Archive for June, 2007
Local kids’ words help those a world away
June 19th, 2007 | Trackback | | Support the Project
By Matt Van Tassel
Loudoun Times-Mirror
![Angelo Manger Maker, a Sudanese orphan, speaks at Ashburn Library June 14 about his experiences in Sudan. [Times-Mirror Staff Photo/AJ Maclean]](http://darfurdiaries.org/multimedia/loudountimesmirror.jpg "Angelo Manger Maker, a Sudanese orphan, speaks at Ashburn Library June 14 about his experiences in Sudan. [Times-Mirror Staff Photo/AJ Maclean]")
Angelo Manger Maker, a Sudanese
orphan, speaks at Ashburn Library
June 14 about his experiences in
Sudan. [Times-Mirror Staff Photo/
AJ Maclean]
About 40 10-year-olds lined up behind a podium to read their poems about the genocide in Darfur at Ashburn Library June 14. As their words began to flow, the line ratcheted forward in front of a projector, and the profile of each student’s face was cast upon a screen, upon which read, “A voice of hope for Sudan’s future.”
The silhouettes of the boys and girls were in stark contrast to the savage topic of genocide. The innocent voices that projected words such as “hope,” “fear,” “death” and “courage,” reaffirmed the seemingly contradictory image.
