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07:36am #StGallen #Switzerland “frisches Gemüse” 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
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/
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
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
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."
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
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
Size: 6”x6”
Tesserae: Albertini vitreous glass off-cuts, Orsoni blue gold, azurite, colored mirror, dichroic glass, stained glass, glass rods, glass and acrylic cabochons, Spanish vitreous glass
About ‘HOMMAGE A KLEIN’ :
This piece is a tribute to Yves Klein, the famous avant-garde French painter who invented "International Klein Blue", his very recognizable signature ultramarine blue. It is an attempt to capture fragments of his artwork through the use of different textures in a monochromatic mosaic.
About me:
A French-American mosaic artist, I was born in 1974 in Southern California, where I spent my childhood before permanently moving to France at age 11.
I studied Plastic Arts in high school, Art History and Archaeology in college and Art-Therapy and Symbolism from August 2010 to November 2011. I live near Paris, France. I teach mosaic classes and occasional weekend workshops and I regularly attend advanced mosaic workshops to learn new techniques. My latest project is to develop and implement therapeutic mosaic workshops.
As far as I can remember, from trips to the desert of my native California to never-ending walks on the beaches in les Landes (South-West of France), with stops in Greece, Brittany or Hawaii, I have always picked up, collected, piled and stored things… the treasures of a child, a teenager and finally a woman… Anything and everything!... sand, shells, driftwood, seaglass, pebbles, rocks, scrap metal and abandoned objects… To me they've always had a life and a soul; I've always loved to give them a new existence, a different one…
It took until 2007 to come full-circle, as I discovered the medium that would enable me to turn these seemingly trivial and useless treasures into Art… my life-changing, emotional, carnal, creative and creating encounter with Mosaic Art! An ancient, mythical Art of respect and dialog with the matter, which transposed into our modern world, becomes an infinite burst of colors, glints, effects and nuances… Combining my revived treasures with noble materials such as glass, vitreous glass or gold, I let a color or a certain material guide me, letting my thoughts flow and my inner visions blossom… I wish to create an emotion in other people and thus to give birth to a "psychic vibration"… magic that crystallizes between my pieces and the viewer…
"Color provokes a psychic vibration. And its superficial psychic effect is all in all, the path it uses to reach the soul." (Wassily Kandinsky - 1911)
I create abstract and decorative mosaics and I also work on commission.
Some of my pieces can be seen at The Good Art Co gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas. (goodartcompany.com)
Gwendolyn Noble
Email: mahalia@numericable.fr
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/pages/Gwendolyn-Noble-Mosaïste-dArt-Mos...
France
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
"Time-less Mandala"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
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”x6” framed
Tesserae: Venetian glass, unglazed ceramic tiles, glass beads, micro- and nano-ceramic tiles, mirror, gold porcelain tiles, mother of pearl beads, watch, and clock mechanism
About me:
I have always balanced and enriched my life as an epidemiologist with the practice of a wide spectrum of artistic media. When I encountered mosaic art, however, what started as a leisure pursuit evolved into a full time career.
My mosaic work which includes clocks, wine holders, mirrors, Judaica, among others, shows how every little tile holds on to its own individuality but also maintains a special interconnectedness and even interdependence to the pieces surrounding it. This is particularly evident during the process of “grouting” when all the individual tiles come together to form one piece. This feeling gets more noteworthy when I re-use parts of peoples’ broken jewelry, computers, and other gadgetry and combine them with colorful glass tiles to create unconventional forms. Sometimes it seems like one tile is having a conversation with another…Sometimes they need a bit of space among them but when I smooth the edges of one or both of them, they can talk again, respect each other, and in fact, their differences, as in life, enrich the final mosaic product.
My mosaic work is a combination of glass and ceramic tiles with broken jewelry and parts of obsolete electronic devices that otherwise accumulate as trash. The resulting mosaic pieces seem to capture the high-tech mystic those electronic devices once had and they seek to celebrate the beauty of human differences through their unconventional and “chromatilistic” forms.
Cecilia Kremer
Chromatile
Website: www.chromatile.com
Affiliations: Contemporary Mosaic Art
Creative specialties: Mosaic Community Projects, Mosaic Judaica are some of my specialties
Massachusetts, USA
Editor's note: if you typically skip the captions of my photoblog posts, please read the contents of this post. I describe the dire situation in Haiti as a result of a devastating earthquake which struck the tiny island nation two days ago. More importantly, I offer some suggestions on what you can do to help.
Now and again, I let my photoblog posts reflect my current state of mind or the state of current events in the world. Today, I spent a lot of time reading the news about the earthquake that had struck Haiti and the ongoing relief efforts. I looked through powerful images of the devastation. A few hours later, more images of the devastation were posted. I read the heartbreaking stories, tweets, and the cynical blog posts. Throughout the day, I asked myself what could I do?
The truth is, the people and organizations that are making a true difference are doing so on the ground in Haiti. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, organizations are setting up makeshift hospitals and treating the wounded. Thousands of other volunteers are still searching for survivors, even if some estimates predict that up to 100,000 may have died.
Earlier in the day, I was thinking how I could make a difference. But I also thought: how could fellow photographers help? I described two ideas in a blog post, which I hope you will read: 'Photographers: Help with the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts'.
Today, I was looking through the photos I captured in Washington D.C., trying to figure out what would make for an appropriate post. And then I stumbled upon this picture I captured on my walk around Georgetown. The first thing which I paid attention to were the cranes hanging in that window. But then, to get the shot, I noticed the reflection. I had to move out of the way so as my presence wouldn't interfere with the capture. The first word corresponds to what I was doing for most of the day: reflecting.
On closer inspection, as I was capturing this photo, I noticed how the cranes were connected to each other. What was supporting them? The answer is easy: a thin wire. But in a broader context as it relates to the current events. How can I help the victims? What can I do to support the ongoing efforts in Haiti? Hence, the initial reach to other photographers via my blog post.
And then, later in the evening, I wrote about how I am choosing to participate (but I need your help). I am having a prints sale, where 50% of your entire order will be donated to charity of your choice. If you don't specify a charity, then I'll donate in the name of Partners in Health (why? Because a little over a year ago, I read Tracy Kidder's work, Mountains Beyond Mountains; this beautiful account about the efforts of Partners in Health in Haiti, and particularly that of Paul Farmer, resonated with me strongly). You can read all the details behind this print promotion in this post.
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If you support this idea, then please take advantage of the offer. If you want to help further, then please spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, or your medium of choice. Of course, there is no obligation. We can always sit back and do nothing...
Even if you don't purchase a print from Erudite Expressions, I strongly encourage you to donate to charities directly. The following is a list of organizations which I support:
Partners in Health | Stand with Haiti
One last note: if you're a photographer, I encourage you to do something similar on your blog. Create a promotion with proceeds going to charity. Then write about your efforts on your blog.
It may sound trite, but every bit of help counts. It matters. Truly, together we can make a difference.
Thank you.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (right), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), talks to Dr. Hadja Fatou Sikhe Camara, Director of the Donka National Hospital in Conakry, at the entrance of the Donka Ebola management centre, situated inside the Ministry of Health hospital complex in Conakry.
Seen left is Abdou Dieng, UNMEER Ebola Crisis Manager in Guinea.
Conakry, Guinea, on 13 January 2015
Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret
"Tropical Delight"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Relief efforts are building in response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti Tues. Centered 10 miles from the capital Port Au Prince, it was the worst earthquake to hit the region in more than 200 years and the devastation is enormous—thousands of structures have been destroyed, including hospitals and countless homes—people are trapped in the rubble, and we don't even know the full extent of the damage
Doctors Without BordersPartners in HealthGrassroots InternationalDo not contribute to the Red Cross (organizational corruption) or Yele Haiti, Wyclef Jean's organization which is distributing his call for US military intervention in Haiti.
News
Call for Solidarity and Funds for the Working People of Haiti!“The Sound of Screaming Is Constant”–Haiti Devastated by Massive Earthquake, Desperate Search for Survivors ContinuesReport from Haiti: Desperate Call for Aid with Rescue Equipment, Medicine, Food & Water in Short SupplyHaiti Devastated by Largest Earthquake in 200 Years, Thousands Feared Dead“S.O.S… Port-au-Prince is Devastated…” 7.0 Earthquake Hits HaitiHaiti: eye-witness to devastationAn Urgent Appeal from the Haiti Emergency Relief FundSeismologist Roger Musson: Haiti Quake Was 'The Big One'Aid News
Banks, Credit Card Companies Profiting From Haiti's TragedyNaomi Klein Issues Haiti Disaster Capitalism Alert: Stop Them Before They Shock AgainPeople's Global Solidarity Appeal to Support Haitian Earthquake Victims!Red Cross probed on Katrina fraudMore news and analysis
Analysis
US debt policies left Haiti vulnerable to catastropheDirty Laundry and Disaster ReliefTen Things the US Can and Should Do for Haiti, By Bill Quigley Our role in Haiti's plightUS Policy in Haiti Over Decades “Lays the Foundation for Why Impact of Natural Disaster Is So Severe”
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...
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” framed
Tesserae: glass moon nugget, gold smalti, paua-abalone tile
About Carrie A. Bracker:
Carrie was born and raised in Nogales Arizona. She moved to Maine in 2004. She comes from a very creative family and a mother, who taught and encouraged her to play and explore with the many different mediums of art.
After a few years of experimenting with many different art forms, Carrie found mosaics in the fall of 2001 after watching a British gardening show, which featured a ceramic mosaic artist. Watching her make her mosaic so intrigued Carrie; she decided to give it a try but wanted to use glass as her medium. A six-week stain glass course taught Carrie how to cut glass and gave her the basics for mosaics. To get a better feel of what mosaics are all about, she took several courses on mosaic technique and studied with professionals across the country. She then found her own technique and style for her Mosaics.
Carrie founded Nature’s Mosaics in 2002. Her primary focus has been on nature, focusing on its simplicities yet mysterious complexities. Her eye for composition, vision for color and light and her attraction to shapes, textures and design enables her to create extraordinary images of ordinary and common subjects. Many of her pieces have its beginnings from a flea market or garage sale. She loves to work with old and used items and then breath new life into them. Another passion of Carries is to experiment with items gathered from nature, such as rocks or pebbles, wood, rusted metal, beach glass, sea shells or bottle caps. She also has added fused glass as a medium so she can make her own tiles for her mosaics.
Each mosaic Carrie makes is a one-of- a-kind mosaic. Some of the items may look similar but no two items are alike. Each mosaic is designed, fabricated and installed by Carrie for residential, commercial and public areas.
Examples of Carrie’s work at Maine Art Glass Studio in Lisbon Falls, Maine, Iron Bound in Camden Maine, Northport Landing in Northport Maine, Seaside Creations in Bailey Island and Heron Point Gallery in Portland Maine. Carrie lives in Auburn Maine with her biggest fan and dog, Harper.
Carrie is a member of:
Society of American Mosaic Artists (SAMA)
Maine Craft Association
Carrie A. Bracker
Nature’s Mosaics
Website: www.NaturesMosaics.com
Email: Carrie@NaturesMosaics.com
Auburn, Maine, USA
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.
August 31, 2014 - Monrovia, Liberia: Six-year-old Patrick Poopei and his father William walk out of the isolation unit at ELWA 3 - an Ebola Treatment Unit in Monrovia, Liberia. Both are now Ebola survivors. ELWA 3 is run by Doctors Without Borders.
Photo: Morgana Wingard, 2014
August 31, 2014 - Monrovia, Liberia: Six-year-old Patrick Poopei gives a high five to Dr. Roberto Scaini after walk outing of the isolation unit at ELWA 3 - Ebola Treatment Unit with his father, William. Both are now Ebola survivors. ELWA 3 is run by Doctors Without Borders.
Photo: Morgana Wingard, 2014
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
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
"Inapod"
MOSAIC: auction~exhibition to benefit Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Some little kids in Kinpun that had quite some fun and were waving with their hand. As her mother was sitting next to them I could take this picture of those happy little ones.
The turquoise color of the building in the background is very typical for Burma and you see it everywhere.
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.
"Leaves"
MOSAIC: auction~exhibition to benefit Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
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
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
Cristiana, a surgeon who has been on several missions with MSF, was our tour guide, and after the tour I asked her to take help hold this card up. In retrospect, I could've tried a couple of different things, but they were close to being done for the day and I didn't want to impose any more.
It's a hole little larger than a quarter demonstrating how thin malnourished children can get. Some 4 year olds actually can place their arm through the hole. Unimaginable. At that point, they are simply skin and bone. God knows how they survive, but somehow in the midst of that sort of famine, women still manage to be fertile, and carry pregnancies to term.
We chatted a bit and she told me about how grateful some patients are - one man whose appendix she removed keeps calling her every couple of months to thank her.
She also told of the opposite reaction, especially in Somalia, which has a culture of taking easily-gotten medication for everything, even when you don't really need it. Pharmacists will prescribe all sorts of unnecessary things to pad out their income for the day, so people are used to getting expensive medicines, uncommon medicines, so sometimes when the doctors on the mission give out a simple painkiller for something they can't or don't need to treat, the mothers throw the pills back at them and curse them. !
Seen and noted: Doctors Without Borders in exhibition in California. Photo by J. Burkard. Poster design by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios in New York. MSF rocks!
Dr. David Nabarro, Special Envoy on Ebola, and Dr. Hadja Fatou Sikhe Camara, Director of the Donka National Hospital in Conakry, at the entrance of the Donka Ebola management centre situated inside the Ministry of Health hospital complex in Conakry.
Conakry, Guinea, on 13 January 2015
Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret
Dr. David Nabarro (left), Special Envoy on Ebola, Dr. Hadja Fatou Sikhe Camara, Director of the Donka National Hospital in Conakry, and Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), are meeting at the entrance of the Donka Ebola management centre situated inside the Ministry of Health hospital complex in Conakry.
Conakry, Guinea, on 13 January 2015
Photo: UNMEER/Martine Perret
"Sweet in the Middle"
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières
April 1 through April 27 at BiddingForGood.com/DWB-MSF
Size: 6”x6” framed
Tesserae: Tempered Glass, Hand Painted Butterflies, Glitter
About me:
I have been enjoying doing mosaics for about 15 years now, I love working with the Pique Assiette style of mosaics incorporating broken china in my work. I also like using tempered glass over hand painted images, glitter and lace. Stained glass is a favorite medium of mine too, along with adding pearls, gems and jewels to my work.
I’m happiest when I have a mosaic project in progress, deciding on the design, color, and even what material to use can be a very rewarding challenge. With mosaics the idea’s and possibilities are endless; I will as an artist always strive to reach beyond my boundaries.
Peggy Lindstrom
Palscreations
Email: palscreations@gmail.com
Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/PalsCreations.
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/palscreations/
California, USA
"Felis Catus Rotundus"
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
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.
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