Rahma, Djabal’s Librarian
i-ACT first met Djabal’s librarian in January 2008. Gabriel was filming in a classroom and he asked if there were any students who wanted to sing a song. Rahma’s hand shot up in the air. He first sang his version of B-I-N-G-O, and his second number had a little dance. In this video Rahma shares his story, and you can even watch him sing and dance:
Year after year we have returned to Camp Djabal and watched Rahma grow. He has graduated from Primary School (through Level 8 in his refugee camp), and takes what classes are available for Secondary school. He still wants to be President of Sudan, but is also interested in being a Journalist. Upon learning that he was selected to be the Right to Education Mobile Human Rights Librarian, he shared his thoughts and gratitude:
Rahma took great pride in being the R2E Librarian. We were all saddened to hear that this hut had burned, and all his possessions and the library destroyed. We received this video in December 2012.
The refugee community came together to help rebuild Rahma’s hut, and several individuals and communities in the U.S. have given to help him replace his personal belongings. Most recently, on January 29, Human Rights Watch Student Task Force chapter at Wildwood School in Los Angeles launched a Change for Change drive to raise enough funds to replace the entire Djabal R2E Library. i-ACT and all the refugees in Camp Djabal are very grateful for their efforts and we look forward to learning who the winning class will be!
Goz Amer R2E Mobile Human Rights Library Update
Hello Mr Gabriel, Mrs Katie-Jay, how are you? I am mr. yagoub abdohadi [crombo] and i am a friend in lebrary in camp goz amer. I join in this lebrary since tow monthes ago. In july, i had two monthes to learn how to know about all this materials of the lebrary. I had my full training and course, then officaly I had received all the materals in first of september, and all my training was by mr tarbosh. By the way i begin my work acording to the time table that was planed by mr t which is five days in each school, so i was in Abou Taleeb A and now in B after here to Darfur A up to the end then back by the same system. So i wish on go to this library, with full of materials to be better and beautiful. Thank you very much my name is yagoub, but Mr crombo is my famous name every where.
Hello dears,gabriel,katiejay, I am the one with coat between the group.
Hello dear katie-jay. How are you? This is one part of our library activites in Abou Taleeb he tells them how to use the books.
Library begins in Goz Amer!
From Umda Tarbosh:
Hello how are you friend? Yes the schools are open and our library is moving to schools according to our programe. The library friend is {yagoub abdlhadi} who has been training for all the materiales for acouple of monthes ago.
Realy this guy is very polite and respectfull.
Thank you MR gabriel, my best wishes .
Thank You
Thank you so much for the appreciations from the members of STF about my acceptance to be one of the teachers for the human rights. I believe that when there is hope to have the world of freedom, justice, and respect of others rights the dawn will break.Then the history will remember those who fought for that precious goal of the peaceful world of love, development and friendship. I promise to keep fighting with you all my life time.
Best wishes
Adam Mussa
Refugee camp East Chad
Video Updates from Djabal’s Human Rights Library!
Hello my friends Student Task Force,
How are you doing? How is your schools going? Here are videos of students studying in library. Really they use the library by good way. but we missed kindles. I hope that you will bring us kindles to support our library so as to make our job better.
Thanks. Yours, Rahma
R2E Library Update!
Rahma gives an overview of what the refugees use the most in the R2E Human Rights Mobile Library and Gabriel delivers the second library to Umda Tarbosh of Camp Goz Amer.
