R2E: Human Rights Mobile Library
Providing a space and the materials for refugee students to learn about human rights and their right to education!
R2E is a chest full of learning tools, including e-readers loaded with books and documents, maps, utensils, and other resources and curriculum — focusing on human rights. Per requests from the refugee students, it will also include English learning material. Along with the chest, the mobile library will include tables, chairs, and mats to make a comfortable learning environment. The library is mobile (two donkeys can carry it all), so it can move to the different schools and classrooms in the camps.
Two R2E libraries will be created, one in Darfuri refugee Camp Djabal and another in Camp Goz Amer, in Chad, close to the Sudan border.
HRW Student Task Force will…
STF members will research appropriate resources and materials and will be in contact with the refugee students as they explore what the Right to Education means and what the reality is for other youth around the world, where education might actually be a matter of life and death.
Our Plan: Fall 2011…
- Determine and create educational materials for the library to be delivered to the camps by i-ACT.
- Communicate with the refugee students and teachers in the Chad camps via PAZOCALO. The mutually enriching relationships that develop allow for limitless impact on both continents.
Recent News:
R2E Library Update!
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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.
i-ACT12 Kicks Off!
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Although I’m not going on this trip, I know it’s going to be one of the most exciting. I think we probably say that every trip. However, this time, and with Darfur United, we are bringing the opportunity for the refugees to be “part of the world,” as one refugee said during the i-ACT11 Expedition upon hearing about the team. When you watch the footage from last trip, you can see the hope and pride that the refugees when they talked about having a soccer team of their own.
The i-ACT12 Expedition Team has four members. Gabriel, on his twelfth trip, James, heading out for his third time, and two new additions, Mark and Brian.
Mark and Brian are the coaches for Darfur United and will help with team selection and training in the coming days. They have a big job ahead of them that includes narrowing down 20 players from almost 70. I’m eager to read and see their experience as not only coaches, but as ordinary people who will have a huge impact on so many.
Gabriel will also be delivering the second R2E Mobile Human Rights Library to Camp Goz Amer and bringing supplemental materials for the library in Camp Djabal. Over the last several months Rahma and Adam have been taking the library to the six schools in Camp Djabal and sending updates! This trip, Gabriel will find a librarian for Goz Amer and hand over kindles, talking dictionaries, handmade materials by students from the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force, English materials, and more.
The Expedition Team has reached N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, and they will head out to the East early tomorrow morning. You can read the first blogs from Gabriel, James, Mark and Brian here!
The Life of Darfuri Women
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Dear Gabriel, here is the report about the women’s rights in my community.
Women in my community suffer discrimination, negligence and injustice, although she is the most productive part of this community. From the first day of her birth to the family, some families have not celebrate as they do for the baby boys. After she got seven years old, she stands with different responsibilities. Most of them have no chances to schooling as boys have. In her teens, the family will be ready to marry her if some one asked. Most of the girls got married without their knowledge. They must except any husband her father agreed to. Housewife has lots of daily duties. Early in the morning she prepares tea and food, washes the children, sends them to schools or gives them their duties. She gets water and washes every dirty clothes at home. She gathers firewoods, goes to work for money, or to the farm. In the evening, she cooks for the family. Every year women produces more than half of many families’ income.
Thank you, Adam
Photos of women in Camp Djabal, taken by Adam:
