Girls' Preparatory School Teacher Documents Darfur Refugees

04/22/2008- Chattanooga Times Free Press

 
It literally was a picture of irony.

The little girl in the photograph, whose family had fled from their home in the Darfur region of Sudan, had little to eat and no bed on which to lay her head. But she was wearing an American T-shirt emblazoned with the word "Spoiled."

"Their vulnerability is much higher than I thought," Paige Weichbrodt (pictured, right), a Girls Preparatory School teacher who recently returned from a trip to Sudan, said of such children.

The private school history teacher visited the desert refugee camp Jaach in the southeast region of the country as a guest of the organizations Silent Images and the Persecution Project Foundation.

While there, she documented the people and scenes of the camp and what progress toward assistance had been made.

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