ARDC refugees in the Israeli media

Survivor’s stories from our (ARDC) shelter….
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1215331152189

Grieving for the Future

M is a 30 year old, mother of 3, pregnant woman living in a shelter in Tel Aviv. She has a sweet disposition and despite the fact that her 3 year old son (up until this week her other two children were in Egypt) can be a total “terrible three” terror, handles herself and him [...]

Things are getting uglier for the African refugees here…

http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/985061.html

Kenyan Kindness and Ethiopian ridiculousness

Steven, who might be the nicest person I’ve ever met in the entire world, met me at my hotel at 2am. He had offered to hold onto my extra bag for me so that I didn’t have to shlep it with me from Nairobi to Ethiopia. Steven went to spend the day with his family [...]

Flying with the storm

So East African Airways has recently acqired “zan air”, but because they needed the plane they have not had time to paint it yet, so though your ticket says east african airways, you are going to be flying on a zan air flight. But I wouldn’t be too worried, as the paint it peeling off [...]

Perspective

In the Air between Nairobi and London 
On my flight from Nairobi to London the flight was packed with the usual tourists dressed in fatigue khaki vests, NGO workers going on vacation, Kenyans taking a holiday and roughly 50 refugees from several different conflicts all over Africa that were being resettled by IOM (http://www.iom.int). 
Some of the [...]

Into Africa again soon

Just testing this out and Rosh Hashana in the Golan

So I am just testing this out to see how this will work. Everyone seems to be a blogger these days and though I am generally the last one on the planet to jump on any form of technology bandwagon, it might be easier than sending out mass emails.  I spent the two days of Rosh [...]