Hello Lars! It’s great to see your name and comment. I still feel so attached to our O.net family and miss everyone a lot. We are definitely coming with the intention of deepening our relationships and making these relationships count now. There are so many people that want to help! We want to go beyond […]
Category: Before i-ACT
This year, Gabriel and KTJ spend a few extra days in Chad before sending their first i-ACT video. We collect their thoughts and impressions of N’djameena, and gather up excitement as they head East to N’djameena. They finally arrive in Guereda and rejoin Hala at the doorstep to their first refugee camp visit during the trip!
Meanwhile, Joshua and Jeremiah depart Los Angeles to join them in Chad! They arrive a few days later, anxious to hit the ground running.
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Hey Teresa! Yeah, I do go up and down a lot; it’s not all bad, but being so involved at this very personal level I get to see positive results of action and the negative results of inaction. Around the US, I have seen how lives, especially young ones, have been changed by being exposed […]
Dear Isaac, Larry, Nancy, Monica, Ali, and the Crossler Peer Helpers! Thank you for your support and encouragement as i-ACT begins once again; and from all corners of the world: Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Ghana. As I said in my journal entry from today, this experience is your experience. Ali, thank you so much for […]
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Going back to see friends.
13 January 2008 We just landed in Europe, after the first big jump, with a few more jumps ahead of us before we get to the refugee camps in Eastern Chad. Everything is so expensive here at the Paris airport! My diet-soda, one of my last ones before being diet-soda-less for three weeks in Chad, […]
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Charles De Galle, aeroport de Paris
13 January 08 One step closer to N’DJamena, and one step closer to meeting friends face to face who I have met through my teammates. I am eager to see for myself what the capital looks like, and hear the sounds of a city that, like the East and Darfur, has been in turmoil for […]