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set 2 of 5 toys adoptions for redcross & doctors without borders donations for haiti earthquakes relief funds list
9 - tokidoki tee (women's xl baby tee/fitted) (nwt) -
10 - petit astrolapin by mr clement (no packaging) - adopted, thank you! xoxo
11 - nara puppy tee (women's m fitted) (nwt) - adopted, thank you! xoxo
12 - smelly tofu mini plush - adopted, thank you! xoxo
13 - smelly tofu mini plush - adopted, thank you! xoxo
14 - smelly tofu mini plush - adopted, thank you! xoxo
15 - "sewing my way" petit blythe (only taken out to take pics a few times) -
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Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
As everyone is aware, Hurricane Sandy crashed into the Northeastern states in late October, causing mass devastation. We’ve all seen the news stories of families affected by winds, floods and fire, but some of our own Corizon family has been affected as well. The next two pages share just a few of their stories.
NEW JERSEY
After Hurricane Sandy hit, all of the New Jersey sites were operating on generator power. Wardens worked with Corizon New Jersey leadership and the National Guard to have essential medical staff in each site, despite sporadic phone and cell service from down towers.
The Regional Office did sustain some damage, but medical services at the facilities never ceased. The Corizon New Jersey teams showed exemplary measures of true teamwork.
We would like to thank Gale Gargiulo, VPO, for the updates and are happy to say her family was evacuated and are okay!
NEW YORK
Rikers Island sites were prepared for, but unaffected by the storm. Employees conducted personal fundraising efforts to help those in need in Rockaway, Far Rockaway and Long Beach areas, where some Corizon employees lost everything.
Manhattan Detention Complex also operated on back-up generator service as Sandy hit NYC. Generators provided enough energy for light and heat, so on-duty staff were able to continue service. Many staff were sleeping on cots and working multiple shifts as others were stranded with no transportation to get to work. Even if they had transportation, gas shortages from no electricity to turn on pumps are affecting everyone, even watching some people run out of gas waiting in the gas lines.
Jane Lachner, VPO, has family in Rockaway and Breezy Point where her brother, mother and sister’s homes all had up to 9-feet of water in their basements. Everyone with cars lost them, and many still have no heat or electricity. Her cousin, a fireman in Breezy Point, also lost his home to a fire.
In an email from an organization called MoveOn they said, “People still don’t have power or water, basements are still flooded, gas shortages have made it hard to run generators, and temperatures are getting down into the 30s. MoveOn members who have volunteered have told us about finding families wet and shivering in the cold. It’s gotten so bad that Doctors Without Borders has set up their first-ever disaster relief effort in the US.”
Our continued thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this tragedy.
To find out more about our correctional services and job opportunities visit our website at www.corizonhealth.com
F&M will participate at the Spoonful of Sugar Festival which every year rises funds for Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) which is world known organization that brings professional medical care wherever it is needed.
At the moment every effort is aimed to bring help to those people trapped at Gaza, whoever they are.
Please consider participating at this year SOS with your creative minds.
38 years old Rohingya form Teknaf.
Met him in the street, then shared a tea and start talking about the Burmese Bangladesh political issue. Had served a 3 years sentence in Burma for mobile phone trafficking !
Running a small business in Teknaf, but dreaming of a better life abroad, thinking of using the illegal, paiying brokers to smuggle by boat to Malaysia and beyond Australia. His sister got married with a bangladeshi, a more common trend these last years.
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20264279
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
01:17am #StGallen #Switzerland “Geschirr waschen” by @f.schefer as part of the @24HourProject to support Children in Conflict Zones and raise funds for @DoctorsWithoutBorders
#24HourProject2025 #24hr25_StGallen #24hr25_Switzerland #24HourProject #MédecinsSansFrontières / #ÄrzteohneGrenzen / #MSF
In Inwa I met this very nice lady and asked her, as always, in Burmese if I might take a picture. She agreed and imidiately made the usual burmese non smiling photo face.
So I started smiling at my very best and somehow she found it funny and started to smile herself - I am happy that I catched that moment :)
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
Google has put out a useful crisis response tool to help people find loved ones, provide information, or find maps, general information, and places to donate.
Here's a super list that Annie Lennox compiled
"For your interest and consideration….
The Philippine Red Cross is deploying rescue teams to affected areas of the country. The British Red Cross and the Australian Red Crosshave also launched appeals.
www.redcross.org.uk/typhoonappeal/
Unicef is asking for funds to help children in urgent need of access to safe water, hygiene supplies, food, shelter and a safe environment.
www.unicef.org.uk/UNICEFs-Work/Emergencies/
The UN's World Food Programme is providing emergency food assistance to families and children.
Oxfam is raising funds to deploy water and sanitation materials to those affected.
donate.oxfam.org.uk/emergency/philippines?intcmp=hp_276_h...
ShelterBox is working to assist families affected by the typhoon.
Care is delivering food, water, shelter and other essentials to the survivors.
www.careinternational.org.uk/dec-philippines-typhoon-appeal
Save the Children has launched a typhoon Haiyan children's relief fund to support their responses to urgent needs.
secure.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.8855857...
Christian Aid has deployed three rapid response teams to affected areas in Samar, Leyte and Panay to assess the needs of communities. It is working with local partners to provide food, shelter repair materials and hygiene kits.
www.christianaid.org.uk/emergencies/current/philippines-t...
ChildFund Australia is calling for donations to help provide emergency relief items and safe spaces for children.
www.childfund.org.au/appeal/cyclone-haiyan-appeal
Plan UK is providing shelters, hygiene kits and school equipment to families affected by the typhoon.
Australia for UNHCR has launched an appeal to help deliver emergency tents, plastic sheeting, kitchen sets, blankets, solar lanterns, and other essential relief items.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has sent an emergency team to Manila and launched a $10m appeal in order to implement the most appropriate response.
The World Food Programme plans to fly food, logistics and communications equipment to Cebu airport, which will become a hub for airlift through government partners to Tacloban.
Logistics equipment including mobile storage units, pre-fabricated offices and generators, is being sent from the UN humanitarian response depot (UNHRD) in Malaysia to set up operational hubs at Tacloban and Cebu airports. Some 300kg of IT equipment including digital radios are being sent from UNHRD in Dubai. The WFP is drawing upon $2m to buy high-energy biscuits and rice, but will be appealing for more funds as the needs become clearer.
www.wfp.org/logistics/humanitarian-response-depot
HelpAge is working with the coalition of services of the elderly (COSE), to send staff to affected areas. It is developing a relief plan to meet older people's most urgent needs.
www.helpage.org/newsroom/latest-news/typhoon-haiyan-affec...
ActionAid has put a local assessment team on standby in Vietnam.
www.actionaid.org.uk/news-and-views/news-blog/2013/11/08/...
MSF's emergency teams arrived in the Philippines on Saturday. Four cargo planes carrying 329 tonnes of medical and relief items will arrive in the coming days, flying out of Dubai and Ostende.
www.msf.org/article/typhoon-haiyan-interview-msf-emergenc...
UNHCR, the UN agency for refugees, plans an emergency airlift of tents, plastic sheets, blankets, mats, water containers and cooking utensils for 16,000 families. UNHCR will also distribute 50,000 solar lanterns.
Anglican Overseas Aid is swinging into action to bring urgent aid to people
anglicanoverseasaid.org.au/our-work/current-emergencies/p...
Also:
Doctors Without Borders
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
To help from US, text AID to 80108 to give $10 donation to @mGiveFoundation #Philippines Typhoon Disaster Relief Fund go.usa.gov/WXtB
ODC2 - Our Daily Challenge - Signs of Our Humanity - Humanity is mankind, the characteristics that describe and make us human. The challenge is to tell the story without the main character. Capture a sense of humanity but, No people allowed.......None!.........have fun!
Sitting pondering about this subject and wondering how one portrayed Our Humanity without people I started to think about the organisations based on humanitarian principles. The main one that came to mind was Doctors Without Borders, medical personnel that are willing to voluntarily assist those in crisis around the world!
So I checked their website to read up more about them and their amazing work. You can read it too at www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Totally based on humanitarian principles and selfless assistance to anyone in desperate need, world-wide. The organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.
Haiti....Earthquake....Donate....Do the Right Thing
Red Cross:
newsroom.redcross.org/2010/01/12/disaster-alert-earthquak...
Doctors Without Borders:
donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&...
Mercy Corps:
International Rescue Com.:
Size: 6”x6” framed
Tesserae: Unglazed Ceramic, Stained Glass, Millefiori, Italian Vitreous Glass
Statement:
I thought something traditional from home could be fun for the auction, so I decided to mosaic a gingerbread heart, they
are offered here on many public festivals. The decoration shows three domestic flowers of our Bavarian Alps:
gentian, edelweiss and red geranium and the typical icing. In the background you see the Bavarian flag with its blue and
white rhombs.
Annette Brenner
Email: Annette-Brenner@web.de
Flickr photos: www.flickr.com/photo/annettebrenner/
Munich, Germany
Seen and noted: Doctors Without Borders exhibition in California. Photo by Sebastiao Salgado. Poster design by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios in New York. MSF rocks!
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
Doctors Without Borders www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ help people worldwide where the need is greatest. @msf_usa #HelpOneAnother @SimpleStartup7 #DoctorsWithoutBorders
1:22am outtakes #newyorkcity #nyc #unitedstates
by @mgyoungphotography as part of the
@24HourProject to support Children in Conflict Zones and raise funds for @doctorswithoutborders
Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: Mexican smalti glass tile and hand-cut mirror
Artist Statement for Stiletto:
Sinuous lines transform themselves into a Stiletto. The seductive reds are bold and vivid against a background of shinny mirror. Stiletto would work well in a contemporary interior.
Artist Information:
I have a special fondness for the Art Deco design style. I use not only traditional glass in my mosaics, but also beads, metal, rhinestones, gems, and vintage jewelry. Wall panels and decorative boxes are my favorite mosaics to make.
I am a member of the following professional organizations:
Contemporary Mosaic Artists (CMA)
Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA)
American Craft Council (ACC)
Verdonna
Website: www.verdonna.com
New Mexico, USA
"Expecting the Unexpected"
MOSAIC: auction~exhibition to benefit Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6” x 6”
Tesserae: Antique glass button, miscellaneous glass, copper chain, glass beads, gold ceramic tiles
Statement:
Self taught, art has been a major part of my life for as long as I can remember. Eight years ago I began my journey in mosaics. I incorporate handmade polymer clay pieces and all types of glass, ceramic, beads, wood, metal, and any other material that calls me.
Each wall sculpture and 3-dimensional piece consists of attention to details in the design elements, color choices and selection of materials. These works may include added touches from my many years of collecting random items and supports my desire to expand my own unique style.
My imagination is always working to produce more mosaic pieces…this is a serious addiction!
Never passing on an opportunity to take another workshop, whether at a local venue, or traveling to many wonderful cities in the US or throughout the world. The craving to search for more found objects and to exchange ideas with fellow artists, only adds fuel to my never-ending desire to learn, improve and create.
Major Accomplishments:
2012 - Mosaic Arts International, Lexington, Kentucky
2010 – ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Affiliations:
Society of American Mosaic Artists
Mosaic Artists of Michigan
Teaching Faculty: Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
Contemporary Mosaic Arts
Commissions:
Beaumont Hospital Heart Center, Royal Oak, Michigan
Donations:
Make-A-Wish
StarGuitars
Doctors Without Borders
Joan Schwartz
Website: www.JSMosaicDesigns.com
Email: JoanSchwartz@mac.com
Home: 248-542-5893
Cell: 248-506-6250
Michigan, USA
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
I was class president for my medical school, Touro University College of Osteopathic medicine. This is what I came up with for a 'class gift'. We also donated a big chunk of change (a couple thousand dollars) to Doctors Without Borders [www.doctorswithoutborders.org]. The rose bush symbolizes the school, and the pipe symbolizes the rather industrial setting where the school is located on Mare Island, a former naval base. The pipe was actually procured and cut at this dramatic angle at XKT Engineering [www.xktengineering.com], which is located across the street from the campus. They were really good sports about the whole thing even though they usually much larger and much more industrially geared projects. I also have to thank Jay Ritchie who is in charge of maintenance at TUCOM for all his help getting this thing in place and sending me these pictures of it.
This picture was taken at the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist pagoda for the Burmese with relics of the past four Buddhas enshrined within.
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.
This photo taken from my car, while stopped at an intersection. I observed this window-washer working in very cold weather (-15 celcius wind chill) , and I wanted to acknowledge the tough job he was doing to earn a living. Best viewed large.
Originally set up to treat Iraqi civilian victims of violence, this MSF project has expanded to include patients from Yemen, Syria and other countries who cannot get suitable treatment at home.
The left hand bulge on Malik's stomach is a tissue expander: a plastic ball that stretches his skin so that it can be harvested to repair his wounds on other parts of his body. Just one of the advanced techniques used by the orthopoedic and plastic surgeons. The project is the subject of a forthcoming Newsnight, BBC2 report by Caroline Hawley, produced by Vara Szajkowski which I filmed and edited
An old lady near lake inle walking through the forest, coming from the local market.
A portrait, that I believe could be my best one so far, of this nice old lady will follow
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.
This was such a funny scene, when this taxi driver cleaned his good old Mazda Blue Taxi. In Mandelay you still see mainly those Blue Taxis, that are very famous.
They are basically very tiny, cute Pick-Ups and the owners are very proud owning one, as it costs a furtune for them.
We were just arriving with a similar taxi ourselves.
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.
Size: 6“ x 6“ framed
Tesserae: Smalti. The wood frame is painted with acrylic colors. It can hang or stand-alone.
About ‘... liebt mich ...’ :
This small mosaic tells a story, which will be understood by everyman. I created a small picture with clear contrasts. It not only tells about the question, if someone is loving me, it also tells about the insecurity to find answers and the desire to find an easy way to find an answer.
About my work:
I love to work with smalti, I love the brilliant colors and the texture, I love the reflection of the light on the irregular broken surface of smalti, because the light makes the mosaic vivid. I’m also fascinated of the long history of smalti. I fell in love with this material without knowing anything about it when I was as a child and visited San Marco in Venice (maybe one step in my life that let me make mosaics later). But I also use other materials like marble or pebbles. I often offer my ideas with abstract mosaics, but from time to time I only want to show something for its own.
I learned doing mosaics in 1989 at Centro Internazionale Studi Insegnamento Mosaico (CISIM), Ravenna, Italy - the double reverse method - but it took until 2004 to start again with a commission. Today I prefer working in the direct method. I also offered short mosaic courses and made projects with kindergarten/school-classes. I am a member of Contemporary Mosaic Art (CMA). My mosaics have been published in Brit Hammers, “BREAKOUT: Your Pathway To Success”, and in Irit Levys/Pam Givens, “Mosaic Fine Art – Abstracts” – with one more book is in progress.
Angela Zimek
Website: www.angelazimek.at
Email: angela@zimek.at
Austria
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6" x 6"
Tesserae: stained glass
Statement:
‘Bianca’ is a young woman with creamy skin and a voluptuous mouth. An interesting face is my preferred subject. Something sensual about this young woman caught my eye.
Ginny Sher Mosaics
Website: www.GinnySher.com
Email: Ginny@GinnySher.com
California, USA
Doctors Without Border Exhibit: A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City - 33 Million People Uprooted by War.
A group of refugees and migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia arrive at a United Nations refugee facility in Ahwar, Yemen, after surviving a dangerous two-day journey in overcrowded smugglers boats from northern Somalia. MSF treated 361 Somali and Ethiopian survivors over three days; some had sustained knife wounds.
Yemen 2008 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
Learn more: doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=3207
Zeiss Ikon | Leica 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M ASPH | Velvia 50
Minamisanriku is one of the worst hit areas with nearly half their population missing.
Donate to the Red Cross or preferably to MSF(Doctors Without Borders).
Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: Mexican smalti, Italian smalti, glass beads, red coral, gold glass, broken glass, stained glass
Artist Statement:
I became acquainted with mosaic art on my quest for inner peace and it has become my passion in life. Therefore in my art I reflect the happiness and freedom that I acquired on this path with the hope of being able to instill that in peoples’ hearts somehow.
My art brings me joy, energy and happiness. I am hoping to share those feelings with the viewers. I desire to achieve that with my abstract art, my choice of substrates, colors, textures and materials. My creativity plays an important role in my wrks. I also strive for originality in my mosaics. Freedom of expression is something that I truly value and work at.
My deepest desire is to convey the message that we are all made of pure love, light, knowledge, joy and beauty and that we are capable of being and having anything that we truly desire in goodwill. Our true mission is about unity and communion with all of nature and with each other in this and other dimensions.
Banu Cevikel
Website: banu@mocaicsbybb.com
Email: banu.cevikel@yahoo.com
Turkey
In Memorium: Joyce Gaffney [1929 - 2021]
Joyce for many decades helped her husband Juan Pedro organize concerts for Coro Hispano. Founded in 1975, the Coro Hispano de San Francisco is a chorus of the Spanish-speaking communities of the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to exploring and performing the choral literature of the peoples of Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
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Producing this altar photos www.facebook.com/martina.ayala/posts/pfbid02Y2iTQ1idJ2Gt4...
The Mission's Beloved Tonantsin was produced by Joyce
Artist Collette Crutchner recalls
"Joyce Gaffney, who feared that their freshly-painted garden wall, on a highly-trafficked stretch of 16th St., would be vandalized. Juan Pedro was the director of Coro Hispano, a chorus dedicated to preserving the musical heritage of the Spanish-speaking world, and I was lucky enough to be a member. My favorite song from our repertoire was “Dios Itla Tonantsine”, a hauntingly beautiful piece written in the Nahuatl language and combining Aztec drumming with Renaissance polyphony. Written by an Aztec maestro trained in European composition, it is a hymn to the Virgin Mary which refers to her as Tonantsin, the mother goddess of the Aztecs. I was intrigued by this free-form cultural syncretism; i had also just given birth to my second child, and the theme of motherhood in all its frightening intensity was very present to me.
Although I have now done some travel in the Yucatan and visited a number of archaeological sites, the creation of the mural preceded my knowing much about Mesoamerican cultures, and I am certainly no expert still. I painted the feelings aroused by the music, and, oddly, I found that many of the pictorial elements I included are actually attributes of Tonantsin (with the exception of the symbols painted on her skin, which I got from a book and in some instances altered). The strongest artistic influence on the piece was an exhibit of Tibetan Thangka scrolls that came to San Francisco in 1990.
The mural was popular in the neighborhood, and received an award from Precita Eyes muralists. Over the years, though, the old wooden fence it was painted on began to flake and rot. With the aid of contributions from locals and a small grant from Precita Eyes, I took on the project of renewing the piece using more weather-resistant materials. The Recology artist residency I’d recently completed led me to incorporate mosaic and relief sculpture into the new mural. Tonantsin Renace (Tonantsin Reborn) was inaugurated in 1998, and has been a much-photographed and beloved part of the Mission ever since. I’m not the only one to observe that on some foggy mornings the condensation makes her appear to weep.
Joyce Iskowitz Rosenthal Gaffney
October 22, 1929 - January 27, 2021
Who shall find a valiant woman? She is worth far more than jewels: Advantage and not hurt she brings all the days of her life: She does her work with eager spirit: She holds out her hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy: She is clothed in strength and dignity, and can laugh at the days to come: When she opens her mouth she does so wisely; on her tongue is kindly instruction. Those who know her sing her praises: Many women have done admirable things, but you surpass them all: Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the city gates!
~~~~~
Born in Brooklyn in 1929, as second of three children, after her brother Arthur and before her sister Nancie, to Russian immigrant parents Nathan Iskowitz and Ida Epstein, Joyce grew up iin the culture of the apparel industry, where her father worked. At 17, she secured a job at Maidenform in New Jersey, and was quickly selected by the head of the design department to serve as model for the basic shape of Maidenform bras for the next several years. "Just think!" she exclaimed; "all the women in America are wearing me!"
In 1951 she married Murray Rosenthal and gave birth to her first three children, Marsha, Neil, and Charles. In 1963 the family drove to California and settled in the Bay Area. Noting the availability of free higher education in California (then!), Joyce enrolled in Contra Costa Junior College, earning her AA there and transferring to San Francisco State, where she completed her BA degree in a double major of Sociology and Urban Planning.
Her husband Murray died several years later.
Joyce found the love of her life in compose/conductor Juan Pedro Gaffney. They married in 1973, beginning a partnership that would have a far-reaching impact on San Francisco's cultural history.
In 1975, Juan Pedro founded the Coro Hispano de San Francisco, a community-based performing ensemble dedicated principally to the choral and vocal music of Latin America. Comprised mostly of Spanish-speaking inhabitants of San Franciscso's Mission District, the Coro served as an educational outreach to many who had music in their hearts but little or no prior music-making background.
It soon became a widely-esteemed platform for its major but hitherto unexplored repertory, drawn from two sources: folk-originate music from all corners of the Spanish-speaking World, and the immense legacy of Latin America's choral music, embracing more than four centuries of creative output by Iberoamerica's composers. As a result, the young people of the Mission District became the purveyors of their ancestors' cultural legacy, providing Bay Area audiences with 20th-c. re-premiere performances of music of the Americas from the 16th through 20th century.
Joyce understood the impact of this whole enterprise. At its inception, she worked as general coordinator of all things non-musical: printing scores and parts, organizing recruitment, publicity, audience-building - and making mid-day meals for hungry singers after a two-hour rehearsal on Saturday mornings. Coro Hispano's debut concert in March of 1976 filled Mission Dolores Basilica with an audience of over 500; in large measure, Joyce's achievement.
In 1980, she and Juan Pedro adopted two more children, Chris and Joy. They spent the next four years raising the children at Stanford, where her husband earned an MA in Early Music and Choral Conducting. On returning to San Francisco in 1984, they reestablished the Coro on a firmer basis, creating the Instituto Pro Música de California. From its inception, Joyce served as Executive Director, taking on all levels of administrative and financial responsibility, and in the process, mentoring several assistants in effective arts management.
In the ensuing five years, Coro performed at an astonishing level: three to five distinct concert repertories per year, each one performed four to six times throughout the entire Bay Area. Coro undertook three tours to Southern California, collaborated with Revels to bring its repertory to Oakland, Cambridge and Houston, participated in two regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, and in three international festivals in Mexico. Joyce organized all that.
For 25 years, Coro's counter-cultural observance of "The Holidays" - Día de los Reyes, in January, after Christmas and the glut of consumerism that has overtaken it - became a hallmark of San Francisco's winter arts season, presenting each year a sumptuous feast of music from all parts of the Spanish-speaking World.
Later, in collaboration with the Presidio Trust, Coro established ¡Fandango! - an annual celebration of San Francisco's Foundation Day, June 29th, with programs of choral, vocal and instrumental songs and dances from the Hispano-Mexican era of California's history. For twelve years running, every performance was SRO.
It was Joyce's work that built up both of those local traditions.
~~~~~
At 15, she started smoking. It cost her dearly to break free of it at 44; but had she not, she wouldn't have made it to 91. Drinking was never really her problem, but she had decided to join The Fellowship, to get past the 5 o'clock martini. So it was through the 12 Steps she was able to get past the cigs; there she got the support of others, and gave support abundantly to countless more. Her gift in giving counsel to others was direct, sometimes blunt, most often spiced with her ahá! sense of humor, but ever with an open and welcoming laugh.
She ran an abundant household. The front door would lead you to the kitchen, where a big pot of soup or the like was always at the ready. At out table, there was always room for you and more. For big occasions, she knew how to expand the recipe without ever losing the flavor. "Meals for millions!" her suegra once exclaimed.
Bigger than her biggest meals was the bigness of her heart. She knew how to listen, offer help without pushing, always with compassion for who you really are.
She became mama all over again in the late '90s, when she and Juan Pedro took on the care of granddaughter Leilani, full time. Joyce loves all her children, abundantly.
Joyce's genius was to look at a problem and see within it the path to its own solution; and then plunge into it and make it happen. Her mother Ida said it best: "If you want to get something done, call Joycie."
All in our family thank the St. Joseph Health Hospice Services of Santa Rosa for their splendid care through Joyce's last 3 weeks. And a shout-out to Dr Jason Cunningham and his team at West County Community Health Center, for their loving, long-term health care for Joyce and the family through the last 18 years.
Throughout her whole life, Joyce worked hard for justice and peace in all quarters of the globe, but some causes were closer to her heart than others. If you wish to honor her memory, please consider a donation to B'Tselem USA, btselem.org/donate, or to Doctors Without Borders, doctorswithoutborders.org/support.
We had planned a Yahrzeit fiesta this weekend for family and friends to join in celebrating her; but Delta, then Omicron said not yet. We hope that by next January, the plague's tide will subside sufficiently to be able to join with you for real. Meanwhile, from the bosom of Abraham, Joyce is smiling on us all. Her memory is already a blessing.
Praise God!
Published by San Francisco Chronicle from Jan. 28 to Jan. 31, 2022.
Size: 6”x6” framed
Tesserae: Found metal, nails, mixed material tesserae including glass, ceramic and Smalti on found wood backing
“I began by trawling through materials whilst reflecting on what Doctors Without Borders is about.
Pandora's box sprang to mind, more specifically, Hope.
Then I thought, why not the three!!!”
About Helen:
Helen works organically with a range of earthy material and glass finding a lot of her ancient material along the coastline, in waste sites and salvage yards. She likes to explore mosaic method and integrate it with just about any technique that suggests itself to create varied and unusual surfaces for her furniture and sculpture. Helen also commissions a professional Blacksmith for the wrought iron elements of the garden furniture designs.
Helen Nock
Website: www.helen-nock.co.uk
North Somerset, UK
Size: 6”x6” framed
Tesserae: stained glass
Crystal Thomas has been working in the mosaic medium since 1998. She primarily creates representational and abstract fine art panels and three-dimensional forms. Experimenting with use of materials in new ways, such as the use of stained glass noodles stood on-edge in ‘Black-eyed John’, keeps her inspired.
Crystal Thomas
Website: www.crystalthomasmosaics.com
Washington, USA
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6" x 6" framed
Tesserae: Found foiled stained glass piece made in 1984, iridescent glass, stained glass, mirror, gems, millefiori
Statement:
The definition of ‘syncopation’ can mean, in music: A shift of accent in a passage or composition that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed, such as rhythm that is syncopated. After losing a lot of my hand and arm strength during a recent injury, ‘Syncopation’ is the perfect title for this. Using music as a metaphor for my mosaic work, it was easy to compare what I felt with this definition. Having an artistic beat, albeit weak, using the rhythms from my muse, this piece came to life.
Cindy White ~ Earth Mother Mosaics
Email: earthmothermosaics@yahoo.com
Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/earthmothermosaics
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mosaic_queen2008
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/EarthMotherMosaics-Cindy-White/101...
Blog: www.earthmothermosaics.wordpress.com
Tumbler: www.earthmothermosaics.tumblr.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/ - !/EMMosaics
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/earthmothermos/
Pennsylvania, USA
I started our last full day in Yangon and Burma again at the Shwedagon. Over the weeks you get used to start the days early as all burmese people do. Actually you have the feeling that Burmese people do not sleep :)
Even if I have visited the Shwedagon already a few weeks ago it was again a breathtaking experience.
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.
Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: stained glass, millefiori, glass beads, iridescent tile, mirror
About Claire:
Claire is a mosaic artist currently living in New Jersey. Her work has been exhibited at Ciel Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, and is in private collections throughout the US.
Claire Roche
New Jersey, USA
Titoni of switzerland, I only now Toni_V from switzerland ;)
But you can see why Swiss watches are famous, the quality :P
Found this shop (garage) in a side street in Rangoon.
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.
Tesserae: Recycled materials: corrugated boxes, mirror, stained glass.
Size: 6"x6"
Artist Statement:
I work primarily with recycled materials. I enjoy the treasure hunt of seeking out interesting materials, shapes and textures from among what others find worthless.
I love the alchemy of transforming an ordinary, everyday corrugated box into something new and extraordinary - simply by exposing the colors and textures hidden within.
I started creating shadowboxes from corrugated boxes because these boxes are easy to find, easy to cut, lightweight and very sturdy. Once I had built the structure from corrugated, I would then cover the surfaces with recycled papers. But I soon became fascinated with the corrugations and the slivers of cross sections that accumulated on my work table. After I peeled, sliced and dissected the corrugated boxes – I would take these pieces and re-arrange them to create new and exciting patterns and abstract designs.
One of the things I love about working with corrugated is how easy it is to cut and glue into place. But in recent years I've been learning to cut and shape glass and stone, experimenting with combining corrugated with these traditional mosaic materials. Now that I am looking, I'm amazed at how much glass and stone material is available to be diverted from the local landfills! One of my favorite dumpsters has “marble only” stenciled on it.
Luci Lytle
Corrugated Mosaic Art
Website: www.CorrugatedMosaic.com
Email: CorrugatedMosaic@gmail.com
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SOS%20Shopping%205/115/115/23
September 18 to October 2nd - This event has tons of gifts and lots of sims with the end result to benefit Doctors Without Borders.
I have always been fascinated by the work of Frida Kahlo and that is what you will find - she was my inspiration. Please join in the hunts, and gifts and more @ SOS!
Chupacabra Hunt -- 500L entry and you get great gifts from every vendor participating.
Sugar Bowl Hunt
20L
Frida Earrings 4 Textures
GIFT from me -- Maitreya Nails - Frida :) 1L
New Exclusive 100% to SOS - 195L separates and 21 Each Texture 1099L Fat Pack HUD
New Exclusive 50% to SOS - 195L and for the 64 Texture HUD 1699L
New Exclusive to SOS - 50% to SOS 195L and 1199 for the 36 Texture HUD
FURNITURE!
A new Frida Table
AND 50% to SOS -
Frida Bench With 2 Seater Poses - Copy/Mod
250L
Frida Garden Wall - Copy/Mod - 250L
Whimsy Flower Table Set - 300L
ALL EXCLUSIVE and NEW FOR THIS EVENT!
FIND THESE ITEMS HERE:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SOS%20Shopping%205/115/115/23
AND MEANDER SHOP is HERE:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Netherfield%20Forest/182/9...
Size: 6”x6” framed
Tesserae: Glass, shells and mosaic tiles
Statement:
My mosaic is a dragonfly, a delicate and beautiful insect.
About me:
I live in a small country town in Victoria, Australia. I am self-taught and I have found a passion for creating art with mosaics. I have been very pleased to pass on this passion to others in working with people with a disability, assisting community groups to create mosaic murals in the local area, classes and workshops.
Paula Pezzutto
I am a member of: The Mosaic Association of Australia & New Zealand (MAANZ)
Victoria, Australia
Somali refugees wait by the side of the road for assistance after arriving in southern Yemen on a dangerously overcrowded smuggler boat from Somalia, December 5. Yemen 2008 © Michael Goldfab/MSF
Learn more:
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar-banglade...
Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/burma-bangladesh-muslim-mino...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-bangladesh-burma-my...
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/rohingya-burma-bangladesh-st...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/2002/r...
blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/artic...
pulitzercenter.org/blog/week-review-inside-burma-presiden...
Kinpun is a little town at the bottom of Mt. Kyaiktiyo. When you arrive it is crowded with lot of pilgrims arriving or leaving.
I took the time walking a little away of the scene and was surprised as with every step it became more and more into "usual" Burmese village. It was still very nice and clean, as expected at the Bottom of Kyaiktiyo, but you could see how quick the houses got smaller and the people poorer.
Please keep in mind:
Burma (Myanmar) is ruled by a military junta. In 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi was elected by the people and imprisoned for the next 20 years after the election by the military.
In 2010 a election was staged to keep the military leaders in their current positions. People are starving and are forced to work.
All the pictures you may see in my stream are very onesided, as it is prohibited to take pictures of the military and the police. Also I just do not take pictures of poor people on the streets and there are a lot of very poor people in Burma.
The Burmese people are the nicest people I ever met and should be supported, even if I don´t really know how.
The country needs support. I posted some links to some international organizations helping Burma.
Burma is NOT the usual travel destination! Even if I am avoided all governement fees as far as possible (partly in long hours of bus travel) I still can´t say that I am sure travelling the country helps the people or should be boycotted as proposed by some people.
The government just moved the capital to Naypyidaw. When I saw it from the bus passing it, I had tears in my eyes seeing how the "Generals" collect the money building fancy buildings and streets around them with people starving. I was so shocked that I did not even took a picture...
- Unicef
and of a smaller German organisation (I met one of the responisbles during my trip)
This is an incomplete list, I´ve also seen www.doctorswithoutborders.org and there are others.
Please help, the burmese people need it.