We've received some questions about the Tents of Hope & their journey from Washington, DC to Darfur. Well. As one might expect, this is not an average shipment. Just remember your own holiday package travails in years past & multiply it by, um, a lot. Darfur Peace & Development Organization (DPDO) was the recipient of the tents in November. Program Director Susan Burgess-Lent's step-by-step explanation of where the Tents of Hope are now, where they're going, & why they've not left New Jersey yet, is here (along with additional photos). There's a timeline & explanation. They will be shepherded carefully, we are totally confident, because DPDO is not only committed, but peopled with the most wonderfully stubborn folks we have ever met! More as the tents make their way from Newark to Darfur (via Libya). Fingers crossed for mid-February.
Cheers, GG's editor
3 photographs/Susan Burgess-Lent/DPDO (students at Shobani School of Peace; Darfuri children painting tent; repacking tents in Newark, NJ) all rights reserved
photograph of completed Amnesty International Tent/Charles Joy/
Group #297 Amnesty International/Silver Spring-Takoma Park, MD
collage by GG/use only if permission is received from Susan Burgess-Lent