11/21 For my paying job, I work with abused children and their families, doing in-home therapy. We are trained to look at risk factors and have a very low tolerance for anything that endangers a child. Seeing some of the poverty here (and I know that I only saw it through the window of a […]
Category: i-ACT 1: Nov 21 – Dec 10, 2005
Join Gabriel and Chis on i-ACT’s first trip to Chad. For 21 consecutive days, the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF) and StopGenocideNow.org will webcast the immediacy of the ongoing genocide in Darfur directly from the field with the new awareness campaign i-ACT (Interactive Activism).
i-ACT will travel to the Chad/Dafur border and visit refugee camps. Along with technical assistance from volunteers, they will use the power of the Internet to put a face to the mind-numbing numbers of dead, dying and displaced.
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The scenic route…by taxi
11/20 8:41pm In N’d, drivers in cars and motorcycles are very generous with their honking. They will honk every few meters, to make a turn, to announce their arrival, to speed up, to slow down, and to do a number of many other things I have not figured out yet; they have their own code. […]
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A Quiet Day
11/20/05 Hello everyone: This blog might be out of sequence, since I sent some other entries through our sat modem to Rachel to post, and now I have a chance at the local internet cafe. Today is Sunday, a day of rest in Chad. The streets are quiet and empty, for the most part, although […]
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Celebration!
11/19 10:10pm Today was good. What would seem an insignificant event back home, becomes a monumental success in N’d. We were able to send e-mail from our laptop, through the satellite modem, to Yuen-Lin in Palo Alto, CA. It was exciting! The champagne would have been flowing, if we had any. Yuen-Lin, our tech guru […]
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A slight unease…
11/19 5:30pm The city has a strange feeling to it, but I think that a lot of that might come from my own filters, the way I interpret what I’m taking in. Our friends here, the ones I have mentioned in earlier posts, are very friendly and warm, and they go out of their ways […]
11/19 It’s not easy typing on these French keyboard! It’s all moved around…or ours is :) Today is Saturday, and we are hoping to get all the tech kinks out of our system. We would like to see a little more around N’d, so we’ll see if we can get transportation for that. Right now, […]
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Friday in N’d
11/18 Hello everyone! We will have to enjoy life in N’djamena a little longer, at least through Monday. The satellite phone arrives Sunday night, and our press permit (we will be press!) will, we hope, be ready Monday morning. We went to the UNHCR today, and they are going to help us with the permit. […]
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More on N’djamena
11/18 We got to drive around town today, making it through traffic, which in size is not anything close to LA, but it is a lot more of an adventure. There are no working traffic lights, so drivers have to be quite offensively minded, if they want to make it far. There are many motorcycles […]
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E and Dr. F Making it Happen!
E and Dr. F came to meet us at the hotel lobby bar. We had to check out and were enjoying a cold and expensive coke (there are no diet cokes around! Oh well. I will survive, while drinking more sugar than I have in ages.) The two Indian gentlemen, with a warm smile on […]
It feels just a bit unreal to be sitting here in N’djamena, Chad. The hotel is next to a dark water lake, where you can see fishermen on their boats and, on the shores, farmers taking care of their tiny fields. On the other side of the lake, there are huts that seem to be […]