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I'm going to share mine with you, kay? Or at least some.
- I'm scared of making promises and telling people I'll do things because I don't trust myself to keep to my word.
- I have a really odd fear of balloons and anything that makes a loud, sudden noise. They call it ligyrophobia, supposedly, but I'm not sure if it's bad enough to be called a phobia. My fear of balloons can be for sure called a phobia, ha.
- I'm scared that my gag-reflex will keep me from being a nurse. Unfortunately, any not okay smell sets me off gagging. It's extremely annoying.
- I'm scared that my education won't be considered legit because I'm home schooled.
- I fear I'll never be nurturing and attentive enough to fit the needs of the ones I love.
- I greatly desire a dslr, but I'm worried I would allow the camera and good quality speak for my photos, not the soul and creativity.
- I'm terrified of driving.
- I have a fear of being wrong, so, I keep to myself and let people argue among themselves.
So there we go! Saxony Marie is flawed to the core (; There are tons more! I just can't think of them all.
And you know, I don't care. I still try, ha. Some of those things I'm just going to have to get over. So, yeah. I will. Everything has a season (:
In an attempt to rid herself of her insecurities Heidi Montag plastic surgery procedures occurred in 2010. She chose to have ten separate surgeries done at once.
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
This morning my morning walk seems to be stunted because of my neighbor's dog. I didn't dare to walk. I'm afraid it might jump over the fence. It barks loudly at me. I gave up. My ruined Sunday morning walk. I wish to move to a neighborhood where there are no dogs. It scares me.
I have a sort of hate-hate relationship with my legs...
I was born with very stereotypically Japanese legs (short, thick daikon-ashi) and a very stereotypically American weight (er, heavy). Factor in my inability to tan and we have a very unattractive set of legs.
That said, I had my feet propped up on my desk (I'm alone right now) and noticed that the lighting was casting pretty shadows over my legs. So of course, I whipped out my camera and took a few shots (I also have a b/w shot that might be better than this one...maybe). So here they are, in all of their pasty, daikon glory, not looking too bad at all.
from "the insecurities of time" at Ad Hoc Art in brooklyn, Jan 2009
check out il.youtube.com/watch?v=ldZ2h4aeqQI for video footage of installation.
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
I had a roll of found 35mm Anscochrome 100 film that expired in 1969, so I tried developing it in cold E6 chems. It actually came out really well!
After being color corrected in Photoshop.
Most of the roll were pictures of this same guy. I assume he was working on self portraiture.
"beneath the makeup and behind the smile I'm just a girl who wishes for the world"
-Marilyn Monroe
For God's sake, I just want to feel beautiful for once.
No matter how many compliments I get I still feel so insecure all the time. I don't even remember the last time I felt completely comfortable and beautiful.
This M.I.C.E. insecurity patrol Unit is currently retired. M.I.C.E. stands for Metropolitan Insecurity Corporate Enforcement. The term "insecurity" is comprised of two words and is short for "investigative-security". This unit took a beating due to unauthorized chases, and insecurity officers doing donuts and street racing the company car. This car is a Ford Crown Victoria.
7 October 2015. Gudele: Sugi Eleuda, mother of two children, waters green beans during a training session on agriculture in a center run by the NGO Daughters of Mary Immaculate in Gudele, Central Equatoria, which gives training to more than 6,000 farmers in the area. Sugi Eleuda, as many farmers in the region, is struggling to cultivate food in her land due to the scarcity of water in the present rainy season. It's expected that the harvest is going to be much smaller than previous years and is going to deteriorate the present food insecurity in the country. According tothe latest IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification), published in May 2015, from 2.5 million to 4.6 million people are classified severely food insecure in South Sudan, and it's expected that the number will increase drastically in the coming months. It's expected the new analysis of the IPC will be published in the coming days.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net
Hector Poole, a sensitive, insecure bank clerk, gains telepathic powers after tossing a coin that miraculously stands on its edge. He discovers that he is able to "hear" other people's thoughts, and is surprised to hear the things people are thinking around him.
He first "hears" his boss thinking about a weekend affair he is planning with his mistress. Then a businessman, Mr. Sykes, thinks about taking out a large loan to pay for a run at the horse track to win back money he has embezzled from his company. Hector informs his boss, Mr. Bagby, and thwarts the businessman's plans. Hector also "hears" the thoughts of Miss Turner, a co-worker who admires him from afar and wishes he would be more assertive, and decides to take her into his confidence and reveals his psychic abilities to her.
Shortly afterwards, Hector hears an old, trusted employee, Mr. Smithers, apparently planning to steal cash from the bank, and alerts Mr. Bagby. When Smithers proves to be innocent of the plan, he admits having fantasized for years about stealing money from the bank but would never go through with such a plan because he is too much a coward. Mr. Bagby fires Hector, but reinstates him when he discovers that Mr. Sykes has been arrested for gambling with company money. With Miss Turner's telepathic encouragement, Hector makes the case to Mr. Bagby that he deserves to be accounts manager, but when the bank manager resists reason, Hector uses his knowledge of his boss's adultery to blackmail him into granting the promotion and into giving Mr. Smithers a long-overdue vacation.
After work, as Hector returns home with Miss Turner, he inadvertently knocks the standing coin over. His mind-reading ability is gone, but he is a man changed for the better.
Y ha llegado tal punto que ya no sé qué veo, que no sé lo que quiero, que no sé lo que siento.
Que solo no me gusta nada y quiero borrarme, hacerme de nuevo.
I let jealousy and insecurity eat away at my insides for too many years. I was always worried about the unknown. I stressed for things that had already happened, things that could possibly happen, but had not happened yet. I wasn't confident in who I am, or what I have to offer as a person. But my goodness, have things changed. This past year really has been the most incredible journey of self discovery that I have absolutely loved being a part of. Bringing to my awareness so many things I would not have otherwise known, had I not gone down the path I did. I feel so much lighter, so much more grateful, so much more positive and mentally stronger than I have ever been before. I can do this. I will do this. 🌿✨
Humanity has never been as rich, as prosperous, as healthy, as connected, as educated or as safe as today.
Yet humans have never felt poorer, more disconnected, more yearning, more fearful, more dependant, more restricted, more insecure, more alone or less important as today.
#graffitiarcheology #streetart #graffiti #mask #redhead #luchtbal #rabbit #urbanart #travellingphotographer #travel #wearingmasks #insecurity #sentimental #emotional #digitalnomad #wanderlust #urbanvandals #graffitiart #hiding #hideyourface #scared #feelingblue #feelings #youareimportant
This poem was written for a friend, someone who requested me to write it for them.. a poem about being in love and the insecurities with it.
Insecure
I wish you knew how I felt right now,
Listen to my heart, it's beating so fast,
Hiding the pain for so long, now I can't stand,
It's weeping endlessly in dark shades,
I wish you could hear me out baby,
It's a rainy morning in London,
I am thinking about you all along,
I wish I could hold your hands,
And close my eyes,
Saying to myself, 'It's all gona be fine'
I assure myself repeatedly,
But tell me o'beloved am I sane?
I fear I have turned manic,
You ask me why?
It's your love, sweet heart,
I am drowned immensely in pain,
But there is joy in this pain,
For I seest my beloved everywhere,
I am so insecure, cries my heart,
Why does it feel, your going to leave me,
The fear of losing someone horrifies me,
I feel so speechless, so misunderstood,
Frustrated, hurt, saddened by those mean words,
Can you stop hurting me for once?
Coz I can't take it no more,
I am in love with you,
But you fail to see that,
I don't want to lose my beloved
Coz of another,
I am an insecure soul,
Now I fear losing you,
For I am in love,
Rumi, they say love is pure,
But I feel that is a lie,
For every beloved says they love
But only a few can practice that.
R
Image courtesy- Jacy Kay
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
Where are you from if your homeland isn’t on the map? Nigerian author and journalist Mohammed Umar, German Sadulaev, the Russian author of I am a Chechen and the Nagalese author Easterine Kire Iralu talk about the pressures of writing about places that don’t exist. Are stateless authors doubly oppressed – both politically and culturally? Or can this uncertain identity liberate writers to create a more personal literature, unconstrained by traditions or expectations? Chaired by writer and prize-winning translator Daniel Hahn.
Photo: Saskia Schmidt
Korioume, Tombouctou, Mali (25 October 2017) - Women groups from communities in Korioume, 15 km away from Tombouctou, receive tools to help them start cultivating their land again. With the Humanitarian Response Plan significantly underfunded, only the most vulnerable groups have received aid so far. More is needed with thousands in the region relying on seasonal agriculture near the Niger river to survive. Food insecurity has increased significantly in Mali over the past months. One person out of five is food insecure in Mali today.
Credit: @OCHA/Eve Sabbagh
Ambassador Tony Hall, executive director of the Alliance to End Hunger recently traveled to the world’s largest refugee camp, Dadaab, on the Kenya-Somalia border. The Horn of Africa is experiencing the region’s worst drought in sixty years and more than 450,000 have trekked for days and weeks across the desert seeking food, water, shelter, and safety in Dabaab. Read more about Amb. Hall’s trip on the Sodexo blog at bit.ly/qYPgrS Picture courtesy Alliance to End Hunger.
Food and nutrition insecurity and limited decent employment opportunities represent serious challenges in Indonesia’s Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) province, home to some of the nation’s most isolated and vulnerable communities. NTT has over 4.5 million people. Approximately 80 per cent of its population is rural, and 65 per cent of its population lives below the national poverty line.
The selection of the three value chains – maize, livestock, and seaweed – as a focus of the programme was based on assessments carried out during the initial phase of the programme, taking into consideration the employment, income generation and productivity potential, as well as their impact on food security. The assessments included consultations and focus group discussions with local stakeholder and local and national governments.
For further information about the ILO's food security and rural development programme in NTT, please visit: www.ilo.org/jakarta/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_308006/lang--e...
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The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
7 October 2015. Gudele: (right) Sugi Eleuda, mother of two children, and her trainer (left) Dennis Mako, inspect onions during a training session on agriculture in a center run by the NGO Daughters of Mary Immaculate in Gudele, Central Equatoria, which gives training to more than 6,000 farmers in the area. Sugi Eleuda, as many farmers in the region, is struggling to cultivate food in her land due to the scarcity of water in the present rainy season. It's expected that the harvest is going to be much smaller than previous years and is going to deteriorate the present food insecurity in the country. According tothe latest IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification), published in May 2015, from 2.5 million to 4.6 million people are classified severely food insecure in South Sudan, and it's expected that the number will increase drastically in the coming months. It's expected the new analysis of the IPC will be published in the coming days.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - www.albertgonzalez.net
Insecurity. It's what i feel from my entourage and their stories recently. I decided to ask PBS to take one for Pen&Loop. Just in case of...
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
This M.I.C.E. insecurity patrol Unit is currently retired. M.I.C.E. stands for Metropolitan Insecurity Corporate Enforcement. The term "insecurity" is comprised of two words and is short for "investigative-security". This unit took a beating due to unauthorized chases, and insecurity officers doing donuts and street racing the company car. This car is a Ford Crown Victoria.
Insecure. That's how I feel right now. I hate how boys toy with girls emotions and make us girls all confused. It sucks. That's what this photo is meant to represent. That nervous, scared and unsure feeling that fills me up whenever there's a guy that may or may not like me.
Today was a tired day, I woke up at ten (since its CSAP us juniors don't have to go in until 11) from a beautiful and vivid dream. Went to school but came home early thanks to a nasty cramp. Slept somemore, watched a movie. Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (fabulous movie, you should really watch it) and now here I am writing all this down.
My song of the day today is All We Are by Matt Nathanson, because we are what and who we are, there's no real changing that.
5/365
Every day can be a struggle with insecurities if you let them haunt you.
Just don't listen to them you say? Easier said then done.
The answer is to accept yourself for who you are and the way you look. Once you do that, it makes everything else a whole lot easier.
Click here: (you know you want too)
www.flickr.com/photos/stealing-your-breath_away/532812648...
Between raw and burnt, moving and staying, secure and insecure, happy and sad, between silence and noise. Right there, in the hyphen between things, that separates and links them, oscillating and without certainties, is where one who has decided to start a journey situates himself. Between Palestine and Israel, between his mother´s and his father´s family is where everything is happening for Rafael.
A journey has to do with a certain disposition of the soul (yes, the soul). There are times when, for periods that can last for seconds, weeks or months, we feel that we are going with heightened senses somewhere unknown. It can happen on the way to buy tomatoes or on a planned world trip, that we see with the active eyes of a foreigner or of a motivated tourist. These are willing eyes, that observe more and omit less. Condition of this journey, to be such, is not to stop too much.
Rafael has been moving for ten months now, mainly between Palestine, Israel and Berlin, and he hasn’t arrived yet. Some things cannot be formulated without turning to a cliché: this is a journey back to the roots. Son of a Chilean descendent of Palestinians and a Chilean Israeli who met in Chile, he was anxious to know about the history of his family and about the history and (contingencia) of their places of origin. That is why, a trip to Israel, offered from a Zionist organisation for young people with Jewish ascendency –and therefore cheap- was the opportunity to get started and to later cross the border to Palestine, West Bank.
This exhibition presents part of the material recorded by Rafael during his stay in Palestine and residency in Berlin. There are some pieces of more elaborated and thought through work and other that are pure documentation In this process the categories in between them Rafael situates himself lose part of their categorical authority, sometimes the far feels near, and he feels far from all that is close. Remembering, silence feels just like noise and arriving and leaving are like the same thing. What we get to see here, is an attempt to put some provisory order into a wide universe of visual material and memories. Unfinished works, burnt works, not yet started works.
Enjoy.
C.
Malawi, Muona, Nsanje District, 24 March 2020
In March 2019, rural farmers in Muona have seen their crops washed away by Cyclone Idai. WFP responded at that time with immediate support.
However, as food stocks depleted and as the next harvest is only expected in March 2020, WFP in Malawi has distributed monthly cash transfers to the most vulnerable so they can buy food and boost the local economy.
In the Photo: WFP is distributing Cash to food insecure people in Muona, Nsanje District (Southern Malawi) so they can buy food in the local markets.
As prevention measures for COVID-19, the beneficiaries are called by small group to facilitate distancing, received sensitization messages on the virus through the megaphones, are asked to wash hands with soap before and after getting their entitlements. In addition, staff and volunteers in charge of the distributions are using protecting masks and gloves.
Photo: WFP/Badre Bahaji
Food-insecure participants in the government's Productive Safety Net Program, in Tigray, Ethiopia worked for eight months to construct anti-erosion terraces, build a mini-dam and irrigation canals, harvest rainwater and reclaim gullies that provide fodder for livestock. USAID and local partner organizations contribute technical know-how, materials, and foodstuffs to the safety net program in which participants receive food aid or cash in exchange for labor on these public works that prevent environmental degradation and enable food production.
Photo by Nena Terrell/USAID
Energy Minister Gillian Martin visited Advice Direct Scotland’s Glasgow headquarters to meet advisers and learn more about how they are supporting people who are struggling to heat their homes.
Triptych #4 based on insecurities.
"Depression is often very misunderstood. It is not just feeling blue, dissatisfied, or down in the dumps. It cripples one’s mind and can turn your body into a heap of lethargy and despair. Although it has been about two years since I suffered from it, having this mark in my past still remains to be one of my biggest insecurities. Perhaps it isn’t having a mental illness that makes me feel uneasy, but the haunting memories of alienation, significant weight loss, and vicious fights that sparked between myself and loved ones that have left me worried and afraid. This illness once consumed me and heavily altered my personality. I felt lost within the confining walls of depression and couldn’t release myself. I am now thankful that after roughly 18 months of living in a state that felt completely foreign, I have recovered and have felt comfortable with myself since. I continually try to put my trust in my current peace of mind, but I know that I can never be sure that I won’t lose myself again."
The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy