Stop Genocide NowGabriel co-founded Stop Genocide Now in 2005, which gave birth to i-ACT in 2009.
He became involved in the situation in Darfur out of a sense of personal responsibility. He believes the power of community and compassion, combined with personal empowerment, can bring about meaningful change.
I miss my family. My wife, Zahara, has been sending me text messages to our satellite phone and e-mails to the one account we download now and then. I’ve been away for a week now. It is the first time in four years that I miss Mimi’s soccer game. Zahara told me that she scored […]
The kind people at the WFP assisted us in getting on their N’Djamena to Abeche flight. As I’m writing this, I’m sitting on the right hand seat of row six, right over the wing of this eighteen seater. On Chris’ side of the plane, you can see “United Nations” on the wing. It feels so […]
It is too late, or too early, to go to sleep now. We stayed up setting up the upload for day two of i-ACT. Before that, we did the final edits. It has not been easy here in N’D. The city rations the electricity, so we have to be very careful about always charging our […]
Today’s Action Tell your friends about i-ACT. Talk to at least five friends about the crisis in Darfur and invite them to participate in i-ACT. Be a part of the solution. Let’s spread the word. –Rachel
11/21 10:57pm Hey everyone! I just read comments from quite a few of you. It was good to hear from Redondo and North Torrance High! Andre, thanks for the support. JC, Gina, mi Zahara…it’s great to hear from you, and I take the words to heart. Clarity is Power, Gina, and I hope some of […]
11/21 For my paying job, I work with abused children and their families, doing in-home therapy. We are trained to look at risk factors and have a very low tolerance for anything that endangers a child. Seeing some of the poverty here (and I know that I only saw it through the window of a […]
11/20 8:41pm In N’d, drivers in cars and motorcycles are very generous with their honking. They will honk every few meters, to make a turn, to announce their arrival, to speed up, to slow down, and to do a number of many other things I have not figured out yet; they have their own code. […]
11/20/05 Hello everyone: This blog might be out of sequence, since I sent some other entries through our sat modem to Rachel to post, and now I have a chance at the local internet cafe. Today is Sunday, a day of rest in Chad. The streets are quiet and empty, for the most part, although […]
11/19 10:10pm Today was good. What would seem an insignificant event back home, becomes a monumental success in N’d. We were able to send e-mail from our laptop, through the satellite modem, to Yuen-Lin in Palo Alto, CA. It was exciting! The champagne would have been flowing, if we had any. Yuen-Lin, our tech guru […]
11/19 5:30pm The city has a strange feeling to it, but I think that a lot of that might come from my own filters, the way I interpret what I’m taking in. Our friends here, the ones I have mentioned in earlier posts, are very friendly and warm, and they go out of their ways […]