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More photos from Goz Amer
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A Dream Home
My dream i-ACT Expedition has always been to come to Eastern Chad, to these refugee camps, and help the refugees pack and go back to a peaceful home in Darfur. In my nightmares, I never thought I would be here for my 10th Expedition, with no packing day in sight....
iOnGround: Abdulaziz
Last December, we started iOnGround: Darfur Refugee Journalism. iOnGround puts cameras in the hands of refugees and communities displaced by violence. i-ACT shows them how to use the cameras and allows them to photograph and record their life in a camp. iOnGround is...
Mariam
We met Mariam on her way to the wadi, the river that runs on one side of the camp. She and her niece, Hawa, were carrying buckets and a digging tool to go collect mud for the building of a latrine at their home. We later found out that Hawa was also carrying her...
Photos from Camp Goz Amer
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Returning
Today I met Mia Farrow — not the actress, the refugee Mia Farrow. She can’t be more than four years old. Her older sister, another beautiful girl just as Mia, is Susan — yes, like Susan Rice. They are both daughters of one of the camp’s Umbdas,...
The Team Makes it to Camp Goz Amer
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Breathing Sand
I have a cold which includes a headache, and I’m feeling miserable in one hundred degrees plus weather, and I’m breathing this fine sand with every step I take, and then we make it to Adef’s house. His two youngest boys, Abdelmouni and Gabriel, also...
Photos: Final Day in Djabal
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