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(KSL News) A 24-year-old American has no obvious link to the Sudan. But he takes the crisis there personally, and decided to act.
Mark Hanis is the grandson of holocaust survivors.
Mark Hanis/ Activist: "I'll always hear never again, never again, or see another elder in my Jewish community that had a number tattoo in his arm or her arm. See this is what happened."
Hanis and his friends started the Genocide Intervention Network. They've taken a message to classrooms across the country.
John Prendergrast, International Crisis Group: "You have student groups all over the country, both college and high schools, who have set up organizations on campuses all over the U.S. and become very, very agitated about what's happening. People can't stop genocide if they don't know about it."
Mark Hanis, Activist: "I think there is the passion, the energy and the idealism, the hope that we keep on saying never again, and we can actually keep that promise."
The Genocide intervention Network has raised a quarter million dollars to help protect women and children in Darfur, funding cash-strapped African union troops in the region. And they've raised awareness, even introduced awareness, about what's happening in a remote African country.
