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Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: stained glass, millefiori
Carol Shelkin
Website: www.carolshelkinmosaics.com
Pennsylvania, USA
"Grasses"
MOSAIC: auction~exhibition to benefit
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
An exhibit featuring photographs and illustrations from the graphic novel THE PHOTOGRAPHER by Didier Lefevre, Emmanuel Guibert, and Frederic Lemercier, which The Boston-Globe praises as "An inspiring, beautiful book ... The Photographer should be mandatory reading for our secretary of State and president."
SHOW DATES: April 23-May 19
Mon-Friday: 10AM-6PM
Sat-Sunday: 12PM-6PM
OPENING RECEPTION: April 23 - 6PM
In 1986, photojournalist Didier Lefevre documented one of the clandestine cross-border humanitarian missions undertaken by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to assist Afghans trapped in areas hardest-hit by the Soviet invasion. Dodging Soviet aircraft and navigating treacherous terrain, Lefevre's journey nearly cost him his life. He collaborated with aclaimed illustrator Emmanuel Guibert and graphic designer Frederic Lemercier to bring this story to life in THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
This exhibit offers a taste of the book that combines the late Lefevre's dramatic images and Guibert's stunning artwork to bear witness to the hardships endured by the Afghan people throughout this conflict—and to the present day.
Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: stained glass and slate
“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
A Somali refugee waits for a consultation with an MSF psychological counselor. She said the smugglers beat her fellow passengers. She sustained an arm injury as she struggled ashore.
Yemen 2008 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
Learn more: doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=3207
Per the Doctors Without Borders website:
"'Forced From Home' is an interactive, free, educational exhibition presented by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to raise public awareness about the experience of the world’s more than 65 million refugees and internally displaced people.
With an experienced aid worker as your guide, participants learns about the many challenges people on the move encounter and the work Doctors Without Borders does to address their basic medical needs in a host of settings.
Forced From Home will be traveling around the Northeastern U. S. in the Fall of 2016. Those interested can register for a free tour in Manhattan, Queens, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, or Washington (DC).
The public can visit Forced From Home on the U.S. National Mall in the shadow of the Washington Monument, just south of the Smithsonian’s newly opened National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)."
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Water born diseases a big danger in refugee camps. Doctors Without Borders set up immunizations ASAP. Guide pointed out that people were often suspicious of the immunization because they feared HIV from the needles or thought they were being given drug trials. Yes, she said, pharmaceutical companies were doing that—performing human drug trials with untested drugs. If she wasn't an eyewitness, she would be called a conspiracist just for saying that. I had just learned from a Thai friend, whose uncle is a doctor that, human trials were being done in Thailand too. This exhibit had a lot of interesting tidbits to share that would normally be called leftist. I also didn't know that measles had been largely eradicated. I was one of the few people raising my hand when she asked if anyone had had measles. Measles used to be a passage of childhood, but not for under 30 set.
On our last full day in Burma we took the Circle Line that goes around Yangon. It is basically the life line of yangon enabling the people/farmers to bring there goods into the city. Even if we traveled around quite a lot in Burma it was still nice in the train. It was the slowest train I ever traveled and it took 3 hours for a few miles. In between the train was completely crowed with all different people.
What I realized in the train was that it is hard to draw a line between evil and good. We were placed next to the train guards, officially probably for our safety ;)
They had quite some fun and one of them even had his girlfriend next to him. Even if they belong to the bad government I believe they were no bad people. They are just trying to make some money for there living.
The fish always stinks from the head down. The head has to be cut!
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.
Mpasa est une enfant prématurée. Sa mère ignore quand elle est tombée enceinte, mais sa fille ne pesait que 820g à la naissance. Le 15 février 2017, un mois après sa naissance, elle pèse 1,1kg et est toujours prise en charge à l'hôpital général de Walikalé, soutenu par Médecins Sans Frontières, dans la province du Nord-Kivu en République démocratique du Congo. / Mpasa is a premature child. Her mother does not know when she got pregnant, but her daughter weighed only 820g at birth. On February 15, 2017, a month after her birth, she weighs 1.1kg and is still taken care of at the general hospital of Walikalé, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières, in the province of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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”
Tesserae: Desert rose flowers, a polymer clay trunk, mirrored glass branches, and a grey van gogh glass sky as the background.
Artist statement:
I love nature and try to capture the joy and whimsy of the world in which we live in. Sometimes that world is soft and sometimes as hard as a rock. Sometimes it’s those hard as a rock places that help us learn to thrive.
‘Rockin the Tree’ is a mosaic piece created with stark colors of tesserae, greys and purples. Isn’t that how you think a rock tree might look?
Suzanne Soucy
North Carolina, USA
More than one million people attempted passage to Europe by sea in 2015. Visitors can learn more about the dangerous routes taken by refugees at Forced From Home.
September 24, 2016.
(Photo: Elias Williams)
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...
This is the larger and very expensive version of the Burmese kind of tractor/truck. Most farmers still have only oxes supporting them. Only the very rich can afford such a machine.
This one was needing a fresh pair of tyres and was standing next to a tyre shop (in the background)
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.
Simma 24 timmar är ett årligt evenemang går ut på att under 24 timmar simma 1 609 m eller 1 mile varje timme. Eventet går ut på att samla in pengar till välgörenhet och denna gång till Läkare utan gränser.
"Subramanian"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
On 1 November, Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Marcel Rudasingwa, UN Ebola Crisis Manager in Guinea, and Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director-General for Polio and Emergencies, visit Macenta, Guinea, where the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operate a Ebola Transit Centre.
Photo: UNMEER/Ari Gaitanis
On 1 November, Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Marcel Rudasingwa, UN Ebola Crisis Manager in Guinea, and Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director-General for Polio and Emergencies, visit Macenta, Guinea, where the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operate a Ebola Transit Centre.
Photo: UNMEER/Ari Gaitanis
Just finished the mosaic, my contribution for Lin Schorrs Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF September 2012 6" x 6" framed, it still needs some cleaning and the frame is not yet finished.
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...
Un infirmier prend soin d'Apôtre, 18 mois, souffrant du paludisme, à l'hôpital général de Walikalé, soutenu par Médecins Sans Frontières, dans la province du Nord-Kivu en République démocratique du Congo, le 11 février 2017. / A nurse is taking care of Apôtre, 18 months old, suffering from malaria, at the general hospital of Walikalé, Médecins Sans Frontières, in the province of North Kivu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on February 11th, 2017.
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...
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...
Untitled
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Ebola fears drove New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to forcibly quarantined a nurse returning from volunteer work in Africa, despite opposition from the CDC, her complete lack of symptoms, and the presumption that she enjoyed civil rights as a U.S. citizen.
On 1 November, Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Marcel Rudasingwa, UN Ebola Crisis Manager in Guinea, and Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director-General for Polio and Emergencies, visit Macenta, Guinea, where the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operate a Ebola Transit Centre.
Photo: UNMEER/Ari Gaitanis
Some monks in the Shwegadon Pagoda
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.
Her Name is Sittina
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/education/refugeecamp/refug...
"Every day, eight–year–old Sittina carries her little brother Ibrahim to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) feeding center in the Touloum refugee camp in eastern Chad near the Sudanese border. First, she takes him through registration and helps feed him some therapeutic milk. Then, she carries him back to their mother's tent, which serves as their home in the sun–scorched desert.
Sittina is one of more than 200,000 Sudanese refugees who have been living in the desert of eastern Chad since 2003. That year, the Sudanese government—unable to defeat rebel movements in Sudan's Darfur region—launched widespread attacks against the civilian population, which it accused of supporting the rebellion. The army and paramilitary forces—often called janjaweed— carried out assaults on the Fur, Massalit, and Zaghawa populations. Widespread killing, burning of villages, looting, torture, and rape forced Sittina and hundreds of thousands of others to seek safety across the border.
By the end of 2004, nearly two million Sudanese had been forced to flee their villages and to take refuge within Sudan or in Chad. Today, despite the signing of a peace agreement between the government and one of the rebel groups in May 2006, fighting continues in Darfur, shredding any hope that Sittina and her brother will soon return safely to their village. " - Doctors Without Borders
(Name changed)
Simma 24 timmar är ett årligt evenemang som går ut på att under 24 timmar simma 1 609 m (1 mile) varje timme. Eventet går ut på att samla in pengar till välgörenhet och denna gång till Läkare utan gränser.
Seen and noted: Doctors Without Borders display in San Francisco. Poster for MSF. Great photo by guy name Burkard. Poster credits Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios NYC as designers
A horse grazing near lake inle. At least something for what a helicopter landing place can be used for good in Burma.
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”x6”
Tesserae: Stained glass
About me:
I am a self-taught mosaic artist from British Columbia, Canada. I have always had an interest in stained glass and several years ago I took a few classes. I loved working with the glass and realized there were so many other things that could be created with glass. When I started to look into Mosaic Art I discovered a whole world full of wonderful people that were more than willing to share their knowledge and ideas.
I love mosaic, I love the people I’ve met, and I have finally found my passion!
Shirley Fralick
British Columbia, Canada
Ebola workers in a facility run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gueckedou, Guinea, on 1 November 2014.
Photo: UNMEER/Ari Gaitanis
"Spring 2"
MOSAIC: auction~exhibition to benefit Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
On 1 November, Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Marcel Rudasingwa, UN Ebola Crisis Manager in Guinea, and Bruce Aylward, WHO Assistant Director-General for Polio and Emergencies, visit Macenta, Guinea, where the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operate a Ebola Transit Centre.
Photo: UNMEER/Ari Gaitanis
please continue to help the people of japan by
donating to one of the organizations below:
This is the Shwedagon Pagode (Shwedagon Zedi Daw), 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...
- www.humantrafficking.org/countries/burma/international_org
- 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.
Please help, the burmese people need it.