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Tulsa teen cooks up plan to aid Darfur

by Pat Coate | December 27, 2006
"When we heard about this, we knew we could do something about it."
- Gena Pollack, drive organizer

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA - Gena Pollack grimaces when she talks about the violence against women in Darfur.

After spending three weeks at a B'nai Brith Youth Organization seminar in Los Angeles, she and a friend decided to help raise money for solar cookers for women in the Iridimi camp in Chad, across the border from Sudan.

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