Standing Up for Civilians in Darfur and Burma

The HP Alliance is a Dumbledore’s Army for the real world, made up of civilians like you and I who, through the magic of our creativity and love, are standing up for civilians worldwide. Last year our collective efforts managed to raise over 8,000 dollars for Civilian Protection in Darfur!

This December 3, we ask that you give up a luxury item and with the money you save, donate it here at thehpalliance.org/civilianprotection. All proceeds from this page will go toward saving and improving lives by protecting the “Lily Potters” of Darfur and the “Potterwatch” of Burma. Just ten dollars can go a long way to protecting a whole family in Burma and a woman in Darfur. And think what you can do if you organize friends and family and members of your school and community to raise too! Think about the opportunity you and I have to make such a difference!

For creative ideas on how to be more involved, please email standfast@thehpalliance.org and to discuss how you plan on being involved, please go here.

And here’s more info:
The Lily Potters of Darfur
Harry Potter is a treatise on the power of love, and it all starts with the love of a mother for her child. And we wish to honor the love of mothers for their children in Darfur. As the surviving people in Darfur are forced into refugee camps, firewood near the camps grows increasingly scarce. Every day, women and girls are forced to wander further into the desert in search of firewood for cooking, exposing them to rape and attack from waiting militias. STAND and the Genocide Intervention Network have a unique Civilian Protection Program on the ground in Darfur to ensure that these women will not have to leave these camps. Instead, they can spend time with their children as someone else collects the firewood for them. Just three dollars allows one woman to not have to leave the camp and be exposed to rape and attack.

Potterwatch in Burma
Like Voldemort’s regime that attacked all “mudbloods,” the military junta dictatorship in Burma continues to attack ethnic minorities in Eastern Burma by burning their villages and killing everyone there.

Like Kingsley’s warning to everyone at the Weasley’s wedding: “The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming” and like Potterwatch’s ability to use radio to protect the truth, we are supplying villages with radios. When a village is attacked, they can radio a neighboring village to let them know that they are likely to be next. This will give the neighboring village enough time to hide and save their lives. While each radio costs 600 dollars, STAND and the Genocide Intervention Network have calculated that all it takes is 5 dollars to grant radio access to one family.

So once again, please join us this December 3 by giving something up and donating that money right here to this incredible cause! AND PLEASE get others to join us in this cause! If you’d like to take it a step further and find creative ways to raise money, please email standfast@thehpalliance.org and discuss here.

In honor of the character Lily Potter and all that she has taught us, in honor of the mothers of Darfur, in honor of all those in the Order and the DA that fought for freedom of Muggleborns, and in honor of those who share our humanity and are in dire need, your contribution will make a world of difference.