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On 3rd December 2019, Fardosa Mohamed, a 50-year-old pastoralist, washes clothes at home using water she’s collected from the UNDP-funded dam in Baligubadle, Somaliland. The country experiences major climate-induced shocks every two to five years with flooding, cyclones and, most often, drought resulting in sometimes violent disputes over access to scarce water and land. Pastoralists, which make up approximately 60% of the population, are particularly vulnerable to changes in climate because they rely on rain-fed rangeland for grazing livestock, have very few fixed assets and typically live in extreme poverty.
Before the dam was constructed, Fardosa had to walk up to six hours each day to collect water. Now it take just 30 minutes to reach the dam. According to Fardosa, “Last year [before the dam was finalised] was horrible. The drought was so extreme. No rain. No water. We had to struggle a lot. We almost died as we didn’t have enough water to drink. Now we have water there is life here. We can feed the animals and we too have water. Water brings beauty to life. That’s what we live for. When the animals are happy and beautiful, we are happy and beautiful.”
With approximately 60% of the country arid or semi-arid, UNDP-funded projects such as the 50,000 cubic metre earth dam at Baligubadle are vital to support communities - and their livestock - who have diminishing water supplies and need to adapt to climate change. The dam provides safe water to an estimated 10,000 people in the region and is part of UNDP’s Climate Change Resilience Programme in partnership with the Somaliland's Ministry of Environment and Rural Development.
this is as vulnerable as i can get in front of a camera... my psoriasis is something i try to hide from everyone... my heart is thumping and i am slightly sweating just posting this.
CAUTION!!! May contain Bokeh
I was out this afternoon and the sun was just at the right angle in the sky for great shadow work. I hope you like this series (may contain Bokeh), more to be uploaded over the week.
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All these were taken below the local fishing pier. We wanted to get some nice Mother, Daughter shots with their white dresses on. For extra color, we bought some gerber daisies, which the little one loved, in one of the shots she decided to try a taste!! All were taken with an ND filter, shot raw.
Mentoring vulnerable youth
Gifts to Presbyterians Sharing support Kenora Fellowship Centre as it offers shelter and comfort to vulnerable, disadvantaged and
displaced people in downtown Kenora, Ontario. It is the only place in this area offering people refuge from the streets. Its mentorship program offers hands-on experience to young people like Donovan. Youth help with the daily lunch program and take care of the elders, among other tasks. Donovan and others in the mentorship program enjoyed helping establish a vegetable garden, working alongside three elders who helped till and prepare the earth. An Ojibway elder blessed the garden and made suggestions on how to plant according to his teachings. Please pray for KFC as it reaches out to vulnerable youth and young adults through its mentorship program.
La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb of La Perouse is located about 14 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district.
The La Perouse peninsula is the northern headland of Botany Bay. It is notable for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Botany Bay National Park. Congwong Bay Beach, Little Congwong Beach, and the beach at Frenchmans Bay provide protected swimming areas in Botany Bay. La Perouse is one of few Sydney suburbs with a French name.
In 1877 it was decided that a fort was to be built on the island. Botany Bay was considered the back door into Sydney, thus making the city vulnerable to a seaborne attack. The construction of a fort on the island would reduce the odds of an attack from this entry point. Plans for the construction of a fort were drawn up by the Colonial Architects Department and tenders in 1880. Government tender for construction was awarded to John McLeod and Co, who also built the Georges Head and Middle Head fortifications.
The fort was armed with two RML 9 inch 12 ton gun, two RML 80 pounder guns, a RML 10 inch 18 ton gun in an armoured casemate and two 5 barreled 0.45 inch Nordenfelt guns.
Construction of Bare Island Fort was completed in 1885 at a cost of 34,000 pounds. Work inside the fort began in 1889.
By 1902 Bare Island was decommissioned and ceased to exist as a military fortification.
La Perouse was named after the French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–88), who landed on the northern shore of Botany Bay west of Bare Island on the 26th January 1788.
Captain Arthur Phillip and the first fleet of convicts had arrived in Botany Bay a few days earlier. Louis XVI of France had commissioned Lapérouse to explore the Pacific.
In April 1770 James Cook's expedition had sailed onto the east coast of Australia whilst exploring the south Pacific searching for Terra Australis or ‘Land of the South’.
Upon King Louis XVI's orders, Lapérouse departed Brest, France, in command of Astrolabe and Boussole on 1 August 1785 on a scientific voyage of the Pacific Inspired by the voyages of Cook.
The expedition's naturalist and chaplain, Father Louis Receveur, died in February after a skirmish the previous December in Samoa with the inhabitants, in which Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle, commander of Astrolabe and 12 other members of the French expedition were killed. Receveur, injured in that skirmish, died at Botany Bay and was buried at Frenchmans Cove below the headland that is now called La Perouse, not far from the Lapérouse Museum.
In 1825 Hyacinthe de Bougainville paid for the tombstone that is on the site today. It was designed by Government Architect George Cookney (1799–1876). Receveur was the second European to be buried in Australian soil, the first being Forby Sutherland from Cook’s 1770 expedition who is buried at nearby Kurnell on the other side of the Botany Bay headlands.
The first building in the area was the round stone tower constructed in 1820-22 as accommodation for a small guard of soldiers stationed there to prevent smuggling, and the tower still stands today.
Several scenes from Mission: Impossible II (2000) were filmed in La Perouse, including Bare Island.
There comes a magic moment when you know you have done it,entered that special world when you know, feeling's gone,it's called closure and it happens the day you really close that feeling in your life.Only you know when the moment has arrived.
"I hate this feeling" ."
I hate the mutual decision".
..FROM my story " I will never get over you"
Salix rosmarinifolia
Slo.: rožmarinolistna vrba
Comment: Salix rosmarinifolia is the only one among 26 Salix taxons (bastards not taken into account) growing in Slovenia which is protected by law. It is also the only one dwarf Salix which doesn't grow in high mountains but in lowland wet grassland and marches. Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "V" representing a vulnerable species.
Dat.: May 23. 2009
Lat.: 45.84178 Long.: 14.59274
Code: Bot_344/2009-8384
Habitat: Wet grassland, full sun, precipitations 1.300-1.400 mm/year, average temperature 8-10 deg C, elevation 490 m (1.600 feet), Pre-Dinaric phytogeographical region.
Place: West of village Rašica, near Rašica stream, Dolenjska, Slovenia EC
Cuatro artistas: Cristina Almodóvar, Lucie Geffré, Paula Anta y Rafael Díaz, exponen sus creaciones en O_LUMEN, una iglesia transformada en espacio para el diálogo con el arte contemporáneo. Presentan instalaciones, escultura, pintura y fotografía junto a textos poéticos en diferentes formatos, para transmitir optimismo y esperanza. Fascinados por la belleza de la vida, artistas y comisarios dejan entrever que en la fragilidad también reside la fortaleza.
www.dominicos.org/noticia/espacio-o_lumen-acoge-vulnerables/
I like the idea of using the nude figures in this series on dreaming because how many times have you found yourself naked in your dreams? Naked and late for work or class in public and no time to go back home and get dressed? Being naked in a dream means that we are feeling vulnerable.
New Zealand status: Native
Conservation status: Nationally Vulnerable
Photographed on Te Roto o Wairewa (Lake Forsyth), Canterbury, New Zealand.
The Australasian crested grebe is majestic and distinctive diving bird that is usually seen on the southern lakes of New Zealand where it breeds. It has a slender neck, sharp black bill and head with a distinctive black double crest and bright chestnut and black cheek frills, which it uses in its complex and bizarre mating displays. It is unusual for the way it carries its young on its back when swimming. The crested grebe belongs to an ancient order of diving water birds found on every continent in the world. They are rarely seen on land except when they clamber onto their nests on the lake shore. The Australasian crested grebe occurs in New Zealand and Australia but it is threatened in both countries and the New Zealand population probably numbers fewer than 600 birds - www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
Charity project in Nepal- this child was adorable. She is shy in this photo but became a lot more confident she even got to use my camera :)
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Chatteris RBL Ypres Tour – 7th August 2015.
Chatteris Royal British Legion members give a dedication and lay a wreath for the market town’s Victoria Cross holder George Clare.
The Cambrai Memorial at Louverval commemorates more than 7,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died in the Battle of Cambrai in November and December 1917 and whose graves are not known.
Sir Douglas Haig described the object of the Cambrai operations as the gaining of a 'local success by a sudden attack at a point where the enemy did not expect it' and to some extent they succeeded. The proposed method of assault was new, with no preliminary artillery bombardment. Instead, tanks would be used to break through the German wire, with the infantry following under the cover of smoke barrages.
The attack began early in the morning of 20 November 1917 and initial advances were remarkable. However, by 22 November, a halt was called for rest and reorganisation, allowing the Germans to reinforce. From 23 to 28 November, the fighting was concentrated almost entirely around Bourlon Wood and by 29 November, it was clear that the Germans were ready for a major counter attack. During the fierce fighting of the next five days, much of the ground gained in the initial days of the attack was lost.
For the Allies, the results of the battle were ultimately disappointing but valuable lessons were learnt about new strategies and tactical approaches to fighting. The Germans had also discovered that their fixed lines of defence, no matter how well prepared, were vulnerable.
The Cambrai Memorial was designed by Harold Chalton Bradshaw with sculpture by Charles S. Jagger. It was unveiled by Lieutenant General Sir Louis Vaughan on 4 August 1930.
The memorial stands on a terrace at one end of Louverval Military Cemetery. The chateau at Louverval was taken by the 56th Australian Infantry Battalion at dawn on 2 April 1917. The hamlet stayed in Allied hands until the 51st (Highland) Division was driven from it on 21 March 1918 during the great German advance, and it was retaken in the following September.
Share with me the blankets that your wrapped in
because its cold outside cold outside its cold out side
share with me the secrets that you kept in
because its cold inside cold inside its cold inside
and your slowly shaking finger tips
show that your scared like me so
let pretend were alone
and I no you may be scared
and I no were unprepared
but I dont care
tell me tell me
what makes you think that you are invincible
I can see it in your eyes that your so sure
please dont tell me that I am the only one thats vulnerable
impossible
I was born to tell you I love you
its that a song already
I get a B in originality
and its true I cant go on without you
your smile makes me see clear
if you could only see in the mirror what I see
and your slowly shaking finger tips
show that your scared like me so
let pretend were alone
and I no you may be scared
and I no were unprepared
but I dont care
tell me tell me
what makes you think that you are invincible
I can see it in your eyes that your so sure
please dont tell me that I am the only one thats vulnerable
impossible
slow down girl your not going any wear
just wait around and see
maybe I am much more you never no what lies ahead
I promise I can be anyone I can be anything
just because you were hurt doesnt mean you shouldnt bleed
I can be anyone anything I promise I can be what you need
tell me tell me
what makes you think that you are invincible
I can see it in your eyes that your so sure
please dont tell me that I am the only one thats vulnerable
impossible
Often alone, without a caring guide, innocent to the world of hate, abuse, manipulation and control. Love them, protect them, and vigilantly guard them from the exploiter.
Status: Vulnerable
Range: USA, Canada, S. America, S. Asia, UK, Australia.
Habitat: Open grasslands
Diet: grasses & vegetation
Creature Feature: Males usually weigh between 45 and 55 kilos and females weigh between 25 and 35 kilos. Colouration of the fur varies from black and brown to multicoloured. The males have beards and generally have a strong smell during breeding seasons.
Goats tend to move in groups that can become large herds as the family numbers increase. The home range of each group varies in size from 100 metres to 2 kilometres in width. The males do not defend these ranges and often wander more widely than females. Goats prefer open areas where they can rest and sun themselves. At night or in bad weather they will seek shelter under rocky outcrops.
Goats were originally native to Asia but are now distributed worldwide since being introduced to various islands for their milk. They are sometimes referred to as "the most single destructive herbivore" due to their ability to digest poorer quality plants (including a lot of native plant species to some islands) than most herbivores. For this reason they have gained a reputation of being the "last one standing" in severely over grazed environments.
On December 21st , 2016
Mona Relief ground crew delivered for the third time urgent aid to vulnerable families in Wadi Ahmed Area in Sana'a.
Today's mission targeted 100 families there with blankets funded by a local donor and dignity kits funded by IOM Yemen.
Our humanitarian work was covered by local and international media outlets.
Pictures here showing you the real situation of families there.
Facts about Wadi Ahmed area
Wadi Ahmed in the capital Sana'a is located in eastern Sana'a and it is the most populated area in the capital Sana'a.
This area is a full of many vulnerable families and IDPs, who fled from Sa'ada, Taiz and Hajjeh governorates to this area. Most families there are under the level of poverty line, they don't have enough food, or clean water and they don't have any kid of furniture such as beds or blankets, children there are in dire need for everything, they don't have clothes or shoes to wear as most pictures showing you the real situation of families there.
In brief, the Wadi Ahmed area is a full of diseases and most children there don't receive any kind of health care services or any kind of education. I have seen many disabled who living in a very bad situation.
Mona Relief's volunteers conducted a survey for most needy families and IDPs, when we could entered to most houses in that area we shocked for the situation of families there.