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    • Hello my name is David. Over the summer my class read Escape for Slavery for my English Class. We now are going to create our own website and I want to let you know that by reading your article it...

      9 months ago by David

      in Thoughts from Meadow Elementary School

    • Lefty, I too have asked this question for my students. Is anyone working on a system to send the tents to where they are needed? This is really an important question.

      10 months ago by Sally Sharp

      in Are they going anywhere?

    • This is an amazing story. How can I reach the author? I would like to share this story with our congregants.

      10 months ago by Adam Gerhardstein

      in Thoughts from Meadow Elementary School

    • <b>The North did not Make Darfur Crises!</b> The world does not understand the problems in Darfur. Some media sources report false information about racism, Arabic and Islamic cleansing...

      1 year ago by Osman

      in Darfur Tents

    • This is very encouraging that the tent company donated the new panels and that the Meadow Elementary students didn't give up on their hopes to connect with their Darfuri counterparts!

      1 year ago by soniak

      in Genocide without borders

Tents of Hope Discussion Forum

A place to talk about the Tents of Hope project, as well as larger awareness-raising, advocacy, and fundraising issues related to the Darfur crisis. We hope this forum is useful to all Tents of Hope participants and supporters!

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    Are they going anywhere? started by LeftytheAlmighty
    I understand the tents are going to Washington, but what then? I seems that we are raising all the awareness possible, but will this tent effort put canvas over a childs head? If you can ease my apprehension about joining this cause by saying i am helping that please email me at: tyler@hrecn.net.
    Are they going anywhere? started by LeftytheAlmighty
    I understand the tents are going to Washington, but what then? I seems that we are raising all the awareness possible, but will this tent effort put canvas over a childs head? If you can ease my apprehension about joining this cause by saying i am helping that please email me at: tyler@hrecn.net.
    Global Days of Hope started by soniak
    Here's what we did in Raleigh on April 13:
    http://picasaweb.google.com/amyripps/DarfurTent...

    There will be a rock concert for Darfur this Friday!

    I noticed that at least online, that Sunday's USA Today had Global Days for Darfur on Page 1 !!

    Would like to see what others have been doing.
    Genocide without borders started by tentsofhope
    The Sudanese regime recently tried to overthrow the government of Chad through a proxy rebel force that invaded Chad. Gabriel Stauring, Katie Jay Scott and two other members of Stop Genocide Now (SGN) were caught in the middle of the invasion. They had just returned from visiting several Darfuri refugee camps when rebels swept into the capital, N'Djamena. They were trapped for a week in their hotel. Rebels often fired into the hotel, nearly hitting Gabriel and his friends. They were finally rescued by French soldiers, and arrived safely home. They are more determined than ever to connect people in the U.S. with the Darfuri refugees in Chad.

    The SGN team was carrying 300 canvas panels painted by students at Meadow Elementary School for the first patchwork tent (you can see their artwork at our website’s “Media Gallery”). Young Darfuris in the Farchana refugee camp painted the other sides of the panels. As you can see from their art work, most of the young refugees painted scenes of attacks on their villages in Darfur.

    Unfortunately, the panels had to be left behind in N'Djamena with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The French soldiers only allowed the SGN team to carry a few personal items when they were evacuated. The loss of the canvas panels serves as a reminder of the suffering faced every day by Dafuris. But the students are determined to re-create their art work as well as the art work of the Darfuris in Farchana. Reliable Tents has donated 300 new canvas panels to Meadow school so they can complete their patchwork tent. Meadow Principal Melissa Becker said, “Our students haven’t lost hope. They have raised over $1,000 for humanitarian relief. It was wonderful to watch the videos of Darfuri children smiling when they saw the panels painted by our students.”

    The Tents of Hope campaign is an affirmation of a fundamental truth about humanity: we are one family. Bullets cannot destroy this truth. In fact, this truth will defeat genocide. We are grateful for the courage of the SGN team -- and the hope of the Meadow students! We invite you to participate in the Tent 2 Tent program with Stop Genocide Now, and encounter individual Darfuris living in refugee camps in Chad. For more information, contact Tiffany Wheeler at HYPERLINK "mailto:whee5945@vandals.uidaho.edu" whee5945@vandals.uidaho.edu.
    Art Activism  started by tentsofhope
    By A. S. Ashley

    Little did Cherie know when she went to the Sundance Film Festival, that she would have a casual encounter with someone who was going to change her life for the next several months. Cherie Savoie (of Savoie Hair, here in downtown Pomona) was sitting in a café during the Festival and met Francesca Rovenda, a film maker, who is working on a film project documenting “Tents of Hope”, an organization dedicated to bringing awareness and assistance to refugees in Darfur.

    Obviously, the little chat they had about the film project, and Darfur, had a significant impact on our local stylist…because in a blink of an eye, Cherie had purchased a tent; contacted the DPOA, the dA gallery, Cal Poly Arts Center; rallied the local art army; and orchestrated a tent painting extravaganza the likes of which we’ve never seen before. The assembly of artists: Tom Pathe & Alex Couwenberg; Father Bill Moore & A.S. Ashley; Chris Hernandez & Gregory Rodriguez; Thomas Stubbs & Marcella Swett; Juan Thorp & Joseph Todorovitch; all paired-up to collaborate on their creations respectively, on each side of the 8 X 10 foot canvas tent. This was spectacle enough for the mass of on-lookers from the area to witness. Francesca Rovenda was there with her film crew to document the painting frenzy at the dA Gallery while AKASHA drummers kept the beat. The Daily Bulletin also with on hand, taking a boatload of pictures for a slideshow you can find on their website.

    Before our Darfur tent travels to Sacramento for a tent city demonstration, and later to Washington DC for a national gathering of Tents of Hope rally, this painted symbol of support will be on display at 250 W. 2nd St. for the next two months and will open during our Second Saturday Artwalk, March 8th, running through April, also featuring donated artwork for sale to help raise money and awareness for Darfur. Eddie at 909 Junkie made the ART ACTIVIST T-shirts that will be available for sale (12 bucks) at the display site during the run of the show, and viewing of the gallery space can be made by appointment anytime by calling Cherie: 951-515-4039

    There are already Donation jars in place around town: Bunny Gunner; dA Center for the arts; dba 256 winebar/gallery; Galleria Rustica; Glass House record store; Ink’d Chronicles; AMOCA; La Bomba; Magic Door Books; Needles and Pins; Platform; and Savoie Hair. We are still looking for local businesses to donate goods and services to this noble cause, and if you’d like a flyer for your own donation jar, contact Cherie at: cheriesavoie@gmail.com, or at the number listed above.
    Darfur Tents started by tentsofhope
    Leads for contacts... started by soniak
    Hi Everyone !

    For those of you who are coordinators, you might want to go to http://www.savedarfur.org/page/event/search_simple
    type in your zip code and see who else in your area is already active in Darfur related events. See if they'd like to get on board with TOH. I'm sure the Save Darfur people will not object to our mining their site for leads.

    Sonia
    Captions, please started by soniak
    I was wondering what city/congregation the tent shown on page http://www.tentsofhope.org/take_action.html
    is from and who is seen in the picture.

    Sonia
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