting up the banner in the hallway in Hope Dinning Hall in early December to get more people involved.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI feel compelled to take action with this cause since it is so urgent. It\u2019s such a violation of human rights that something needs to be done,\u201d said Larkin who will graduate with a B.S. in biology with honors this spring and will continue on with a second degree in nursing. \u201cI would like people to recognize the fact that these genocides keep on happening and people\u2019s right to live is being denied. One can really instill change by lobbying Congress and making it evident that this is a huge problem going on in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe said that it has been more than three years since the U.S. government has acknowledged the brutality in Darfur.<\/p>\n


\nFor the past four decades there has been civil war in Darfur, but in the past four years international groups have been fighting the repression, executions, rape, and forced relocation of Black Africans, or anyone who is non-Arab. An estimated 2 million people have been displaced, more than 234,000 forced into neighboring Chad, and an estimated 450,000 killed. In 2004 the House and Senate declared the atrocities in Darfur genocide, and the Bush Administration reached the same conclusion later that year.<\/p>\n


\nLarkin\u2019s roommate, Anthony Simmons, of Boston, M.A, created artwork that accompanies the banner. He is a senior majoring in economics and history. Simmons said, \u201cI have always been interested in helping people and Bethany really inspired me. I knew this was a good cause and I wanted to be a part of it\u201d. <\/p>\n


\nLarkin hopes to pursue work in health abroad once she graduates from nursing where she would like to volunteer in clinics in Africa and other places in need. \u201cI am attracted to the human element of nursing and interacting with others to help save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFor further information you can contact Larkin at beth1116@aol.com.<\/p>\n


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\nBethany Larkin, left, 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing student and her roommate Anthony Simmons, right, stand near a banner that Larkin created to raise awareness of the bloodshed in Darfur. Simmons created the accompanying artwork. 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications and Marketing photo by Michael Salerno.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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