10 Things I’ve Learned – on my 16th trip to Darfuri refugee camps
(in no particular order)
1. Showing up is important. Coming back creates friendships for life.
2. There is absolutely no excuse for the world allowing Darfur to burn for over ten years.
3.
Little Ripples Teacher Profile: Haleyma
Haleyma, now twenty-one, was twelve years old when she started first grade of primary school—a week after she arrived in refugee camp Goz Amer. She was very afraid to come to the camp because people
Goz Amer Community
In preparing for the opening of the first Little Ripples early childhood education center, the i-ACT team met with community and tribe leaders from various camp “neighborhoods” or sectors. They also met
New Darfuri Arrivals
After 10 years of devastation in Darfur, renewed violence has led to more than 300,000 newly displaced in the region. Here are images of Darfuri families who have just arrived in refugee camp Goz Amer.
Darfuri Jacks
Play will happen anywhere and everywhere, no matter what’s available or not. It’s universal! Here, a young Darfuri refugee girl playing Jacks.
Support i-ACT
i-ACT is supporting programs in the camps
A Kind of a Stopwatch
For the long wars that seem more common recently, leaving millions displaced for years, this disruption of the routine grows more cancerous, “Life goes unattended. What might have been lasting is lost…”
