Sunday 25 October 2009
Guinea Worm
This week was really affected by photogrpahs from Ben Stirton depicting the ravishes of Guinea worm.
Labels:
Africa,
Ben Stirton,
Guinea worm,
Health Prevention,
Photography,
Water
Thursday 15 October 2009
Naked for Climate Change in Copenhagen
Sunbathers took to the Streets of Copenhagen this week for Climate Change and for project
"HOPE IN HAGEN".
"When the whistle blew, the green and white towels were spread out and the clothes were dropped! The sudden happening came as some surprise to the many bystanders who stared in amazement as the 50-something people between 11 and 71 years of age who apparently enjoyed lying on the square, naked in 9 degrees celsius."
Filmed beautifullly by Soren of @KADAVER
"The world’s climate issues need to be approached with creative thinking and alternative means. According to the city and the people of Copenhagen that also applies to the way we communicate the message." ~ Soren
I have been really inspired by the energy of this team. Søren Bo Steendahl and crew, recently drove an ambulance from Copenhagen to Sierra Leone to raise awareness for the needs of the Masanga hospital there. Their projects to bring about social awareness and highlight injustice are original and sustainable. People who TRULY affect change...
Labels:
Africa,
change,
Climate Change,
Copenhagen,
Masanga,
Sierra Leone
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Best Inovation I've seen in Years.
Support the poor and Marginalised via the Iphone
~from Samasource/GIVEWORK
"Samasource and Crowdflower present Give Work, their new iPhone application. Give Work lets you support refugees in Dadaab, Kenya—the world’s largest refugee site—in minutes by completing short, on-screen tasks. The refugees are training to complete these same tasks and, by volunteering to tag a video or trace a road, you will generate money to support their training as well as valuable data to help focus future training programs."
Samasource derives its name from the Sanskrit word sama, which means equal. Their mission is to reduce poverty by connecting people to dignified, computer-based work.
View a video of their project work here
Labels:
Aplication,
change,
empowerment,
I Phone
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Help Needed
Lesego Semenya
is 21 years old, from Johannesburg, South Africa
Grew up in Soweto, South Africa, through the peak of the freedom struggle. Lived through the defeat of Apartheid and has been writing since 12 years of age.
is 21 years old, from Johannesburg, South Africa
Grew up in Soweto, South Africa, through the peak of the freedom struggle. Lived through the defeat of Apartheid and has been writing since 12 years of age.
Help needed
I heard her cry last night
Her tears drowned by drumbeats
She doesn't even fight
Her body used to atrocities
What is one more wound?
She's had millions before
What can some more pain do?
Murderers have run through her door
I saw her dying last night
It was clear in the moon light
Her chest taking its last breath
Her body depleted of all strength
She saw me watching from behind the tree
Her forlorn stare reaching out for me
Like a tired lion she rested her soul
Even eternal lives have their time to go
I saw her dead last night
Murdered by neglect
Over her wealth others would fight
Her lands a cause of conflicts
But she just lay, stripped of all pride
Her welcoming ways forgotten
Even when abused, she still smiled
But now her body lay rottenI saw a light last night I
t blinked at me through the nights' clouds
It showed me something I'd never seen
Her heart still beat inside
I ran miles last night
Fetched water to revive her
To bring her back to her lost mightS
he breathed again but to awake her will take time
©2007, Poets against war
The Dangers of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie of Nigeria, author of Half of a Yellow Sun, makes reference to the need for a TV channel for diverse stories of the people of Africa to enhance dignity and bring social awareness ~ the need for "a balance" of stories from Africa...
Stories to empower, heal and humanise.
Stories to empower, heal and humanise.
This is why the project at "hillsidedigital" is so important.
"There is never a single story about any place....when we get that, we gain a kind of paradise"
Labels:
Africa,
change,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
narrative
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