Gabriel replies to well wishes from Melva, JC, Jav, Tsai Yi, Mimi Schiff and Ashis.
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i-ACT Expedition #10 Day 9
One student’s story takes you to the heart of the Darfur conflict. It is memories like these that carry on through generations to come. And it is kids like Yaya that motivate us to continue to work for peace.
Did you miss the live stream with Darfuri students? Check out the recorded version of the School Assembly from Tuesday March 29, 2011!
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Travel advisory: Chad
In thinking of our courageous team on the ground in Chad, I recently checked the travel advisory issued by our State Department to see what they were getting into. The report tells of the volatile situation behind the cameras, urging Americans to avoid non-essential travel to Eastern Chad, the border with Darfur. N’Djamena has experienced […]
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Yuen-Lin’s Day 2 journal
Hello friends and family :) Apologies for my silence so far; I have been quite swamped with tech work! We are exploring new ways of making the personal connections between you and the people of Darfur ever more personal, and ever closer to being just like neighbours though many miles apart. The energy and commitment […]
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Connie’s Journal 3
N’Djamena UNHCR (United Nations High Comissioner on Refugees) What would the world do without these organizations? It takes very, very special people to do this kind of work. Certainly you must be compassionate and at the same time strong, to be able to live in these sorts of places and also to be productive. There […]
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Gabriel’s Journal 2
N’Djamena, 4:01am (N’D Time) Team i-ACT, but more of a Family We call ourselves a team, but there’s lots of love between this small group of people that came together because of something as horrible as genocide. Well, thinking about it as I type, we did not come together because of the horrible. We came […]
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Gabriel’s Journal
N’Djamena, 3:20am (N’D Time) It’s too late to sleep now, so I’ll write. We need to be at the airport before 6am, and there’s still packing to do. We have to figure out what is essential and what can stay, if it needs to. They have a weight limit that is considerably less than Air […]
We want to thank all i-ACTivists who will follow Gabriel, Connie and Yuen-Lin throughout the 10 days. So, similar to last year, we are bringing you the 10Day Challenge. Every time you click on a day’s video on the day that it was posted, notice that in the Action box there will be one word […]
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We have arrived!
Hi everybody! It’s been a long trip from L.A. to N’Djamena, but we are here and I’m excited to begin our journey here in Chad and grateful that many friends and family are making this experience possible .My hope is that this is a safe, dynamic and learning encounter, and that the people we have […]
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Overcast
I woke up today and it was overcast. I was glad because we were expecting sunny hot days, and it turned out to be nice as far as weather goes. This was the perfect set up (the gloomy overcast) to the to feeling I experienced going about our errands. We took a taxi and along […]
We use technology to reject the standard excuse of inaction – ignorance We debunk the myth that ordinary people cannot stop genocide We replace statistics with names, faces and stories The age of bystanders should long have passed – we have entered an age of knowledge which empowers us to protect. Join us as an […]