Just a token. A voucher? Then he could get something that he really wants, like foot ointment he enjoys. Or would that cheapen the whole thing?
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Here is a man giving everything he has in gratitude for what The Lord Jesus accomplished . I wonder if it makes people sick to think of our profanity, carelessness and ignorance in so called civilised comfort and smugness? "Last week I spent several days in Gaga refugee camp, close to the Darfur/Chad border. It was my first visit there I'm not an aid worker, I used to work in a bank in the City.Last week I spent several days in Gaga refugee camp, close to the Darfur/Chad border. It was my first visit there I'm not an aid worker, I used to work in a bank in the City. The hardest part is coming back to the UK and finding our shops full of Christmas "junk" and our TV screens full of banal entertainment. And everyone seems keener than ever to wear their poppies in advance of Remembrance Sunday. Richard Dickson Gaga is "home" to 19,000 people who've fled to Chad in the last five years from the violent conflict in Darfur. The camp has six Primary schools, nine pre-school "nurseries" and three child activity centres that CORD help the Darfuri people operate. (Watch this video blog from earlier in the year from Treguine and Bredjing camps) CORD is one of the very few British, let alone Christian, organisations that helps people develop their capacity to build peace there. The relatively poor country of Chad is hosting more than 250,000 refugees from Darfur where it's estimated that since 2005 at least two million people have been forced to flee their home and as many as 300,000 people killed. As long as the conflict in Darfur remains unresolved, the enterprising and courageous refugees of Gaga have little hope of returning "home" in the short/medium term."
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