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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 […]

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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, […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Day 7: June 21, 2009

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i-ACT 8: June 15 - 24, 2009 Take Action

Live video from Chad!

Check it out! We’re about to start a 2-way chat with the Obama school children in Camp Djabal!!! Watch live streams there from other refugee camps around the world and learn more about the situation in Chad, Syria and Pakistan.

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Day 6: June 20, 2009 Take Action

Day 6 Action: Act in Solidarity

Today is World Refugee Day. i-ACT is providing live video feed from refugee camps in Chad and there are events all around the world to honor the lives and the daily struggles of refugees. Each moment you spend getting to know a Darfuri brings you closer to the reality of today’s theme: Real People, Real […]

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Day 6: June 20, 2009

Letting Go

I’m angry. And I’m tired. My mind and my heart ache. It’s always a combination out here of emotional ups and downs from being around the refugees and then being personally challenged by exhaustion. I am at the point of constantly wanting to cry, and spending energy trying to hold it back. I am not […]

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Day 6: June 20, 2009

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Day 5: June 19, 2009

Uncomfortable

Abdulaziz had a small plate with cookies at the end of our live event with DC. UNHCR brought some for the refugees, and our teacher friends wanted to include us in the snacking. Everyone from i-ACT, in chorus, said no thank you and please give to the children that were still crowding around our makeshift […]