Category: JWW On-the-Ground

Ingrid

I met Ingrid in person in April, 2007 when she came to California for her admissions interview at Stanford University.…

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It’s Not Academic Anymore

I knew I shouldn’t have gone into the room about children long before I stepped inside. It’s the last room…

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First Post

By all accounts I shouldn’t be making this trip. My mother keeps tracking me down to tell me that she…

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Diana Buckhantz

I am a public relations consultant and as such I am always the one pitching the story. I am much…

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Re-entry

After three days of travel within Chad, some of which got a bit dicey, we finally boarded the Air France…

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Day 8: Boundless Capacity

Today we had the most intense experience we have had to date. We went to the Touloum refugee camp to…

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Day 8: Today, We Cried

Man’s inhumanity to man is limited only by the creativity of his cruelty. Today we cried. We have sat with…

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Day 7: I’m Convinced

This was our last day in the Iridimi refugee camp ALREADY. Clearly it is not enough time to develop real…

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