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FEATURE ARTICLES
RESPECT en Français
by Emily Moreton
Sandrine Cortet
Co-ordinator for French RESPECT, Sandrine Cortet, has been with
the organisation for less than a year, but she has already had
many roles within it, and worked on some large scale projects.
Sandrine was introduced to RESPECT by a neighbour and co-volunteer at
a not-for-profit organisation in New York, and began volunteering for
RESPECT as editor of the French e-zine, and translator of articles
from English to French. This role rapidly grew as she became involved
in setting up a network of French speaking pen-pals with Dieudonne Amisi
Mutambala, the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC) Coordinator, and Marc Schaeffer.
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Buduburam Refugee Camp
by Julie Harris
At first glance, Buduburam Refugee Camp looks like a combination of
lively shantytown and bustling African marketplace. The spaces between
the shaky wooden stands that support bowls of red palm nuts, pig
hooves, and pineapples are packed with noisy people on a Sunday morning.
People are shouting for bargains in thousands of Ghanaian cedis
(Ghanaian currency), and are swooping in on the best plantains (type of
banana) before their neighbor buys them. Flies swarm the slabs of meat
and the festering baked fish, but people are picking them up and
stuffing them into bags anyway as deals are closed. At 6 am, the weather
is already hot enough to make the thawing crabs steam.
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Let T h e i r V o i c e s B e H e a r d
by B r u n o M a r s i a j
B o r n a n d b r o u g h t u p i n S c o t l a n d , m u s i c w r i t e r C e d r i c C h e s t e r m a n a l w a y s
t h o u g h t a b o u t d o i n g s o m e v o l u n t e e r w o r k . H o w e v e r , c o n s t a n t l y m o v i n g b e t w e e n
E n g l a n d , G e r m a n y a n d F r a n c e l e f t h i m few o p t i o n s i n t e r m s o f f i n d i n g a
v o l u n t e e r p o s t h e c o u l d c o m m i t t o . F o r t u n a t e l y , h e f o u n d t h e o p t i o n o f
o n l i n e v o l u n t e e r i n g .
W h e n C e d r i c l e a r n e d a b o u t t h e w o r k b e i n g d o n e w i t h r e f u g e e s b y R E S P E C T ,
h e i m m e d i a t e l y k n e w h e h a d a c h a n c e t o d i r e c t l y h e l p p e o p l e f r o m o t h e r
p a r t s o f t h e w o r l d t h r o u g h h i s w o r k . H a v i n g s t u d i e d m u s i c t e c h n o l o g y a n d
e s t a b l i s h e d a n i n d e p e n d e n t r e c o r d l a b e l , h e w a n t e d t o s h o w p e o p l e h o w t o
p r o d u c e a n d r e c o r d s o n g s o r g e n e r a l a u d i o d o c u m e n t a r i e s .
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Essay Competition for Refugee Students
Interview responses from Gerald Hamilton,
edited by Emily Moreton
Gerald Hamilton, a twenty-six year old American database programmer,
first got involved with young people and sport through an article on
the Children's World website about a teenager in a refugee camp
in Kenya, who wished to get a good education and play sports. Inspired
by this article, Gerald eventually managed to track down the young man,
and several months later, he arrived in America to study and play sports.
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AFFILIATES
RESPECT Nigeria Activities Making Positive Change at Oru Camp
by Lillian Langford
After months of organization, meetings, approvals, and much applied
effort, RESPECT Nigeria and its activities
are in full swing at Oru Refugee Camp, Country Coordinator Francis
Abayomi reports. Oru Primary School is currently involved in a letter
exchange program with an elementary school in Toronto, Canada.
Meanwhile, five of Oru's hard-working older refugee students are
advancing their education under the tutelage of Iona Lister with
RESPECT University.
The camp is also eagerly awaiting the arrival of new donated computers
which are sure to benefit the entire community.
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Homeschoolers Help Refugees in Northern Uganda
by Dr. M. Ashaq Raza
Recently the Dallas Area Homeschoolers Roots & Shoots (R&S)
group organized a garage sale event and raised $525 (USD) from the sale
and outside donations. The money will be sent to the Agoro Community in
Northern Uganda where it will be spent on building a local vocational
school, to help cover teacher allowances, for buying text books, and
for mailing letters.
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As in any newsletter or magazine, RESPECT e-zine is committed to striving for
interesting articles and announcements concerning refugee issues all around the
world.
If you have any suggestions or would like to contribute an article, contact the
e-Zine editor, Will Wallace at
editor@respectrefugees.org.
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