OUR BLOG
05 Feb 08 – Morning in Libreville
The clouds roll in heavy over the ocean and reach the base with a scattered thunder. The sounds of Gabon, including drumming last night, are refreshing after the sounds of war. We are waiting for our flight to Paris, then to LA. For my sisters and brothers in...
Photos – Evacuated from Chad to Gabon
Team Current location: Libreville, Gabon. More photos at our flickr...
4 Feb 08 – Evacuated from Chad to Gabon
Attention
Before leaving California to embark on this journey (and that’s the word that most fits for my trips out to the refugee camps–journey), I told others on the on-the-ground team that it would be a life-changing experience. I could never have thought it...
4 Feb 08 – at French Military Base
In all the chaos, I have forgotten to take my malaria pills a few times on this trip. But tonight, as we wait outside of the registration office, at the French Military Base lit by a single fluorescent bulb, I remember to take it. This is the worst the mosquitoes have...
Spending the night in N’D
Hello Friends y Familia: We have not made it out of Chad, but we are in much safer place than the hotel, which was close to being in the middle of the fighting. As stated before, French military personnel extracted us from the hotel and brought us to their military...
03 Feb 08
The phones begin to ring, again, finally. Since last night around 10pm there has been no one who could reach us. We received several emails from people letting us know they were trying to get through to us. “Cent sept, 107!” First in French; then again in...
Evacuated by the French
The Team is Evacuated.
Gabriel, Katie-Jay and team have now been evacuated from the hotel in N’djamena to a French base! Stay tuned from more updates. More pictures can be found on our flickr...