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Darfur: The First Glimpse

Dear Newton,

Did you know Darfur is in Africa? Darfur is a state in a country Sudan. Sudan is the largest country in Africa with a population of 39 million people. Darfur, in western Sudan, is the size of Texas and there are 6 million people living there.

We started this project because we were looking at the Web and we said that all the people should not be killed by their own people from the same country because they are not the same religion. This type of killing is called genocide.

There are 400,000 people dying in Darfur, and there are 2,500,000 people leaving there homes because there are people from there country killing there own people and because it is not safe down there.

By: Cierra, Joanne, Wyneva

Newton Reporter of the Week

This week our class is working on donating our spare change. We will put it in little plastic zip-lock bags. We will bring our zip-lock bags to class, filled with change. We will then put the change into a change-sorter, and find out how much we gathered to donate.



We decided to make it more fun by making it a contest. The person who brings in the most spare change, wins. They will get to pick the snack for the class, also getting mentioned on the blog. Our zip-lock bags are personally decorated by our own classmates.

Every person in our class has a job in this project. Our individual fund raising specialists are Victor and Regina. Our group fund raising team is Zach, Alex, and Anthony. Within our communications department we have Alex and Rebecca.

Our next group fund raising project is a bake sale, which is being run by Alex, Anthony, Zach, Rebecca, and Fay. Our master chefs who are contributing to our bake sale are Mia, Robby, Fay, Jane, Zach, and Anthony. That should be a huge success. It will be held on March 11th, after Mass.

Some new news is that we will now have a News Reporter of the Week. This article was written by Robby.