Sanctus Real get behind African Leadership's Mocha Club missions work

AMERICAN rock band Sanctus Real are currently raising funds through four African Leadership's Mocha Club. The funds will be used for relief efforts in Darfur, Sudan, where more than 300,000 people have been killed in the last two years and more than two million people have been displaced. Future efforts will lend support for an orphanage in Kenya where babies have been abandoned because of AIDS, building a school for 380 children in the Sudan, building a village for and rehabilitating young women who were former sex slaves under the Rebel forces in Northern Uganda, funding an orphanage for 134 street children in Kampala, Uganda and building a school amidst the largest slum in East Africa for 400 children in Kibera, Kenya. Said Sanctus Real frontman Matt Hammitt, "In every way that we can, we're to give back what God's given us. As a band, we were looking for an organisation that wasn't trying to pay artists to help. We just wanted to help because we believe in something. With African Leadership, we found a team of people that has really fast, effective ways of getting relief to the people where they need it-like in Darfur where there is a civil war going on and tens of thousands of people are being brutally murdered. People are fleeing to the hills and just don't have the resources to survive. Little dollars are providing big necessities for these people."