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ABOUT DESIGNERS FOR DARFUR DesignersForDarfur founder, designer Malcolm Harris in association with Fashion Television and Steve Madden, Inc. hosted a charity fashion show on February 9, 2007 to raise awareness as well as funds on behalf of the Save Darfur Coalition. This was truly an inspiring and wonderful opportunity for the fashion community to band together to show their commitment and support for ending the atrocities of genocide taking place in Darfur. For this amazing event each designer created a complete ensemble in Red, Yellow, Green or Black (or any combination of these symbolic colors of Africa)that will now be auctioned of via our co-sponsor Ebay Giving Works with 100% of all profits going directly to the Save Darfur Coalition. The entire event and its participants will also be featured on an upcoming episode of Fashion Television dedicated to DesignersForDarfur and the crisis in Darfur. This event was also covered by countless media and news outlets. For more information regarding the crisis in Darfur, please go to www.SaveDarfur.org; for information regarding DesignersForDarfur please contact us via email at DesignersForDarfur@DesignersForDarfur.com and/or by telephone at 212-252-3909. Please, do whatever you can to Save Darfur – the people of Darfur are counting on us!!! *** HERE IT IS *** DESIGNERS FOR DARFUR AS RECENTLY SEEN ON FASHION TELEVISION... THANKS TO ALL OF THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT ASSISTED IN BRINGING THIS AMAZING EVENT TO LIFE... NOW JOIN THE MOVEMENT - SAVE DARFUR!!!

Current Situation in Darfur According to recent estimates, at least 400,000 people have died in Darfur since the genocide began in February of 2003. It is impossible to know what the final number will be, however, as the genocide is still taking place today. What is known is that there are approximately 3.5 million men, women and children in the western Darfur region of Sudan trying to survive the Sudanese government-sponsored campaign of violence and forced starvation. These innocent victims are essentially on life support, their continued existence dependent on U.S. and international humanitarian aid and the presence of African Union peacekeepers. Despite the best efforts of the under-funded and under-manned African Union peacekeeping force, attacks have increased in recent months, leading to tens of thousands of new arrivals at refugee camps in Darfur and across the border in Chad. This increase in violence has put the humanitarian life-support system on life-support itself, and the nightmare scenario of a complete security collapse and the spike in death-rate that will surely follow now appears to be not a possibility, but a probability. UN official Jan Egland has previously said that he believes the death-rate could rise as high as 100,000 per month if security collapses. The situation in Darfur may soon test that theory.