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From the families: “Thank you!!”

Thank You For Your Presence We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the beautiful people who worked determinedly to help ensure that our beloved Gabriel, KTJ, Jeremiah and Joshua could make it back home safely. On Saturday, February 2, Javi received a call from his brother Gabriel, a few minutes after surviving […]

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In Los Angeles…thinking about Chad and Darfur (Feb 8, 08)

Hi friends and familia:  This is just a short note to let you know we are back home.  I always felt connected to home and to safety thanks to all of your support in messages, prayers, thoughts, and actions.  I feel lucky and privileged to have a huge, loving community around me.  You are very […]

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g’s Journal—last from Africa

5 February 2008 According to plans, I would have been home three days ago. I know that I must have sounded redundant and boring when telling my three travel partners that many time, if not always, things just do not go as planed in Chad. This journey has taken this notion to the extreme. Clichés […]

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Out of Africa (almost)

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05 Feb 08 – Morning in Libreville

The clouds roll in heavy over the ocean and reach the base with a scattered thunder. The sounds of Gabon, including drumming last night, are refreshing after the sounds of war. We are waiting for our flight to Paris, then to LA. For my sisters and brothers in Portland, I will be home on the […]

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Photos – Evacuated from Chad to Gabon

Team Current location: Libreville, Gabon. More photos at our flickr site.

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4 Feb 08 – Evacuated from Chad to Gabon

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Attention

Before leaving California to embark on this journey (and that’s the word that most fits for my trips out to the refugee camps–journey), I told others on the on-the-ground team that it would be a life-changing experience.  I could never have thought it would reach this level of gut, mind, heart, and soul shaking that […]

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4 Feb 08 – at French Military Base

In all the chaos, I have forgotten to take my malaria pills a few times on this trip. But tonight, as we wait outside of the registration office, at the French Military Base lit by a single fluorescent bulb, I remember to take it. This is the worst the mosquitoes have been on the entire […]

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Spending the night in N’D

Hello Friends y Familia: We have not made it out of Chad, but we are in much safer place than the hotel, which was close to being in the middle of the fighting. As stated before, French military personnel extracted us from the hotel and brought us to their military base. It is well protected […]