NEWS & EVENTS

Fatima and Saad

(Note: Names have been changed to protect identities.) “My son comes to see me and says, ‘Mother, I see you have to give away our money...

Who’s Hungry??

Doesn’t this food look mouth-watering? This was one of the meals served at a Little Ripples Pond in camp Djabal, eastern Chad. The two...

Training Refugee Teachers and Visiting Friends

Today was our second visit to refugee camp Djabal in eastern Chad, and the first day of Little Ripples Teacher Training II for camp...

How, and why, to get to a refugee camp

It’s been a long, long day. It actually started more than two days ago. We left Los Angeles loaded with duffle bags full of soccer...

#WeAreDarfur: A New Pond for Little Ripples

Little Ripples have started to spread through another Darfuri refugee camp. Today, we celebrated the opening of a new Little Ripples Pond...

#WeAreDarfur: Participating

After eleven straight days of visiting and working in refugee camps, we have only two more to go. I am tired from the marathon of...

#WeAreDarfur: Peace, Helping, and Sharing

What can I teach them about peace, helping, and sharing? As I’m sitting in a training with twenty-nine Darfuri refugee women, I am hit...

#WeAreDarfur: Still Here

Darfur exploded in violence fourteen years ago. Hundreds of thousands died. Millions displaced. Government officials from around the...

Animals

The Rabbits started off. Then the Lions proceeded, with the Elephants following the Lions. The Tigers went last. We get picked up by...

A Day #WithRefugees

Our day of work alongside our refugee friends ended with a bumpy ride back to the walled UNHCR compound that is our home for this week....

Refuge

The irony that I was coming from an Immigrants Rights March the day I met Gabriel Stauring at an educational mock refugee camp twelve...