Stop Genocide NowOur e-magazine from the i-ACT team with updates, and a look into our current efforts to spread awareness about what is happening in Sudan.
This Sunday is World Refugee Day. This year’s theme is “Home: They can take my Home but not my Future”. Learn more about how you can be a part of it. Read more here
I will start by apologizing for the following lengthy post, as I took the content from author Paul Rogat Loeb’s “Soul of a Citizen.” As much as I wanted to paraphrase, all of his words seemed too important. “Virtually all of America’s most effective historical movements met with repeated frustration and failure before making significant […]
I can remember the two days we spent with Amira so well. It was burning hot and very dry for the middle of the rainy season. Oure Cassoni had seen only two days of raindrops, hardly enough to refill reserves for the rest of the year. Her skin was so radiant, voice confident, and she […]
What would happen if one of finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written, on one of the most valuable violins ever made, played for forty-five minutes in busy metro station in D.C.? Would people stop and listen? Would they care or even notice? Do people have the […]
Change.org is holding it’s 2nd round of voting for the “Top 10 Ideas for Change in America.” Go to CHANGE.org to vote today! Jerry Fowler, President of the Save Darfur Coalition, is asking the Obama Administration to adopt a Peace Surge for Darfur. In doing so, Save Darfur is participating in a contest run by […]
Issue 16: June 2010 June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations Refugee Agency theme is Home: They can take my Home but not my Future. Join the movement working to make sure that our Sudanese friends have the future they want, a future back at home. Write a Letter to the Editor, gather […]
Only weeks ago, we were enveloped into the eyes of Fatna (view video here) as she described bombs falling from the sky and bullets hounding her family of seven as she struggled to keep them together in their journey to safety. No food, no water, nothing but the clothes on their back. They now live […]
Update: Darfur refugees who have been waiting for three weeks at the border of Chad-Sudan are being relocated to existing refugee camps near Guereda. When we were last visiting our friends, Adam, Yakoub, and Fatne in Kounougo, there were 16,188 residents. Mile held 13,500. Together there is room for no more than 10,000 more of […]
On a very recent article by CNN, president of Sudan al-Bashir is quoted as saying that less than 10,000 people have died and less than 500,000 have been displaced by the five-year crisis in the region of Darfur. Reading this, it makes me want to burst out laughing, but what stops me is knowing that, […]
As the team begins to share the experiences that they have started to encounter from Chad on yet another trip the word genocide has really taken on a true meaning for me. I realize how much this hits home when two people that have forever changed your life are on the ground in unsafe conditions. […]