The Peace Center
They were able to change thousands of lives through The Peace Project. Now, they're up for a $50,000 grant that will enable us to build the first Peace Center in Sierra Leone and transform thousands more lives. The key is getting the most votes and we've got just three weeks to go. Can you take 5 seconds now to visit www.voteforthepeaceproject.com and click VOTE FOR THIS?
I Am Because We Are
This is a heart wrenching peek at Madonna's new film about the AIDS crisis in Malawi.
Teach for India
Shaheen Mistri always knew that the best gift a poor child could be given was education. Shes done just that from 60 centres and six municipal schools in Mumbai and Pune. Shaheen dived headlong into the slums of Mumbai and founded Akanksha, now one of urban Indias most popular NGOs with an army of volunteers teaching underprivileged kids at over 60 centres in Mumbai and Pune. Akanksha also runs six municipal schools in the two cities. Soon she felt the kids needed more than just English classes. They would hang around doing nothing all day. They needed to see what a classroom looked like. And so began Shaheens long search for a place where she could start her first centre . Her second centre was in a room under the staircase of the boys hostel at St Xaviers College. Shaheen would go from class to class with hand-painted posters recruiting students for Akanksha. In the beginning, most volunteers were students of St Xaviers . Two decades later, Shaheen has used the same enthusiasm to motivate college students and young professionals to join the Teach For India programme, which has seen a hundred young people devote two years of their lives for the mission. Via Teach for India.
Raising Malawi
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| Raising Malawi |
Raising Malawi was founded in 2006 to bring an end to the extreme poverty and hardship endured by Malawi's 1.4 million orphans and vulnerable children once and for all. Raising Malawi supports community-based organizations that provide vulnerable children and caregivers with the following critical resources:
Nutritious food
Proper clothing
Secure shelter
Formal education
Targeted medical care
Emotional care and psychosocial support
In addition, Raising Malawi supports non-government organizations that offer impoverished families with innovative opportunities for sustainability. Raising Malawi collaborates with a vast range of partners. In this way, we can be sure the dedicated people on the ground and in the villages who really understand Malawi’s challenges are able to bring Malawians the help they need. By working at a truly grass-roots level, real and lasting change is happening for hundreds of thousands of impoverished children. Take a action.
My Hope Chest
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| Jennifer and Ria |
Gallerist/Artist Jennifer Kosharek and artist Ria Vanden Eynde are organized a group show at Jennifer's gallery eve-N-odd with works by Betty Esperanza, Branka Djordjevic and Ria Vanden Eynde. They are promoting the show so as to make it count beyond a gallery exhibition, to get the message across that while they are changed by cancer and so is our individual art making practice; they emerge as stronger women and artists. For each of Ria Vanden Eynde's sold prints $50 goes to My Hope Chest, to helping uninsured breast cancer survivors afford breast reconstruction surgery. My Hope Chest is an important non-profit organization focusing on the need of breast reconstruction for uninsured and underprivileged women. If you have a unique fundraising idea or are interested in hosting an event in your area, please contact Alisa at alisa@myhopechest.org . They are are always open to comments and suggestions, and they are looking for new ways to make My Hope Chest a fun and thriving charity!
MY HOMETOWN by Yoko Ono
Do you know where your hometown is? Your hometown is a place you choose. Get a map of the world. Pin a little flag on a place on the map you’d like to go to. The place you’ve put your flag is your hometown. Let’s find a way to make this flag something you’ll be proud of. Start by giving your hometown a name you want to call it by. Find out some things about your hometown. Make a scrapbook of images and people from your hometown, and add your comments about them. Look after your hometown in your mind. Send it lots of love. In your mind help anyone there who needs help. If there are any broken-down houses, mend them in your mind. If there are any people who are ill, make them better in your mind. If any of the streets need cleaning, clean it in your mind. If there are any children who are crying, wipe their tears away in your mind. Find out about the past and present of your hometown. If anything terrible has ever happened there, think about it, and try to take away the pain that’s still there. If there’s something terrible going on there now, focus your thoughts on it, and try to take away all the pain. Quietly tell your best friends about the problems of your hometown, and ask them to solve them in their minds. Put up some nice photos of your hometown in your room. Write a diary about your hometown. Keep sending your powerful energy to your hometown until more people start to smile and laugh and enjoy themselves. Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown. One day we’ll realize that all the towns in the world are someone’s hometown. Via Imagine Peace.
Open heart mission
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| Ari Rossner |
Two worlds, two practices: advertising maintains the illusion, wile reporting presents us with almost instantaneous, unfiltered news. For a number of years, fashion photographer Ari Rossner has been exploring other facets of humanity - the straightforward picture that tells a story. He has created a magnificent portfolio that reveals the fragile, even fallible aspect of our existence. During his multiple travels beyond the walls of his studios, he has traveled to some of the world's most remote areas with the volunteers of Aviation Sans Fronteries, an association that transports sick children to France, where they receive treatment. With Sylvie, an Air France crew member, he traveled to Antananarivo, to the family of young Toki, to bring the child to Bordeaux, where he would undergo an operation for a heart malformation. This was one among hundreds of successful trips organized every year by NGOs such as Medecins du Monde, Aviation Sans Frontieres and Mecenat Chirurgie Cardiaque. Article published at Air France Magazine, january 19 - 2009. See the complete report by Ari Rossner.
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF also reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Postcards from the Edge
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| Visual Aids |
Postcards From the Edge is a Visual AIDS benefit show and sale of original, postcard-sized works on paper by established and emerging artists. All works are sold on a first-come, first-served basis. The works are signed on the back and exhibited so the artists' signatures cannot be seen. While buyers receive a list of all participating artists, they don't know who created which piece until purchased. All proceeds support the programs of Visual Aids. Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10:00am until Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 4:00pm
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The Peace Project
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| Shanti |
When creative people come together and take action - lives are changed, communities are changed, and countries can be changed. The Peace Project led a coalition of partners (including UNICEF), to get the country of Sierra Leone off the ground by providing 10,000 pairs of crutches and repair parts to everyone in need throughout this entire country (home to over 20% of the world's amputees). They launched a Call-for-Artists and artists worldwide joined hands for peace. Artists have generously donated rights to artwork and ALL proceeds help transform lives through Peace Project initiatives. thepeaceproject.com
The voice project
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| Uganda |
A smile changes everything
Every three minutes, it is estimated that a child is born with a cleft condition. One in 10 children born with a cleft will die before their first birthday. With a presence in over 60 countries, Operation Smile provides free life-changing surgeries for children in need worldwide. Operation Smile's network of more than 5,000 medical volunteers donate their time and talent to improve the health and lives of children born with facial deformities. Since 1982, Operation Smile has given more than 2 million patient evaluations and provided over 200,000 free surgeries for children and young adults born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. In addition to providing thousands of surgeries each year, Operation Smile donates medical equipment and trains local medical professionals in its partner countries to lay the groundwork for long-term self-sufficiency in developing countries so more children can be treated year-round. http://www.operationsmile.org
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