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Fri, Jul 01 2011 07:58:57

Tunisia-Libya Aid Trip, June-July 2011

Seven girls from all over the globe (three Libyans-one half Algerian, a Palestinian, a Syrian, a Thai-Swiss, & one Egyptian-English-German) head to Tunisia to spend time with the Libyan refugees in Tunisia. Here are their live tweets of a life-changing journey.

  1. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    My heart has broke. Left behind kids that mean the world to me. One drew me the Syrian flag and wrote "Homs 7urra (is free)" #Libya #AidTrip
    Fri, Jul 01 2011 07:42:39
  2. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    There's an odd sensation of emptiness consuming Miss T (Palestinian #AidTrip member) & I. Think we left our hearts with the little refugees.
    Fri, Jul 01 2011 06:52:42
  3. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    "@befroggled: @tweets4peace please salemilili 3alehom kiteer, espec mohammed from Tripoli , I miss them all so much :(" we miss u!!! :'(
    Fri, Jul 01 2011 06:14:14
  4. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    Last day at the schoooool :'( these kids are a part of me now :( #Libya #Tunisia #AidTrip
    Fri, Jul 01 2011 01:34:37
  5. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    Photo: @GadityAlhuriya #AidTrip #Tunisia #Libya: Buying deodorant bags that we then evenly distributed into... http://tumblr.com/xto395p57h
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 09:04:09
  6. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    I didn't hear any Nato bombs @ Dheba camp yday but according to @MiiMiiCanon & A, they both felt the ground shake & a distant sound #AidTrip
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 08:49:58
  7. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    Made awesome friends here. Many amazing women and men. Inspiring kids. Random people on the street who changed me. #Libya #AidTrip #Tunisia
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 08:47:46
  8. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    Showing a friend pictures from #AidTrip she says "I don't know how you could leave behind those kids" I don't know how I'll manage to either
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 07:12:57
  9. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    Another day at the school. I LOVE the kids, trying to forget I'm leaving in 2 days. They've become my life :( #Libya #AidTrip #Tunisia
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 05:15:30
  10. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    So many Gaddafi spies around us. I could cry. God protect the Libyans ya Allah #Libya #AidTrip #Tunisia
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 04:06:43
  11. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    #AidTrip : in #Remada the older teenage girls (refugees themselves) have set up a group who help organise aid distribution within the camp.
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 03:01:36
  12. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    Lifted his hand in salute and said "as a freedom fighter from the mountains welcome welcome" #Dheba #Libya #AidTrip #Tunisia
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 01:36:15
  13. tweets4peace
    tweets4peace@tweets4peace
    I was speaking to a little boy at the camp yesterday and a man came and asked me where are you from. I said #Syria. So he.. #AidTrip #Libya
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 01:35:22
  14. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    #AidTrip ; will hopefully begin posting some of the photos from the trip today. #Remada #Libya #Tunisia
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 01:16:22
  15. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    #AidTrip ; wished me a happy bday (it was the prev day), their manager saw me outside & asked my friends how they celebrated it (2)
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 01:10:54
  16. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    #AidTrip ; the security at #Remada is strict so passports are handed in upon arrival. When I went to pick mine up 7 security guards...(1)
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 01:07:04
  17. befroggled
    befroggled@befroggled
    @GadityAlhuriya must have felt so surreal, wish I was there with you.
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 07:22:18
  18. Behind those mountains is where all freedom fighters are #aidtrip twitpic.com/5j1wgr
    gadityalhuriya@gadityalhuriya
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    Thu, Jun 30 2011 06:37:55
  19. Water truck "Free Nalut" driving towards Libyan boarder twitpic.com/5j1vmi
    gadityalhuriya@gadityalhuriya
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    Thu, Jun 30 2011 06:36:12
  20. gadityalhuriya
    gadityalhuriya@gadityalhuriya
    Looking at those mountains, the independence flag waving up high. Cars lined up waiting to get in, other going in Libya. #aidtrip
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 06:30:46
  21. gadityalhuriya
    gadityalhuriya@gadityalhuriya
    The amount of talents these children have is amazing mashA. We've all noticed it, in&out of camps #aidtrip
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 05:31:15
  22. GadityAlhuriya
    GadityAlhuriya@GadityAlhuriya
    The hightlight of yesterdays trip has to be the visit to the Tunisian-Libyan boarder, known as Wazzin. #aidtrip
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 06:15:20
  23. gadityalhuriya
    gadityalhuriya@gadityalhuriya
    As soon as a camera is pulled out they gather in big groupd and sing the libyan anthem or songs from darna, I tried asking them to sing
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 05:27:37
  24. GadityAlhuriya
    GadityAlhuriya@GadityAlhuriya
    Something unrelated to Libya or the revolution they looked at me with blank faces, like I wasn't making sense. This means everything2them
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 05:28:46
  25. gadityalhuriya
    gadityalhuriya@gadityalhuriya
    It was so cute watching the kids respond to different whistle sounds, cheering or calling back. The sun burns are visible on their faces
    Thu, Jun 30 2011 05:26:03

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