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Category: Day 7: Jan 25, 2008
Gabriel and Katie-Jay speak with Selma, a young Darfuri woman who shares her desire for better education, and her hope that the women of Darfur unite and mobilize to help one another. En Français »
Action
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We have finally arrived out to Eastern Chad. It has been an experience to say the least.. To get out of the capital city of N’Djamena we had to go through the all the red tape. We waited for two days to receive all the proper authorizations and signatures from the proper authorities. Then it […]
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The Unsung Heroes
This is a tribute to the team who has been making i-ACT happen behind the scenes. Each i-ACT field trip involves the labor and sacrifice of many individuals — in publicity, in content, in video editing, in web design and web programming, in IT management. These individuals, in my opinion, exemplify what it is to […]
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A bit about i-ACT Tech
Please allow me to say a bit about the area I am more familiar with, which is i-ACT tech. There are three main parts to the tech involved in bringing each day of i-ACT from Chad to you. One is getting the content (video, text, pictures) from there to here. The second is post-processing that […]
G’s Journal—day 7 I become attached to specific people I meet in the camps pretty easily, and I wonder if they feel the same. I like to think they do! Today we went back to Djabal Camp, and it already felt familiar. I knew that I would, with no problem, again find Oumer and want […]
Day 7 Only one day left in Djabal. I will be in Chad for a total of almost three weeks and its just not enough time with so many travel days. We met Adef and Achta’s family, as well as Oumar’s yesterday and today we go to school. But there is so much more to […]
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More pictures from today
