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#24280 tibetan refugee camp , constructed for Tibetans who lost their homes with the earthquake in 2015 , not easy to live in, but meanwhile they rebuilded their homes that were finished by 2018, while in the camp kids went to school and adults went working, working on a better future
Mohammad Aman Yusufi - Dambura
We were proud to help sponsor this initiative from Muziekpublique with our groups AHHA & True Colours (helping LGTB refugees) - Rick & Bart
The Initiative:
The album is released on May 13th 2016 at Muziekpublique (Brussels)!
We have been moved by the recent scenes of migrants arriving in Europe. That’s why we have decided to bring together around twenty musicians who are refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tibet. We have assembled a group of virtuoso performers from different regions of the world who have put down roots in Belgium and who hope to make their voices heard through their music. Our objective is to reveal talents and cultural treasures that have become virtually invisible in Belgium. These are experienced musicians who have been trained at some of the most prestigious music academies in the Middle East (Damascus, Baghdad, Aleppo) and who have passed through a string of musical centres dotted along the former Silk road.
These talents form the basis of the project that we are launching with them. Together, we aim to develop a project that will help them to find their place and reconstruct their lives in Belgium. Their CD builds bridge between the musicians and the different traditions they represent, in order to produce an album that is rich, innovative and a mark of diversity and cultural exchange
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1 million houses were destroyed with the earthquakes in 2015 in Nepal many people are still living in a refugee tentcamp , the government gives only little help , so why don't we try to help them, rebuilding an new house for a family in the mountains only cost about 5000 euro
All over Germany people opt out of racism and hostility for strangers.
Camera: Olympus E-M1
Lens: Minolta Rokkor MC 24mm f2.8 combined with Metabones Speedbooster
The Academy of Athens is Greece's national academy, and the highest research establishment in the country. It was established in 1926, and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. The Academy's main building is one of the major landmarks of Athens. It is a neoclassical building that was designed as part of an architectural "trilogy" in 1859 by the Danish architect Theophil Hansen, along with the University and the National Library. Funds had been provided by the magnate Simon Sinas specifically for the purpose, and the foundation stone was laid on 2 August 1859. Construction proceeded rapidly, after 1861 under the supervision of Ernst Ziller, but the internal tumults during the latter years of King Otto's reign, which resulted in his ousting in 1862, hampered construction until it was stopped in 1864. Works resumed in 1868, but the building was not completed until 1885, at a total cost of 2,843,319 gold drachmas, most of it provided by Sinas, and, after his death, by his wife Ifigeneia. The sculptures were undertaken by the Greek Leonidas Drosis, while the murals and paintings by the Austrian Christian Griepenkerl. On 20 March 1887, the building of the "Sinaean Academy", as it was called, was delivered by Ziller to the Greek Prime Minister, Charilaos Trikoupis. In the absence of a national Academy, the building was used for housing the Numismatic Museum in 1890, and in 1914 the Byzantine Museum and the State Archives. Finally, on 24 March 1926, the building was handed over to the newly-established Academy of Athens...
...taken by the Academy of Athens...
Athens, Greece...
This past year I spent a lot of time photographing the Global Education Movement's inspiring new higher education programs. This young woman, who is just beginning the program, came to the a remote refugee camp in Northern Kenya from Somalia as a child without her parents in the care of family friends. She has not seen her family since and expressed to me her wonder and excitement about beginning the degree program.
While she is one of the lucky ones, her story is just one of the almost 200,000 in the camp and one of over 25 million refugees worldwide. My hope is that stories like hers and programs like these inspire others to open doors to refugees rather than build walls.
Luftbild von der Containersiedlung für Flüchtlinge und Asylbewerber in Sallach (Rain). Der Ortsteil der Stadt Rain hat 153 Einwohner und insgesamt 388 Wohncontainer für die Flüchtlinge im Juni 2024
Long stretches of road between Murmansk and Kirkenes are only to be covered on wheels, without standing still, because of Russian military zones on both sides. Many Syrian refugees cover this stretch, which is a 3 hour drive by car, and some of them do this per bike. This is a photo of a daily accumulation of bikes, left at the door of the Norwegian boarder control. On the other side hundreds more are left in big containers abandoned, with nowhere to go...
Thousands of Congolese refugees have harboured here at Gihembe Refugee Camp for years. So much humanity in such little space.
Gihembe Refugee Camp
UNHCR
Gihembe, Rwanda. Afrika.
July 14, 2006.
The Tampa Bay Times published this photo of a refugee from the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaching the Romanian border. Heaven knows what distress she endured along the way. She has brought just her personal documents but she did not abandon her beloved cat. One hopes that they can both enjoy safety now.
I visited Ukraine three times between 2007-2013, and I have my own blood ties to the country. My grandmother’s family was displaced by the Russian Civil War in 1920, and it is shocking to reflect that Ukraine has been ravaged by war three times within the past century. Nor should Stalin’s depredations of the 1930s be overlooked, when a naturally fertile country was deliberately starved - an act of petty but deadly revenge for Ukraine’s brief independence between 1918 and 1922.
One lasting impression from my visits was the bonds of affection between Ukrainian people and their cats. That is something that is in my DNA, surely inherited from my late Odessa-born grandmother. I salute the brave woman in this photograph for caring about her cat’s well-being in the most harrowing of circumstances.
A poster in Oslo's amazing Art Gallery
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnV3DUSHKCo
Roy Bailey sings 'Refugee' by Terry Andrews
With Martin Simpson accompanying
War-Lords are often without hearts.
Warriors without ethics or empathy.
Children grow up distressed and rough.
The prospect is very bleak and dark.
''A migrant child leans out of a train window to collect food at the railway station in Tovarnik, Croatia September 29, 2015.''
Courtesy by REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
Chad, January 2022: A child peers over the arm of a chair
at a camp in in Karwei, near Ndajmena, for refugees who've fled inter-community violence in northern Cameroon.
UNICEF is supporting local NGO CAIDEL with technical, material and financial assistance to provide water, sanitation and hygiene services for Cameroonian refugees. Through the partnership, some 375 emergency latrines and 225 emergency showers have been constructed, and more than 1,000 each household kits, dignity kits, and GBV kits have been distributed.
© UNICEF/UN0583584/Dejongh
Six actions for refugee children: Ensuring equal rights and opportunities for all refugee children.
“Refugees” - VDGG
North was somewhere years ago and cold:
Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old.
South was birth to pleasant lands, but dry:
I walked the waters' depths and played my mind.
East was dawn, coming alive in the golden sun:
The winds came, gently, several heads became one
In the summertime, though August people sneered;
We were at peace, and we cheered.
We walked alone, sometimes hand in hand,
Between the thin lines marking sea and sand;
Smiling very peacefully,
We began to notice that we could be free,
And we moved together to the West.
West is where all days will someday end;
Where the colours turn from grey to gold,
And you can be with the friends.
And light flakes the golden clouds above all;
West is Mike and Susie,
West is where I love.
There we shall spend our final days of our lives;
Tell the same old stories: yeah well,
At least we tried.
Into the West, smiles on our faces, we'll go;
Oh, yes, and our apologies to those
Who'll never really know the way.
We're refugees, walking away from the life
That we've known and loved;
Nothing to do or say, nowhere to stay;
Now we are alone.
We're refugees, carrying all we own
In brown bags, tied up with string;
Nothing to think, it doesn't mean a thing,
But we'll be happy on our own.
West is Mike and Susie;
West is where I love,
West is refugees' home.
Many Syrian refugees cover the stretch all the way up to Norway, by Kirkenes. I heard yesterday it were 60, but numbers vary between 30-50 per day.
When they dont make it over the boarder before 10PM, which is when the boarder closes, they can get stuck in the stretch of no mans land between Russia and Norway, where they spend the night in these orange, half circular plastic tents.
Sie ist nicht im Mittelmeer ertrunken - geben wir ihr eine Chance!
Jeden Tag warten Tausende Flüchtlinge vor dem Berliner LAGESO auf ihre Registrierung. Wer Glück hat, kommt schon am dritten Tag dran. Viele Freiwillige kümmern sich um die Versorgung mit Essen und Trinken - und mir kamen fast die Tränen, als mir ein alter Mann sagte "Germany is good".
Lasst uns teilen - wir haben mehr, als wir brauchen. Gebäude stehen leer, Essen wird weggeworfen, und viele dieser Menschen haben nichts als ihr nacktes Leben gerettet.
Ayla made it - unlike little Aylan Kurdi, she did not drown in the Mediterranean. Let's give her a chance!
Every day, thousands of refugees are waiting to be registered at Berlin's Office for Health and Social Affairs. The lucky ones only wait for three days. Many volunteers and supplying them with food and water. It moved me to tears when an old man said "Germany is good".
Let's share. We have more than we need. Buildings stand unused, food is thrown away, while many of these people saved nothing but their bare lives.
Mourning Cloaks are very fast to fly off as soon as they warm up. This one stayed around long enough for a few photos.
It's caterpillar season at work. This year, a preemptive email has had many folks bringing me Mourning Cloak caterpillars, before they are squashed by the maintenance staff. This butterfly eclosed in the morning and was released a few hours later.
© 2012 Maureen Sullivan
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