Stop Genocide NowGabriel returns to the refugee camps on the Chad – Darfur border, this time with Connie and Yuen-Lin. Follow our journey as we visit with the surviving victims of this genocide and hear their stories. Take action to bring positive change to the region so the refugees can return safely to their homes.
Interviews begin in Day 2 with a powerful statement by Ann Mayman – Senior Officer of the UN High Commission for Refugees – of the deteriorating situation on the ground in Eastern Chad.
Current genocide statistics (中文)
Today we started very early we wanted to walk to school with the kids, so we were there by 7:30.As always we were greeted like royalty. Alhafis, he was waiting, to show me a little car he had made out of some plastic bottle and you remember the little girl who showed me her homework? […]
If a person has experienced a lot of suffering for a prolonged period, one may expect it to leave a mark. If there has not been effective outside assistance in bringing peace to one’s homeland, one might at least be cautious towards outsiders. Not so with the people we have met and seen so far. […]
Today was a traveling day. Gabriel and I worked late, then around sunrise everyone switched to packing mode, and soon we were off to N’djamena airport. The streets of N’djamena were quiet and calm, and there were no soldiers in sight. Quite a change from the day before. The airport was also quiet when we […]
Hello Michael V! That is a great idea. I will go to Mansur tomorrow and ask him if you could have a drawing to make a t-shirt with. I brought some drawing material and will leave for him to keep, for future drawings. I think your t-shirt would be a good awareness tool, and then […]
Responses to Stace, Gina, Tere, Lisa G, and Melvita & Humberto.
Replies to Lars, Tere, Rachel, Azra, Meron, Gayle, Lisa G, Stacey and Mimi.
We slept just a little next to nothing last night. I feel pretty comfortable with the editing; it is even fun. I get to see all the video taken during the day, as I download it from the video cameras, so it’s another dose of beautiful faces (and some sad stories). But, it has not […]
Animo! Fue un dia de sentimientos muy encontrados! Por un lado la alegria que les da recibir una foto,verse en los videos que tambien ven ustedes ,y el gusto de invitarnos a sus casas,si asi se les pueda llamar, pero la desesperacion de no poder hacer nada de inmediato para mejorar su susituacion. Hoy nos […]
Man-forgotten Today was full of mixed emotions. Returning with our friend’s, Gabe showed them videos of earlier trips and what we were showing people back home. We told them that we were taking their message back, I felt terrible! They were thanking us for doing this. But all I could think was: IT’S NOT ENOUGH! […]
Scaaaaaaaaaaary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine. After all the emotions of the day we were driving back to the camp and were commenting on a bulldozer and steamroller that were on the side of the road, and that they were doing a very good job of flattening out the bumps to the dirt road, and also the ridiculous amount […]