Thursday, September 4, 2008

Water is Life


"Should the Sudanese victims feel abandoned and neglected, it would be our fault -- and perhaps our guilt." -- Elie Wiesel


In order to survive all people need water for cooking, washing clothes, and drinking to keep hydrated. In a video from youtube a man is journaling about his experience in Sudan. It is so hot that these people need water. He finds out that these people in Sudan encounter so many problems that might set back many people in America, thinking that there is no way to survive. These people in Sudan face the problem and solve them with whatever they have already. Once the bore whole is finished, that they are making, they will be able to accomplish many other things such as build a medical clinic. This video was just added four months ago, so who knows where they are with the construction. Although, they still need as much as help as they can get. Click here to view the video: Water for Life Journal.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Mini-Movie Research

1. http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:9Ezyrf08kRwJ:www.sheltercentre.org/
shelterlibrary/items/pdf/Sudan.pdf+sudan+in+the+1880s&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us

Religious leader Muhammad ibn Abdalla, the self-proclaimed
Mahdi (Messiah), attempted to unify the tribes of western and
central Sudan in the 1880s. He led a nationalist revolt culminating
in the fall of Khartoum in 1885, in which the British General Gordon
was killed. The Mahdist state survived until being overwhelmed by
an Anglo-Egyptian force under Lord Kitchener in 1898. Britain ran
Sudan as two essentially separate colonies, the south and the
north, until 1956.

**look up sudan:1880 to the present crossroads of a continent in conflict