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100 Year Journey from Armenia to Darfur

Yesterday morning I had the privilege of facilitating a live video call between Father Vazken Movsesian and In His Shoes in Glendale, CA and Gabriel, Achta, and her children in eastern Chad. Every year around the anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Father V (as we call him!) and his community fast for 30 hours in honor of survivors of genocide: to remember, honor, and empower all of us to act today. This year is even more personal (and I’ve found emotional) as it is the 100

i-ACT21 Day 11: Humbled

What to eat? Too many choices. By Gabriel Stauring Even here, I have a hard time deciding what to eat for my one “large” meal a day. I brought tuna, different kinds of ready-made soups, lentils, and pastas. I am not that hungry most of the day, and we think it’s the heat. Two out of my three teammates here feel the same, but Felicia seems to eat about us much as all of us combined, and she’s the smallest of us all! I must say, though, that when I do eat one of my meals, it ta

Rahma Interviews Gabriel about Darfur United Soccer Academy

Rahma is an old-time friend of Gabriel and i-ACT. Besides wanting to be President someday, he also wants to be a journalist. As i-ACT was was visiting refugee camp Djabal to launch the Darfur United Soccer Academy, Rahma — a huge fan of soccer — grabbed the camera and interviewed Gabriel. #Rahma #darfurunited #tools4peace #iACT17 #Gabriel #DarfurUnitedSoccerAcademy

World Peace Dreaming at the Bagel Shop

I sit in an air-conditioned bagel shop, drinking my ice-cold diet coke (already on my 3rd refill) after already eating two bagels with reduced-fat cream cheese. Around me are healthy, smiling beach-bound young men and women. Some mothers talk about their long weekend, as their well-behaved kids munch away. One more refill of diet, and I continue to read about the horrific violence in Syria; then look at video interviews of newly displaced Darfuris; then re-read a message from

Video: A Darfuri Celebration

i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring, James Thacher and the Little Ripples team are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees and opening the first Little Ripples’ center. This trip, i-ACT #16, coincides with the 10th anniversary of the start of the violence in Darfur and the more than 300,000 newly displaced in the region. [divider_2] Camp Djabal threw us a party before we left last week. Here’s just a taste of what we were treated to. You can learn more about the even

Starting My Day in Eastern Chad

i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring and James Thacher are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees. This trip, i-ACT #16, coincides with the 10th anniversary of the start of the genocide in Darfur and the more recent influx of 300,000 new refugees into the region. I’m not exactly sure when the day begins because the night kind of flows into it. I have a hard time falling asleep, but at some point I crash and sleep for a few hours. I wake up and almost instinctively op

Celebrating 15 (+1)!

i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring and James Thacher are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees. This trip, i-ACT #16, coincides with the 10th anniversary of the start of the genocide in Darfur and the more recent influx of 300,000 new refugees into the region. When Abdulaziz told me that the refugees were going to celebrate my 15th trip to the camps in Eastern Chad, I thought he was being polite and that they were happy that I was coming. After a few other communi

The Darfur Decade

i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring and James Thacher are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees. This trip, i-ACT #16, coincides with the 10th anniversary of the start of the genocide in Darfur and the more recent influx of 300,000 new refugees into the region. What have your last ten years been like? How has your life changed? And your family, how have your family’s hopes and dreams materialized and evolved over the last decade? What will the next ten years bring?

Not Exactly Home, But Good to Start i-ACT Expedition #16

i-ACT’s Gabriel Stuaring and James Thacher are in eastern Chad documenting the stories of Darfuri refugees. This trip, i-ACT #16, coincides with the 10th anniversary of the start of the genocide in Darfur and the more recent influx of 300,000 new refugees into the region. This is not Southern California. As soon as we step out of the airplane, the 90-degree heat hits you, and it’s 9pm. The days leading up to departure are always hectic, but there were many more unknowns for g

My Fasting Day 2

My wife and daughter are eating turkey burgers and salad and chips and maybe other stuff, but I’m not getting too close. I don’t want to see. I have another 30 hours without food to go. Tomorrow, on my third day of fasting, we’ll be driving to Arizona for a genocide event where we’re bringing our “Camp Darfur” tents. I won’t be driving because I’ll be even more lightheaded than right now. More than anything, this is just so different–not eating. I’m so used to reaching for

10 Years of Darfur, 100 Days for Darfur

I became active in the Darfur movement in late 2004. I did not know exactly how I’d be able to participate in alleviating what was and continues to be overwhelming human suffering. I just knew I needed to act. Adef, Abdelmounim, and Gabriel One of the very first campaigns I helped create and organize was a 100-Day Fast for Darfur. My sister Rachel and I thought fasting would be a good way to connect people with the issue, while at the same time fundraise for direct assistance

Notes and Pictures from Travels to Visit Refugee Friends

[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text] About fifteen minutes before it’s time to start our drive from Kou Kou to Goz Beida, by pure luck I happen to see a tweet in French: #Tchad – Situation militaire confuse à Goz-béida : vers la reprise des combats au pays – Selon nos correspondants,… makaila.over-blog.com/article-situat… — Ndjamena-matin (@Ndoune) January 17, 2013 Part of what it said, according to google-translate, was: According to our respondent

Peace Puzzle

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A Land of Extremes

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Video: Moving

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TRIP NOTES

i-ACT Team Arrives in Chad

Gabriel and James have arrived in Chad and are making their way to the east, where they will reunited with the Darfur United players who have spent the last 8 weeks eating, sleeping, and training together! #darfurunited #UNHCR #Gabriel #James #Chad #NDjamena #UNRefugeeAgency

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On the Move

FLIGHT I’m somewhere high over the Atlantic, on my way to Chad via Paris. It’s my thirteenth such trip, the first one being in 2005, which seems a lifetime away. I’ve been staring at a blank document for over an hour, not knowing what to say. It feels like I’ve said it all—too many times. Sudan is spiraling out of control into what could be the bloodiest African war of the decade. For Darfuris, another year has gone by, and millions remain displaced with little to no hope for

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. #CampGozAmer #Gabriel #refugees

i-ACT12 Kicks Off!

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

Hand-to-Handstand

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