Archive for July, 2008
We told Congress!
We are walking on air after a successful briefing to congressional aides on Monday.
Thanks to the support of Congresswoman Betty McCollum and her staff, we had an hour and a half of the undivided attention of about two dozen influential legislative assistants and officials from the State Department, United Nations Information Centre, World Bank, and [...]
Help us thank Northwest Airlines
Northwest Airlines continues to be an invaluable supporter of this campaign. Because our funds are running low with the travel costs of Kou returning from Sudan and three of us presenting in D.C. next week, Northwest has agreed to help with Kou’s travel costs to D.C. We are very grateful in particular for [...]
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Gabriel Kou Solomon landed safely in Minneapolis-St. Paul airport today and was greeted by his host family and colleagues from the Save Yar Campaign. He’s looking pretty underfed but debonair even in clothes he’s been wearing for three days.
Kou had his first Subway sandwich in four months (his old standby meal — no, we [...]
Kou is in Uganda on his way home
Kou phoned and e-mailed us Friday to let us know that he has completed the first leg of his journey back. He flew from Juba, Sudan, to Kampala, Uganda, where he will unwind for a couple of days before leaving Tuesday to fly back home to Minneapolis/St. Paul.
His return flight is due to land [...]
Kou is coming home
Gabriel Kou Solomon feels his work in South Sudan has just begun. But our congressional briefing on July 28 will be an important chance to raise the alarm about intertribal child abduction centered in Jonglei state. So we asked Kou to come back to co-present at the briefing and tell his family’s powerful [...]
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