Haboba means Grandmother. Ha-Boo-Ba. I love the sound of it. You can’t help but smile when you say it. Today we met Khaltouma’s grandmother, Hawa, and yesterday we met Rahma’s grandmother. She is blind and lives with a young girl who takes care of her. We looked for Raouda and her grandmother, Hassayna. In the […]
Author: Katie-Jay
Katie-Jay keeps i-ACT running on several levels. Much of her work entails coordinating partnerships with other grassroots organizations and implementing the campaigns developed by Gabriel and seeing through the details. She graduated from Portland State University with a BA in Sociology and a focus on Community Development. She has previously worked as a community organizer in Thailand, Guatemala, and with grassroots organizations across the United States.
There has been an ongoing discussion between Rahma, his friends and our team. Rahma’s favorite team is Real Madrid. In his hut, he showed us posters of the team, and today he wears the jersey. He prefers Real Madrid over Barcelona because of Cristiano Rinaldo, “He is the best player, for me. Maybe not for […]
The people of Djabal are so beautiful and welcoming. Each time we return I feel more and more at home in this community. People remember my name and they ask about Yuen Lin, Ian, and Eric, all of whom spent many days in this camp. They always thank those who have come before and hope […]
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Through Interaction
“It’s only through interaction that we learn.” Oscar is an animated and charismatic individual, but that is not what struck me most about him, Delphine, and other HCR (in Chad the ‘UN’ is dropped and they are known as ‘Hache-C-R’) workers in N’Djamena. It was their desire to connect people, and to be connected to […]
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7:00am, Leaving for Chad
Drop off the dog. Pick up the last of our food. Get a coffee. I am running the last of our errands for the trip, my sixth and Gabriel’s ninth. An American music teacher is speaking on NPR about his students at the Kabul Music Academy in Afghanistan. The reporter asks what kinds of students […]
What: A Live Webcast of Darfur Refugee Town Hall Meeting When: Sunday, December 12th, 2010 — 10-11am Eastern, 7-8am Pacific (4pm Chad-time) Where: From a refugee camp close to the Chad-Darfur border. See live webcast at: http://iactivism.org Didn’t we take care of Darfur years ago? Isn’t it more important to deal with the North-South conflict, […]
Update: Thanks to you, we reached our goal of $1,000! Check out what the refugees film and photograph during i-ACT’s Expedition #9! This coming December, our i-ACT team will be returning to the Darfuri refugee camps on the Chad-Darfur border. Help us expand and enrich the mission by creating a space for direct reporting by […]
UNSC Visit Praised Amid Call for Intensified Protection Efforts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 19, 2010 Contact: Jonathan Hutson, 857-919-5130, jhutson@enoughproject.org Janessa Goldbeck, 202-559-7405, goldbeck@genocideintervention.net Ann Brown, 301-633-4193, abrown@savedarfur.org Susan Morgan, 617-797-0451, susan@paxcommunicaitons.org Joshua Berkman, jberkman@ajws.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the reported targeting by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) of displaced Darfuris who […]
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This is Darfur: Guisma’s Story Guisma’s eyes have seen what no child should ever see. Her home was destroyed. Brothers and sisters died. Most of her life lived as a refugee, with little hope for a safe and nurturing future — but Guisma still smiles. Guisma is Darfur, bombed and oppressed — but still beautiful […]
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Reflections from MY HOME
“The MY HOME exhibit for Darfur is deeply moving and informative. Certainly for me to have my children with me, who’ve watched me through the years advocate on behalf for the people of Darfur. Now as young adults, their personal experience meeting you, Gabriel and Katie-Jay, along with the powerful exhibit was moving. When my […]