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Able to go back home
Bahai and Oure Cassoni are surreal places. As we ride full speed on our Toyotas across the desert, seeing rebels racing next to us, it seems like I am in a movie. The harshness of the environment quickly dissolves any illusion. I was thirsty every minute I was out...
Pictures from Day 10
Action: Help the World Food Program
Humanitarian organizations want to be giving the people of Darfur more food, and quicker. With the rough economy, rising food costs, and insecurity, they need your help to do so. We know that our own economy is not doing so well, but we all still eat enough food....
Darfur Athlete Profile: Husna
Download a printable copy Husna Head of Household Camp Oure Cassoni Sudanese Husna carries the blue UNHCR card which states how many family members are registered, and therefore, how much food they will recieve this month for 5. Who knows how many unregistered people...
Per person per day
.04 cups sugar = 31 .07lbs cereal = 116 .05 cups oil = 96 .17 cups yellow split peas = 114 .47lbs grain = 660 Total: 1017 1017 calories per day is what a person at camp Oure Cassoni gets. They get that, if they do not share with other refugees that are not registered...
Hungry, Dependent, Stuck
We spent seven days straight in Camp Oure Cassoni and not once did we see a person or a family eating. When asked what they had eaten that day, many replied, just tea. Yet we have seen women carrying jugs of water from stations to their homes daily. We have seen two...
Pictures from Day 9
L’équipe de i-ACT visite le camp de Oure Cassoni en compagnie de Mia Farrow
La journée a commencé à la périphérie du camp dans la zone C où de nombreuses habitations ont été avalées par le sable. Traditionnellement, les populations du Nord du tchad construisent des maisons en pisé, et de ce fait, lorsqu’ils sont arrivés ici, et comme il...
7 ème jour
“L’HUMANITE avant la Politique. Pourquoi devrions-nous accorder aux leaders politiques une voix plus importante qu’à Maha? Maha pense que les êtres humains passent avant la politique et que cela devrait être notre priorité. Nos leaders mondiaux...