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FEATURE ARTICLES
To A Departing RESPECT Country Coordinator: Thank You
by Souraya Ahamada
All of RESPECT's staff and volunteers
say thank you to Dieudonné Amisi Mutambala for his
hard work promoting RESPECT and increasing the awareness of
the problems of refugees in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC) and Burundi.
At the end of June 2006, Dieudonné announced his
departure from his work with RESPECT for an unspecified time.
For more than 3 years, Dieudonné was the Country
Coordinator for RESPECT DRC
and RESPECT Burundi.
Despite his wish to continue his work, personal reasons
required him to make this decision.
Country Coordinator
Global Youth Council
by Rebecca Schiller
Many young people around the world live in the midst
of conflict, or refugee areas. But the rest of the world
has yet to hear their stories.
Shaping
New Worlds (SNW), a partner of RESPECT
International, has been working with
The Ojai
Foundation (TOF) as well as RESPECT, to help
these youths in sharing their lives, traditions,
histories, and futures with the world, through the Global
Youth Council (GYC) Project.
Youth Council
Organizations Collaborate To Help Pay School Fees
by Logan Cochrane
Working To Empower
(WTE), with support from the Center of Youth Development and
Adult Education (CELA), recently started an education sponsorship
program called Emebet Education Program to pay school
fees for the most vulnerable students, orphans and older girls
living in the Lugufu camps. In Lugufu camps, as with those in
Tanzania, primary school is free but secondary is not. As such,
only some children are able to attend.
School Fees
PHOTO GALLERY
CELA (Center of Youth Development and Adult Education)
soccer team. CELA and Working To Empower (WTE) purchased
team jerseys, soccer balls, basketballs and net, volleyballs
and net, which will be used for sports education.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volunteer Joins e-Zine Editorial Staff
RESPECT welcomes Angela Carter to the e-Zine editorial
staff. She has agreed to take responsibility for
editing the English version of the RESPECT e-Zine.
Angela has been volunteering as an e-Zine writer since
March, 2006. She has also used her expert editing skills
to improve the quality of the e-Zine during that time.
Will Wallace will continue to be responsible for the
production and technical aspects of publishing the e-Zine.
Sandrine will continue in her role as Editor of the French
version of the e-Zine.
You can contact any of the members of the editorial staff
by sending an email to
editor@respectrefugees.org.
AFFILIATES
Working With Refugees in Lugufu Refugee Camp
by Logan Cochrane
Thirty children in the Lugufu refugee camp in Tanzania
take part in RESPECT's pen-pal program.
Upon my arrival they were all busy with exams before entering
a two-month break so I was unable to meet with the children.
Instead I wandered around the large schools of home-made
brick and thatched roof. Classrooms use the walls as a
blackboard and are vastly under-equipped. Books are scarce
and were the most requested item of my meetings.
When one first walks into Lugufu refugee camp it doesn't
look much different from the surrounding small villages, maybe
a few hundred residents. But it is not so. The small houses
continue on and on. In fact, almost 120,000 Congolese refugees
live in Lugufu Camp I and Lugufu Camp II.
These people fled their home country of Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC) due to an international war followed by a civil
war, which began in 1996. As such many refugees are this year
spending their tenth year in the camp.
Refugee Camp
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, Angela Carter, at
editor@respectrefugees.org.
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