Hey Friends and Family: Today as we approach the second to last day of i-ACT 2008 there are many thoughts that rush my mind. Will this be the last year we webcast from the camps? How much longer can the refugees live with little or no resources? Could they last another year? How many more of our friends will be back in Darfur in danger if we meet again for i-ACT 2009? For the past 11 days we have brought a reality from Darfur, we brought real stories from Darfur, we all got to see and meet survivors, and most of us will remember their little smiling faces for years to come. It is important to remember that there are sill kids under attack, there are still women getting raped who are waiting helplessly and desperately for our help. The war of atrocities is not over although their innocent and shiny faces sometimes tell my mind differently. Our boys from previous trips are going back into Darfur where they will travel by night and face the killers more than once. Our young friends are losing hope in ever getting their education. The resources have overly depreciated and continue to with every victim that arrives, which is just another scheme for the killers when they pushed these people into an unsustainable environment with impossible living conditions. Humanitarian aide workers are getting attacked and now fleeing, making the chances of survival in the desert even more impractical. There is no such thing as business as usual when fighting for Darfur.
Our efforts are good, our fight is strong but as we look to another day with a hope for Darfur we need to do so with urgency and intensity. For the past five years we have all been telling our fellow family members, our classmates, our co-workers, or our church leaders about the atrocities taking place in the Darfur region. We need people that know about Darfur, who have heard stories, and see the faces to take a role... We all have the responsibility to stop ethnic cleansing, every American, every Australian, every Canadian, every European, every schoolteacher, every student, every housewife, every workingman, and every believer.
Today we want the people of Darfur to be safe. We all want them living back in their own communities just as we all are, we want the kids getting an education like our kids get everyday, we want those that need medical assistance to have it like we all do and for them to have food and water the two things we never have to go with out. For 11 days you have followed us in i-ACT and its time to make those around you not just see that there is a genocide taking place, but help them to understand that they share in the responsibility to stand up against it. It is not just up to those of us reading, it is up to us all. These faces that we depart from today in Farchana will continue to hold hope in the hands of the viewers.
Today's action: We want to encourage everyone following i-ACT to take a step back and reflect on the self. Ask yourself: what am I actually doing to help the people of Darfur? Have I done all the daily actions? After the reflection process with another year of i-ACT and only one day left to come, I want to push the people that are involved to get others in our lives, our workforce, our churches, our classes, our teachers to take a responsibility to take action for Darfur. Find Five people in your life and get them to make commitment, take the time, and exceed the efforts to save lives in 2008. We all have a role to play and we all have apart of the weight to carry. After five years approaching and still no action on the ground I think two main angles to look at are Reflection of one's self and Responsibility.
Always, Tiffany Wheeler, for the i-ACT Team
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i-ACT Jan 2008: Day 9 - Revisiting friends in Camp Farchby neddotcom2,336 views
what is this you mean they are in war now or tey were in war where are they are they poor????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dua72 2 years ago