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Call on G8 leaders to Stand Up for Darfur
Hello friend and family of Stop Genocide Now, SGN is joining forty-six other organizations in demanding that our world leaders at this year’s G8 Summit in Hokkaido, Japan, focus and act on one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. The G8 Summit...
What I Learned
So, by now, you know that we weren’t able to visit any refugee camps. To echo the chorus, obviously it’s extremely disappointing. Colin and I were both looking forward to meeting the people that we, and thousands of students, had been working for, and bringing their...
Get Involved!
Here’s a summary of all the actions from i-ACT 5 (and more!). Keep the pressure on and strong! Locally Tell 5 Friends (or more!) about i-ACT: Send them to our website and send them a story of one of our friends This coming weekend, bring the faces and stories of...
And now the Rain.
It’s a quiet early morning in N’Djamena. It’s not the eerie, bad, thick quiet that we could almost feel in February. There are fishermen out in the river, moving oh so slowly. The moon, looking full, is hanging low over on the Cameroon side. We made it to the capital,...
Colin’s Journal
It looks like there’s no longer a chance that we can make it out to refugee camps this time. After spending so much time getting permits, talking to officials, and waiting for flights that never left, it’s frustrating to see it slip from our fingers when we came close...
第六天 : 区域性动乱
Scott， Colin ，KTJ與Gabriel 起床後，懷着可以登機到 Goz Beida 的希望。我們急不及待想探望距離市中心十五分鐘路程的Djabal難民營內的朋友。可惜航班被取消了，當地有戰鬥和搶略的消息。Bouba 和我們的駕駛員Umar 都無恙，但是從他們的語調可以聽出情況比以往都嚴重。 我們在Abeche 不會有危險，但卻非常擔心難民營內的朋友，他們的安危再次因突襲而受到威脅。戰爭的聲音使他們想起種族清洗和瞄準他們的暴力。我們很幸福，因為我們早晚都會回家與家人團敍。但是這些難民就只能在難民營內重新開始。...
Commitment and ACTION
At the end of writing this I realized I had started a short diatribe, and so if you don’t get to the end, I thought I would add the punch line here: Even though i-ACT5 did not make it into the camps, PLEASE, for all the innocent civilians caught in this crisis,...
Update from Abeche – Tuesday 17 June – 7:49am
Hello friends: Following on the theme for World Refugee Day (June 20), we decided to take on that general theme for our trip: Protection. We were to focus on what protection means to the millions of displaced, and, when visiting the camps, show how the refugees feel...
第五天 : 乍得东部的紧张局势
今天的開始算滿順利，我們把越來越重的行李塞滿了車子，聯絡到Bouba與我們的駕駛員Umar，請他們今天稍後到Goz Beida 去接我們飛機。我們先停總督俯去蓋一個章，然後直奔機場。稱過行李的重量和簽過乘客名單後，航班卻宣佈停飛。 根劇UNHCR 的消息，當地有不明朗的軍事行動，所有到當地的車輛和航班都暫時取消。當我們正在張羅今晚的棲身之所時，看到幾輛載滿士兵和武器的卡車南下，向當地進發，顯然是武裝支緩。起碼，我們在Abeche 是暫時安全的。 Suzanne 來Abeche...