The team returns to camp Goz Amer and is welcomed by old friends.
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Return to Camp Goz Amer
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The SGN Team will be sharing their personal take on Darfur, activism, and their own lives as Darfur/Sudan activists. Leave comments, and let’s make it a conversation!
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Do you remember your first?
If you type the word magnificent into a Thesaurus, in return you will get a list of adjectives that will describe my day. If you type the name Umbda into the Thesaurus, nothing will come back in return. However, the words that could be there are; amazing, leader, servant, savior, teacher, inspiring, courageous, moving, loving, […]
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Welcome to Kou Kou
The i-ACT team finally arrives in Kou Kou, the forward operating base for UNHCR in Camp Goz Amer.
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Flirting With Danger
My return trip to Chad has been a bit surreal. The last time I was here, I was evacuated from my N’Djamena hotel by French military in an armored HV after two days of rebel attacks on the city – and one very intense moment as the rebels plastered our hotel with their machine guns. […]
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The Eastern Chad Diet
I like food, and I think about it a lot. When I think about it back home, though, it’s not a very mindful thinking, if that makes any sense. It’s more of a gut exploration of what, from the seemingly limitless options, I will chose as my next meal. Out here, the options are very […]
The i-ACT 11 team introduces themselves and talks about their mission.
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Stuck in the Capital
Despite their best efforts, the team is still stuck in N’Djamena after some airplane trouble. On top of that, it looks like only some of the luggage will make it to Kou Kou the following day. Traveling through Chad can be unpredictable at best and purgatory-like at worst but it pales in comparison to refugees’ […]
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Truth Be Damned
It must be safe. A few thousand refugees from the border area with Chad are returning to Darfur. The numbers seem large, maybe inflated, but something is happening, and there must be truth in what the Government of Sudan says about the stability of that troubled land. Right? That’s not exactly true, but the […]
A day in the capital does a job on you. Fighting the jetlag and tiredness from having spent 24hrs making the journey here, we then spent a whole day doing final touches on permits, getting a cell phone (actually, service for two cell numbers — always good to have a backup!), and exchanging money. A small stack of one-hundred […]
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G’s Travel Notes #1
It’s never simple, even on our eleventh trip. It took us about 24 hours to make it to N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, from when we departed Los Angeles. We travel heavy, bringing all kinds of communications equipment, educational material, and sports stuff. After the ten hour flight to Europe, I was looking forward […]