by rchakaki | Jun 13, 2023 | #live2give, Syria
I can generally hold it together when I hear of war atrocities and human violations on others. I’ve always prided myself on being the “let’s do something to fix it” type instead of “let’s get caught in the emotional moment”. But...
by rchakaki | Apr 12, 2017 | Recollections, Syria
Saturday afternoon – May 2013, I receive the latest report from my contact in the UN; Ayn al-Tineh has been taken over by radical religious militias who massacred the men of the town, dumping their bodies in a mass grave and took 300 young women and girls as...
by rchakaki | Dec 24, 2013 | #live2give, Ramblings
Maria’s smile was the best gift I received this Christmas. Maria is seven years young. She can’t wait to go the USA, so she can run and play with other kids like she used to. Five months ago she was walking with her mom in their neighborhood in a...
by rchakaki | Aug 15, 2013 | #live2give, Ramblings
Today felt heavy. I woke up at dawn, and prayed for the life of Amir Bedier. A man I had only heard of yesterday, when his brother and my friend Ahmed sent out this message: “Urgent please make dua for my brother Amir, who was just shot in the chest inside the...
by rchakaki | May 9, 2013 | Ramblings
A few years back I read this quote in the US National Newseum photography exhibit section: “If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture” Eddie Adams Since then, I’ve been so conscious of the...
