Categories
Day 7: June 21, 2009 Take Action

Day 7 Action: Fathers of the Day

Today is Father’s Day. Around the world families will come together to celebrate the men who have given so much to their children. Looking out across yesterday’s World Refugee Day celebration, I didn’t see many men, it was mostly the colorful scarves of women and children. The men who did survive the violent attacks on […]

Categories
Day 7: June 21, 2009

Focused and Determined

Yesterday was World Refugee Day, and the people of Camp Djabal’s lives were intertwined with people from around the world in real-time. It was without a doubt the most important work I’ve ever done in my life. I haven’t had time to really process or absorb what I have been taking in on this trip, […]

Categories
Day 7: June 21, 2009

What will it take?

The team here on the ground has been wracking its collective brain with a simple question, how do we get people to care?  I know, it’s not simple at all.  So, we make it more manageable and ask, how do we get enough people to care just enough? Care just a little? And from caring, […]

Categories
Day 7: June 21, 2009

This is Why I am Here

Yesterday was World Refugee Day. My friends got to speak to the world. Directly to anyone who logged in. To anyone who was following any of the many twitter updates. To anyone who was on the live chat – anywhere in the world. We had spent the days leading up to WRD preparing for the […]

Categories
Day 7: June 21, 2009

Pictures from Day 7