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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 many of you already know, I am one of the admins of the Scientist Photographers group here at flickr. I would like to announce a charity project that our group is organizing. We have put together a 2007 calendar featuring some of the wonderful images from our group. This calendar has been put on sale at:
All the royalties from the sale of this calendar will go to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders - www.msf.org, an independent humanitarian medical aid agency. Each time you buy one, $6 goes to the charity, so spread the word for the good cause. Thank you very much!
Size: 6”x6” framed
Tesserae: Stained glass, Carroltons micro tile, glass stringers
‘Emergence’ explores the concept of growth and expansion. We venture out beyond our comfort zone, testing the waters of new ideas and experiences.
Beth Saxena
Website: www.bethsaxena.com
Email: bethsaxena@gmail.com
Texas, USA
2014 International Mosaic Auction benefit for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be held online at: www.BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Auction opens November 22 – Auction closes December 6
ways to donate and support aid workers providing relief in haiti
in canada, the cbc has a page, "haiti relief", listing several ways to donate in canada, including doctors without borders and the canadian red cross.
note: the canadian government will be matching donations up to $50 million
in the united states, you can text the word "HAITI" to 90999 to donate to the red cross international relief ($10 is added to your monthly phone bill). you can also donate directly to the american red cross. you can text "haiti" to 20222, to donate $10 through the clinton foundation. there is also partners in health. see also the article "10 ways you can donate" for more options...
in the uk, online at the dec, disasters emergency committee
en españa, médicos sin fronteras
internationally, oxfam has provided a web site where you can make donations for varying sums... every little bit helps...
if you know of any other ways to donate, please do let me know so that i can include these...
many thanks to those who have joined in to help...
Items from Anachron will be available at the Spoonful Of Sugar Event:
themanyfacesofmelyna.blogspot.com/2016/09/169-searching-f...
Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: Ceramic tile, mirrored tile, copper jewelry wire, chain, decorative key & lock
Bio: Born in Spokane, Washington, Brigette spent 36 years of her life in San Diego, California. She realized early that she had an artistic talent, participating in various forms of art and pottery in her youth.
Mosaics entered her life in 1998 and she immediately caught the bug. Although dabbling with them in subsequent years as her children grew through school, it wasn’t until she took some mosaic classes to hone her skills, did she realize that mosaics were her calling.
This soon became an addiction as a plan to mosaic the world!
As a member of the Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA), Brigette participated in a community project in Phoenix, AZ for the Southwest Human Development Center in 2007. In 2009 she also participated in the SAMA mosaic marathon. This time it was for the Bayside Community Center in Linda Vista, CA. In 2011 she once again participated in a community project in Ukiah, CA helping on a mural for the Children’s Medical Center representing Mendocino County.
While residing in San Diego, she was the only mobile mosaic artist who taught in the after school programs for the San Diego Unified School District. Currently, Brigette now resides in northern CA among the beauty of the redwoods where she is able to create in a peaceful setting.
Her clientele are generally those looking for the unique piece that reflects who they are. As a result, the client plays an important role in creating the art and may involve themselves to whatever extent they desire. The goal is to make the piece personal and especially functional for the home, office or garden.
Brigette is a mother to 6 children all of which are grown except for her 9 year old son who lives in her home where she and her husband home school him. When not creating or teaching mosaic art, she enjoys spending time with her son and 4 grandchildren when she can see them or on the golf course with her husband.
Brigette
Mosaic Milieu: Original & Commissioned Art by Brigette
Website: www.mosaicmilieu.com
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/pages/Mosaic-Milieu-Original-and-Commiss...
California, USA
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6" x 6"
Tesserae: Smalti, antique gold smalti, pearls, vitreous glass, beads, glass pebbles, crystals, mirror, canvas
Statement:
This piece explores the breaking of boundaries: elements exploding through constraints.
Bio:
Based in Sydney’s Northern beaches, I work primarily in glass, stone, marble and unglazed ceramics. I have shown and both nationally and internationally and have work in Australia, New Zealand, USA, UK and Canada. I specialise in art and architectural mosaics for both public and private spaces.
Member of MAANZ, SAMA and BAMM
Marian Shapiro
Darian Design
Website: www.dariandesign.com.au
Email: mshapiro@dariandesign.com.au
Sydney, Australia
Temple of Luxor Egypt, at night. Main temple square with fluited columns in the shape of papayrus.
April 2007, Luxor, Egypt.
*don't forget to check out my blog at:
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6” x 6”
Tesserae: Plate glass, 24kt gold tiles, glass cabochons, sea shells , glitter , acrylic paint and a coconut shell turtle.
Bio:
I am a self taught mosaic artist living in the sunny Caribbean on a little island called St Lucia with my partner, three sons, two dogs and a turtle.
Originally I am from the rural town of Taunton in Somerset, England, UK. I went to school and college there until I moved to the neighbouring county of Dorset where I studied and trained to become a RN. I spent ten years there before moving lock stock and barrel to the Caribbean island of St Lucia in 1993.
My interest in mosaic art started in 2006 when I was looking for another creative avenue. My first creation was a very basic wall piece but the passion was ignited. The creative process is a beautiful and amazing thing that nourishes my soul and with each piece created I have learned something new. I just want to create a little joy and happiness and bring a smile to someone’s face.
My inspiration comes from the colourful flora and fauna, the tropical beauty and the simplicity of island life! All my creations are one of a kind and made with different media including stained glass, vitreous tiles, ceramic tiles, beads, shells and sea glass, polymer clay and found objects...I love to reuse and recycle!
Statement about auction piece:
Sea turtles inhabit all the oceans of the world except the polar region. ALL are listed as threatened or endangered, some critically endangered. A few years ago I was lucky and privileged enough to swim among some leatherbacks turtles. Since that time I have developed an admiration and fascination for these magnificent sea creatures and collect all things turtle! A friend made the coconut shell turtle that was the inspiration for this mosaic auction piece. Internationally renowned mosaic artist Laurel Skye inspired the style. The glittery gold in the centre depicts the sun baked sands of our beaches where the turtle comes to nest The shimmery blue shades of stained glass depict the warm Caribbean Sea to which the turtle returns after laying her eggs.
I gladly accept corporate, public and home commissions for murals, installations, commemorative plaques, garden accents, gifts and souvenirs.
Please feel free to contact me for any info or questions.
Email: deborah_643@hotmail.com
Website: www.wix.com/deborah_643/two-oceans-mosaic-creations
Facebook: Debs Mclaughlin - www.facebook.com/debs.mclaughlin
Facebook Page: Two Oceans Mosaic creations (DebsMclaughlin)
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Contact numbers: Cell 1.758.485.1859 Landline: 1.758.454.8026
Debs McLaughlin
Two Oceans Mosaic Creations, Gearing Up Ltd.
PO Box 495
Vieux fort, Saint Lucia, West Indies
"Purple Reflections"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
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...
August 31, 2014 - Monrovia, Liberia: Six-year-old Patrick Poopei holds the official certificate confirming that he is Ebola free. Patrick and his father were both released on August 31 from ELWA 3 - the Ebola Treatment Unit run by Doctors Without Borders.
Photo: Morgana Wingard, 2014
Our first sunset in Bagan - what should I say, breathtaking
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...
ELWA3 in Monrovia, Liberia, is the largest Ebola treatment unit or Ebola management Centre. It is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Monrovia, Liberia, on 2 December 2014
Photo: UNMEER/Simon Ruf
Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), visits a Ebola treatment centre in Maghuraka, Sierra Leone, which is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Maghuraka, Sierra Leone, on 30 December 2014
Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret
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” framed
Tesserae: Stained glass, smalti, vintage glass, glass beads, on a stained glass substrate.
About Bit O' Honey:
I wanted to give the illusion that we are peering into the flowers to see the bee gathering the pollen to take back to it's hive. I chose this image as my Doctor's Without Borders piece because I felt the bee represented the doctors, who are also giving selflessly for the greater good of a community. It shows that every small contribution makes a big difference to the whole.
Tammi Lynch-Forrest
Arizona, USA
"A Bump in the Road"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
2014 International Mosaic Auction benefit for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be held online at: www.BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Auction opens November 22 – Auction closes December 6
Size: 6"x6"
Tesserae: stained glass, vitreous tiles and frit
“Inspired by the annular solar eclipse that took place on May 20, 2012.
I find inspiration from my many interests, reading, music, movies, advertising art, religious symbols. I love symbolism and many of my pieces always include some personal interest or message.”
I'm a graphic designer. As a life long admirer of mosaics and always wanting to try my hand at them, I finally took the plunge towards the end of 2006. I love working with stained glass and embellishing with jewelry, rocks or other found objects! I'm self-taught but have joined a professional mosaic studio (Maverick Mosaics) in the past year for specialized workshops and supervised studio time.
Maria Alvarez-Lundie
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/PlanningandDesign Flickr Photos: www.flickr.com/photos/planninganddesign
Vienna, Virginia, USA
"Leaves"
MOSAIC: auction~exhibition to benefit Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
"Pelargonium"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), visits a Ebola treatment centre in Maghuraka, Sierra Leone, which is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Maghuraka, Sierra Leone, on 30 December 2014
Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret
About The Doctors Without Borders Piece:
Time Squared – Art Clock - 2010
Ingredients:
Glass tile, ball chain, and mirror all on an up-cycled metal clock frame.
The outside row of tile was placed on mirror to add depth and change of color using the same green tile. The mirror was glued on the back edge of the metal frame. This gives it a layered look.
I used a diffused and "rain drop" clear glass over the clock face.
Do we really need to know how much time has passed????
8 ½ “ x 8 ½ “
10 years old Rohingya girl hanging around near the stadium.
We had met a couple of time before we had both decided to get into tourist-socalising, since both of us are foreigner. Some Rohingya families are gathered around the Sagorika Road, closed to the stadium finding a shelter under the road. Taken near the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, South East Bangladesh.
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...
2014 International Mosaic Auction benefit for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be held online at: www.BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Auction opens November 22 – Auction closes December 6
After I enjoyed the sunrise I was heading back for breakfast on my bike when I met this monk on the street.
Fortunately he agreed when I asked hims (in Burmese) if I might take a picture.
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.
The stories and photographs are overwhelming - the estimated death toll is incredible. The thousands of survivors need water, food, medical attention and shelter. We can help by donating $10 or more to many organizations assisting in relief efforts, including
American Red Cross www.redcross.org/
Doctors Without Borders donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=219&...
Partners in Health www.pih.org/home.html
Mercy Corps Haiti Relief Fund donate.mercycorps.org/donation.htm?DonorIntent=Haiti%20Ea...
yelehaiti www.yele.org/
Clinton Foundation re.clintonfoundation.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=3869
UNICEF secure.unicefusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=6680&6680.d...
The Salvation Army www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/www_usn_2.nsf
Abdou Dieng, UNMEER Ebola Crisis Manager in Guinea speaks to media in a visit to an Ebola treatment centre (ETC) managed by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Guéckédou, Guinea.
20 January 2015
Photo: UNMEER/Sandra Miller
ELWA3 in Monrovia, Liberia, is the largest Ebola treatment unit or Ebola management Centre. It is run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Monrovia, Liberia, on 2 December 2014
Photo: UNMEER/Simon Ruf
Size: 6"x6"
Tesserae: stained glass, glass tiles, millefiori, beads, paua shell
About ‘Jabiru Dreaming’:
There are many Aboriginal legends concerning Brolgas, most of which explain their dance as that of a young maiden who was turned into the graceful bird because of her constant dancing.
The Australian Aborigines speak of jiva or guruwari, a seed power deposited in the earth. In the Aboriginal worldview, every meaningful activity, event, or life process that occurs at a particular place leaves behind a vibrational residue in the earth, as plants leave an image of themselves as seeds. The shape of the land - its mountains, rocks, riverbeds, and water holes - and its unseen vibrations echo the events that brought that place into creation. Everything in the natural world is a symbolic footprint of the metaphysical beings whose actions created our world. As with a seed, the potency of an earthly location is wedded to the memory of its origin.
The Aborigines called this potency the "Dreaming" of a place, and this Dreaming constitutes the sacredness of the earth. Only in extraordinary states of consciousness can one be aware of, or attuned to, the inner dreaming of the Earth.... Doctors Without Borders too have created a wonderful vibrational footprint.
Gerri Decher
Queensland, Australia
Pharmacist at the Medicines sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) clinic in the Catholic Mission providing sanctuary to Internally displaced people in Duekoue western Cote d'Ivoire, Februart 2011. It was tge only health care available to the refugees. The mission sheltered as many as 15,000 survivors of an attack by forces loyal to President claimant Alassane Ouattara in 2011.
I'm sending everyone who is donating over 20 USD / 20 EURO / 20 GBP to any of the charities below a print of any picture from my photostream.
It will be within 30x40cm and will be a nice print by a professional lab.
- secure.savethechildren.org/01/web_e_haiti_earthquake_10 - save the children
- donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/SSLPage.aspx?pid=197&... - doctors without borders
- american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?4306.donation=form1&... - american red cross
- www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=9fLEJSOALpE&b=102... - unicef
Take a screen shot of your confirmation of payment and send it to me via flickrmail or to my email at xax (at) stilfabrik (dot) at together with your address. I will cover the cost of the print and the shipping and will ship in February. I can deliver prints in Vienna myself.
This is inpired by: http://blog.flickr.net/en/2010/01/15/haiti-a-community-responds/
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6" x 6"
Media: Recycled Blue Gum (Australian Native Timber), stained glass
Statement:
The mosaic piece ‘The Flood Plain’ was inspired by the recent floods that have occurred here in Australia over the last few years or so. Living in The Manning Valley in New South Wales means I am constantly inspired by the environment that surrounds me. The Manning Valley is a region of rich green farmlands and long winding rivers nestled between the Pacific Coast and the mountainous Barrington Tops. ‘The Flood Plain’ is made from a piece of recycled blue gum which has been routed and inlaid with hand cut stained glass.
About me:
I am an Australian artist who has exhibited and sold work both here and overseas. A painter originally, I spent many years in Australia honing my skills before moving to Scotland in the United Kingdom where I began to exhibit my work in galleries and sell to the public. After moving back to Australia my interests moved towards glasswork, and in particular mosaics. I have both sold and donated mosaic works to charities and hospitals, participated in making mosaic animals for the Steve Irwin Memorial at Australia Zoo, and have also been involved in mosaic community arts projects.
I have an informal online album of past and current creative works, which can be viewed on Flickr.com:
www.flickr.com/photos/bambam_studios
Email: debsx73@gmail.com
2014 International Mosaic Auction benefit for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be held online at: www.BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Auction opens November 22 – Auction closes December 6
Rohingya 10 years old girl. Begging near the Stadium.
We had met a couple of time before we had both decided to get into tourist-socalising, since both of us are foreigner.
Taken Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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 of 2005, UNICEF estimates that 1.1 billion people lack access to safe clean water, and that is not including the 1.1 billion that gained access to clean water between 1990-2002. It is estimated that by 2025, 2/3rds of the world population will be living under moderate to severe water shortage/stress. This page from the UN is not much to look at, but it has some facts and links to PDFs of the appropriate studies.
The larger jugs represent the World Health Organization's standard of the minimum daily amount of clean water needed to maintain health - 20 liters, or 5 gallons. (In contrast, in the US, the average person uses 400 liters - 100 gallons - per day, and that number increases tenfold if indirect industrial and agricultural uses are factored in.)
It is a somewhat debated number since it includes washing and sanitation as well as cooking and drinking, so technically it is not the bare minimum, though studies have also shown that access to 30+ liters of water per day decreases the incidence of diarrhea significantly.
Getting water is a huge hardship since access points can be dangerous, and sometimes women are raped as a price of getting water. Cristiana Bertocchi, our tour guide, related a story of a Somalian woman who was eaten by a crocodile as she was retrieving water from a river.
Chores such as procuring water (and almost all the manual labor in a household) are often considered the women and children's work. Another WHO stat - you are considered to have access to water if you can get 20 liters within 1 km, but that doesn't take into account barriers, political situations and the simple problem of hauling 5 gallons of water without any mechanical help on unpaved roads up and down hills. One of these jugs will filled up, and though I was able to lift it, I don't think I could carry it very far, especially if I wasn't in the best health or well-nourished.
Sometimes it takes hours to make a trip to procure water, and you can imagine that if you have to spend 3 hours a day just getting water in addition to the other hours you spend procuring food, cooking, taking care of your children and doing various other chores, you would not have much time or energy to educate yourself, think about your rights or have much of a plan other than "one foot in front of the other."
"Ray"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
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A small donation can make a huge difference in the lives of the people of Haiti.
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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, paying 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...
sguardo
Isola di Lampedusa.
Migranti appena sbarcati al molo Favarolo.
Island of Lampedusa. Arrival of migrants.
© Chiara Tamburini 2007
Beyond Borders: Mosaic Auction for DWB/MSF
September 2012
Size: 6” x 6” framed
Tesserae: Handmade alabaster goddess, beads, millefiori, turquoise, filigree cones, mirror, rhinestones & stained glass
Statement:
The inspiration for ‘Venus…’ happened while looking around my studio and coming across the focal of a Goddess made of alabaster by a bead maker from the Netherlands. Sent to me as a gift because the artist said, "She wasn't perfect" but knew she would be to me. Now, you tell me in my creation, don't you think she's perfect? The title came to me from the song
"Venus" written by Ed Marshall & Peter DeAngelis, and sung by Frankie Avalon.
Doreen Bell
Illinois, USA