A Darfurian school house named 'Obama'

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by Ann Curry, NBC News

CHAD/DARFUR BORDER -- We traveled to the Chad/Darfur border with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof and actor/activist George Clooney, two men you might not guess have much in common, but both are smart and funny -- and care deeply about Darfur.

Today in a refugee camp on the Chad side, we found in one refugee camp, a school house named for the President Obama.

The students told us Obama made them believe anything was possible, that they could rise from the sands of this desert, where they don't even have shoes, and become anyone they wanted, maybe even a president. That these children, who are among humankind's most suffering living in one of the world's most hopeless places, could imagine such greatness... now that is the audacity of hope.

Watching them, George worries aloud that they might live the rest of their lives as refugees.

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1. What a picture that paints. I hope Kristof gets an award for all the writing he had done on the

topic. George Clooney has been out there on a limb too publicizing Darfur. Now that Obama is in power let us hope that something big will be done.