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YL’s journal (day 3)
Dear friends and family, Today we left N’djamena for Abeche. The day started with some drama at N’djamena airport, where we found that our luggage was way above the weight limit of 15kg per person. Mind you, it wasn’t that we brought a lot of extra...
Instability, as usual.
We joke around with agencies’ staff, “The rebels wait for us to come, and then they make a move.” For me, sometimes joking and actually saying what I don’t want to happen helps relieve some of the tension, and I’m hoping that maybe it...
Its Worth Every Hurtle
I would love to be taking a nap in the plane right now. We are 23,000 feet above the arid, Chadian desert. Finally, a step closer to the refugee camps. A step that was quite exhausting. But it wouldn’t be Chad if it was easy. After sleeping for about two hours, we...
Pictures from today
Actions Day 2
We need to be loud and consistent with our voices for Darfur. Wake Up, Brush Your Teeth, Call Your Leaders provides consistency if we all pledge to contact our leaders at least once a day. Today, take your consistency a step beyond. The ENOUGH Project has put forth...
Day 2: Too Late to Save Many
For now we are in N’Djamena for another day, preparing our luggage and cutting out everything we once considered a necessity. There is a fuel shortage in the East, and we might not get away with the extra weight we usually do. We head out to collect our permits in the...
Sand over NDJ
G’s Journal–Day 2 – 24 March 2009 – N’Djamena We woke up to find the city enveloped by a strange fog. NDJ already has an eerie feeling to it, and the fog just adds some mystery and unease to the experience. It’s not the kind of fog we get...