Having just returned from the Breijing Refugee Camp in Chad, where GNG linked Sudanese refugees and relief workers with students across the United States, I felt compelled to write and share a bit of my experience with you. I hope that after reading this, you may be willing to help GNG by visiting our website and making an online donation so that we may continue to bring these sorts of innovative and life-changing broadcasts to youth around the world.

On Friday, August 27, thanks to videoconferencing, students were able to speak directly to refugees from Darfur (in Sudan) and the relief workers trying to stem the crisis. They were also able to learn more, generally speaking, about the situation in Darfur.

It was truly an incredible broadcast, and the participants here did a great job asking refugees and the aid worker on location thoughtful and important questions. If you haven't yet seen the webcast, I invite you to visit our website and check it out. It is well worth your time.

Words cannot begin to express what being in the camp was truly like. Imagine more than 45,000 people living in a space designed to accommodate 18,000. Imagine those 45,000 people (who had arrived with nothing but the clothes on their backs) waiting weeks for water, shelter, and food all the while not knowing when, if ever, they will be returning to their villages, their homes, and some semblance of a normal life.

We wanted students to witness this with us. First, to create awareness for what the UN has called the worst humanitarian disaster in the world, but also to embolden these same students to take action.