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When I First Met Adam

“We’re looking for a teacher named Adam,” I asked the first man we saw, when we arrived at a refugee camp with a funny name, Kounoungou, back in 2008. “Adam” is a very common name with Darfuris, and in a camp with more than 20,000 people, there was probably hundreds, maybe even thousands of Adams, […]

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Day 6: March 28

Live School Assembly

Join i-ACT and the Darfur Dream Team Sister School Program for a live School Assembly from Camp Goz Amer. Our team will be at a refugee school for a half hour assembly on Tuesday March 29, 2011 at 7 am PT/10 am ET. Do you have a question you want to ask a Darfuri student? […]

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Lines and Shapes: Stories and Numbers We Have Heard

Droopy-lidded, hand fitted with my daily oolong tea, I stare at the whirlwind of text swirling on my computer screen, perplexed and confused.  Before me are the images of faces I know too well. Stories I have heard time and time again.  Flashes of desert beige streaked with red…blood red. As always, I sit perplexed, […]

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Bagels, Diet-Soda, and Action

I like bagels.  Whole-wheat sesame bagels are what I usually go for, accompanied by a very refillable diet soda.  Those two things plus my MacBook, and I’m ready to engage in all-out, rough-and-tumble Sudan advocacy. While I sip on my diet, Sudan is walking on the edge, with the most innocent and disadvantaged risking the […]

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Day 1: June 15, 2009

Nothing Like Home

This post is to go on our i-ACT8 Day 1 page, but it seems like I’ve been away from home for so long.  I miss my kids, Mimi and Gabo.  It is the hardest part of coming on these trips.  It makes me sad that I leave them, and I am continuously reminded of them, […]

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Day 0: Preparations

Made it to Abeche!

As always, it’s quite an adventure just to make it even close to a camp. It is now June 14th here. We left Los Angeles on June 10th. We are closer to our first camp, but still a flight and a short drive away–two more days. It is really good to be traveling with our […]

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i-ACT i-ACT 7: March 23 - Apr 1, 2009

Safe in Chad

Gabriel, Katie-Jay and Yuen-Lin have safely arrived in Chad! Their flight was delayed leaving Los Angeles, which made their transit in Paris very ‘exhilirating’. Their bags haven’t arrived yet though, but they will continue making preparations to head out to camps while they are there.  Read more thoughts from Gabriel here.

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i-ACT 6: August 1 - 11, 2008

i-ACTivist challenge!

In i-ACT tradition, we’ll be hosting the i-ACT challenge again! i-ACT is all about action, so every day we hope the stories from the camps will inspire everyone to take part in our daily actions. We’d like to show our appreciation to all i-ACTivists who follow Gabriel and Katie-Jay on their journey and participate in […]

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Pour la famille et les amis

Nous entamons notre deuxième semaine au Tchad et pour la première fois nous ne pourrons peut-être pas visiter un seul camp de réfugiés. Lorsque nous avons quitté le camp de Kounoungo en février dernier, notre ami Yakoub nous a dit que nos visites motivaient vraiment les gens du camp, qui étaient fiers du fait que […]

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i-ACT i-ACT 5: June 10 - 22, 2008

i-Act 5 Ending early, but we will continue reporting

Edit: Originally sent to our mailing list on 16 June, 2008. Hello Friends and Familia: We are starting our second week in Chad, and for the first time in five trips we might not be able to visit a refugee camp. When we left camp Kounoungo this past January, our friend Yakoub told us that […]