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Jul 8, 2007

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us." --Marian Wright Edelman

High School Friends Help Darfur

High school students Nick Anderson and Ana Slavin of Gill, Mass., knew they could raise some money at their school to help the people of Darfur. But they knew they could raise a lot more by enlisting the help of high school students all over the country. They didn't have friends at every school, but they did have a powerful tool for reaching out to young people -- social networking sites. Six months later, the project started by Anderson and Slavin, Dollars for Darfur, had raised more than $300,000 from students at 2,000 high schools, showing the strength of banding together over the Internet. "All the teens we know are checking these sites all the time, and we wanted to put them to good use as a networking tool that could go to something good," said Anderson, 18.