Posts archive for: June, 2008
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Sticky Being without a home or a place to shelter
@ 2008-06-18 – 17:41:29
This is my first public comment.
First of all, I want to mention why I have created this blog. At this moment, I live in Argentina where I collaborate with an organization who intend to give a chance to those excluded from society; many people living in the streets, surviving with very little. In U.K., these people are commonly named "homeless" and there are oportunities like "Big Issue" to develop a tool for reinsertion in the local economy [1]. Unfortunately, not many of them achieve the precious income to hire a cheap place. Somewhere to sleep that will allow them to abandon the life in the street. I refer to those who have made an intent because hope is the first thing they loose.I will not inquire into the reasons that had leant someone to stay in the street as a permanent home. The thing I want to drive your atention:If homeless people do not deserve your look, how will they be considered into the social policies or the budget regarding the state of welfare of the city?
Here, in Buenos Aires, people who belong to "Círculo del Belgrano" are developing a project that is really fruitful; you can find among their goals someone like Horacio who is now a therapeutic agent, or a tango teacher, or a hairdresser, all of them with no expectations of leading their lifes at will, before entering in contact with the organization.
So this is why I have decided to post this first comment to let you know the organization and to let them get in touch with other organizations regarding this anguishing situation, rich cities with no place for many, many people that have been born in their bosom. -
Xenophobic Attacks: Emergency Call For Donations
@ 2008-06-26 – 17:42:10
This is from Black Sash, the human rights organization in South Africa, Please if you want to read more, follow the link at the end of the paragraph.
URGENT REQUEAST FROM Western Cape Emergency Civil Society Task Team
TAC, along with about 20 other civil society groups, are spending quite a bit of money on helping to co-ordinate the response to the xenophobic violence crisis with the Aids Law Project (ALP). We urgently need to get the following items out into effected communities:
Bread
Medication (chronic illness)
Rehydrate for babies and adults with diarrhoea
Clothing (everything), Uniforms
Books, Colour-in books, crayons for children
Spunges, mattresses and pillows
Blankets
Primus stoves
Knives, Forks, Disposable cutlery
Polystyrene Cups
Black refuse bags
Water supply
Still mineral water (250 or 500ml)
Toilet supply
Disposal nappies, small packs of wetwipes for babies
Dummies for babies
Flasks to boil water and keep it warm for baby bottles and porridge
Purity, baby food
Sterilizers
Bath and washing soap
Tooth paste, toothbrushes
Sanitary towels for women
Vaseline (small bottles), roll-on
Baby bottles
Baby milk formula
Toilet paper
Blankets
Food parcels
TentsIf able, please make a donation directly into the following Nedbank Cape Town TAC account:
Account Number: 1009 726 269
Branch code: 100909If you do an electronic transfer, please put your name in the reference and the phrase "endviolence". Alternatively, these goods can be dropped off at the address mentioned below.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
In addition, we have decided to open the ALP and TAC offices in the CBD as a central Civil society meeting point and liaison centre from now until the violence subsides - so please let me know if you are able to volunteer some time. We will be here this evening (Friday) and again this weekend starting at 09h00 tomorrow and again Sunday from 09h00. New times will be set up next week.
We need volunteers, hospitality and your time and energy.
Bring your own laptop and cell phone if possible. -
For kids
@ 2008-06-26 – 04:31:24
This is a link where people can donate with just one click of your mouse. Please if you want additional info, go to http://www.porloschicos.com/PorLosChicos.NET/
Thank to your click, many children can have the option to eat a plate of food.
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Ph 15, photography, art, social awareness
@ 2008-06-24 – 21:14:25
This is a place where you can find how to change the way we look at our own world.
Taste it, photography is more than the pictures, is reality through the eyes of these young fellows.
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