Tag: Refugee Town Hall

Girl Empowerment

Post author By James Thacher
Post date August 22, 2011

I first met Selma in January 2008, on my very first trip to the refugee camps. She was the only girl in the Level 6 class, and she hardly spoke any English. She studied with fifteen boys, and every single one of them asked us for more education. At that time, they were studying at […]

Tags Darfur, Reader Project, Refugee Town Hall, United States

Day 4: December 12

ACT

Post author By James Thacher
Post date December 12, 2010
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The genocide in Darfur has waged so long that the children who once lived there are beginning to forget their memories of home. It’s not cheap to wage such a long campaign of destruction. The government of Sudan is financially supported by companies like PetroChina, the worst of the major oil companies funding the genocide. […]

Tags ACT, Darfur, Refugee Town Hall, Sudan