Tag: Reporting Officer

Its Worth Every Hurtle

Post author By Katie-Jay
Post date March 25, 2009
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I would love to be taking a nap in the plane right now. We are 23,000 feet above the arid, Chadian desert. Finally, a step closer to the refugee camps. A step that was quite exhausting. But it wouldn’t be Chad if it was easy. After sleeping for about two hours, we abruptly finished packing, […]

Tags Chad, Darfur, Reporting Officer, WFP

Day 1: March 24

G’s Journal—Day 1

Post author By Gabriel
Post date March 23, 2009
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23 March 2009 12:04pm N’Djamena We took a way-too-expensive taxi ride from our hotel to UNHCR headquarters this morning. The ride takes you down the busiest boulevard in N’Djamena, with cars honking everywhere, motorbikes weaving in and out, and pedestrians risking their lives—all on the same strip of pavement. Between the sand filled wind and […]

Tags External Relations, Reporting Officer, Sudan, UNHCR