by Alex Nuttall-Smith | May 25, 2012
As I was making some of my last medical preparations for Darfur United before our departure, I fell upon this quote from Nelson Mandela, “We must use the time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” (This is fitting as Darfur...
by Gabriel | May 24, 2012
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...
by Gabriel | Mar 30, 2012
The look on their faces was like they had just gotten off of a roller coaster, wide-eyed and wider smiles. Immediately after getting out of the car, they came over and hugged us, somehow knowing that we, this odd looking group of westerners, had to be the ones coming...
by Gabriel | Mar 29, 2012
Our arrival to N’Djamena (NDJ) did not start off perfectly. One bag decided not to come with us. I’m not sure if it stayed in LA or in Paris. It has soccer gear, some of our tech stuff, and some books for a special library. I am sure that it will join us...
by Brian Cleveland | Mar 29, 2012
When I was checking my bag at JfK in New York, I was showing my passport to the person working for Air France, and he noticed my visa for Chad. I’m not 100% sure, but when he noticed the visa and the area where it said “humanitarian” his eyes seemed...