Poverty: 10 videos, a quotation and a short story Mon 13-Oct-2008
Posted by xgeorgio in Aid, ReliefWeb.Tags: blogactionday, poverty
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Poverty is something we usually don’t want to think or talk about. It is too sad and too uncomfortable for people who have the luxury of reading these lines and not care about if they will eat tonight, where will they sleep or if they will wake up in the morning.
This post is for all the lost and forgotten souls that die every single day, for no reason, and we never know about it. And for all the dedicated people who risk their lives to be there and give one more day to them.
For this year’s Blog Action Day, here is Poverty – in 10 video clips, a quotation and short story.
Myanmar: a desolate land Fri 9-May-2008
Posted by xgeorgio in Aid, ReliefWeb.Tags: Aid, Burma, Darfur, Maynmar, Nargis, UNHCR
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It seems that every single month of 2008 up to now is marked by a major disaster of global scale. Myanmar is just this month’s feature that will probably be forgotten a month from now (maybe even sooner). On May 3rd, cyclone Nargis hit the country and swept away
Christmas for all? Fri 28-Dec-2007
Posted by xgeorgio in Aid, ReliefWeb.Tags: children, Christmas, donate
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I’m not sure when or where I first heard this story, I believe it was in one of Paulo Coelhio’s books:
December 5th, World Volunteer Day Fri 7-Dec-2007
Posted by xgeorgio in Aid, ReliefWeb, Volunteers.Tags: Africa, famine, hunger, Kevin Carter, pulitzer, volunteer
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A few days ago, a friend sent me this image by email, along with many others. I was immediately struck by the sight, but then I remembered a few things I’ve heard from CNN’s Anderson Cooper, after his visit in Africa:
“…These things happen in the world, whether we’re aware of them or not, it’s always there even when we’re not there to see it. We have an obligation to tell their story, tell the world that they exist…“
This is a small token for the World Volunteer Day that went unnoticed on December 5th.
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A day full of red ribbons Thu 29-Nov-2007
Posted by xgeorgio in Aid, ReliefWeb, Volunteers.Tags: AIDS, HIV, origin, outbreak, prevention, red ribbon
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In two days, December 1st, the media all over the world will be filled again with those pretty red ribbons, at the edge of a newspaper, on the corner of the TV screen, beside the logo of major websites. It is that special day of every year that many people see it, but don’t realize exactly what it means. Young children may even think that this means Christmas is near!
Unfortunately, it is not so. I mean, yes, the Christmas is near, but not for the whole world. The “Red Ribbon” campaign was inspired some years ago as a motto for global awareness against HIV, a very special and very resilient virus that is haunting the medical community since the early ’80s. Although the first incident of death from AIDS was recorded as the “the Congolese man” in 1959, the AIDS epidemic officially begun on the 5th of June 1981.
Volunteering links page on-line Sun 4-Nov-2007
Posted by xgeorgio in Aid, Education, Environment, Rights, Volunteers.Tags: volunteer e-volunteer e-learning OLPC UN ActionAid MSF
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I’ve just finished a short but valuable list of sites and portals about volunteering and e-volunteering. It’s pretty much a directory of all the major organizations and communities regarding regional and virtual volunteers for all kinds of projects, ranging from on-site humanitarian aid and peace corps to e-volunteering in virtual projects and e-learning material. Since this list is always useful, I’ve decided to put it up as a static page, you can access it through the navbar (direct link here).
