Every so often when I am playing my iTunes on random, the i-ACT1 Day 21 soundtrack plays. It’s not the full video, just the beautiful sounds of the Darfuri people, and Chris and Gabriel laughing with them. I always, always cry when I hear, “Don’t just see in front of you. Turn back and see […]
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Our team has decided to take the plunge and create yet another interactive tool on our site: SGN Blog. It’s a place for both personal reflection and informational dialogue. Where you can comment on our words, and ask questions. Our hope is that it also inspires you to act with us. Because we are just […]
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One Voice: Fatna’s Story
Widowed, Mother of 7 I was walking with my husband in the market very early in the morning. First came the airplanes that dropped bombs. Then Arab tribesmen, riding horses and in the backs of pick-up trucks, rode into town shooting. They killed my husband in front me. Gunfire was coming from planes in the […]
by katie-jay scott 3 april 2009 dirty clothes with holes that expose malnourished tummys and our failure as humanity common colds cracked skin and bumps ordinary for children everywhere possibly deadly for those here animal feces, garbage, dead carcasses sprawl the camp paths only a few of many lucky enough to wear shoes families grow […]
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YL’s Day 10 journal
Dear friends and family, Watching the slide-show Gabriel put together to conclude this i-ACT, it felt different than at the end of my last trip to Chad. More connected. More a part of the family. Sadder, but also happier. Wanting very much to return soon. Recognizing more faces, and the warmth that comes with that. […]
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We Hope for Stronger, Not Weaker
It’s hard to see it when I am in front of them. When I return to our little compound at night and look through past slides, it becomes apparent. When I toggle between pictures from today and from last January of our friends here in camp Djabal, the difference is like night and day. The […]
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YL’s journal (day 5)
Dear friends and family, I apologize for the short report today — we have an early start tomorrow morning to catch the kids as they go to school, so I should get some sleep to be as present as possible :) Today, we found four kids who we will be profiling over the next few […]
After the Emergency Rally for Darfur at the Federal Building Gabriel and KT-J went out to Orange County and set up the DARFUR tent on a homes rooftop. President Obamas helicopters flew right above it. The next day, they headed out to the NBC studios and set up the tent just a few steps from […]
URGENT ACTION ALERT! On Wednesday, March 4, 2009, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued a landmark arrest warrant for President Omar al Bashir of Sudan. Just hours later, President Bashir expelled 16 humanitarian organizations from Sudan, placing millions of Darfuri civilians at immediate risk. Bashir is holding innocent lives hostage in order to […]
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HOPE vs. Action
President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and Ambassador Rice have made several statements on Darfur in the past several years. President and our Secretary of State, most noticeably, made a joint statement on May 28, 2008 that ended with: “If peace and security for the people of Sudan are not in place when one of us is […]