December 14, 2010 is the 60th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Refugee Agency. In support of their work to protect refugees worldwide displaced by war, violence, or persecution, join The Blue Key Campaign. Today there are nearly 43 million, nearly the combined populations of New York and Texas, who were forced from […]
Category: i-ACT 9: Dec 2010
i-ACT Expedition #9: Day 11
Watch the 11th video from our current i-ACT trip.
Archive of Darfuri Refugee Town Hall
Missed the Live Refugee Town Hall? Watch the recording at iactivism.org/live
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Pictures from Day 5
We always ask the people we meet what they miss about Darfur. The refugees have given a diversity of answers that paint a beautiful picture of a calm and peaceful life of agrarians and villagers. They speak about their fields, the herds that the boys watched over during the day, and the marketplace where they […]
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The genocide in Darfur has waged so long that the children who once lived there are beginning to forget their memories of home. It’s not cheap to wage such a long campaign of destruction. The government of Sudan is financially supported by companies like PetroChina, the worst of the major oil companies funding the genocide. […]
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Pictures from Day 4
When we met Raouda in January 2009 we asked her what she missed about Darfur. She described a small animal that had cotton inside it, a stuffed animal! Something almost every child has connected with at one time or another during their life. Several people sent us animals to give to Raouda and the other […]
All of our sleeping has been so off. We’re awake in the middle of the night, and we just crash in the afternoon, when we get back from the camp. Today we spent six hours walking around Djabal and having conversations with refugees of all ages. We often end up talking about education, even if […]
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Reasons #14-20
Tesa, age 5 Zahara, age 12 Nura, age 13 Rashida, age 10 Yahia, age 6 Alhazafi, age 10 Asha and her 8 month old twins, Kamal and Jamal