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Quick Tips: Organizing an Event at Your School

One of the things I love the most about my job is working with student groups. They are the most creative in designing their events. Not only do they think outside the box, they reach outside of it to make things happen. Now that school has started, clubs and classes might have started thinking about organizing an on-campus event. Here are a few tips: Start with what you want to accomplish. Your goal might be to raise funds, educate your peers, or have a school-to-community e

LOS ANGELES-BASED NGO DEPARTS FOR 16th VISIT TO DARFURI REFUGEE CAMPS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Katie-Jay Scott Stauring, ktj@iact.ngo, 310-738-0285 i-ACT to open preschool program for Darfuri children LOS ANGELES, CA – May 27, 2013 – Monday, i-ACT departed to Chad for their 16th expedition. The main purpose of this trip is to prepare for the opening of Little Ripples, a comprehensive early childhood education program, in Camp Goz Amer. The team includes Gabriel Stauring, the Director of i-ACT, Jennifer Tang, Project Coordinator for Littl

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 were telling them that “there is people that eat people in that camp,” to scare them away from coming. Her parents told her and her eight siblings to not be afraid, “Those are lies.” Haleyma had not started school when she was younger and still living in Darfur because her fathe

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 with mothers and future Little Ripples who might attend the school. In the coming days Nathan from the University of Wisconsin Survy Center will be training refugees to help conduct a baseline and control group assessment. One of our priorities is to ensure that our program is

Little Ripples Teacher Training Day #1

It was an another amazing and productive day! We finally began our teacher training! Jocelyn and I had 19 young women candidates to work with today. The future Little Ripples teaching staff are between the ages of 14-21 years of age. We had the assistance of Ahmed Hassan Yagoub to help translate for us. We met Ahmed Hassan Yagoub a couple of days ago when we met with a group of primary and secondary teachers. He is a secondary school english teacher but also a primary school

Little Ripples: Planning and Preparing for Teacher Training

Today was such a productive day! The team got the chance to talk with a few of the primary teachers today. Ahmed Hassan Yagoub, who teaches first year students (students who are between the ages of 6-8 years of age) was especially helpful. Jocelyn and I had many questions about the daily teaching routine. Ahmed was able to provide us with insight into the primary grade students daily schedule. We also had great discussion about the current lack of education for younger childr

Partner Highlight: Alexxa of Triangles of Truth

i-ACT has been working with Triangles of Truth for over two years. Their global network of students and advocates support education projects in the camp by honoring Holocaust victims. They caught up with Alexxa Evangelista, an outstanding Triangles of Truth advocate. What exactly are you fundraising for? Since I was a little kid I’ve loved school and I’ve always been really involved in my community and helping others. I used to raise money for children to go to sleep away c

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

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

UPDATE: Human Rights Mobile Library

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Why do you go to school?

Then I asked my 12 years old daughter, Why you are going to school every day? She answered, Because I want to learn French and English. I asked why, and she said, I want to go to America. I asked why, and she answered to study there. I asked why you want to study, and she answered, if you are educated you will have many things like money to buy what I want. I asked what you want to do for the women in DarFur, and she answered: educate them. Adam #school #refugees #Adam #Chad

Rahma on Education

Rahma and Gabriel discuss education. #school #refugeecamps #secondaryschool #Darfurrefugees #easternChad #HumanRights #Education #R2E

Job Opening: R2E Librarian

Teacher Abdulaziz is excited about the R2E Library and is going in to high gear to help us find the right librarian. He said that this program is very important, so the person that will manage it at the camp has to be good. We agreed that the number one trait for the librarian has to be responsibility. The librarian will have to commit to working at the schools every school day in collaboration with the teachers. He or she will be taking care of equipment and material that ne

An Open Prison

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Educate and Connect

The i-ACT team spent the last day in camp Goz Amer working on multiple projects that will improve education and connect students from around the world. Some snapshots from the day: [image title=”” size=”large” align=”center” lightbox=”true” group=”iact 11″ link=”” width=”524″ height=”0″ autoHeight=”true” quality=”100″ frame=”true” link_class=”” underline=”false”]https://www.iact.ngo/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/brokedowntruck1.jpg[/image] [image title=”” size=”large” align=”ce

The (Refugee) Social Network

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The Hearts of Darfur

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TRIP NOTES

Horizon

There are so many challenges and obstacles for the refugees to have full, healthy, and dignified lives. The obvious one, they should not be refugees. That status is to give them protection under international law, but it is also a limitation, with a horizon that is only as far as the camp’s boundaries. There are also so many opportunities: the leader that will not give up; the child that wants to be an engineer; the teacher that wants to learn about human rights and then teac

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CommKit in Goz Amer

Darfuri students at Goz Amer are introduced to CommKit, a two-way satellite-based communication system that will allow them to send messages to their peers in the United States. The Darfuri refugee schools that they attend are in need of many improvements…one of which is a fence. #schools #school #UnitedStates #GozAmer #Commkit #Education

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Inscriptions

I’ve been collecting images of chalk drawings from the walls of Djabal’s mud brick classrooms. Some kids use them to practice their Arabic or English and sometimes even math. But mostly, the graffiti is of people, animals, football players and some scenes of violence. The walls speak of the children’s curiosity, fear and humour. -James #school #art #CampDjabal #Djabal #James #drawings #Children

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