We haven’t received day 10 blog entries from Gabriel and Stacey, so please post any comments you have on day 10’s video here for the time being. EDIT: Gabriel’s post has arrived! Please post comments to him there.
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Category: i-ACT 2: Dec 21, 2006 – Jan 4, 2007
i-ACT is Interactive Activism:
- We use technology to reject the standard excuse of inaction – ignorance
- We debunk the myth that ordinary people cannot stop genocide
- We replace statistics with names, faces and stories
The age of bystanders should long have passed – we have entered an age of knowledge which empowers us to protect. Join us as an upstander. Become an i-ACTivist.
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A New Day (Day 9 from Stacey)
(written 12/29/06 2.47pm) Greetings, Today, we headed back to our “new camp” which is the third one we’ve spent time visiting. Each camp has a particular feel to it. This one is vast in size, has many older people and there is a more anxious sense from many of the adults. Gabriel found a tall, […]
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day 9 from Gabriel
(written 12/29/06 9.38pm) We’re getting ready to head out to another camp, one we have not visited before. This will be our fourth. Each morning, when we get in our car and we see the blue gates open, I feel some excitment. The drives to the camps are not boring; on the contrary, there is […]
Gabriel and Stacey try very hard to reply to every comment posted. To make their replies easier for you to locate, we’re going to post them on the main blog itself, as part of each day’s blog entry. So just keep watching the latest blog entries to catch their replies. Or you can search for […]
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day 8 from stacey
Friends, Today we left the camp we had been at for three days and travelled to a new camp.In case you are wondering why we never name the camps we visit, it is a precaution we take to safe guard ourselves and the refugees who so bravely tell their stories. So, today we went to […]
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day 8 from gabriel
(written 12/27/06–8:17pm) Days are flying by now. We have a hectic schedule, from the time we open our eyes in the morning, until we close them to go to sleep, late at night. There are so many things, little and small, that have to get done everyday, so that we can send you the daily […]
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First Day of School
We woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to go to school. It felt just like it did as a child. I was filled with anticipation and hope and sleep as we headed to “our” first day of school. I pictured a few dedicated children gathered around a dedicated teacher in a small […]
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The view from the hill
Blog, 12/27/06 7:52am, Eastern Chad Not far from the refugee camp school, there is a pretty little hill that just calls to be climbed. After a couple of ours of looking in at school activities, I asked Stace and Ali if they wanted to walk to the top of the hill. I thought it would […]
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Rough day
Today was a rought day out. My day being rough means that, emotionally, it was not easy to handle everything I was experiencing for the few hours I was out there. For the people I was visiting, it is their daily lives. Mustafa, in his serene, calming voice, told us of how the displaced people […]
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Thanks!
Thanks to everyone for following us on this journey. You have no idea how good it feels to have your support. And thank you to our amazing i-ACT Team at home, making it easy for us to send all of these words and images. Yuen Lin, Carolyn, and Tsai Yi–you are vey much appreciated and […]