To commemorate UN World Refugee Day on June 20, Georgetown and Duke Universities’ students and alumni, businessman Ted Leonsis, and NBA star Tracy McGrady, have jointly announced that they have raised funds to sponsor a Darfuri refugee camp school in Chad. Georgetown and Duke Universities launched a partnership to support the Darfuri schools at their January 30 basketball game at the Verizon Center. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were among the fans in attendance, along with Leonsis and McGrady.

Students at Centaurus High School in Lafayette, Colorado have joined the Darfur Dream Team’s Sister Schools Program to connect with their peers in refugee camps in Chad. After teaching a lesson on genocide, language arts teacher Terry Fostvedt noticed her students were especially interested in the crisis in Darfur. “They were understandably overwhelmed and shocked by the information about what’s going on,” said Fostvedt.

On March 11, 2010, students at Huntington Beach High School in California held a rally on campus to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur. The event, which was sponsored by the school’s Operation Save Darfur Club, featured a speech and book signing by the authors of They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, a memoir by three Sudanese “Lost Boys” who fled to the United States to escape the violence in Darfur. The rally was part of a larger “Week for Darfur” series held in collaboration with the HB Reads program and Orange County for Darfur.

This week the Darfur Dream Team's Sister Schools Program marks the first anniversary of its launch with the announcement that the program has succeeded in raising more than $300,000 to support six schools in Djabal refugee camp in eastern Chad. The program has also received another $300,000 in pledges to support six more schools in a second camp.