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Ambassador Hans Klemm awarded Erika Garnier of Motivation Romania with the title of Romanian Woman of Courage for 2016. Erika, a young woman in a wheelchair, has become a tireless advocate for people with disabilities. Since 2011, Erika has worked with Motivation Romania to help people facing mobility challenges to discover how they can become more active in their personal, social, and professional lives. Erika coordinates the training for clients and families on how to best use wheelchairs to achieve freedom of movement and personal independence.
The Embassy also awarded; Magda Ciobanu and Ramona Brad who founded the Romania Respira Coalition, a network of more than 250 organizations advocating to ban smoking in public places; Ioana Moldovan, a freelance photojournalist who has dedicated her career to showing the negative consequences of conflict on human lives and also covered the military and political developments in Ukraine, Turkey and the refugee crisis; SFC Mirela-Valentina Melinte, the first member of the Romanian Armed Forces to participate in a mission with a US Special Forces Detachment; and Madalina Turza, the President of the European Centre for the Rights of Children with Disabilities (CEDCD) – an important NGO advocating for the rights of children with disabilities in Romania, particularly for their access to equal education. Ms. Turza, whose daughter also has Down’s Syndrome, mobilized parents of children with disabilities across the country to develop and prompt the parliament to pass a bill to reform the education and protection systems for children with special education needs.
After much peering about, I managed to find the Parent Bug family I originally saw on the 27th of July.
This is them 3 days later.
AB800 slight camera left at 1/16 in soft box
AB400 camera right through 30 degree grid
popped with cyber syncs
After I spend a summer in Taiwan and before I start my last year of graduate school, I take a week to hang out with my parents and old friends in my favorite city for all time. Also, my mom gave me her year-old Canon for my birthday!
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other."
- Francis Bason
(for my Grandmas, my Mom, my Sister and of course my Wife and to all moms out there... Happy Mother's Day!)