This World Refugee Day, Join the Summer Service Challenge
June 20 will mark the 60th anniversary of the U.N. refugee agency, or UNHCR. Since 1951, UNHCR has been at the forefront of providing large-scale humanitarian assistance to people displaced from their homes and countries by war, conflict, and fear of persecution. In honor of this year’s World Refugee Day, the Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program is launching the Summer Service Challenge to create opportunities to learn more about refugees worldwide and in our local communities ...
Tomorrow: Join a School Assembly with Darfuri Students
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 29, you can be a part of the conversation I have been having with teachers and students in Goz Amer refugee camp in eastern Chad, home to thousands of people who fled Darfur. This is an amazing opportunity to connect and interact with them as they share their stories and talk about their school ...
Darfur Dream Team Sister Schools Program Expands to Goz Amer Camp
The Darfur Dream Team is returning to Darfuri refugee camps in eastern Chad and this time, I get to go with them. It will be my first trip to the camps as the new Sister Schools Program Manager, and I am ready. Got my shots (ouch), my visa (yay), my ticket (woot), and letters from the U.S. students to their sister schools in Chad (excellent!). The opportunity to see those wonderful faces whose videos, messages, and lives have been an important part of my life for the past four months is incredible ...
