Distinguished Lecture: The Experience of an American Pediatrician In Darfur: a hands-on eyewitness account.
Speaker: Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, Doctors Without Borders
"I spent 2 months during the summer of 2004 as a volunteer for Doctors Without Borders caring for children in a medical center at a camp for internally displaced persons in Darfur, Sudan. I wanted to document the plight of the people through the eyes of children. I brought with me 25 boxes of crayons and about 400 pieces of drawing paper. They were given out to children between the ages 8 and 12. I asked them to draw about their lives in Darfur and return 7-8 drawings for me to take home as a remembrance. As the children brought back the drawings they were placed in my daypack under my medical instruments. At the end of the day they were hidden in a Sunday edition of The New York Times that I brought with me. That's how I was able to get them out of the country. As seen in the drawing below their message is obvious. They depict the atrocities these children have gone through and still unfortunately live with." ~Dr. Jerry Ehrlich
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