by Rick Founders Julian Kalmar and Rick Beneteau had a rather disturbing teleconference with Zebiba Shekhia, founder of Healing Bridges, discovering the tremendous challenges she was forced to overcome when trying to build her first girls high school near refugee camps in Eastern Sudan. We encourage you to read the article (and watch the video) […]
(Geneva, October 8, 2010) – Egypt, the new chair of the UN refugee agency’s governing body, should immediately end its policy of shooting foreign nationals trying to cross from Egypt into Israel, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the Egyptian authorities. Egypt should also stop impeding the refugee agency’s access to foreign […]
Fact sheet on sub-Sarahan Africa: Burundi, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Eritrea have the greatest levels of hunger. Angola, Chad, and Somalia have the highest under-five mortality rates at 20 percent or more. More than 50 percent of people in Burundi, the Comoros, the DRC, and Eritrea are
Eritrean National Commission for Democratic Change (ENCDC) is planning to hold public meetings in various cities worldwide in the coming weeks. ENCDC North America will convene public meetings in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Washington DC on Oct. 9, Oct. 16 and Oct 23, 2010 respectively. ENCDC Europe is also planning to hold meetings in Stuttgart, […]