Charity: McGrady Changes His Number For Darfur Cause
Hooped Up | July 13, 2009
Rockets guard Tracy McGrady will change his uniform number to No. 3 to promote his “3 points Darfur” initiative, with an announcement expected this week.
McGrady put in the paperwork for the uniform change midway through last season and had received league approval. He was making the switch to his high school number to bring attention to his Darfur Dream Team campaign and 3 Points documentary,
Newly acquired Trevor Ariza will wear No. 1 but could not show the uniform at the news conference last week while details of McGrady’s uniform change were completed.
The Darfur Dream Team enlists athletes to help raise funds for schools in Chad for Darfur refugees in a sister school program with schools in the United States. The documentary 3 Points follows McGrady on his trip to Sudan and Chad in the summer of 2007.
To find out more about this great cause, please visit darfurdreamteam.org.
Check out the trailer to Tracy McGrady’s documentary “3 Points Darfur” after the jump.
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i think our governments should do some more proactive task in Darfur. the UN is not doing a very good job in resolving the crisis in Darfur.
the internation community should be more proactive in dealing with the situation in Darfur. we should not only send food aids but we also need to influence the political policies in the Darfur region `